From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 405EF7F3F for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:01:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C775BAC00B for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 08:01:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id uiTjAj9iV76b7XoC for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 08:01:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:01:23 -0500 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: 3.14-rc2 XFS backtrace because irqs_disabled. Message-ID: <20140214160123.GA28125@redhat.com> References: <52FA9ADA.9040803@sandeen.net> <20140212004403.GA17129@redhat.com> <20140212010941.GM18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20140212040358.GA25327@redhat.com> <20140212042215.GN18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20140212054043.GB13997@dastard> <20140212071829.GE13997@dastard> <20140214002427.GN13997@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140214002427.GN13997@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: Eric Sandeen , xfs@oss.sgi.com, Linus Torvalds , Al Viro , Linux Kernel On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:24:27AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > I can fix this one easily - we already have a workqueue for doing > > async log pushes (will split the stack between xlog_cil_force_lsn > > and xlog_cil_push), but the reason we haven't used it for synchronous > > log forces is that screws up fsync performance on CFQ. We don't > > recommend CFQ with XFS anyway, so I think I'll make this change > > anyway. > > Dave, the patch below should chop off the stack usage from > xfs_log_force_lsn() issuing IO by deferring it to the CIL workqueue. > Can you given this a run? Looks like it's survived an overnight run.. Dave _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs