Re: 2.6.39-rc3, 2.6.39-rc4: XFS lockup - regression since 2.6.38

From: Andrey Rahmatullin
Date: Fri May 20 2011 - 08:01:15 EST


On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:19:29AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > x4 ~ # xfs_info /
> > meta-data=/dev/root isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=1949824 blks
> > = sectsz=512 attr=2
> > data = bsize=4096 blocks=7799296, imaxpct=25
> > = sunit=128 swidth=128 blks
> > naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0
> > log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=3808, version=2
> > = sectsz=512 sunit=8 blks, lazy-count=1
> > realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
> OK, so the common elements here appears to be root filesystems
> with small log sizes, which means they are tail pushing all the
> time metadata operations are in progress.
Does that mean that such filesystems are not optimal in terms of
performance and/or reliability and should have larger log sizes?

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