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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs-trace-ilock-more
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:26:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111218202651.GA20799@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE8F7F0.7070207@suse.com>

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 02:24:32PM -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> That's pretty much the explanation. With heavy reader load, buffered
> writes were stalling for 80 ms and sometimes longer. I suspected it
> was contention on the ilock and the tracing with that patch
> demonstrated a delay there. Since we were chasing a similar issue at
> another site, it seemed worthwhile to just keep it around. We're still
> tracking down the cause. I'm not sure if more recent kernels have the
> same issue as there's been quite a lot of churn.

Ok.  I was a bit surprised that it was one out of only two XFS updates
that went into a recent SLES security errata, and I never heard about it
before.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-18 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14  2:40 xfs-trace-ilock-more Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-14 18:27 ` xfs-trace-ilock-more Mark Fasheh
2011-12-14 19:24   ` xfs-trace-ilock-more Jeff Mahoney
2011-12-14 20:32     ` xfs-trace-ilock-more Dave Chinner
2011-12-14 22:42       ` xfs-trace-ilock-more Jeff Mahoney
2011-12-18 20:26     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-12-18 20:27   ` xfs-trace-ilock-more Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-05 22:38     ` xfs-trace-ilock-more Mark Fasheh
2012-01-05 23:54       ` xfs-trace-ilock-more Dave Chinner

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