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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Brian Sullivan <bexamous@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>,
	Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>,
	linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ls & flush-btrfs-1 sit at 100% sys
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:32:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290177036-sup-2385@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinfcAZrO+UzioG=DtN7KA=aWBB2-BtfZgggqpEm@mail.gmail.com>

Excerpts from Brian Sullivan's message of 2010-11-18 13:30:51 -0500:
> Yep actually, with noatime,nodiratime ls is fine.  I didn't try ro but
> I assume that'll work too.  So with noatime,nodiratime I can go around
> in tree and ls works.  If I try to touch a new file, touch doesn't
> return.  If I then ls in that same folder ls doesn't return either.
> So yeah seems like soon as something has to write.
> 
> Also after I run touch, it doesn't return, I look at top, nothing is
> spinning, everything is at 0% usage.  After a minute or so then touch
> and flush-btrfs-1 jump to 50%sys each and sit there.

So, based on this trace we're banging on the delalloc flushing to free
up room.

I just wanted to confirm, you're seeing this with 2.6.37-rc?  I thought
I had fixed up this delalloc hammering.

-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-19 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-18  5:03 ls & flush-btrfs-1 sit at 100% sys Brian Sullivan
2010-11-18  5:15 ` Chris Ball
2010-11-18  6:03   ` Brian Sullivan
2010-11-18 11:08     ` Daniel J Blueman
2010-11-18 18:30       ` Brian Sullivan
2010-11-19 14:32         ` Chris Mason [this message]
2010-11-19 14:46           ` Josef Bacik
2010-11-19 20:09             ` Brian Sullivan
2010-11-22 23:29               ` Brian Sullivan
2010-11-23  0:54                 ` Chris Mason
2010-11-23 20:27                   ` Brian Sullivan
2010-11-23 21:07                     ` Chris Mason

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