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From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
To: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bcache: Fix a writeback performance regression
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:47:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130821234715.GA4630@moria.home.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <521323D1.1070503@profihost.ag>

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:07:45AM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> Am 20.08.2013 10:01, schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:
> > Am 20.08.2013 00:27, schrieb Kent Overstreet:
> >> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:09:24AM +0200, Stefan Priebe wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Vanilla 3.10.7 + bcache: Fix a writeback performance regression
> >>>
> >>> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=LXZk4cMH
> >>
> >> Whoops, at first I thought this was the same bug as one I'd already been
> >> chasing down that had been a harmless bug - turns out I didn't look
> >> closely enough at the backtrace.
> >>
> >> What happened is background writeback is deadlocking, because for some
> >> reason the workqueue it's running out of is a singlethreaded workqueue,
> >> so as soon as it decides to queue enough writeback bios that it has to
> >> sleep on that semaphore (which often won't happen due to the PD
> >> controller based ratelimiting) - boom, deadlock.
> >>
> >> Here's the fixup patch I just tested and am applying:
> 
> Oh i'm now seeing very high CPU spikes of kworker... i don't see if i
> remove bcache: Fix a writeback performance regression.

Are you able to reproduce it? I'm not having any luck reproducing it...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-21 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-14 22:59 [GIT PULL] bcache fixes for 3.11 Kent Overstreet
2013-08-15  6:43 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2013-08-15  7:07   ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-16 10:11   ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2013-08-18 22:09     ` bcache: Fix a writeback performance regression Stefan Priebe
2013-08-19 22:27       ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-20  8:01         ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2013-08-20  8:07           ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2013-08-21 21:10             ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-21 23:47             ` Kent Overstreet [this message]
2013-08-22  5:25               ` Stefan Priebe
2013-08-22  5:27               ` Stefan Priebe
2013-08-22  5:43                 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-22  5:59                   ` Stefan Priebe
2013-08-22  6:02                     ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-22  7:32                       ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2013-08-22  7:42                         ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-26 19:21                         ` Stefan Priebe
2013-08-28  3:37                           ` kernel neophyte
2013-08-28  6:05                             ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-28 18:12                               ` kernel neophyte
2013-08-28 18:38                                 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2013-08-28 18:47                                   ` kernel neophyte
2013-08-28 19:20                                     ` Stefan Priebe
2013-08-28 20:12                                       ` kernel neophyte
2013-08-28 20:15                                         ` Stefan Priebe
2013-08-28 22:45                                           ` kernel neophyte
2013-08-29 18:52                                           ` Stefan Priebe

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