From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 20902] High IO wait when writing to ext4 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:11:02 GMT Message-ID: <201010291611.o9TGB2xa006844@demeter2.kernel.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from [140.211.167.42] ([140.211.167.42]:42974 "EHLO demeter2.kernel.org" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751158Ab0J2QLD (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:11:03 -0400 Received: from demeter2.kernel.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by demeter2.kernel.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o9TGB2Sa006846 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:11:02 GMT In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20902 Eric Sandeen changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sandeen@redhat.com --- Comment #8 from Eric Sandeen 2010-10-29 16:10:59 --- Any chance you can test w/o LUKS to see how that affects things? If I had to guess I'd say things are stuck behind here: [ 554.110652] flush-252:1 D ffff880001e14cc0 0 2186 2 0x00000000 [ 554.110679] Call Trace: [ 554.110686] [] io_schedule+0x73/0xc0 [ 554.110692] [] sync_buffer+0x45/0x50 [ 554.110714] [] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x7d/0x90 [ 554.110725] [] __wait_on_buffer+0x28/0x30 [ 554.110732] [] ext4_mb_init_cache+0x389/0x900 I guess ext4_mb_init_cache() is in: /* wait for I/O completion */ for (i = 0; i < groups_per_page && bh[i]; i++) wait_on_buffer(bh[i]); -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug.