From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 108631] Stuck on mb_cache_spinlock Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:08:18 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:42549 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751889AbcAVJIX (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2016 04:08:23 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E0220395 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugzilla1.web.kernel.org (bugzilla1.web.kernel.org [172.20.200.51]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BD320434 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:08:18 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108631 --- Comment #7 from Norman Meilick --- I'm sorry for the long delay, testing took longer than expected. While we could trigger the problem every time with kernels 3.14 to 3.18, it took 2-3 attempts (usually about 8 hours of backing up around 2.5M files) until the spinlock contention appeared with kernels 4.2.0 and 4.4.0-rc8. Since applying Jan's patches to 4.4.0-rc8 we have not experienced any problems, so it seems to us that this fixed the issue. Thank you very much to both of you. I'm also grateful for the advice regarding containers. On our test server we only have six containers with a modest memory use (we made sure to monitor it during the tests), so this likely wasn't an issue there. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.