Re: Large amount of scsi-sgpool objects

[Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am noticing that there are a lot of objects active after a few tens 
> minutes of running xfs_fsr.
> 
> $ slabtop
>   OBJS ACTIVE  USE OBJ SIZE  SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME                   
> 818616 818616 100%    0.16K  34109       24    136436K sgpool-8
> 253692 253692 100%    0.62K  42282        6    169128K sgpool-32
>  52017  52016  99%    2.50K  17339        3    138712K sgpool-128
>  26220  26219  99%    0.31K   2185       12      8740K sgpool-16
>   8927   8574  96%    0.03K     79      113       316K size-32
> 

Looks like a leak, by failing to call scsi_release_buffers()
somehow. (Which was changed recently)

> $ uname -a
> Linux yaguchi 2.6.29-rc6-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT 2009-02-19 23:12:33 
> +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> 

Did you have a chance to try exact same thing with vanilla 2.6.29-rc6?

try a bisect -- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c there should not be more then
a couple of patches

> What could be the problem that there are so many objects around and not 
> freed? 

Only one reason, failing to call scsi_release_buffers()

There should not be more then .can_queue sg-pool objects in flight
per disk. Which is rarely more then 255

This makes the system pretty much unusable after a while as it 
> runs towards a low-memory condition.
> 
> $ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        766592     758688       7904          0          0     137184
> -/+ buffers/cache:     621504     145088
> Swap:       795136         32     795104
> 
> 
> $ cat /proc/meminfo 
> MemTotal:         766592 kB
> MemFree:           79388 kB
> Buffers:               0 kB
> Cached:            62120 kB
> SwapCached:         1428 kB
> Active:            74472 kB
> Inactive:         113524 kB
> Active(anon):      58228 kB
> Inactive(anon):    69124 kB
> Active(file):      16244 kB
> Inactive(file):    44400 kB
> Unevictable:           0 kB
> Mlocked:               0 kB
> HighTotal:             0 kB
> HighFree:              0 kB
> LowTotal:         766592 kB
> LowFree:           79388 kB
> SwapTotal:        795136 kB
> SwapFree:         792404 kB
> Dirty:                 0 kB
> Writeback:             0 kB
> AnonPages:        124440 kB
> Mapped:            13672 kB
> Slab:             478576 kB
> SReclaimable:       5316 kB
> SUnreclaim:       473260 kB
> PageTables:         1220 kB
> NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
> Bounce:                0 kB
> WritebackTmp:          0 kB
> CommitLimit:     1178432 kB
> Committed_AS:   4294655912 kB
> VmallocTotal:     245816 kB
> VmallocUsed:       27404 kB
> VmallocChunk:     197108 kB
> HugePages_Total:       0
> HugePages_Free:        0
> HugePages_Rsvd:        0
> HugePages_Surp:        0
> Hugepagesize:       4096 kB
> DirectMap4k:      696256 kB
> DirectMap4M:       90112 kB
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/
> 

Please try some more tests, could it be a race that gets exposed in -rt?

Boaz