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...40 ret = ocfs2_create_new_lock(osb, &OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_inode_lockres, 1, 0); Ass you can see, we pass '0' for the 'local' argument to ocfs2_create_new_lock(). ocfs2_create_new_lock() certainly sets lkm_flags based on the 'local' argument. But then it calls lockres_or_flags() with the explicit flag, not with lkm_flags. Is this wrong? 1387 static int ocfs2_create_new_lock(struct ocfs2_super *osb, 1388 struct ocfs2_lock_res *lockres, 1389 int ex, 1390 int local) 1391 { 1...

David, So here are the two patches. Remove all patches that you have and apply these. The first one is straight forward. The second one will hopefully fix the livelock issue you have been encountering. People reviewing the patches should note that the second one is slightly different than the one I posted earlier. It removes the BUG_ON in the if condition where we jump to update_holders. The

...In further debugging, I added some printk information in fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c, and did some statistic. Here is the statistic info for 4 seconds when both nodes gets blocked: Here is a statistic info on the frequency of each functions got called during the 4 seconds, 1352 lockres_set_flags 728 lockres_or_flags 624 lockres_clear_flags 312 __lockres_clear_pending 213 ocfs2_process_blocked_lock 213 ocfs2_locking_ast 213 ocfs2_downconvert_thread_do_work 213 lockres_set_pending 213 lockres_clear_pending 213 lockres_add_mask_waiter 156 ocfs2_prepare_downconvert 156 ocfs2...

The following series of patches comprises the bulk of our outstanding changes for Ocfs2. Aside from the usual set of cleanups and fixes that were inappropriate for 2.6.25, there are a few highlights: The '/sys/o2cb' directory has been moved to '/sys/fs/o2cb'. The new location meshes better with modern sysfs layout. A symbolic link has been placed in the old location so as to