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SubjectRe: Hung task - sync - 2.6.33-rc7 w/md6 multicore rebuild in process
On 2/17/2010 9:39 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>> On 2/13/2010 11:51 AM, Michael Breuer wrote:
>>
>> Note: this cleared after about 90 minutes - sync eventually completed.
>> I'm thinking that with multicore enabled the resync is able to starve
>> out normal system activities that weren't starved w/o multicore.
>>
> Hmm, it is a bug in writeback code. But as Linus pointed out, it's not really
> clear why it's *so* slow. So when it happens again, could you please sample for
> a while (like every second for 30 seconds) stacks of blocked tasks via
> Alt-Sysrq-W? I'd like to see where flusher threads are hanging... Thanks.
>
> Honza
>
Ok - will do. On rc8 now - and up about 3 days without any issues. If I
have some time tomorrow I'll force a raid resync and see what happens.


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