Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2014 19:34:04 -0500 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 |
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On 12/12/2014 07:23 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote: >> > >> > I ran bisection on trinity, rather than the kernel, and got the following >> > result: > Heh. That commit is pretty small, but I guess the effect of having a > number of regular files open and being used on the trinity loads can > be almost arbitrarily large. > > Where do those files get opened? What filesystem?
Right, it's virtio-9p. However, virtio-9p acts merely as a proxy to an underlying tmpfs - so while it's slow, I don't think it's way slower than the average disk backed ext4.
Thanks, Sasha
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