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From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
To: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS client growing system CPU
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:42:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317123773.24383.1.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110927003931.GB12106@hostway.ca>

On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 17:39 -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: 
> Hello!
> 
> Following up on "System CPU increasing on idle 2.6.36", this issue is
> still happening even on 3.1-rc7. So, since it has been 9 months since I
> reported this, I figured I'd bisect this issue. The first bisection ended
> in an IPMI regression that looked like the problem, so I had to start
> again. Eventually, I got commit b80c3cb628f0ebc241b02e38dd028969fb8026a2
> which made it into 2.6.34-rc4.
> 
> With this commit, system CPU keeps rising as the log crunch box runs
> (reads log files via NFS and spews out HTML files into NFS-mounted report
> directories). When it finishes the daily run, the system time stays
> non-zero and continues to be higher and higher after each run, until the
> box never completes a run within a day due to all of the wasted cycles.

So reverting that commit fixes the problem on 3.1-rc7?

As far as I can see, doing so should be safe thanks to commit
5547e8aac6f71505d621a612de2fca0dd988b439 (writeback: Update dirty flags
in two steps) which fixes the original problem at the VFS level.

Cheers
  Trond

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
www.netapp.com


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-27 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-08 21:25 System CPU increasing on idle 2.6.36 Simon Kirby
2010-12-08 21:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-08 22:36   ` Simon Kirby
2010-12-09  4:37     ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-14 23:38       ` Simon Kirby
2010-12-15  1:10         ` Simon Kirby
2010-12-15  1:56           ` Simon Kirby
2010-12-15 18:08             ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-15 18:22               ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-15 18:38                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-15 19:33                   ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-15 19:49                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-15 19:57                       ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-15 20:19                         ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-15 20:32                           ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-15 21:48                             ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-15 22:15                               ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-15 22:29                                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-15 22:55                                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-15 23:58                                     ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-16  0:36                                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-27  0:39   ` NFS client growing system CPU Simon Kirby
2011-09-27 11:42     ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2011-09-27 16:49       ` Simon Kirby
2011-09-27 17:04         ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-28 19:58           ` Simon Kirby
2011-09-30  0:58             ` Simon Kirby
2011-09-30  1:11               ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-10-05 23:07                 ` Simon Kirby
2010-12-18  1:08 ` System CPU increasing on idle 2.6.36 Simon Kirby
2010-12-21 20:31   ` Mark Moseley
2010-12-29 22:03   ` Simon Kirby
2011-01-04 17:42     ` Mark Moseley
2011-01-04 21:40       ` Simon Kirby
2011-01-05 19:43         ` Mark Moseley
2011-01-07 18:05           ` Mark Moseley
2011-01-07 18:12             ` Mark Moseley
2011-01-07 19:33               ` Mark Moseley
2011-01-08  0:52             ` Simon Kirby
2011-01-08  1:30               ` Mark Moseley

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