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From: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
To: "Dušan Čolić" <dusanc@gmail.com>
Cc: Ivan Shapovalov <intelfx100@gmail.com>,
	reiserfs-devel <reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel config option which causes reiser4 to be instable
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:47:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50CA5AEE.2050003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADW=+3nctUOzekb0NMV88CCqJj2Z8fgC=HjuoesirhNPCBxy_A@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/11/2012 09:54 PM, Dušan Čolić wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Edward Shishkin
> <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/11/2012 04:08 PM, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello!
>>
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> With help of Dušan Čolić<dusanc@gmail.com>  who provided his kernel config
>>> diff I've found a kernel option which, when disabled, greatly reduces
>>> (hopefully to zero, but need time to verify it) corruption rate in
>>> reiser4.
>>>
>>> It's CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE (or something which is used by it like
>>> CONFIG_COMPACTION or CONFIG_MIGRATION).
>>> For now I'm testing it with CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE disabled
>>
>>
>> How long?
>>
> For me the difference in uptime is months without vs hours with it :D
> on 2.6.39.4


Hm, indeed: my setup with enabled migration can not survive even one 
kernel compilation, while with disabled migration everything looks ok..


>
>>
>>>    on kernel
>>> 3.6.10, and everything seems to be OK so far (so the workaround is
>>> version-
>>> agnostic).
>>>
>>> Edward, are there any guesses on what can make reiser4 choke on
>>> hugepages/compaction/migration?
>>
>>
>> TBH, no ideas. They (hugepages) are _transparent_.
>> It means we shouldn't suffer in theory ;)
>>
>>
>>>    I'm not even barely familiar with the kernel
>>> internals.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ivan.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-13 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-07 17:56 R4 problem started with 2.6.39 and still there with 3.6.6 Dušan Čolić
2012-12-07 18:34 ` Dušan Čolić
2012-12-09 15:17   ` Ivan Shapovalov
2012-12-09 16:19     ` Dušan Čolić
2012-12-09 16:29       ` Dušan Čolić
2012-12-09 16:38         ` Ivan Shapovalov
2012-12-09 17:12           ` Dušan Čolić
2012-12-09 17:54             ` Dušan Čolić
2012-12-10 20:08               ` Dušan Čolić
2012-12-11 15:08               ` Kernel config option which causes reiser4 to be instable Ivan Shapovalov
2012-12-11 18:33                 ` Edward Shishkin
2012-12-11 18:49                   ` Ivan Shapovalov
2012-12-12  3:23                     ` Ivan Shapovalov
     [not found]                       ` <21180603.IycRkMTJZZ@intelfx-laptop>
2012-12-13 20:51                         ` Edward Shishkin
2012-12-11 20:54                   ` Dušan Čolić
2012-12-13 22:47                     ` Edward Shishkin [this message]
2012-12-14  3:14                       ` Ivan Shapovalov
2012-12-14 11:07                         ` Edward Shishkin
2012-12-14 18:20                           ` Ivan Shapovalov
2012-12-16 15:36                             ` Edward Shishkin
2012-12-26 16:22                               ` Ivan Shapovalov
2012-12-29  0:24                                 ` Edward Shishkin
2012-12-29 18:47                                   ` Ivan Shapovalov
2013-01-07  0:06                                     ` Edward Shishkin
2013-01-07  1:33                                       ` Ivan Shapovalov
2012-12-09 12:36 ` R4 problem started with 2.6.39 and still there with 3.6.6 Ivan Shapovalov
2012-12-09 14:47   ` Dušan Čolić
2012-12-09 14:52     ` Dušan Čolić

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