linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] writeback: fix hung

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Message-ID: <x49txyf8exl.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:27:50 -0400
From:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:	Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] writeback: fix hung_task alarm when sync block

Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@...il.com> writes:

> diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> index f2d0109..df879ee 100644
> --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
> +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> @@ -1311,7 +1311,11 @@ void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb,
>  
>  	WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount));
>  	bdi_queue_work(sb->s_bdi, &work);
> -	wait_for_completion(&done);
> +	if (sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs)
> +		while (!wait_for_completion_timeout(&done, HZ/2))
> +			;
> +	else
> +		wait_for_completion(&done);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb_nr);

Is it really expected that writeback_inodes_sb_nr will routinely queue
up more than 2 seconds worth of I/O (Yes, I understand that it isn't the
only entity issuing I/O)?  For devices that are really slow, it may make
more sense to tune the system so that you don't have too much writeback
I/O submitted at once.  Dropping nr_requests for the given queue should
fix this situation, I would think.

This really feels like we're papering over the problem.

Cheers,
Jeff
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