Am Montag 05 Oktober 2009 21:30:39 schrieb Josef Bacik:
> Like the cluster allocating stuff, we can lockup the box with the normal
> allocation path.  This happens when we
> 
> 1) Start to cache a block group that is severely fragmented, but has a
>  decent amount of free space.
> 2) Start to commit a transaction
> 3) Have the commit try and empty out some of the delalloc inodes with
>  extents that are relatively large.
> 
> The inodes will not be able to make the allocations because they will ask
>  for allocations larger than a contiguous area in the free space cache.  So
>  we will wait for more progress to be made on the block group, but since
>  we're in a commit the caching kthread won't make any more progress and it
>  already has enough free space that wait_block_group_cache_progress will
>  just return.  So, if we wait and fail to make the allocation the next time
>  around, just loop and go to the next block group.  This keeps us from
>  getting stuck in a softlockup. Thanks,
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jba...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++------
>  1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> index b259db3..e46b0b9 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> @@ -3816,6 +3816,7 @@ static noinline int find_free_extent(struct
>  btrfs_trans_handle *trans, int loop = 0;
>       bool found_uncached_bg = false;
>       bool failed_cluster_refill = false;
> +     bool failed_alloc = false;
> 
>       WARN_ON(num_bytes < root->sectorsize);
>       btrfs_set_key_type(ins, BTRFS_EXTENT_ITEM_KEY);
> @@ -4020,14 +4021,23 @@ refill_cluster:
> 
>               offset = btrfs_find_space_for_alloc(block_group, search_start,
>                                                   num_bytes, empty_size);
> -             if (!offset && (cached || (!cached &&
> -                                        loop == LOOP_CACHING_NOWAIT))) {
> -                     goto loop;
> -             } else if (!offset && (!cached &&
> -                                    loop > LOOP_CACHING_NOWAIT)) {
> +             /*
> +              * If we didn't find a chunk, and we haven't failed on this
> +              * block group before, and this block group is in the middle of
> +              * caching and we are ok with waiting, then go ahead and wait
> +              * for progress to be made, and set failed_alloc to true.
> +              *
> +              * If failed_alloc is true then we've already waited on this
> +              * block group once and should move on to the next block group.
> +              */
> +             if (!offset && !failed_alloc && !cached &&
> +                 loop > LOOP_CACHING_NOWAIT) {
>                       wait_block_group_cache_progress(block_group,
> -                                     num_bytes + empty_size);
> +                                             num_bytes + empty_size);
> +                     failed_alloc = true;
>                       goto have_block_group;
> +             } else if (!offset) {
> +                     goto loop;
>               }
>  checks:
>               search_start = stripe_align(root, offset);
> @@ -4075,6 +4085,7 @@ checks:
>               break;
>  loop:
>               failed_cluster_refill = false;
> +             failed_alloc = false;
>               btrfs_put_block_group(block_group);
>       }
>       up_read(&space_info->groups_sem);
> 

My box survived 6h of dbench with this patch whereas without it hangs within 
the first thwo minutes.

Johannes
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