On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:09:18 +0200, Lutz Vieweg wrote:

> On 04/13/2015 09:52 PM, Chris Mason wrote:
>> Large filesystems with lots of block groups can suffer long stalls during
>> commit while we create and send down all of the block group caches.  The
>> more blocks groups dirtied in a transaction, the longer these stalls can be.
>> Some workloads average 10 seconds per commit, but see peak times much higher.
> 
> Since we see this problem very frequently on some shared development servers,
> I will try to install this ASAP.
> 
> Meanwhile, can anybody already tell success stories about successfully 
> removing
> lags by this patch?

Works fine, but make sure to get the followup patch [1] as well while you're
at it. I've observed that my (bandwidth-throttled) backups now cause shorter,
nicely spaced-out blips of activity instead of longer ones when the writeback
kicks in.

-h

[1] 
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs.git/commit/?h=integration-4.1&id=c1e31ffc317e4c28d242b1d961c9c6fe673c0377


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