Re: [PATCH 5.10 CANDIDATE 0/9] xfs stable candidate patches for 5.10.y (from v5.13+)

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On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 4:07 AM Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 07:01:15PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 09:17:47PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 11:21 AM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Darrick,
> > > >
> > > > This backport series contains mostly fixes from v5.14 release along
> > > > with three deferred patches from the joint 5.10/5.15 series [1].
> > > >
> > > > I ran the auto group 10 times on baseline (v5.10.131) and this series
> > > > with no observed regressions.
> > > >
> > > > I ran the recoveryloop group 100 times with no observed regressions.
> > > > The soak group run is in progress (10+) with no observed regressions
> > > > so far.
> > > >
> > > > I am somewhat disappointed from not seeing any improvement in the
> > > > results of the recoveryloop tests comapred to baseline.
> > > >
> > > > This is the summary of the recoveryloop test results on both baseline
> > > > and backport branch:
> > > >
> > > > generic,455, generic/457, generic/646: pass
> > > > generic/019, generic/475, generic/648: failing often in all config
> >
> > <nod> I posted a couple of patchsets to fstests@ yesterday that might
> > help with these recoveryloop tests failing.
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/fstests/165886493457.1585218.32410114728132213.stgit@magnolia/T/#t
> > https://lore.kernel.org/fstests/165886492580.1585149.760428651537119015.stgit@magnolia/T/#t
> > https://lore.kernel.org/fstests/165886491119.1585061.14285332087646848837.stgit@magnolia/T/#t
> >
> > > > generic/388: failing often with reflink_1024
> > > > generic/388: failing at ~1/50 rate for any config
> > > > generic/482: failing often on V4 configs
> > > > generic/482: failing at ~1/100 rate for V5 configs
> > > > xfs/057: failing at ~1/200 rate for any config
> > > >
> > > > I observed no failures in soak group so far neither on baseline nor
> > > > on backport branch. I will update when I have more results.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Some more results after 1.5 days of spinning:
> > > 1. soak group reached 100 runs (x5 configs) with no failures
> > > 2. Ran all the tests also on debian/testing with xfsprogs 5.18 and
> > >     observed a very similar fail/pass pattern as with xfsprogs 5.10
> > > 3. Started to run the 3 passing recoveryloop tests 1000 times and
> > >     an interesting pattern emerged -
> > >
> > > generic/455 failed 3 times on baseline (out of 250 runs x 5 configs),
> > > but if has not failed on backport branch yet (700 runs x 5 configs).
> > >
> > > And it's not just failures, it's proper data corruptions, e.g.
> > > "testfile2.mark1 md5sum mismatched" (and not always on mark1)
> >
> > Oh good!
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I will keep this loop spinning, but I am cautiously optimistic about
> > > this being an actual proof of bug fix.

That was wishful thinking - after 1500 x 5 runs there are 2 failures also
on the backport branch.

It is still better than 4 failures out of 800 x 5 runs on baseline, but I can
not call that a proof for bug fix - only no regression.

> > >
> > > If these results don't change, I would be happy to get an ACK for the
> > > series so I can post it after the long soaking.
> >
> > Patches 4-9 are an easy
> > Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I hit send too fast.
>
> I think patches 1-3 look correct.  I still think it's sort of risky,
> but your testing shows that things at least get better and don't
> immediately explode or anything. :)
>
> By my recollection of the log changes between 5.10 and 5.17 I think the
> lsn/cil split didn't change all that much, so if you get to the end of
> the week with no further problems then I say Acked-by for them too.
>

Great. I'll keep it spinning.

Thanks,
Amir.



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