Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Tue, 02 Dec 2014 07:13:26 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 18:08 -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > I'm not sure if this is related, but running trinity here, I noticed it > was stuck at 100% system time on every CPU. perf report tells me we are > spending all of our time in spin_lock under the sync system call. > > I think it's coming from contention in the bdi_queue_work() call from > inside sync_inodes_sb, which is spin_lock_bh(). > > I wonder if we're just spinning so hard on this one bh lock that we're > starving the watchdog?
The bean counting problem below can contribute.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/30/7
-Mike
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