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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Super slow balance in v5.0-rc1
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 10:35:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190114093504.GA2900@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f26305c2-3c8f-6d16-f414-636e5548851e@gmx.com>

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 01:39:46PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When rebasing my qgroup + balance optimization patches, I found one very
> obvious performance regression for balance.
> 
> For normal 4G subvolume, 16 snapshots, balance workload, v4.20 kernel
> only takes 3s to relocate a metadata block group, while for v5.0-rc1, I
> don't really know how it will take as it hasn't finished yet.

This looks like a lockup, unbounded waiting or missed wakeup.

> And the most important part is, this happens when quota is *DISABLED*!!!
> 
> I'm bisecting for this regression, but if there are some users trying
> latest rc kernel, please be aware of this regression.

The rc1 can go pretty wild and issues could be caused by other
subsystems, so I'd try to test the merged (32ee34eddad13cd4) and
non-merged (52042d8e82ff50d) branches, this should tell you if it's a
genuine btrfs bug or not.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-14  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-14  5:39 [REGRESSION] Super slow balance in v5.0-rc1 Qu Wenruo
2019-01-14  9:35 ` David Sterba [this message]
2019-01-14 10:00   ` Qu Wenruo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-01-14 11:47 Tomasz Chmielewski
2019-01-14 12:34 ` Qu Wenruo
2019-01-14 13:06   ` Tomasz Chmielewski

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