From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Soft lockups in mballoc code
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:08:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080515093806.GA23507@skywalker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25037.1210612895@alphaville.zko.hp.com>
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:21:35PM -0400, Nick Dokos wrote:
> I keep getting soft lockups in mballoc code, running fsstress.
> I'm running a 2.6.25.2 kernel, with 1.40.8 e2fsprogs. Here
> is sample console output on a 2-cpu Opteron box with a 2Tb filesystem -
> the two stack traces keep repeating every minute or so and the only
> way to get out is to reset the box:
What is the block size with which the file system is created. I would
also suggest testing with the latest kernel and see if you can
reproduce the same. While testing with the latest kernel please also
use the below patch.
http://repo.or.cz/w/ext4-patch-queue.git?a=blob;f=ext4-mballoc-fix-mb-_nornalize_request-for-1K-blksz.patch;h=f7b91a6186b7b469ad798ddc95e76ece69b47c24;hb=HEAD
-aneesh
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-15 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-12 17:21 Soft lockups in mballoc code Nick Dokos
2008-05-14 17:18 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-14 17:45 ` Nick Dokos
2008-05-19 14:47 ` Solofo.Ramangalahy
[not found] ` <18490.27904.103939.811128@frecb006361.adech.frec.bull.fr>
2008-05-26 14:27 ` Nick Dokos
2008-05-26 20:39 ` Solofo.Ramangalahy
2008-05-15 9:38 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
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