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  1. Lustre
  2. LU-13300

Improve ext4 extent status memory shrink for centos7

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Minor
    • None
    • Lustre 2.14.0
    • None
    • 3
    • 9223372036854775807

    Description

      We see serious extent status shrink problem on some customer sites,
      the backtrace could be:

          
          NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 22s! [kswapd0:106]
          [<ffffffffae1958c2>] merge+0x62/0xc0
          [<ffffffffc123fc50>] ? ldiskfs_init_inode_table+0x410/0x410 [ldiskfs]
          [<ffffffffae1959bb>] list_sort+0x9b/0x250
          [<ffffffffc124014e>] __ldiskfs_es_shrink+0x1ce/0x2a0 [ldiskfs]
          [<ffffffffc12402d4>] ldiskfs_es_shrink+0xb4/0x130 [ldiskfs]
          [<ffffffffadfcf805>] shrink_slab+0x175/0x340
          [<ffffffffae03e1d7>] ? vmpressure+0x87/0x90
          [<ffffffffadfd3538>] balance_pgdat+0x3a8/0x5e0
      

      There are some patches in the linux upstream which could significantly improve this case

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            wshilong Wang Shilong (Inactive)
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