From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:42:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m9O4gKAY006762 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:42:20 -0700 Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with SMTP id A14A11B16131 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by cuda.sgi.com with SMTP id m7tbcWR624DjmnUN for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49013C47.4090601@sgi.com> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:08:55 +1000 From: Lachlan McIlroy Reply-To: lachlan@sgi.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: deadlock with latest xfs References: <4900412A.2050802@sgi.com> <20081023205727.GA28490@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20081023205727.GA28490@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs-oss Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:17:30PM +1000, Lachlan McIlroy wrote: >> another problem with latest xfs > > Is this with the 2.6.27-based ptools/cvs tree or with the 2.6.28 based > git tree? It does looks more like a VM issue than a XFS issue to me. > It's with the 2.6.27-rc8 based ptools tree. Prior to checking in these patches: Can't lock inodes in radix tree preload region stop using xfs_itobp in xfs_bulkstat free partially initialized inodes using destroy_inode I was able to stress a system for about 4 hours before it ran out of memory. Now I hit the deadlock within a few minutes. I need to roll back to find which patch changed the behaviour.