From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] writeback: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:46:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181005124640.3de2ba9dec8c713ee8cf286b@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181005054526.21507-1-david@fromorbit.com>
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 15:45:26 +1000 Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> We've recently seen a workload on XFS filesystems with a repeatable
> deadlock between background writeback and a multi-process
> application doing concurrent writes and fsyncs to a small range of a
> file.
>
> ...
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.de>
Not a serious enough problem for a -stable backport?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-05 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-05 5:45 [PATCH] writeback: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock Dave Chinner
2018-10-05 19:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-10-05 23:37 ` Dave Chinner
2019-03-26 9:33 Gavin Will
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