On Fri, 29 April 2011 Bruno PrÃmont wrote: > On Fri, 29 April 2011 Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > On 2011.04.29 at 11:19 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > OK, so the common elements here appears to be root filesystems > > > with small log sizes, which means they are tail pushing all the > > > time metadata operations are in progress. Definitely seems like a > > > race in the AIL workqueue trigger mechanism. I'll see if I can > > > reproduce this and cook up a patch to fix it. > > > > Hmm, I'm wondering if this issue is somehow related to the hrtimer bug, > > that Thomas Gleixner fixed yesterday: > > http://git.us.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commit;h=ce31332d3c77532d6ea97ddcb475a2b02dd358b4 > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/61909/ > > > > It also looks similar to the issue that James Bottomley reported > > earlier: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/62185/ > > I'm going to see, I've applied Thomas' fix on the box seeing XFS freeze (without > other changes to kernel). > Going to run that kernel for the week-end and beyond if it survives to see what > happens. Happened again (after a few hours of uptime), so it definitely is not caused by hrtimer bug that Thomas Gleixner fixed. Bruno _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
