[PATCH 0/5] do not take the iolock in inode reclaim context

Sage Weil sage at inktank.com
Thu Jul 5 19:05:56 CDT 2012


Hi Christoph,

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This series should fix the (false-positive) lockdep warnings Sage
> has seen while testing ceph workloads with heavy attr usage.

I tried this out (minus the last patch, which didn't apply to 
linus/master) and it does make the warnings go away, thanks!  I'll run it 
through a larger test run to make sure nothing else comes up.
 
> Btw, you probably should create the XFS filesystems for Ceph usage
> with large inodes to avoid going out of line for the attributes.

Oh, right.  The qa stuff is still just doing mkfs.xfs defaults.

Thanks!
sage



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