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From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md raid5 fsync deadlock
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:46:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4F3753.80505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120301125325.2b17e5f8@notabene.brown>

On 03/01/2012 02:53 AM, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:31:08 +0100 Milan Broz<mbroz@redhat.com>  wrote:

> Are you certain it is a deadlock?  No forward progress at all?

Seems so, it was for several hours in this state without progress.

> What is in md/stripe_cache_size?  Does it change?

> What happens if you double the number in stripe_cache_size?  What if you
> double it again?

stripe_cache_size was 256, I doubled it to 512, now
   stripe_cache_active is 390
   stripe_cache size is 512
and no progress.

With stripe_cache size 1024 it survived few iterations of fio run, now it is
locked up again:
   stripe_cache_active is 921
   stripe_cache size is 1024

Thanks,
Milan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-01  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-29 23:31 md raid5 fsync deadlock Milan Broz
2012-03-01  1:53 ` NeilBrown
2012-03-01  8:46   ` Milan Broz [this message]
2012-03-04  9:20     ` NeilBrown

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