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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-02-08 21:59:22 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-02-08 21:59:22 -0500
commit9924a92a8c217576bd2a2b1bbbb854462f1a00ae (patch)
tree5c4eaee350e38cd2854fd6029da9f2a822ee184e /fs/ext4/ialloc.c
parent722887ddc8982ff40e40b650fbca9ae1e56259bc (diff)
ext4: pass context information to jbd2__journal_start()
So we can better understand what bits of ext4 are responsible for long-running jbd2 handles, use jbd2__journal_start() so we can pass context information for logging purposes. The recommended way for finding the longer-running handles is: T=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing EVENT=$T/events/jbd2/jbd2_handle_stats echo "interval > 5" > $EVENT/filter echo 1 > $EVENT/enable ./run-my-fs-benchmark cat $T/trace > /tmp/problem-handles This will list handles that were active for longer than 20ms. Having longer-running handles is bad, because a commit started at the wrong time could stall for those 20+ milliseconds, which could delay an fsync() or an O_SYNC operation. Here is an example line from the trace file describing a handle which lived on for 311 jiffies, or over 1.2 seconds: postmark-2917 [000] .... 196.435786: jbd2_handle_stats: dev 254,32 tid 570 type 2 line_no 2541 interval 311 sync 0 requested_blocks 1 dirtied_blocks 0 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/ialloc.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/ialloc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index 3f32c8012447..10bd6fecc9ff 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ int ext4_init_inode_table(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
if (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_ZEROED))
goto out;
- handle = ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, 1);
+ handle = ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, EXT4_HT_MISC, 1);
if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
goto out;