On 2019/8/12 上午10:27, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I'm not sure this is a bug, but I'm also not sure if the behavior is expected.
> 
> Test system as follows:
> 
> Intel i7-2820QM, 4/8 cores
> 8 GiB RAM, 8 GiB swap on SSD plain partition
> Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB
> kernel 5.3.0-0.rc3.git0.1.fc31.x86_64+debug, but same behavior seen on 5.2.6
> 
> Test involves using a desktop, GNOME shell, while building webkitgtk.
> This uses all available RAM, and eventually all available swap.
> 
> While the build fails on ext4 as well as on Btrfs, the difference on
> Btrfs is many btrfs processes taking up quite a lot of cpu resources.
> And iotop shows many processes with unexpectedly high read IO. I don't
> have enough data collected to be certain, but it does seem on Btrfs
> the oom killer is substantially delayed. Realistically, by the time
> the system is in this state, practically speaking it's lost.
> 
> Screenshot shows iotop and top state information for this system, at
> the time sysrq+t is taken.
> 
> Full 'journalctl -k' output is rather excessive, 13MB uncompressed,
> 714K zstd compressed
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bYYedsj1O4pii51MUy-7cWhnWGXb67XE
> 
> from last sysrq+t
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vhnIki9lpiWK8T5Qsl81_RToQ8CFdnfU
> 
> last screenshot, matching above sysrq+t
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=12jpQeskPsvHmfvDjWSPOwIWSz09JIUlk

This shows it's btrfs endio workqueue, which do the data verification
against csum tree.

So you see the point, ext* just doesn't support data csum.

Thanks,
Qu



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