Re: [OOPS] 2.6.21-rc6-git5 in cfq_dispatch_insert

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Apr 24 2007, Roland Kuhn wrote:
> Hi Jens!
> 
> On 24 Apr 2007, at 14:32, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Apr 24 2007, Roland Kuhn wrote:
> >>Hi Jens!
> >>
> >>[I made a typo in the Cc: list so that lkml is only included as of
> >>now. Actually I copied the typo from you ;-) ]
> >
> >Well no, you started the typo, I merely propagated it and forgot to  
> >fix
> >it up :-)
> >
> Actually, I copied it from your printk() ;-) (thinking helps...)

Ahhh! Yeah that one indeed has a typo, tsk tsk.

> >>>>>Sure. You might want to include NFS file access into your tests,
> >>>>>since we've not triggered this with locally accessing the disks.
> >>>>>BTW:
> >>>>
> >>>>How are you exporting the directory (what exports options) - how
> >>>>is it
> >>>>mounted by the client(s)? What chunksize is your raid6 using?
> >>>
> >>>And what are the nature of the files on the raid (huge, small, ?)  
> >>>and
> >>>what are the client(s) doing? Just approximately, I know these  
> >>>things
> >>>can be hard/difficult/impossible to specify.
> >>>
> >>The files are 100-400MB in size and the client is merging them into a
> >>new file in the same directory using the ROOT library, which does in
> >>essence alternating sequences of
> >>
> >>_llseek(somewhere)
> >>read(n bytes)
> >>_llseek(somewhere+n)
> >>read(m bytes)
> >>...
> >>
> >>and then
> >>
> >>_llseek(somewhere)
> >>rt_sigaction(ignore INT)
> >>write(n bytes)
> >>rt_sigaction(INT->DFL)
> >>time()
> >>_llseek(somewhere+n)
> >>...
> >>
> >>where n is of the the order of 30kB. The input files are treated
> >>sequentially, not randomly.
> >
> >Ok, I'll see if I can reproduce it. No luck so far, I'm afraid.
> >
> Too bad.
> 
> >>BTW: the machine just stopped dead, no sign whatsoever on console or
> >>netconsole, so I rebooted with elevator=deadline
> >>(need to get some work done besides ;-) )
> >
> >Unfortunately expected, if we can race and lose an update to - 
> >>next_rq,
> >we can race and corrupt some of the internal data structures as  
> >well. If
> >you have the time and inclination, it would be interesting to see  
> >if you
> >can reproduce with some debugging options enabled:
> >
> >- Enable all preempt, spinlock and lockdep debugging measures
> >- Possibly slab poisoning, although that may slow you down somewhat
> >
> Kernel compilation under way, will report back.

Thanks!

> >Are you using 4kb stacks?
> >
> No idea, 'grep -i stack .config' gives no indication, but ISTR that  
> 4k was made the default some time back?

You are on x86-64, my mistake.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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