linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH, RFC] jbd2: don't write non-commit blocks synchronously

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Message-ID: <20140306183749.GA15122@xanadu.blop.info>
Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2014 19:37:49 +0100
From:	Lucas Nussbaum <lucas.nussbaum@...ia.fr>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Emmanuel Jeanvoine <emmanuel.jeanvoine@...ia.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] jbd2: don't write non-commit blocks synchronously

On 06/03/14 at 18:28 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 06/03/14 at 08:56 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:13:43PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > TL;DR: we experience long temporary hangs when doing multiple mount -o
> > > remount at the same time as other I/O on an ext4 filesystem.
> > 
> > Hi Lukas,
> > 
> > Thanks for this report.  Are you willing to try a kernel patch?  If
> > so, could you try and see if this fixes your issue.  From looking at
> > your block trace, I saw a large number of suspicious 4k writes from
> > the jbd2 layer.
> 
> Hi Ted,
> 
> This patch doesn't solve the problem. It seems that on average, it makes
> the situation worse, but I'm not sure if this is just anecdotical
> evidence or statistically valid.
> 
> Anything else I could try to gather more information?

Two other data points:
- same problem with a 2.6.29-2-amd64 kernel from Debian
- with that 2.6.29-2-amd64, disabling the journal on the ext4 filesytem
  using 'tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda5' makes the problem go away
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