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From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	Martin_Zielinski@McAfee.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] jbd: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 14:29:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110502182945.GG2819@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110502150758.GH4556@quack.suse.cz>

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 05:07:58PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   The patch looks OK in any case. I'll take it in my tree.
Great, thanks.

> It would take
> about 24 days of constant 1000 trans/s load to trigger this. That's a quite
> heavy load but not so unrealistic with today's HW.

True; but one of the reason why I'm not sure I believe that is this
bug is showing up on some Android devices, where (a) 1000 trans/second
*is* a not just a huge load, but almost impossible to believe, and (b)
if we really are doing 2**31 commits, we would be wearing out the
flash storage being used on the Android devices!  (And we're seeing a
handful of failures every week from the testers who participate in a
kerneloops-like reporting system.)

So while I would very much like to believe that it's caused by a tid
wrap, I'm worried there is another bug hiding here....

    		      	 	     	    - Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-02 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-04-25 23:14 ` 2.6.32 ext3 assertion j_running_transaction != NULL fails in commit.c Ted Ts'o
2011-04-26  0:23   ` [PATCH 1/2] jbd2: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug Theodore Ts'o
2011-04-26  0:23   ` [PATCH 2/2] jbd: " Theodore Ts'o
2011-04-30 17:17     ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-02 15:07       ` Jan Kara
2011-05-02 18:29         ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2011-05-02 19:04           ` Jan Kara
2011-05-02 21:31             ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-04 14:21               ` Martin_Zielinski
2011-05-04 21:55                 ` Jan Kara
2011-05-05 14:11                   ` Martin_Zielinski
2011-05-05 15:53                     ` Jan Kara
2011-05-05 14:55                   ` Martin_Zielinski
2011-05-05 15:43                     ` Jan Kara
2011-04-26  9:07   ` 2.6.32 ext3 assertion j_running_transaction != NULL fails in commit.c Martin_Zielinski
2011-04-26 12:23     ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-26 12:45       ` Martin_Zielinski
2011-04-26 17:20         ` Ted Ts'o

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