Hello, I'd like to ask what should the average size of the sbi->s_es_lru be? I just had a server die on me due to rcu_scheds caused by list_sorting this list? What happened is that machine ran out of memory and the ext4 shrinker got activated and the following was printed in dmesg: [4226538.122788] list passed to list_sort() too long for efficiency A lot of CPUs were stuck with the following backtrace: [4226563.504310] Call Trace: [4226563.504316] [<ffffffff8129afd2>] __ext4_es_shrink+0x42/0x300 [4226563.504319] [<ffffffff8129bbe6>] ext4_es_scan+0x86/0x150 [4226563.504323] [<ffffffff81152ffe>] shrink_slab_node+0x13e/0x2e0 [4226563.504326] [<ffffffff8115322a>] shrink_slab+0x8a/0x140 [4226563.504329] [<ffffffff81156095>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x445/0x580 [4226563.504331] [<ffffffff8115646a>] try_to_free_pages+0x10a/0x1d0 [4226563.504336] [<ffffffff811493aa>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7ba/0xc20 [4226563.504341] [<ffffffff81190df9>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x99/0x200 [4226563.504346] [<ffffffff8108867f>] copy_process+0x18f/0x1920 [4226563.504350] [<ffffffff811b64fb>] ? path_get+0x2b/0x40 [4226563.504354] [<ffffffff811c8ebd>] ? __alloc_fd+0xed/0x160 [4226563.504356] [<ffffffff8108a1ae>] do_fork+0x5e/0x370 [4226563.504361] [<ffffffff8109e1b3>] ? __set_current_blocked+0x53/0x70 [4226563.504363] [<ffffffff8108a4d6>] SyS_clone+0x16/0x20 [4226563.504366] [<ffffffff8164c789>] stub_clone+0x69/0x90 [4226563.504368] [<ffffffff8164c4b2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Whereas the one which was allegedly working on the list looked like so: [4226563.509535] NMI backtrace for cpu 47 [4226563.509536] CPU: 47 PID: 22156 Comm: php Tainted: G O 3.12.52-clouder2 #1 [4226563.509537] Hardware name: Supermicro X10DRi/X10DRi, BIOS 1.1 04/14/2015 [4226563.509539] task: ffff881f8d3d58b0 ti: ffff880039c74000 task.ti: ffff880039c74000 [4226563.509542] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8129ab4d>] [<ffffffff8129ab4d>] ext4_inode_touch_time_cmp+0x5d/0x90 [4226563.509543] RSP: 0018:ffff880039c756e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 [4226563.509544] RAX: 0000100000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000011424ee1a [4226563.509545] RDX: 000000011424fef0 RSI: ffff880338ef5658 RDI: ffff88018d720f20 [4226563.509546] RBP: ffff880039c756e8 R08: ffff880338ef5330 R09: 0000000000000040 [4226563.509546] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffff8129aaf0 [4226563.509547] R13: ffff88018d721248 R14: ffff880338ef5658 R15: ffff88018d720e80 [4226563.509548] FS: 00002b195451fec0(0000) GS:ffff883fff4e0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [4226563.509549] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [4226563.509550] CR2: 000000000071ca9c CR3: 00000003fcb31000 CR4: 00000000001407e0 [4226563.509551] Stack: [4226563.509555] ffff880039c75828 ffffffff81334100 ffff880039c75778 ffff880039c75738 [4226563.509560] 0000000000000bc2 ffff881f295bf400 ffff883466ca7498 000000138066005d [4226563.509565] 0000000000000013 ffff880039c757d0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [4226563.509565] Call Trace: [4226563.509569] [<ffffffff81334100>] list_sort+0xe0/0x3c0 [4226563.509573] [<ffffffff8129b13c>] __ext4_es_shrink+0x1ac/0x300 [4226563.509576] [<ffffffff816491ec>] ? __schedule+0x2dc/0x760 [4226563.509579] [<ffffffff8129bbe6>] ext4_es_scan+0x86/0x150 [4226563.509581] [<ffffffff81152ffe>] shrink_slab_node+0x13e/0x2e0 [4226563.509584] [<ffffffff8115322a>] shrink_slab+0x8a/0x140 [4226563.509586] [<ffffffff81156095>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x445/0x580 [4226563.509589] [<ffffffff8115646a>] try_to_free_pages+0x10a/0x1d0 [4226563.509592] [<ffffffff811493aa>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7ba/0xc20 [4226563.509596] [<ffffffff8119cc90>] ? mem_cgroup_update_page_stat+0x20/0x60 [4226563.509599] [<ffffffff81188888>] alloc_pages_vma+0xa8/0x1c0 [4226563.509603] [<ffffffff8116e712>] handle_mm_fault+0xe62/0x12f0 [4226563.509606] [<ffffffff8117fb64>] ? free_pages_and_swap_cache+0xb4/0xe0 [4226563.509610] [<ffffffff81082d31>] ? flush_tlb_mm_range+0x121/0x1b0 [4226563.509613] [<ffffffff81169fcf>] ? tlb_flush_mmu+0x5f/0xa0 [4226563.509616] [<ffffffff8107d685>] __do_page_fault+0x185/0x470 [4226563.509619] [<ffffffff811cb212>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x42/0x140 [4226563.509622] [<ffffffff811cb331>] ? mntput+0x21/0x30 [4226563.509624] [<ffffffff811aca99>] ? __fput+0x199/0x250 [4226563.509627] [<ffffffff8133043a>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x6c [4226563.509630] [<ffffffff8107d97e>] do_page_fault+0xe/0x10 [4226563.509633] [<ffffffff8164bca2>] page_fault+0x22/0x30 Is there a way to acquire the number of extents on the list at the time? (I have a full crash dump of that failure). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
