From: John Berthels <john@humyo.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Gregory <nick@humyo.com>,
Rob Sanderson <rob@humyo.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM + POSS FIX: kernel stack overflow, xfs, many disks, heavy write load, 8k stack, x86-64
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:16:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBDC92D.8060503@humyo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100408030347.GM11036@dastard>
Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:43:41AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
>
> And there's a patch attached that stops direct reclaim from writing
> back dirty pages - it seems to work fine from some rough testing
> I've done. Perhaps you might want to give it a spin on a
> test box, John?
>
Thanks very much for this. The patch is in and soaking on a THREAD_ORDER
1 kernel (2.6.33.2 + patch + stack instrumentation), so far so good, but
it's early days. After about 2hrs of uptime:
$ dmesg | grep stack | tail -1
[ 60.350766] apache2 used greatest stack depth: 2544 bytes left
(which tallies well with your 5 1/2Kbytes usage figure).
I'll reply again after it's been running long enough to draw conclusions.
jb
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2010-04-08 3:03 ` PROBLEM + POSS FIX: kernel stack overflow, xfs, many disks, heavy write load, 8k stack, x86-64 Dave Chinner
2010-04-08 12:16 ` John Berthels [this message]
2010-04-08 14:47 ` John Berthels
2010-04-08 16:18 ` John Berthels
2010-04-08 23:38 ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-09 11:38 ` Chris Mason
2010-04-09 18:05 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-09 18:11 ` Chris Mason
2010-04-12 1:01 ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-13 9:51 ` John Berthels
2010-04-16 13:41 ` John Berthels
2010-04-09 13:43 ` John Berthels
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