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From: Tim Small <tim@seoss.co.uk>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Deadlock in md barrier code? / RAID1 / LVM CoW snapshot + ext3 / Debian 5.0 - lenny 2.6.26 kernel
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:42:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CFD0467.2060606@seoss.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101122100509.76592b59@notabene.brown>

On 11/21/10 23:05, Neil Brown wrote:
> Yes.  Superficially, it appears that there are still 5 outstanding read
> requests that are not being completed.   I cannot guess how OpenVZ would
> cause that, but I don't really know much about OpenVZ

Hi Neil,

I very much appreciate your help debugging this.

I opened a bug against the relevant Debian kernel.  Now that this is
pretty well characterised, I think it's probably best to just workaround
it (e.g. by setting speed_limit_max to 0 during the backups which were
tripping over this), until such time as the kernel can be replaced with
a more recent one...

Cheers,

Tim.




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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-06 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-17 14:53 Deadlock in md barrier code? / RAID1 / LVM CoW snapshot + ext3 / Debian 5.0 - lenny 2.6.26 kernel Tim Small
2010-09-17 22:59 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-20 19:59   ` Tim Small
2010-09-21 21:02     ` Tim Small
2010-09-21 22:30       ` Neil Brown
2010-10-12 13:59         ` Tim Small
2010-10-12 14:06         ` Tim Small
2010-10-12 16:48           ` CoolCold
2010-10-13  8:51             ` Tim Small
2010-10-13 13:00               ` CoolCold
2010-10-18 18:52         ` Tim Small
2010-10-19  6:16           ` Neil Brown
2010-10-19 16:24             ` Tim Small
2010-10-19 16:29               ` Tim Small
2010-10-19 19:29                 ` Tim Small
2010-10-20 20:34                   ` Tim Small
2010-10-20 23:04                     ` Neil Brown
2010-11-18 18:04                       ` Tim Small
2010-11-21 23:05                         ` Neil Brown
2010-12-06 15:42                           ` Tim Small [this message]
2010-09-21 22:21     ` Neil Brown

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