Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 15426] New: Running many copies of bonnie++on different filesystems seems to deadlock in sync

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, Mar 03 2010, John Hughes wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 03 2010, John Hughes wrote:
>>   
>>> Just a thought.  What exactly is sync(2) supposed to do - block until 
>>>  there are no more dirty pages, or block until all pages that were 
>>> dirty  when the sync was done are clean?  In other words is the 
>>> problem simply  that pages are being dirtied faster than the sync is 
>>> writing them out?
>>>     
>>
>> Our sync is currently broken in that regard, since it'll wait for too
>> long. We have a debated patch going, I have included it below. Any
>> chance you could give it a whirl?
>>
>> The semantics of sync are supposed to be 'wait for dirty IO generated
>> BEFORE this sync call'.
>>   
> Ok, I will try this patch and get back to you.

Looking at your bug report, I saw that you were on 2.6.32. If you are
testing 2.6.33, let me know, the patch wont apply (I have another
variant for that).

-- 
Jens Axboe

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