From: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>
To: helmut@hullen.de
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: switching "balance" into background
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 09:44:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110409084445.GD5301@carfax.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BjW+ECVD1uB@helmut.hullen.de>
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On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 07:57:00AM +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, linux-btrfs,
>
> I can't switch a running "btrfs filesystem balance ..." via
>
> ctrl z
> bg
>
> into the background, with other jobs this way works.
>
> The stopping command "ctrl z" doesn't work.
>
> (may be on other keyboards it's "ctrl y")
>
> What goes wrong?
A balance is a single long-lived ioctl call, so the userspace
process is living in D state (uninterruptible sleep) until the kernel
finishes.
I've got a patch that forks the process, and runs the ioctl in the
background, returning immediately. I should be able to get it to the
list this weekend as part of the userspace side of the balance
management patches.
Hugo.
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2011-04-09 5:57 switching "balance" into background Helmut Hullen
2011-04-09 8:44 ` Hugo Mills [this message]
2011-04-09 9:04 ` Helmut Hullen
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