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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	Chakri n <chakriin5@gmail.com>,
	linux-pm <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty_thresh problem?)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:48:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1191005339.18147.89.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070928114930.2c201324.akpm@linux-foundation.org>


On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 11:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Do you know where the stalls are occurring?  throttle_vm_writeout(), or via
> direct calls to congestion_wait() from page_alloc.c and vmscan.c?  (running
> sysrq-w five or ten times will probably be enough to determine this)

would it make sense to instrument congestion_wait() callsites with
vmstats?


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-28 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-28  6:32 A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty_thresh problem?) Chakri n
2007-09-28  6:50 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28  6:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-28  8:27     ` Chakri n
2007-09-28  8:40       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-28  9:01         ` Chakri n
2007-09-28  9:12           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-28  9:20             ` Chakri n
2007-09-28  9:23               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-28 10:36                 ` Chakri n
2007-09-28 13:28   ` Jonathan Corbet
2007-09-28 13:35     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-28 16:45       ` [linux-pm] " Alan Stern
2007-09-29  1:27       ` Daniel Phillips
2007-09-28 18:04     ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28 17:00   ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-28 18:49     ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28 18:48       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-09-28 19:16         ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 13:36           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 15:42             ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-03  9:28               ` [PATCH] lockstat: documentation Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-03  9:35                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28 19:16       ` A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty_thresh problem?) Trond Myklebust
2007-09-28 19:26         ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28 19:52           ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-28 20:10             ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28 20:32               ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-28 20:43                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28 21:36                   ` Chakri n
2007-09-28 23:33                     ` Chakri n
2007-09-28 20:24             ` Daniel Phillips
2007-09-29  1:51         ` KDB? Daniel Phillips
2007-09-29  0:46   ` A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty_thresh problem?) Daniel Phillips
     [not found] ` <20070929110454.GA29861@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-09-29 11:04   ` Fengguang Wu
2007-09-29 11:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]       ` <20070929122842.GA5454@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-09-29 12:28         ` Fengguang Wu
2007-09-29 14:43           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-01 15:57     ` Chuck Ebbert
     [not found]       ` <20071002020040.GA5275@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-02  2:00         ` [PATCH] writeback: avoid possible balance_dirty_pages() lockup on a light-load bdi Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02  2:14           ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]             ` <20071002121327.GA5718@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-02 12:13               ` Fengguang Wu
     [not found]               ` <20071002132702.GA10967@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-02 13:27                 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 18:35                   ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-03 12:46         ` richard kennedy
     [not found]           ` <20071004015053.GA5789@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-04  1:50             ` Fengguang Wu

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