Re: mmap over nfs leads to excessive system load

[Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@yahoo.com>]

--- Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Could you send the test app please?  (Apologies if you've already done so
> and I missed it).

Here is an strace from a reduced test:
open("/mnt/bar", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_DIRECT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = 3
pwrite(3, "\0", 1, 4292870144)          = 1
mmap2(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0xffc00) = 0xb7ace000
pwrite(3, "\0", 1, 4294967296)          = 1
munmap(0xb7ace000, 2097152)             = 0
mmap2(0xb7ace000, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xffe00) = 0xb7ace000
pwrite(3, "\0", 1, 4297064448)          = 1
munmap(0xb7ace000, 2097152)             = 0
mmap2(0xb7ace000, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x100000) = 0xb7ace000
pwrite(3, "\0", 1, 4299161600)          = 1
munmap(0xb7ace000, 2097152)             = 0
mmap2(0xb7ace000, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x100200) = 0xb7ace000
pwrite(3, "\0", 1, 4301258752


The final pwrite never returns.
This is with 2.6.15-rc1 + Trond's NFS patch (-mm2 would die on strace).

The only change from the previous test is that this one uses munmap/mmap64 instead of
remap_file_pages.

showPc shows:

SysRq : Show Regs

Pid: 4271, comm:            writetest
EIP: 0060:[<c029cd2b>] CPU: 0
EIP is at prio_tree_first+0x26/0xb8
 EFLAGS: 00000292    Tainted: P       (2.6.15-rc1)
EAX: 00000000 EBX: f6765d94 ECX: f6765d94 EDX: 00000200
ESI: 00000000 EDI: f5da475c EBP: f6765db4 DS: 007b ES: 007b
CR0: 8005003b CR2: b7590000 CR3: 36b5d000 CR4: 000006d0
 [<c029ce5e>] prio_tree_next+0xa1/0xa3
 [<c014822a>] vma_prio_tree_next+0x27/0x51
 [<c014b1dc>] unmap_mapping_range+0x18b/0x210
 [<c0120d06>] __do_softirq+0x6a/0xd1
 [<c0103a24>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x1c/0x24
 [<c0146577>] invalidate_inode_pages2_range+0x215/0x24c
 [<c01465cd>] invalidate_inode_pages2+0x1f/0x26
 [<c01e4031>] nfs_file_direct_write+0x1e1/0x21a
 [<c0159ea4>] do_sync_write+0xc7/0x10d
 [<c012ff32>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x57
 [<c0159f92>] vfs_write+0xa8/0x177
 [<c015a275>] sys_pwrite64+0x88/0x8c
 [<c0102f51>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb


-Kenny



		
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