Re: [Bug 9291] pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-12-04 Thread Thomas Kuther
On Di, 04.12.07 11:28 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can confirm this issue too on any .24-rc. I'm also using reiserfs > > on a LVM. > > > > And there is one more user on Gentoo forums having the same issue. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/v

[Bug 9291] pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-12-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can confirm this issue too on any .24-rc. I'm also using reiserfs on > a LVM. > > And there is one more user on Gentoo forums having the same issue. > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-612959.html > > So you are not alone, florian. any progress on t

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-11-11 Thread Thomas
Florin Iucha iucha.net> writes: > > It's really curious - I tried your .config and commands, and still > > could not trigger the high iowait. I'm running 64bit Intel Core 2, > > and kernel 2.6.24-rc1-git6 with the above patch. > > Curious but 100% reproducible, at least on my box. What I'm goin

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-11-02 Thread Florin Iucha
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:56:55PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > --- > > > fs/reiserfs/stree.c |3 --- > > > 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) > > > > > > --- linux-2.6.24-git17.orig/fs/reiserfs/stree.c > > > +++ linux-2.6.24-git17/fs/reiserfs/stree.c > > > @@ -1458,9 +1458,6 @@ static void u

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-11-02 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:10:02PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:33:21AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > I will try that with a USB disk - I hope that won't make a difference. > > > > Thank you. I guess a reiserfs on loop file would also be OK. > > > > > > btw, what's t

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-11-01 Thread Florin Iucha
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:33:21AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > I will try that with a USB disk - I hope that won't make a difference. > > Thank you. I guess a reiserfs on loop file would also be OK. > > > > btw, what's the exact kernel version you are running? > > > > I noticed it with the ke

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-11-01 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:14:14AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:03:33PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > Or will the system or fs size/age make any difference? If you happen > > to have a spare/swap partition, could you make a new reiserfs and > > mount it and copy several

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-11-01 Thread Florin Iucha
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:03:33PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > Or will the system or fs size/age make any difference? If you happen > to have a spare/swap partition, could you make a new reiserfs and > mount it and copy several less-than-4KB files into it and wait for 30s > and see what happen to

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-11-01 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:25:58AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:15:32PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:53:18PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > This patch does not fix anything for me. Even such light use of the > > > reiserfs filesystem as pul

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-11-01 Thread Florin Iucha
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:15:32PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:53:18PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > This patch does not fix anything for me. Even such light use of the > > reiserfs filesystem as pulling the linux-2.6 git tree updates caused > > one CPU to go to 75% io

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-31 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:53:18PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:16:06AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:53:25PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:52:45PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:02:4

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-31 Thread Florin Iucha
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:16:06AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:53:25PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:52:45PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:02:42PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > > I have added the patches and st

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-31 Thread Florin Iucha
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:53:25PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:52:45PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:02:42PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > I have added the patches and started a linux kernel compilation, and > > > something really interesti

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-30 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:52:45PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:02:42PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > I have added the patches and started a linux kernel compilation, and > > something really interesting happens. I run the build with the > > equivalent of "make -j3" and

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-30 Thread Florin Iucha
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:02:42PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > I have added the patches and started a linux kernel compilation, and > something really interesting happens. I run the build with the > equivalent of "make -j3" and in a separate console I am watching the > build with 'top'. The buil

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-30 Thread Florin Iucha
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:49:41PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > It could be triggered by the more aggressive writeback behavior - the > > > new code will keep on retrying as long as there are dirty inodes pending. > > > > > > Florin, would you try the attached patches against 2.6.24-git? > > >

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-30 Thread Florin Iucha
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:49:41PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:42:50AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:54:03PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > It could be triggered by the more aggressive writeback behavior - the > > > new code will keep on ret

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-30 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:42:50AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:54:03PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > It could be triggered by the more aggressive writeback behavior - the > > new code will keep on retrying as long as there are dirty inodes pending. > > > > Florin, woul

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-30 Thread Florin Iucha
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:54:03PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:24:29AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > [...] > >[ 3687.824468] > >[ 3687.824470] pdflush D 805787c0 0 248 2 > >[ 3687.824473] 810006001d90 0046 000

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-29 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:24:29AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: [...] >[ 3687.824468] >[ 3687.824470] pdflush D 805787c0 0 248 2 >[ 3687.824473] 810006001d90 0046 > 0286 >[ 3687.824476] 8100057fc770 8100

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-29 Thread Florin Iucha
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:43:32PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:01 -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:46:59AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > What could cause this? I use NFS4 to automount the home directories > > > > from a Solaris10 ser

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-29 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:01 -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:46:59AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > What could cause this? I use NFS4 to automount the home directories > > > from a Solaris10 server, and this box found a few bugs in the NFS4 > > > code (fixed in the 2.6

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-29 Thread Florin Iucha
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:46:59AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > What could cause this? I use NFS4 to automount the home directories > > from a Solaris10 server, and this box found a few bugs in the NFS4 > > code (fixed in the 2.6.22 kernel). > > > > I'll try running with 2.6.23 again for a f

Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-29 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 10:24 -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > Hello, > > For a week or two I started noticing that some time after I'm logged > in, my keyboard input becomes a bit staggering, there is a small delay > between the keypress and the actual character appearing in the > terminal. This is o

pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

2007-10-28 Thread Florin Iucha
Hello, For a week or two I started noticing that some time after I'm logged in, my keyboard input becomes a bit staggering, there is a small delay between the keypress and the actual character appearing in the terminal. This is on a AMD Athlon x2 4200+ with 2 GB RAM and just a gnome-terminal open