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SubjectRe: [Regression] Filesystem I/O is CPU-bound in rc7 and rc8
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On Sunday 14 February 2010, James Cloos wrote:
> Sometime between rc6 and rc7 all filesystem I/O started using 100% CPU,
> usually on the order of 60% sys, 40% user.
>
> I've tried this with each of ext4, jfs and btrfs filesystems. All show
> the same issue.
>
> Using dd(1) to read from the block specials directly works as well and
> as fast as it always has; only reading or writing to mounted filesystems
> is affected.
>
> Box is 32-bit x86, PentiumIII-M; drives are ide using libata.
>
> If the btrfs fs is mounted, the slowdown is enought to trigger the
> hung_task call trace (120s) on the btrfs-transac process.
>
> But the regression is just as apparent when only jfs and ext4 are mounted.
>
> The only filesystems I've found which avoid the regression are tmpfs and
> devtmpfs.
>
> I didn't have time to write up a report when I noticed this in rc7 but
> had to boot back into rc6 for work.
>
> Some of the commits since rc7 looked like they might have addressed this
> regression, but it persists in rc8.

I have created the bug entry at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15306
for your report.

Thanks,
Rafael


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