Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

[Kostik Belousov]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:13:31AM -0800, David G Lawrence wrote:
> > >Try it with "find / -type f >/dev/null" to duplicate the problem  
> > >almost
> > >instantly.
> > 
> > I was able to verify last night that (cd /; tar -cpf -) > all.tar would
> > trigger the problem.  I'm working getting a test running with
> > David's ffs_sync() workaround now, adding a few counters there should
> > get this narrowed down a little more.
> 
>    Unfortunately, the version of the patch that I sent out isn't going to
> help your problem. It needs to yield at the top of the loop, but vp isn't
> necessarily valid after the wakeup from the msleep. That's a problem that
> I'm having trouble figuring out a solution to - the solutions that come
> to mind will all significantly increase the overhead of the loop.
>    As a very inadequate work-around, you might consider lowering
> kern.maxvnodes to something like 20000 - that might be low enough to
> not trigger the problem, but also be high enough to not significantly
> affect system I/O performance.

I think the following may be safe. It counts only the clean scanned vnodes
and does not evaluate the vp, that indeed may be reclaimed, after the sleep.

I never booted with the change.

diff --git a/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c b/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c
index cbccc62..e686b97 100644
--- a/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c
+++ b/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c
@@ -1176,6 +1176,7 @@ ffs_sync(mp, waitfor, td)
 	struct ufsmount *ump = VFSTOUFS(mp);
 	struct fs *fs;
 	int error, count, wait, lockreq, allerror = 0;
+	int yield_count;
 	int suspend;
 	int suspended;
 	int secondary_writes;
@@ -1216,6 +1217,7 @@ loop:
 	softdep_get_depcounts(mp, &softdep_deps, &softdep_accdeps);
 	MNT_ILOCK(mp);
 
+	yield_count = 0;
 	MNT_VNODE_FOREACH(vp, mp, mvp) {
 		/*
 		 * Depend on the mntvnode_slock to keep things stable enough
@@ -1233,6 +1235,11 @@ loop:
 		    (IN_ACCESS | IN_CHANGE | IN_MODIFIED | IN_UPDATE)) == 0 &&
 		    vp->v_bufobj.bo_dirty.bv_cnt == 0)) {
 			VI_UNLOCK(vp);
+			if (yield_count++ == 500) {
+				yield_count = 0;
+				msleep(&yield_count, MNT_MTX(mp), PZERO,
+				    "ffspause", 1);
+			}
 			continue;
 		}
 		MNT_IUNLOCK(mp);
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/attachments/20071219/d12f40fa/attachment.pgp