Re: f2fs causes system stall

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Wed Apr 23 2014 - 19:56:50 EST


Hi,

Thank you for the report.
When I veiwed the patch at a glance, it seems that reverting is not a
good way.

Instead, could you share the f2fs commit point that you're using?
Then, since I have a suspect for this issue, I'd like to write a patch
to test.

Thanks,

2014-04-24 (ë), 00:00 +0200, Marc Dietrich:
> Hi,
>
> it took me a while to bisect a problem which causes my ARM (tegra2) netbook to
> frequently stall for 5-10 seconds when I enable EXA acceleration (opentegra
> experimental ddx). I can only guess that the offending commit 8618b88 "f2fs:
> fix not to write data pages on the page reclaiming path" somehow causes high
> kernel latencies which may interrupt/disturb the command stream to the gpu in
> this particular case. Reverting this commit fixes the problem. Any hints?
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc
>

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Jaegeuk Kim
Samsung

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