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From: Emmanuel Lacour <elacour@easter-eggs.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:47:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131209094715.GC5821@easter-eggs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131203125057.GU10988@dastard>

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:50:57PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 


thanks very much for your quick and detailled answer!

> OK, 32GB RAM, no obvious shortage, no dirty or writeback data.
> 2TB SATA drives, 32AGs, only unusual setting is 64k directory block
> size.
> 

yes, the 64k was taken from a too quickly read of advice, I don't think
it's of any help on a ceph cluster but I'm not an FS guru. Is there a
way to lower it at runtime?

> Yup, there's your problem:
> 

[...]

> Which, I think, is pretty easy to do. Yup, barely smoke tested patch
> below that demonstrates the fix. Beware - patch may eat babies and
> ask for more. Use it at your own risk!
> 


unfortunatly I cannot test this patch because:

- it's a production cluster and it's currently hard for me to reboot
  nodes (not enough nodes ;))
- just after hiting this problem I saw a kernel 3.11 available on Debian
  backports and decided to upgrade the whole cluster.

since this upgrade, there is no problems anymore ... I cross my fingers
;)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-09  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-28  9:13 XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250) Emmanuel Lacour
2013-11-28 10:05 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-03  9:53   ` Emmanuel Lacour
2013-12-03 12:50     ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-03 16:28       ` Yann Dupont
2013-12-09  9:47       ` Emmanuel Lacour [this message]
2013-12-11 20:22       ` Ben Myers
2013-12-11 23:53         ` Dave Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-08-21 15:24 Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
2013-08-22  2:25 ` Dave Chinner
2013-08-22 15:07   ` Josef 'Jeff' Sipek

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