From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>
Cc: kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] livelock in elevator scheduling
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:42:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001202164234.B31217@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200011210838.RAA27382@asami.proc.flab.fujitsu.co.jp> <20001121112836.B10007@suse.de> <200011211130.UAA27961@asami.proc.flab.fujitsu.co.jp> <20001121123608.F10007@suse.de> <3A2840AB.EE085CAA@thebarn.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A2840AB.EE085CAA@thebarn.com>; from cattelan@thebarn.com on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 06:22:03PM -0600
On Fri, Dec 01 2000, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> > If performance is down, then that problem is most likely elsewhere.
> > I/O limited benchmarking typically thrives on lots of request
> > latency -- with that comes better throughput for individual threads.
> >
> > > Anyway, I'll try your patch.
>
> Well this patch does help with the request starvation problem.
> Unfortunately it has introduced another problem.
> Running 4 doio programs, on and XFS partion with KIO buf IO turned on.
This looks like a generic aic7xxx problem, and not block related. Since
you are doing such nice traces, what is the other CPU doing? CPU1
seems to be stuck grabbing the io_request_lock (for reasons not entirely
clear from reading the aic7xxx source...)
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-21 8:38 [PATCH] livelock in elevator scheduling kumon
2000-11-21 10:28 ` Jens Axboe
2000-11-21 11:30 ` kumon
2000-11-21 11:36 ` Jens Axboe
2000-12-02 0:22 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-02 15:42 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2000-12-04 23:25 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-05 1:38 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-05 23:01 ` Jens Axboe
2000-12-06 0:53 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-11-21 12:39 ` kumon
2000-11-21 13:01 ` Jens Axboe
2000-11-22 6:08 ` kumon
2000-11-22 10:59 ` kumon
2000-11-22 15:50 ` davej
[not found] <200011210828.RAA27311@asami.proc.flab.fujitsu.co.jp>
2000-11-21 15:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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