From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752082Ab1C0XZt (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:25:49 -0400 Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.145]:31578 "EHLO ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751025Ab1C0XZs (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:25:48 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjUEAMzEj015LK5JgWdsb2JhbACEQ6ENFQEBFiYlsGePOQ2BGoNLdwSSdQ Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:25:43 +1100 From: Dave Chinner To: Justin Piszcz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.6.38.1: CPU#0 stuck for 67s! / xfs_ail_splice Message-ID: <20110327232543.GU26611@dastard> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 09:29:36AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Hi, > > When I rm -rf a directory of a few hundred thousand > files/directories on XFS under 2.6.38.1, I see the following, is > this normal? No. What is you filesystem config (xfs_info) and your mount options? Is it repeatable? IŃ• the system otherwise stalled or is it still operating normally? Does it recover and work normally after such a stall? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com