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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com" <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>,
	"xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
	aelder@sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs deadlock in stable kernel 3.0.4
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:39:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110921113935.GA8947@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E79940A.4000502@profihost.ag>

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 09:36:42AM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> >So far I haven't been able to recreate it.  How many runs did you
> >normally need on 3.1-rc?  Note that so far I've run my known working
> >kernel, I'll test your config plus the drivers I need next.
> 
> I had only used 3.0.4 with bonnie++ to reproduce. 3.1-rc was running
> on a prod. system.
> 
> Sadly i'm also not able to reproduce it reliable on every partition.
> Sometimes it works sometimes not. Just retrying does not help. I had
> to copy and delete random files from the part. and then start
> bonnie++ on it. Perhaps i can give you a dd dump of the partition.
> But i had to recreate one. My Intel SSD is now massivly slower than
> when i started the tests. No idea why.

So far it runs fine on 3.1-rc both with my default config and yours,
the latter had been running all night.  This is on a 8-core Nehalem
with 8GB of memory, and a fast PCI-e flash device.

One thing I noticed is that your config seems to run many fs tasks
a lot slower than mine, but I'm not entirely sure why.

The only interesting things I noticed in your config where that you
use slub instead of slab, which does a lot of high order allocations
and has caused lots of trouble in the past, and that you enable
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, which has caused mis-compilation
of complicated code in the past.  I don't want to blame it directly,
but I could see how that causes problems with some of the atomic64_t
games XFS plays since 2.6.38.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-21 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-10 12:23 xfs deadlock in stable kernel 3.0.4 Stefan Priebe
2011-09-12 15:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-12 16:46   ` Stefan Priebe
2011-09-12 20:05     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-13  6:04       ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-13 19:31         ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-13 20:50         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-13 21:52           ` [xfs-masters] " Alex Elder
2011-09-13 21:58             ` Alex Elder
2011-09-13 22:26               ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14  7:26           ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-14  7:48             ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-14  8:49               ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-14 14:30                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 14:30               ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 16:06                 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-18  9:14                 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-18 20:04                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-19 10:54                     ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-18 23:02                   ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-20  0:47                     ` Stefan Priebe
2011-09-20  1:01                       ` Stefan Priebe
2011-09-20 10:09                     ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-20 16:02                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-20 17:23                         ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-20 17:24                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-20 17:35                             ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-20 22:30                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-21  2:11                                 ` [xfs-masters] " Dave Chinner
2011-09-21  7:40                                   ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 11:42                                     ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-21 11:55                                       ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 12:26                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-21 13:42                                         ` Stefan Priebe
2011-09-21 16:48                                         ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 17:26                                           ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 19:01                                         ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 23:07                                         ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-22 14:14                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-22 21:49                                             ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-22 22:01                                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-23  5:28                                                 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-22  0:53                                       ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-22  5:27                                         ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-22  7:52                                           ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21  7:36                                 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 11:39                                   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-09-21 13:39                                     ` Stefan Priebe
2011-09-21 14:17                                       ` Christoph Hellwig

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