From: Niccolo Rigacci <niccolo@rigacci.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IBM xSeries stop responding during RAID1 reconstruction
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:01:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606171201.00531.niccolo@rigacci.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17553.13020.134589.292543@cse.unsw.edu.au>
On Thursday 15 June 2006 12:13, you wrote:
> If this is causing a lockup, then there is something else wrong, just
> as any single process should not - by writing constantly to disks - be
> able to clog up the whole system.
>
> Maybe if you could get the result of
> alt-sysrq-P
I tried some kernel changes enabling the HyperThreading on the (single) P4
processor and enabling CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y, but with no success.
During the lookup Alt-SysRq-P constantly says that:
EIP is at mwait_idle+0x1a/0x2e
While Alt-SysRq-T shows - among other processes - the MD syncing and the bash
looked-up; this is the hand-copied call traces:
md3_resync
device_barrier
default_wake_function
sync_request
__generic_unplug_device
md_do_sync
schedule
md_thread
md_thread
kthread
kthread
kernel_thread_helper
bash
io_schedule
sync_buffer
sync_buffer
__wait_on_bit_lock
sync_buffer
out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock
wake_bit_function
__lock_buffer
do_get_write_access
__ext3_get_inode_loc
jurnal_get_write_access
ext3_reserve_inode_write
ext3_mark_inode_dirty
ext3_dirty_inode
__mark_inode_dirty
update_atime
vfs_readdir
sys_getdents64
filldir64
syscall_call
This is also the top output, which runs regularly during the lookup:
top - 11:40:41 up 7 min, 2 users, load average: 8.70, 4.92, 2.04
Tasks: 70 total, 1 running, 69 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2% us, 0.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.5% si
Mem: 906212k total, 58620k used, 847592k free, 3420k buffers
Swap: 1951736k total, 0k used, 1951736k free, 23848k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
829 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 1 0.0 0:01.70 md3_raid1
2823 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 1 0.0 0:01.62 md3_resync
1 root 16 0 1956 656 560 S 0 0.1 0:00.52 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 events/0
9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 events/1
10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
11 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
14 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
15 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1
16 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
152 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
153 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
154 root 17 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
155 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
156 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1
755 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
796 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
797 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1
799 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
800 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
825 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kirqd
831 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 0:00.00 md2_raid1
833 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 md1_raid1
834 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 0:00.00 md0_raid1
835 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
932 root 18 -4 2192 584 368 S 0 0.1 0:00.19 udevd
1698 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
2031 root 22 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
2032 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
2142 daemon 16 0 1708 364 272 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 portmap
2464 root 16 0 2588 932 796 S 0 0.1 0:00.01 syslogd
--
Niccolo Rigacci
Firenze - Italy
War against Iraq? Not in my name!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-17 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-14 8:53 IBM xSeries stop responding during RAID1 reconstruction Niccolo Rigacci
2006-06-14 15:46 ` Bill Cizek
2006-06-15 9:12 ` Niccolo Rigacci
2006-06-15 10:13 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-17 10:01 ` Niccolo Rigacci [this message]
2006-06-19 15:05 ` Gabor Gombas
2006-06-20 13:08 ` Niccolo Rigacci
2006-06-20 13:27 ` Gabor Gombas
2006-06-20 15:00 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2006-06-20 15:45 ` Niccolo Rigacci
2006-06-20 16:38 ` Gabor Gombas
2006-06-26 14:52 ` Bill Davidsen
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