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Message-ID: <20080307084818.GK17940@kernel.dk>
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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