Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME inodes

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:11:23AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 
> Eryu, can you change the way you run the event trace to be:
> 
> $ sudo trace-cmd <options> -o <outfile location> ./check <test options>
> 
> rather than running the trace as a background operation elsewhere?
> Maybe that will give better results.

The results are here

http://128.199.137.77/writeback-v3/

> 
> Also, it would be informative to us if you can reproduce this with a
> v5 filesystem (i.e. mkfs.xfs -m crc=1) because it has much better
> on-disk information for sequence-of-event triage like this. If you
> can reproduce it with a v5 filesystem, can you post the trace and
> metadump?

This seems to be harder to reproduce with tracepoints enabled, but I'll
keep trying, and the tests below.

Thanks,
Eryu

> 
> Other things to check (separately):
> 
> 	- change godown to godown -f
> 	- add a "sleep 5" before running godown after sync
> 	- add a "sleep 5; sync" before running godown
> 
> i.e. I'm wondering if sync is not waiting for everything, and so we
> aren't capturing the IO completions because the filesystem is
> already shut down by the time they are delivered...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
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