From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
To: jplatte@naasa.net
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:58:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <399948307.22389@ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
Message-ID: <E1JCrMj-0001HR-SZ@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801091404.30330.lists@naasa.net>
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:04:29PM +0100, Joerg Platte wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2008 schrieb Fengguang Wu:
> > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:22:33PM +0100, Joerg Platte wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2008 schrieb Fengguang Wu:
> > >
> > > Thank your for the hint with the filesystems!
> > >
> > > > Thank you for the clue. However I cannot reproduce the bug on
> > > > ext2/2.6.24-rc7. Can you provide more details? Thank you.
> > >
> > > I attached some more information. I'm using the ata_piix driver for my
> > > PATA disk and cdrom drive and booted with hpet=force. Kernel 2.6.23.X has
> > > been
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~
> > not 2.6.24-rc7?
> >
> No, 2.6.23.X was the last working kernel without this problem, the bug shows
> up with 2.6.24-rcX. I just wanted to emphasis, that I don't think that it has
> something to do with the hpet stuff. Kernel 2.6.24-rcX is unpatched, because
> the hrt stuff has been merged.
>
> > > patched with the -hrt patches to enable the hidden hpet time on the
> > > ICH4-M chipset. I just rebooted the notebook and mounted /tmp again as
> > > ext2 and now the iowait problem is back. Seems to be reproducible on my
> > > computer. What additional information do you need?
> >
> > I mounted an ext2 as tmp and find no problem. My config options are:
> >
> > CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
> > CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
> > CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
> > CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
> > # CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP is not set
> >
> > Fengguang
>
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS=m
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP=y
>
> Here it is modular and I enabled CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP, but the same is enabled
> on 2.6.23.X. Maybe it is related to libata? I additionally discovered, that
> the problem disappears for a few seconds when I press the eject button for
> the ultra bay of my thinkpad. Pressing the button unregisters the cdrom drive
> to be able to replace it with a hard drive or a battery. Maybe this bug is
> thinkpad relared?
At last I caught it :-)
[ 1862.219189] requeue_io 301: inode 50948 size 0 at 03:02(hda2)
[ 1862.219199] requeue_io 301: inode 51616 size 0 at 03:02(hda2)
[ 1862.219204] requeue_io 301: inode 51656 size 0 at 03:02(hda2)
[ 1862.219208] requeue_io 301: inode 51655 size 0 at 03:02(hda2)
[ 1862.219216] mm/page-writeback.c 668 wb_kupdate: pdflush(182) 10768 global 3100 0 0 wc _M tw 1024 sk 1
[ 1862.319039] requeue_io 301: inode 50948 size 0 at 03:02(hda2)
[ 1862.319050] requeue_io 301: inode 51616 size 0 at 03:02(hda2)
[ 1862.319055] requeue_io 301: inode 51656 size 0 at 03:02(hda2)
[ 1862.319059] requeue_io 301: inode 51655 size 0 at 03:02(hda2)
[ 1862.319068] mm/page-writeback.c 668 wb_kupdate: pdflush(182) 10768 global 3100 0 0 wc _M tw 1024 sk 1
They are some zero sized files, maybe something goes wrong with the truncate code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-10 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-07 10:51 regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX Joerg Platte
2008-01-07 11:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-07 13:24 ` Joerg Platte
2008-01-07 13:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-07 13:40 ` Joerg Platte
[not found] ` <E1JCRbA-0002bh-3c@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-09 3:27 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-09 6:13 ` Joerg Platte
[not found] ` <E1JCZg2-0001DE-RP@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-09 12:04 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-09 12:22 ` Joerg Platte
[not found] ` <E1JCaUd-0001Ko-Tt@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-09 12:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-09 13:04 ` Joerg Platte
[not found] ` <E1JCrMj-0001HR-SZ@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-10 6:58 ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
[not found] ` <E1JCrsE-0000v4-Dz@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-10 7:30 ` Fengguang Wu
[not found] ` <20080110073046.GA3432@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
[not found] ` <E1JCsDr-0002cl-0e@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-10 7:53 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-10 8:37 ` Joerg Platte
[not found] ` <E1JCt0n-00048n-AD@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-10 8:43 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-10 10:03 ` Joerg Platte
[not found] ` <E1JDBk4-0000UF-03@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-11 4:43 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-11 5:29 ` Joerg Platte
2008-01-11 6:41 ` Joerg Platte
2008-01-12 23:32 ` Joerg Platte
[not found] ` <E1JDwaA-00017Q-W6@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-13 6:44 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-13 8:05 ` Joerg Platte
[not found] ` <E1JDy5a-0001al-Tk@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-13 8:21 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-13 9:49 ` Joerg Platte
[not found] ` <E1JE1Uz-0002w5-6z@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-13 11:59 ` Fengguang Wu
[not found] ` <20080113115933.GA11045@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
[not found] ` <E1JEGPH-0001uw-Df@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-14 3:54 ` Fengguang Wu
[not found] ` <20080114035439.GA7330@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
[not found] ` <E1JEM2I-00010S-5U@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-14 9:55 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-14 11:30 ` Joerg Platte
2008-01-14 11:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <E1JEOmD-0001Ap-U7@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-14 12:50 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 21:13 ` Mike Snitzer
[not found] ` <E1JF0m1-000101-OK@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-16 5:25 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 21:42 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <E1JF0bJ-0000zU-FG@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-16 5:14 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-16 9:26 Martin Knoblauch
[not found] ` <E1JF6w8-0000vs-HM@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-16 12:00 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-16 14:15 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-16 16:27 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-01-17 13:52 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-17 16:11 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-01-17 17:44 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-17 20:23 ` Mel Gorman
2008-01-17 17:51 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-17 21:50 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-17 22:12 ` Mel Gorman
2008-01-18 8:19 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-18 16:01 ` Mel Gorman
2008-01-18 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-18 19:01 ` Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-18 19:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-22 14:39 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-01-18 20:00 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-01-18 22:47 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-01-19 10:24 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-22 15:25 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-22 23:40 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-01-22 18:51 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-23 11:12 Martin Knoblauch
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