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Date:      Tue, 14 May 2013 19:31:49 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Roger Pau Monn? <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-HEAD gets stuck on vnode operations
Message-ID:  <20130514163149.GS3047@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <5192618D.8070501@citrix.com>
References:  <5190CBEC.5000704@citrix.com> <5190F9A0.3000005@citrix.com> <20130513150018.GL3047@kib.kiev.ua> <5192618D.8070501@citrix.com>

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On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 06:08:45PM +0200, Roger Pau Monn? wrote:
> On 13/05/13 17:00, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 04:33:04PM +0200, Roger Pau Monn? wrote:
> >> On 13/05/13 13:18, Roger Pau Monn? wrote:
>=20
> Thanks for taking a look,
>=20
> >> I would like to explain this a little bit more, the syncer process
> >> doesn't get blocked on the _mtx_trylock_flags_ call, it just continues
> >> looping forever in what seems to be an endless loop around
> >> mnt_vnode_next_active/ffs_sync. Also while in this state there is no
> >> noticeable disk activity, so I'm unsure of what is happening.
> > How many CPUs does your VM have ?
>=20
> 7 vCPUs, but I've also seen this issue with 4 and 16 vCPUs.
>=20
> >=20
> > The loop you describing means that other thread owns the vnode
> > interlock. Can you track what this thread does ? E.g. look at the
> > vp->v_interlock.mtx_lock, which is basically a pointer to the struct
> > thread owning the mutex, clear low bits as needed. Then you can
> > inspect the thread and get a backtrace.
>=20
> There are no other threads running, only syncer is running on CPU 1 (see
> ps in previous email). All other CPUs are idle, and as seen from the ps
> quite a lot of threads are blocked in vnode related operations, either
> "*Name Cac", "*vnode_fr" or "*vnode in". I've also attached the output
> of alllocks in the previous email.
This is not useful.  You need to look at the mutex which fails the
trylock operation in the mnt_vnode_next_active(), see who owns it,
and then 'unwind' the locking dependencies from there.

I described the procedure above.

>=20
> >=20
> > Does the loop you described stuck on the same vnode during the whole
> > lock-step time, or is the progress made, possibly slowly ?
>=20
> I'm not sure how to measure "progress", but indeed the syncer process is
> not locked, it is iterating over mnt_vnode_next_active.

Progress means that iteration moves from vnode to vnode, instead of looping
over the same vnode continuously.  I did read what you said about system
being un-stuck in some time, but I am asking about change of the iterator
during the stuck time.

>=20
> >=20
> > I suppose that your HEAD is recent.
>=20
> Last commit in my local repository is:
>=20
> Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 12:39:14 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] By request, add an arrow from NetBSD-0.8 to FreeBSD-1.0.
>=20
> While here, add a few more NetBSD versions to the tree itself.
>=20
> Submitted by:   Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
> Submitted by:   Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org>

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