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SubjectRe: Excessive stall times on ext4 in 3.9-rc2
On 04/02/2013 04:27 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> I'm testing a page-reclaim-related series on my laptop that is partially
> aimed at fixing long stalls when doing metadata-intensive operations on
> low memory such as a git checkout. I've been running 3.9-rc2 with the
> series applied but found that the interactive performance was awful even
> when there was plenty of free memory.
>
> I activated a monitor from mmtests that logs when a process is stuck for
> a long time in D state and found that there are a lot of stalls in ext4.
> The report first states that processes have been stalled for a total of
> 6498 seconds on IO which seems like a lot. Here is a breakdown of the
> recorded events.

Just a note that I am indeed using ext4 on the affected machine for all
filesystems I have except for an efi partition...

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js
suse labs


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