Re: task blocked for more than 120 seconds

["Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jeffpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 09:27:59AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
...
> So, yes, your hangs are definitely due to inode buffer RMW cycles
> when trying to flush dirty inodes from the cache. I have a few
> ideas on how to fix this - but I'm not sure whether a current TOT
> solution will be easily back-portable. The simplest solution is a
> readahead based solution - AIL pushing is async, and will cycle back
> to inodes that it failed to flush the first time past, so triggering
> readahead on the first pass might work just fine.

Have you had time to look at this?  (We got bitten by this again and I
really don't want to go back to ext4.)  Is there anything I can help with?

Jeff.

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