linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bcache: fix uninterruptible sleep in writeback thread

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Date:	Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:08:09 +0200
From:	Francis Moreau <francis.moro@...il.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
CC:	Peter Kieser <peter@...ser.ca>, kmo@...erainc.com,
	linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcache: fix uninterruptible sleep in writeback thread

On 07/25/2014 09:30 AM, Francis Moreau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 06/02/2014 04:07 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 05/15/2014 07:30 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 05/15/2014 02:02 AM, Francis Moreau wrote:
>>>> Hello Jens,
>>>>
>>>> On 05/12/2014 08:27 PM, Peter Kieser wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2014-05-05 3:30 PM, Nikolay Amiantov wrote:
>>>>>> 2014-05-02 1:52 GMT+04:00 Slava Pestov <sp@...era.io>:
>>>>>>> There were two issues here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - writeback thread did not start until the device first became dirty
>>>>>>> - writeback thread used uninterruptible sleep once running
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Without this patch I see kernel warnings printed and a load average of
>>>>>>> 1.52 after booting my test VM. With this patch the warnings are gone and
>>>>>>> the load average is near 0.00 as expected.
>>>>>> I've tried this patch and it has indeed fixed [1]! Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69471
>>>>>
>>>>> Kent,
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you please review this patch, and have it pushed upstream?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Would it be possible to merge this patch directly before 3.15 is being
>>>> released since kent don't seem to care about bugs in bcache or maybe he
>>>> does but very selectively ?
>>>>
>>>> Also it would be great that stable trees will be fixed.
>>>>
>>>> Eventually I would suggest to mark bcache as an experimental thing since
>>>> it's really not ready for production, just take a look at the bcache
>>>> mailing list to see why. At least people won't be disappointed when
>>>> they'll use bcache and see ton of koops.
>>>
>>> I'd really like to get Kent to weigh in on this. Sometimes it appears
>>> straightforward to switch from uninterruptible to interruptible sleep,
>>> but then signals get in the way.
>>>
>>
>> Any progress ?
>>
> 
> still present on 3.15.5-2-ARCH :-/
> 

still present on 3.14.17 :-/

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