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Date:      Thu, 5 Feb 2015 01:19:53 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>, "Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp>, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Weird behavior writing to SSD on 2013 MacBook
Message-ID:  <D0C3024E-FEE9-486F-AEAE-F66720A86FC3@mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150205090324.GI42409@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <CAASDrV=d=7aGdsDzDxRS2aXW%2BtWijVmNWrCNSYLWrWWvgwYx6Q@mail.gmail.com> <54D2C3DA.4060205@freebsd.org> <CAASDrV=9zrG8mH0Cn770yJLG6cBxuFjBQthhcHB_q4e7Afthww@mail.gmail.com> <CAASDrVnY8RQV2C=k=_v=23VD%2BQcXYegm1SLQPXDULwfQQ1xsDA@mail.gmail.com> <54D319EA.5020709@freebsd.org> <CAASDrVmcOzQiNMhi5dukd4PEyGXV4_T71jh3E3DfaWjKWWWM6g@mail.gmail.com> <AF0781EF-50BD-4CAB-8FEC-6334EED6DACF@FreeBSD.org> <20150205083035.GF42409@kib.kiev.ua> <54D32DC3.6020409@mu.org> <20150205090324.GI42409@kib.kiev.ua>

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It's possible original intent of that construct was just a pause/throttle if=
 it used to be an if(). Makes sense although should investigate further.=20

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 5, 2015, at 1:03 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>=20
>> On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 12:45:55AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>=20
>>=20
>>> On 2/5/15 12:30 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 08:56:59AM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>>>> If you let bsdtar continue, and press control-T a few times, does the
>>>> user time (u) increase at all?  Does it ever go any further, if you let=

>>>> it run for a very long time?
>>>>=20
>>>> I believe a problem may have been introduced by r277922, leading to
>>>> filesystem hangs in some scenarios.  It looks like this commit is also
>>>> in dumbbell's github fork:
>>>>=20
>>>> https://github.com/dumbbell/freebsd/commit/83723416a6bb8695d60c6573722a=
81086899f521
>>>=20
>>> Would be nice if you mailed me with your findings.
>>>=20
>>> Please try this.
>>>=20
>>> diff --git a/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c b/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c
>>> index 79783c8..700854e 100644
>>> --- a/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c
>>> +++ b/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c
>>> @@ -1393,7 +1393,7 @@ softdep_flush(addr)
>>>              VFSTOUFS(mp)->softdep_jblocks->jb_suspended))
>>>              kthread_suspend_check();
>>>          ACQUIRE_LOCK(ump);
>>> -        while ((ump->softdep_flags & (FLUSH_CLEANUP | FLUSH_EXIT)) =3D=3D=
 0)
>>> +        if ((ump->softdep_flags & (FLUSH_CLEANUP | FLUSH_EXIT)) =3D=3D 0=
)
>>>              msleep(&ump->softdep_flushtd, LOCK_PTR(ump), PVM,
>>>                  "sdflush", hz / 2);
>>>          ump->softdep_flags &=3D ~FLUSH_CLEANUP;
>>> @@ -1423,10 +1423,9 @@ worklist_speedup(mp)
>>>=20
>>>      ump =3D VFSTOUFS(mp);
>>>      LOCK_OWNED(ump);
>>> -    if ((ump->softdep_flags & (FLUSH_CLEANUP | FLUSH_EXIT)) =3D=3D 0) {=

>>> +    if ((ump->softdep_flags & (FLUSH_CLEANUP | FLUSH_EXIT)) =3D=3D 0)
>>>          ump->softdep_flags |=3D FLUSH_CLEANUP;
>>> -        wakeup(&ump->softdep_flushtd);
>>> -    }
>>> +    wakeup(&ump->softdep_flushtd);
>>>  }
>>>=20
>>>  static int
>>> @@ -1471,11 +1470,10 @@ softdep_speedup(ump)
>>>              TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&softdepmounts, sdp, sd_next);
>>>              FREE_GBLLOCK(&lk);
>>>              if ((altump->softdep_flags &
>>> -                (FLUSH_CLEANUP | FLUSH_EXIT)) =3D=3D 0) {
>>> +                (FLUSH_CLEANUP | FLUSH_EXIT)) =3D=3D 0)
>>>                  altump->softdep_flags |=3D FLUSH_CLEANUP;
>>> -                altump->um_softdep->sd_cleanups++;
>>> -                wakeup(&altump->softdep_flushtd);
>>> -            }
>>> +            altump->um_softdep->sd_cleanups++;
>>> +            wakeup(&altump->softdep_flushtd);
>>>              FREE_LOCK(altump);
>>>          }
>>>      }
>>> _______________________________________________
>>=20
>> Why the conversion of while() to if()?
>>=20
>>=20
>> The reason for a while() when doing msleep/wakeup is typically to=20
>> prevent superfluous wakeups from signalling early.
>=20
> if()->while() was one of the changes in r277922, and I suspect that it
> is the cause of the issue.  I.e. my thought right now is that
> softdep_process_worklist() does not keep up with the requests.
>=20
> If this is true, then real fix is somewhere else, but restoring
> pre-r277922 behaviour should get rid of immediate pain.
>=20



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