linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

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Date:	Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:35:59 -0500 (EST)
From:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...il.com>
cc:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertrand@...tella.fr>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state



On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Dan Williams wrote:

> On 11/4/07, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Neil Brown wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday November 4, jpiszcz@...idpixels.com wrote:
>>>> # ps auxww | grep D
>>>> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
>>>> root       273  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    Oct21  14:40 [pdflush]
>>>> root       274  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    Oct21  13:00 [pdflush]
>>>>
>>>> After several days/weeks, this is the second time this has happened, while
>>>> doing regular file I/O (decompressing a file), everything on the device
>>>> went into D-state.
>>>
>>> At a guess (I haven't looked closely) I'd say it is the bug that was
>>> meant to be fixed by
>>>
>>> commit 4ae3f847e49e3787eca91bced31f8fd328d50496
>>>
>>> except that patch applied badly and needed to be fixed with
>>> the following patch (not in git yet).
>>> These have been sent to stable@ and should be in the queue for 2.6.23.2
>>>
>>
>> Ah, thanks Neil, will be updating as soon as it is released, thanks.
>>
>
> Are you seeing the same "md thread takes 100% of the CPU" that Joël is
> reporting?
>

Yes, in another e-mail I posted the top output with md3_raid5 at 100%.

Justin.