Re: [Qemu-devel] Re-2: Strange problems with lseek in qemu-img map

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 03:09:40PM +0000, David Weber wrote:
> > > I then startet a fedora 22 live system and I saw the same problem. It 
> > > happens 
> > > on both the ramdisk and a ext4 filesystem.
> > 
> > "it" == qemu-img map hangs or takes a very long time?
> I never waited for it to complete but I guess it just takes very long.
> 
> > 
> > Can you post a shell script that reproduces this with a ramdisk?  That
> > seems like the easiest way to get people debugging it.
> 
> You can use the following commands.
> 
> mkfs.ext4 /dev/ram0
> mkdir -p /mnt/tmp
> mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/tmp
> cd /mnt/tmp
> qemu-img create test 500G
> time qemu-img map test
> 
> This takes foreover on all my systems.

I experience the same thing on Linux 4.1.0-rc5 with ext4 (4 KB file
system block size, 512B device sector size).

The lseek() calls take *seconds* to complete on a completely empty
(sparse) 500G file.

Here is the perf-top(1) output:

  34.08%  [kernel]                         [k] _raw_read_lock
  21.11%  [kernel]                         [k] ext4_es_lookup_extent
  20.67%  [kernel]                         [k] ext4_es_find_delayed_extent_range
   8.68%  [kernel]                         [k] ext4_map_blocks
   4.99%  [kernel]                         [k] ext4_llseek
   1.90%  [kernel]                         [k] rb_next
   0.14%  [kernel]                         [k] __fget

Yikes!

The syscall causing this is just:

lseek(7, 0, SEEK_DATA)

Lukas: I've CCed you because you have helped with ext4 issues in the
past.  Not sure if you have time or if this is your area.

Stefan

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