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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hung in raise_barrier() in raid1.c  -- any ideas?
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:16:58 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120921121658.4fc4e5aa@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505BA133.3000005@genband.com>

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On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:05:23 -0600 Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
wrote:

> On 09/20/2012 03:27 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:55:02 -0600 Chris Friesen<chris.friesen@genband.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 09/20/2012 10:52 AM, Chris Friesen wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I've got a fairly beefy (32 cpus, 64GB ram, isci-based SAS disks,
> >>> etc.) embedded system running 2.6.27.
> >>>
> >>> We're seeing issues where disk operations suddenly seem to stall.  In
> >>> the most recent case we had the hung-task watchdog indicate that
> >>> md1_resync was stuck for more than 120sec in raise_barrier().
> >>>
> >>> There are a bunch of "normal" tasks also stuck in wait_barrier(), so
> >>> based on that I assume we're stuck in the second call to
> >>> wait_event_lock_irq().
> >>>
> >>> Has anyone seen anything like this?  Could commit 73d5c38 be related?
> >>> What about 1d9d524?
> >>
> >> Could d6b42dc be related?
> >
> > That last one seems more likely.  Does the scenario fit your config.
> > i.e. is your RAID1 being used under LVM?
> >
> > If it does, then I would say it is very likely this issue.
> 
> 
> Yes, we're using it under LVM.  I've added some instrumentation to tell 
> if we're hitting that case.  The current->bio_list handling is a bit 
> different in 2.6.27 but I think I figured out the equivalent to the patch.
> 
> Interesting that it took this long to fix that issue.
> 
> 
> >> Also, what's the meaning of RESYNC_DEPTH?
> >
> > The maximum number of resync requests that can be concurrently active.
> 
> And each request would resync a single block?

Each request will resync up to RESYNC_BLOCK_SIZE bytes - i.e. up to 64K.

NeilBrown

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-21  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-20 16:52 hung in raise_barrier() in raid1.c -- any ideas? Chris Friesen
2012-09-20 17:55 ` Chris Friesen
2012-09-20 21:27   ` NeilBrown
2012-09-20 23:05     ` Chris Friesen
2012-09-21  2:16       ` NeilBrown [this message]

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