Re: [PATCH 0/1] Fix for recent bugzilla reports related to long halts during block allocation

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Mon Jan 08 2024 - 21:54:36 EST



On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:49:49 +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> This patch intends to fix the recent bugzilla [1] report where the
> kworker flush thread seemed to be taking 100% CPU utilizationa and was
> slowing down the whole system. The backtrace indicated that we were
> stuck in mballoc allocation path. The issue was only seen kernel 6.5+
> and when ext4 was mounted with -o stripe (or stripe option was
> implicitly added due us mkfs flags used).
>
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] ext4: fallback to complex scan if aligned scan doesn't work
commit: a26b6faf7f1c9c1ba6edb3fea9d1390201f2ed50

Best regards,
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Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>