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From: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
To: John <jello@waste.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>,
	Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fixing slow sync(2)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:38:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111011133834.GA2293@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE=-PDhvddavk9DyyF07gi0uq=a+WfGbXN89r28SRK9SYPaZfA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 09:34:12PM -0500, John wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I think I fixed this, try my git tree
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josef/btrfs-work.git
> >
> > Let me know if it helps.  And what are you doing when you call sync?  I've
> > not
> > been able to reproduce this problem so I'm having a hard time nailing down
> > what
> > it is, so if I can get a reliable way to reproduce it I'll try and figure
> > it
> > out.  Thanks,
> >
> 
> I've been seeing very slow syncs (and unmounts) and this helps. Under 3.0.0
> if I mounted the FS (which is 200G, about 97G used with ~720 snapshots) it
> took about 3 minutes 40 seconds. If I did another sync right away it took
> the same amount of time. With a kernel compiled from your repo the first
> time I sync it takes about 1 minute, as soon as I sync a btrfs-endio-met
> and btrfs-cache-0 process show up in top and a lot of IO happens. Once those
> go away (which takes a couple minutes) then it takes well under a second. If
> I unmount and remount it acts exactly the same. Will those changes be up in
> 3.1 or 3.2? If you want me to test anything else, I'm happy to do so.
> 

They'll show up in 3.2.  Thanks for testing,

Josef

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-11 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-08 15:24 fixing slow sync(2) Tomas Carnecky
2011-10-08 15:35 ` Josef Bacik
     [not found]   ` <CAE=-PDhvddavk9DyyF07gi0uq=a+WfGbXN89r28SRK9SYPaZfA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-10-11  3:11     ` John
2011-10-11 13:38     ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2011-10-12 18:36   ` Dan Merillat

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