Re: [PATCH 44/49] xfs: Reduce allocations during CIL insertion

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On 07/26/13 15:46, Michael L. Semon wrote:
On 07/24/2013 09:28 AM, Mark Tinguely wrote:
On 07/23/13 16:44, Michael L. Semon wrote:
On 07/23/2013 05:15 PM, Mark Tinguely wrote:
On 07/19/13 01:25, Dave Chinner wrote:
From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Now that we have the size of the object before the formatting pass
is called, we can allocation the log vector and it's buffer in a
single allocation rather than two separate allocations.

Store the size of the allocated buffer in the log vector so that
we potentially avoid allocation for future modifications of the
object.

While touching this code, remove the IOP_FORMAT definition.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely<tinguely@xxxxxxx>

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I'd like to register a gentle "test this well" protest on this patch.
While trying to figure out the origin of an unrelated lockdep, I
tried to copy 3 kernel gits from one 2k non-CRC XFS filesystem to
another one.  With at least this patch used, the cp operatin stops,
leading to not-umountable, not-syncable filesystems.  It might be
while copying the 2nd git, or the 3rd git, while copying header files,
or while copying those large *.pack files, but it will happen
somewhere.

A bisect of the issue ends on this patch, but its removal means that
45_49 and 46_49 cannot be applied without good knowledge of the code
to be patched.

This one's on me for not being able to get good information to Dave.
If I can find a way to get trace-cmd to pipe over ssh or something
like that, then maybe there's a chance to make a file that `trace-cmd
report` can read.  Previous attempts to save to different filesystems
or save over NFS and CIFS have all failed.  Will keep trying...

For diagnosing this patch, is there an effective trace that is rather
small?  And would you need more than just the XFS events?

Thanks!

Michael


Thanks for the heads up.

If you could please redo the test and get the stack traces with /proc/sysrq-trigger and if you kernel works with crash, a core dump. For the stack trace, I mostly want to know if it has several "xlog_grant_head_wait" entries in it, because ...

...I seemed to have triggered a couple log space reservation hangs with fsstress one XFS partition and a mega-copy on another partition, but will have to graft the new XFS tree onto a Linux 3.10 kernel to get crash (and one of my sata controllers) to work again.

Thanks.

--Mark.

Well, I tried.  Here's a Google Drive link, and hopefully it works:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B41268QKoNjtckwzVTJqWnIydEE

The instructions in Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt were followed
fairly well.  The dump was taken from /proc/vmcore and extracted
like this:

$ cat /proc/vmcore | gzip -9vc>  4git-cp-kernel-dump-1.gz

You seem to have things well under control, so it all might not be
needed, anyway.  It does mean that kernel core dumps will go more
quickly next time.

BTW, there's a "crash" program referenced in kdump.txt, and it's been
downloaded but not built yet.  Were you looking for output from the
crash program?

Thanks!

Michael

Thanks more data. I will take a look. I will need the vmlinux, System.map, and xfs.ko (if xfs is a module).

I can reproduce a problem in patch 44 too. It takes my copy test 20 minutes to deplete the log space with patch 44, Same test with patch 43 has been running a day and a half. I do not think that patch 44 is 100 times faster than patch 43 but I will let patch 43 spin all weekend on a couple machines to verify that patch 43 does not hang.

Whatever the cause, it has to be fixed before bringing in patches 43-47.

--Mark.

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