Comment 19 for bug 208551

I am still having deadlocks, only thing that will fix it is setting the stripe_cache_size on the md device higher.

echo 16384 > /sys/block/md0/md/stripe_cache_size

Linux sarah 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 16:57:51 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md0 : active raid5 sde1[0] sdc1[7] sdd1[6] sdf1[5] sdg1[4] sdb1[3] sda1[2] sdh1[1]
      3418686208 blocks level 5, 256k chunk, algorithm 2 [8/8] [UUUUUUUU]
      [========>............] resync = 44.4% (216937632/488383744) finish=84.5min speed=53527K/sec

unused devices: <none>

root@sarah:~# xfs_info /dev/md0
meta-data=/dev/md0 isize=256 agcount=75, agsize=11446528 blks
         = sectsz=4096 attr=1
data = bsize=4096 blocks=854671552, imaxpct=25
         = sunit=64 swidth=192 blks, unwritten=1
naming =version 2 bsize=4096
log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=32768, version=2
         = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=0
realtime =none extsz=786432 blocks=0, rtextents=0

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