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...missing something let me know. I had to kick out the printk formatting patch because it didn''t compile and I didn''t take Miao''s background enospc flushing stuff since some of it didn''t apply and 5/5 hasn''t been updated to force waiting on background flushers. Let me know if I missed anything else. Thanks, Josef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

2011/10/26 Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Christian Brunner wrote: >> >> > Christian, have you tweaked those settings in your ceph.conf?  It would be >> >> > something like ''journal dio = false''.  If not, can you verify that >> >> > directio shows true when the journal is initialized from your osd log?

We need an smb_mb() before waitqueue_active to avoid missing wakeups. Before Mitch was hitting a deadlock between the ordered flushers and the transaction commit because the ordered flushers were waiting for more refs and were never woken up, so those smp_mb()''s are the most important. Everything else I added for correctness sake and to avoid getting bitten by this again somewhere else. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Baci...

From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> The pdflush thread is long gone, so this patch removes references to pdflush from btrfs comments. Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com> Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> --- I expect this patch to be merged via Al Viro''s VFS tree.

We only need an async starter if we can''t make a GFP_NOFS allocation in our current path. This is the case for the endio stuff since it happens in IRQ context, but things like the caching thread workers and the delalloc flushers we can easily make this allocation and start threads right away. Also change the worker count for the caching thread pool. Traditionally we limited this to 2 since we took read locks while caching, but nowadays we do this lockless so there''s no reason to limit the number of caching threa...

The reason the deadlock is that: Task Btrfs-cleaner umount() down_write(&s->s_umount) sync_filesystem() do auto-defragment and produce lots of dirty pages close_ctree() wait for the end of btrfs-cleaner start_transaction reserve space shrink_delalloc() writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle()