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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT] fs: jbd2: pull your plug when waiting for space
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:47:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140310174718.GB6763@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392990852.5451.178.camel@marge.simpson.net>

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:54:12PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> ext3: dbench1 queues a buffer, blocks on journal mutex, it's plug is not
> pulled.  dbench2 mutex owner is waiting for kjournald, who is waiting for
> the buffer queued by dbench1.  Game over.

Where is in ext3/4 are we calling some function which could end up
blocking on kjournald while we have the I/O queue plugged?  That
sounds suspicious and potentially wrong.

							- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-10 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-21 12:32 [PATCH RT] fs: jbd2: pull your plug when waiting for space Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-02-21 13:54 ` Mike Galbraith
2014-03-10 17:47   ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-03-11  4:13     ` Mike Galbraith
2014-03-10 17:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-10 17:41   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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