linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] btrfs potential failure on 32 core LTP test (fallocate05)

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Date:   Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:32:15 -0400
From:   Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...onical.com>,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com" <kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com>,
        "ltp@...ts.linux.it" <ltp@...ts.linux.it>,
        Qu Wenruo <wqu@...e.com>, Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] btrfs potential failure on 32 core LTP test (fallocate05)

On 6/29/21 2:28 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 29/06/2021 20:06, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> Minor update - it's not only Azure's. AWS m5.8xlarge and m5.16xlarge (32
>> and 64 cores) fail similarly. I'll try later also QEMU machines with
>> different amount of CPUs.
>>
> 
> Test on QEMU machine with 31 CPUs passes. With 32 CPUs - failure as
> reported.
> 
> dmesg is empty - no error around this.
> 
> Maybe something with per-cpu variables?

Ah yeah, so since you are further into this than I am, want to give my recent 
batch of fixes a try?

https://github.com/josefbacik/linux/tree/delalloc-shrink

This might actually resolve the problems.  If not I'm getting one of our 64cpu 
boxes setup to test this, I also couldn't reproduce it on my smaller local 
machines.  Thanks,

Josef