From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Robert Barror <robert.barror@intel.com>,
Seema Pandit <seema.pandit@intel.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] filesystem-dax: Disable PMD support
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:06:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4jQP-SFJGor-Q3VCRQ0xwt3MuVpH2qHx2wzyRA88DGQww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190627123415.GA4286@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 5:34 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 05:15:45PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Ever since the conversion of DAX to the Xarray a RocksDB benchmark has
> > been encountering intermittent lockups. The backtraces always include
> > the filesystem-DAX PMD path, multi-order entries have been a source of
> > bugs in the past, and disabling the PMD path allows a test that fails in
> > minutes to run for an hour.
>
> On May 4th, I asked you:
>
> Since this is provoked by a fatal signal, it must have something to do
> with a killable or interruptible sleep. There's only one of those in the
> DAX code; fatal_signal_pending() in dax_iomap_actor(). Does rocksdb do
> I/O with write() or through a writable mmap()? I'd like to know before
> I chase too far down this fault tree analysis.
RocksDB in this case is using write() for writes and mmap() for reads.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-27 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-27 0:15 [PATCH] filesystem-dax: Disable PMD support Dan Williams
2019-06-27 12:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-06-27 16:06 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2019-06-27 18:29 ` Dan Williams
2019-06-27 18:58 ` Dan Williams
2019-06-27 19:09 ` Dan Williams
2019-06-27 19:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-06-28 2:39 ` Dan Williams
2019-06-28 16:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-06-28 16:39 ` Dan Williams
2019-06-28 16:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-06-29 16:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-06-30 7:27 ` Dan Williams
2019-06-30 8:01 ` Dan Williams
2019-06-30 15:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-06-30 21:37 ` Dan Williams
2019-07-02 3:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-02 15:37 ` Dan Williams
2019-07-03 0:22 ` Boaz Harrosh
2019-07-03 0:42 ` Dan Williams
2019-07-03 1:39 ` Boaz Harrosh
2019-07-01 12:11 ` Jan Kara
2019-07-03 15:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-04 16:40 ` Jan Kara
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