linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc4

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Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:48:19 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Anders Eriksson <aeriksson@...tmail.fm>
Cc:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc4

On Thu, Mar 06 2008, Anders Eriksson wrote:
> 
> jens.axboe@...cle.com said:
> >> I was a bit unclear on this, the problem is easily reproducible but _only_
> >> on Anders' system (I couldn't reproduce it with smartd here either).
> 
> > What IO scheduler is Anders using (and does it have an impact, eg does it
> > hang with deadline as well)? 
> 
> CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
> CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y
> CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y
> CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y
> CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="cfq"
> 
> On request here's a sysrq-t from smartd on -rc3, you also see exactly where 
> smartd gives up (using the gentoo default smasrtd.conf).

Can you try with noop or deadline as the default, to see if it
reproduces with them?

> Might a strace of smartd help?

Nope, looking at the trace it'll be stuck waiting for the ioctl to
finish.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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