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From: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Indefinite hang in reserve_metadata_bytes on kernel 3.18.3
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:08:32 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2015.01.29.10.08.32@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 868704D3-B79F-476F-A4CF-33C41274E6D4@opentable.com

On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:44:02 +0000, Steven Schlansker wrote:

[..snip..]

> The symptoms are an endlessly increasing stream of hung tasks and high

Please try 3.18.5 (-rc1 is good) which contains the following fix:

"workqueue: fix subtle pool management issue which can stall whole
 worker_pool"

see: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/122074

No promises but it seems sufficiently causally related..

-h


  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-29 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-29  1:44 Indefinite hang in reserve_metadata_bytes on kernel 3.18.3 Steven Schlansker
2015-01-29 10:08 ` Holger Hoffstätte [this message]
     [not found] ` <54CA06A6.3070108@googlemail.com>
2015-01-29 22:50   ` Steven Schlansker
2015-01-30 10:02     ` Holger Hoffstätte

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