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From: axboe@fb.com (Jens Axboe)
Subject: NVM and swap device
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 10:47:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56968DBC.1040609@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160112194030.5b74ecdc@xeon-e3>

On 01/12/2016 08:40 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I have a nice shiny new Intel NVM PCI card; decided to use it for a filesystem and swap.
> The filesystem (btrfs) is doing fine, but the swap device was throwing occasional
> random errors. Suspect a driver problem rather than hardware.
>
> I am using 4.4 kernel without patches.
>
> kern.log:Jan 12 08:11:57 xeon-e3 kernel: [159474.037390] Read-error on swap-device (259:0:17597808)
> kern.log.1:Jan  7 08:32:10 xeon-e3 kernel: [87938.855526] Read-error on swap-device (259:0:11355648)
> kern.log.1:Jan  7 08:32:10 xeon-e3 kernel: [87938.855530] Read-error on swap-device (259:0:11355656)
> kern.log.1:Jan  7 08:32:10 xeon-e3 kernel: [87939.855467] Read-error on swap-device (259:0:16180824)
> kern.log.1:Jan  8 08:24:07 xeon-e3 kernel: [63670.777981] Read-error on swap-device (259:0:32690768)
> kern.log.1:Jan  9 09:25:02 xeon-e3 kernel: [153720.919325] Read-error on swap-device (259:0:220488)
> kern.log.1:Jan  9 16:40:05 xeon-e3 kernel: [179820.957675] Read-error on swap-device (259:0:24476232)
> kern.log.1:Jan  9 16:40:05 xeon-e3 kernel: [179820.962673] Read-error on swap-device (259:0:33292816)
>
> The swap device was being added via /etc/fstab by UUID.
>
> I gave up and went back to spinning rust for swap device for stabilty.

That's very odd. Why are you suspecting a driver problem? Have you tried 
to thoroughly beat the device up with normal IO?

-- 
Jens Axboe

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-13 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-13  3:40 NVM and swap device Stephen Hemminger
2016-01-13  8:26 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-01-13 15:13   ` Matthew Wilcox
2016-01-13 17:47 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2016-01-13 18:51   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-01-13 18:55     ` Jens Axboe
2016-01-20 21:30       ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-01-15 17:42 ` Keith Busch
2016-01-15 18:18   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-01-15 18:20   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-01-15 21:19     ` Keith Busch

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