From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Excessive stall times on ext4 in 3.9-rc2
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:00:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <515AF27C.2060206@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130402142717.GH32241@suse.de>
On 04/02/2013 04:27 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> I'm testing a page-reclaim-related series on my laptop that is partially
> aimed at fixing long stalls when doing metadata-intensive operations on
> low memory such as a git checkout. I've been running 3.9-rc2 with the
> series applied but found that the interactive performance was awful even
> when there was plenty of free memory.
>
> I activated a monitor from mmtests that logs when a process is stuck for
> a long time in D state and found that there are a lot of stalls in ext4.
> The report first states that processes have been stalled for a total of
> 6498 seconds on IO which seems like a lot. Here is a breakdown of the
> recorded events.
Just a note that I am indeed using ext4 on the affected machine for all
filesystems I have except for an efi partition...
--
js
suse labs
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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Excessive stall times on ext4 in 3.9-rc2
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:00:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <515AF27C.2060206@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130402142717.GH32241@suse.de>
On 04/02/2013 04:27 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> I'm testing a page-reclaim-related series on my laptop that is partially
> aimed at fixing long stalls when doing metadata-intensive operations on
> low memory such as a git checkout. I've been running 3.9-rc2 with the
> series applied but found that the interactive performance was awful even
> when there was plenty of free memory.
>
> I activated a monitor from mmtests that logs when a process is stuck for
> a long time in D state and found that there are a lot of stalls in ext4.
> The report first states that processes have been stalled for a total of
> 6498 seconds on IO which seems like a lot. Here is a breakdown of the
> recorded events.
Just a note that I am indeed using ext4 on the affected machine for all
filesystems I have except for an efi partition...
--
js
suse labs
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Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-02 14:27 Excessive stall times on ext4 in 3.9-rc2 Mel Gorman
2013-04-02 14:27 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-02 15:00 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2013-04-02 15:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-02 15:03 ` Zheng Liu
2013-04-02 15:03 ` Zheng Liu
2013-04-02 15:15 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-02 15:15 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-02 15:06 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-02 15:06 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-02 15:14 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-02 15:14 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-02 18:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-02 18:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-07 21:59 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2013-04-07 21:59 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2013-04-08 8:36 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-08 8:36 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-08 10:52 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2013-04-08 10:52 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2013-04-08 11:01 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-08 11:01 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-03 10:19 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-03 10:19 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-03 12:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-03 12:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-03 15:15 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-05 22:18 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-05 22:18 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-05 23:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-05 23:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-06 7:29 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-06 7:29 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-06 7:37 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-06 7:37 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-06 8:19 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-06 13:15 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-06 13:15 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-10 10:56 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-10 10:56 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-10 13:12 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-10 13:12 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-11 17:04 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-11 17:04 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-11 18:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-11 18:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-11 21:33 ` Jan Kara
2013-04-11 21:33 ` Jan Kara
2013-04-12 2:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-12 2:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-12 4:50 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-12 4:50 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-12 15:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-12 15:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-13 1:23 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-13 1:23 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-22 14:38 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-22 14:38 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-22 22:42 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-04-22 22:42 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-04-23 0:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-23 0:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-23 9:31 ` Jan Kara
2013-04-23 9:31 ` Jan Kara
2013-04-23 14:01 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-23 14:01 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-24 19:09 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-04-24 19:09 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-04-25 12:21 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-25 12:21 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 9:47 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 9:47 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-21 0:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 0:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 0:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 0:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 0:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] buffer: add BH_Prio and BH_Meta flags Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 0:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 0:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] ext4: mark metadata blocks using bh flags Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 0:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 6:09 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-21 6:09 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-21 6:09 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-21 19:55 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 19:55 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 19:55 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 20:48 ` [PATCH 3/3 -v2] " Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 20:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 20:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META Zheng Liu
2013-04-22 12:06 ` Zheng Liu
2013-04-23 15:33 ` Excessive stall times on ext4 in 3.9-rc2 Mel Gorman
2013-04-23 15:33 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-23 15:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-23 15:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-23 16:13 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-23 16:13 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 10:18 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2013-04-12 10:18 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2013-04-12 9:45 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 9:45 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-02 23:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-02 23:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-03 15:22 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-03 15:22 ` Mel Gorman
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