linux-kernel - Re: A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty

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Message-ID: <92cbf19b0709280127yba48b60wfe58e532944894ca@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:27:18 -0700
From:	"Chakri n" <chakriin5@...il.com>
To:	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-pm <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty_thresh problem?)

Thanks.

The BDI dirty limits sounds like a good idea.

Is there already a patch for this, which I could try?

I believe it works like this,

Each BDI, will have a limit. If the dirty_thresh exceeds the limit,
all the I/O on the block device will be synchronous.

so, if I have sda & a NFS mount, the dirty limit can be different for
each of them.

I can set dirty limit for
 -  sda to be 90% and
 -  NFS mount to be 50%.

So, if the dirty limit is greater than 50%, NFS does synchronously,
but sda can work asynchronously, till dirty limit reaches 90%.

Thanks
--Chakri

On 9/27/07, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 23:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > What we _don't_ want to happen is for other processes which are writing to
> > other, non-dead devices to get collaterally blocked.  We have patches which
> > might fix that queued for 2.6.24.  Peter?
>
> Nasty problem, don't do that :-)
>
> But yeah, with per BDI dirty limits we get stuck at whatever ratio that
> NFS server/mount (?) has - which could be 100%. Other processes will
> then work almost synchronously against their BDIs but it should work.
>
> [ They will lower the NFS-BDI's ratio, but some fancy clipping code will
>   limit the other BDIs their dirty limit to not exceed the total limit.
>   And with all these NFS pages stuck, that will still be nothing. ]
>
>
>
>
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