On 04/06/2013 01:16 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 12:18:11AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: >> Ok, so now I'm runnning 3.9.0-rc5-next-20130404, it's not that bad, but >> it still sucks. Updating a kernel in a VM still results in "Your system >> is too SLOW to play this!" by mplayer and frame dropping. > > What was the first kernel where you didn't have the problem? Were you > using the 3.8 kernel earlier, and did you see the interactivity > problems there? I'm not sure, as I am using -next like for ever. But sure, there was a kernel which didn't ahve this problem. > What else was running in on your desktop at the same time? Nothing, just VM (kernel update from console) and mplayer2 on the host. This is more-or-less reproducible with these two. > How was > the file system mounted, Both are actually a single device /dev/sda5: /dev/sda5 on /win type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered) Should I try writeback? > and can you send me the output of dumpe2fs -h > /dev/XXX? dumpe2fs 1.42.7 (21-Jan-2013) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: /win Filesystem UUID: cd4bf4d2-bc32-4777-a437-ee24c4ee5f1b Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: user_xattr acl Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 30507008 Block count: 122012416 Reserved block count: 0 Free blocks: 72021328 Free inodes: 30474619 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 994 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 8192 Inode blocks per group: 512 RAID stride: 32747 Flex block group size: 16 Filesystem created: Fri Sep 7 20:44:21 2012 Last mount time: Thu Apr 4 12:22:01 2013 Last write time: Thu Apr 4 12:22:01 2013 Mount count: 256 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Sat Sep 8 21:13:28 2012 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Lifetime writes: 1011 GB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Required extra isize: 28 Desired extra isize: 28 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: b6ad3f8b-72ce-49d6-92cb-abccd7dbe98e Journal backup: inode blocks Journal features: journal_incompat_revoke Journal size: 128M Journal length: 32768 Journal sequence: 0x00054dc7 Journal start: 8193 > Oh, and what options were you using to when you kicked off > the VM? qemu-kvm -k en-us -smp 2 -m 1200 -soundhw hda -usb -usbdevice tablet -net user -net nic,model=e1000 -serial pty -balloon virtio -hda x.img > The other thing that would be useful was to enable the jbd2_run_stats > tracepoint and to send the output of the trace log when you notice the > interactivity problems. Ok, I will try. thanks, -- js suse labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>