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From: "Paweł Brodacki" <pawel.brodacki@googlemail.com>
To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Soft lockups in 2.6.32-rc3
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:02:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b95c1fdd0910190202y7bbceef7vbe6db2d5f6833a55@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091011201955.GA19308@uio.no>

2009/10/11 Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I've just upgraded from 2.6.31-rc8 to 2.6.32-rc3, and I thought I would turn
> on the new multicore RAID-5 processing. I did, it booted up and started
> syncing RAIDs (since the last shutdown before that was not clean), and
> started syncing at the minimum speed (1000 K/sec). I've seen this before, so
> I upped it in /proc to about 100MB/sec minimum (which is well below what I've
> seen from that RAID; six 7200rpm SATA drives connected by SAS).
>
> However, it never wanted to go above about 8-10MB/sec, and md4_raid5 used
> 100% CPU while I/O was extremely slow. Suddenly the serial console flashed:
>
< snip >

Hi,

I'm not savvy enough to read traces, but on surface it looks similar
to a problem described in a thread started on the linux-raid list by
Holger Kiehl on Oct. 16. (Raid reconstructing and process hanging in D
state).

Hope it helps.

Regards,
Paweł
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-19  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-11 20:19 [BUG] Soft lockups in 2.6.32-rc3 Steinar H. Gunderson
2009-10-19  9:02 ` Paweł Brodacki [this message]

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