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* Hangs on bcache on HEAD and bcache-testing when stacking LVM on top (?)
@ 2013-04-04 10:27 Heiko Wundram
       [not found] ` <515D5592.60906-EqIAFqbRPK3NLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org>
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From: Heiko Wundram @ 2013-04-04 10:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-bcache-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA

Hey!

I've already written previously about write hangs with bcache in "bcache 
hangs with continuous write I/O to SSD device, bcache device stops 
working", and I thought, that the problem was solved by statically 
building bcache into the kernel, but that does not seem to be the case.

I've now encountered something similar, which seems to occur after 
around 3-4 days of usage of the bcache device (I've had it twice now). 
The bcache device (or rather, the devices stacked on the bcache device 
through LVM) hang, and show 100% CPU utilization. All other devices 
which are not on the bcache volume still work properly. There's no 
obvious kernel thread which is taking CPU time and blocking the device 
(as was with the last bug report I noted).

When the bcache volume is blocked, iostat reports:

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rMB/s    wMB/s 
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
sdb               0,00     0,50    0,00    8,50     0,00     0,03 
6,53     0,06    6,88    0,00    6,88   4,88   4,15
sdc               0,00     0,50    0,00    8,50     0,00     0,03 
6,53     0,06    7,24    0,00    7,24   5,29   4,50
md127             0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
md126             0,00     0,00    0,00    6,50     0,00     0,03 
8,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
md125             0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
dm-0              0,00     0,00    0,00    6,50     0,00     0,03 
8,00     0,13   20,00    0,00   20,00   5,15   3,35
dm-1              0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
dm-2              0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
bcache0           0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
dm-3              0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
dm-4              0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
dm-5              0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
dm-6              0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     1,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
dm-7              0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
dm-8              0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     1,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
dm-9              0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00   0,00
dm-10             0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00 
0,00     3,00    0,00    0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00

The devices starting with dm-3 are logical volumes in a volume group 
which resides on (the only) physical volume /dev/bcache0, which in turn 
is made up of /dev/sda (SSD device) and /dev/md127 (backing volume, 
kernel RAID1). /dev/md127 is made up of GPT partitions on /dev/sdb and 
/dev/sdc.

The bcache volume and the cache is set to use 512byte logical sectors, 
which both devices support (although they both have 4k physical sectors).

There's no real clue as to where I might start to look from here. Is 
this a "known" problem when using bcache together with LVM? Memory usage 
does not seem to be a culprit.

I'm now trying to boot the system using kernel 3.2 (i.e., the bcache-3.2 
tree), and can report about that.

Thanks for any pointers!

-- 
--- Heiko.

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