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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>,
	"Pedro M. Rodrigues" <pmanuel@myrealbox.com>,
	Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mathieu@newview.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doingfile   transfers
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:07:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D94AC8B.4AB6EB09@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2543856224.1033153019@aslan.btc.adaptec.com

"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote:
> 
> ...
> > The evidence is here:
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103302456113997&w=1
> 
> Which unfortunately characterizes only a single symptom without breaking
> it down on a transaction by transaction basis.  We need to understand
> how many writes were queued by the OS to the drive between each read to
> know if the drive is actually allowing writes to pass reads or not.
> 

Given that I measured a two-second read latency with four tags,
that would be about 60 megabytes of write traffic after the
read was submitted.  Say, 120 requests.  That's with a tag
depth of four.

Not sure how old the disk is.  It's a 36G Fujitsu SCA-2.  Manufactured
in 2000, perhaps??

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-27 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-26  3:27 Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doing file transfers Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2002-09-26  6:14 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-26  7:04   ` Pedro M. Rodrigues
2002-09-26 15:31     ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27  6:13       ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-27  6:33         ` Matthew Jacob
2002-09-27  6:36           ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-27  6:50             ` Matthew Jacob
2002-09-27  6:56               ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-27  7:18                 ` Matthew Jacob
2002-09-27  7:24                   ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-27  7:29                     ` Matthew Jacob
2002-09-27  7:34                       ` Matthew Jacob
2002-09-27  7:45                         ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-27  8:37                           ` Matthew Jacob
2002-09-27 10:25                             ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-27 12:18                               ` Matthew Jacob
2002-09-27 12:54                                 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-27 13:30                               ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27 14:26                                 ` James Bottomley
2002-09-27 14:33                                   ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-27 16:26                                   ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27 17:21                                     ` James Bottomley
2002-09-27 18:56                                       ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27 19:07                                         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-27 19:16                                           ` Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doingfile transfers Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27 19:36                                             ` Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doingfiletransfers Andrew Morton
2002-09-27 19:52                                               ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27 21:13                                                 ` James Bottomley
2002-09-27 21:18                                                   ` Matthew Jacob
2002-09-27 21:23                                                     ` James Bottomley
2002-09-27 21:29                                                       ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27 21:32                                                       ` Matthew Jacob
2002-09-27 22:08                                                       ` Mike Anderson
2002-09-30 23:49                                                       ` Doug Ledford
2002-09-27 21:28                                                   ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-28 15:52                                                     ` James Bottomley
2002-09-28 23:25                                                       ` Luben Tuikov
2002-09-29  2:48                                                         ` James Bottomley
2002-09-30  8:34                                                         ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-29  4:00                                                       ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-29 15:45                                                         ` James Bottomley
2002-09-29 16:49                                                           ` [ getting OT ] " Matthew Jacob
2002-09-30 19:06                                                           ` Luben Tuikov
2002-09-30 23:54                                                     ` Doug Ledford
2002-09-27 19:58                                               ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-27 20:58                                       ` Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doing file transfers Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27 21:38                                         ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-09-27 22:08                                           ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27 22:28                                             ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-09-27 22:48                                               ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27 18:59                                     ` Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doingfile transfers Andrew Morton
2002-09-27 14:30                                 ` Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doing file transfers Jens Axboe
2002-09-27 17:19                                   ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27 18:29                                     ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-27 14:56                                 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-27 15:34                                 ` Matthew Jacob
2002-09-27 15:37                                   ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-27 17:20                                     ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-27 12:28       ` Pedro M. Rodrigues

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