Re: BTRFS free space handling still needs more work: Hangs again (no complete lockups, "just" tasks stuck for some time)

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2015, 05:45:56 schrieben Sie:
> Martin Steigerwald posted on Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:08:50 +0100 as excerpted:
> > No BTRFS developers commented yet on this, neither in this thread nor in
> > the bug report at kernel.org I made.
> 
> Just a quick general note on this point...
> 
> There has in the past (and I believe referenced on the wiki) been dev 
> comment to the effect that on the list they tend to find particular 
> reports/threads and work on them until they find and either fix the issue 
> or (when not urgent) decide it must wait for something else, first.  
> During the time they're busy pursuing such a report, they don't read 
> others on the list very closely, and such list-only bug reports may thus 
> get dropped on the floor and never worked on.
> 
> The recommendation, then, is to report it to the list, and if not picked 
> up right away and you plan on being around in a few weeks/months when 
> they potentially get to it, file a bug on it, so it doesn't get dropped 
> on the floor.

Duncan, I *did* file a bug.

[Bug 90401] New: btrfs kworker thread uses up 100% of a Sandybridge core for 
minutes on random write into big file

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90401

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