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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:44:01 +0530
From:	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com>,
	"Linux-Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [bisected] commit: a9327cac440be4d8333bba975cbbf76045096275 causes   iostat output

On Monday 05 October 2009 00:36:53 Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 04 2009, Corrado Zoccolo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > with 2.6.32-rc1 I started getting the following strange output from
> > "iostat -kx 2":
> > Linux 2.6.31bisect (et2) 	04/10/2009 	_i686_	(2 CPU)
> >
> > avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
> >           10,70    0,00    3,16   15,75    0,00   70,38
> >
> > Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
> > avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
> > sda              18,22     0,00    0,67    0,01    14,77     0,02
> > 43,94     0,01   10,53 39043915,03 2629219,87
> > sdb              60,89     9,68   50,79    3,04  1724,43    50,52
> > 65,95     0,70   13,06 488437,47 2629219,87
> >
> > avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
> >            2,72    0,00    0,74    0,00    0,00   96,53
> >
> > Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
> > avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
> > sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
> > 0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
> > sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
> > 0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
> >
> > avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
> >            6,68    0,00    0,99    0,00    0,00   92,33
> >
> > Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
> > avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
> > sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
> > 0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
> > sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
> > 0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
> >
> > avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
> >            4,40    0,00    0,73    1,47    0,00   93,40
> >
> > Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
> > avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
> > sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
> > 0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
> > sdb               0,00     4,00    0,00    3,00     0,00    28,00
> > 18,67     0,06   19,50 333,33 100,00
> >
> > Global values for service time and utilization are garbage. For
> > interval values, utilization is always 100%, and service time is
> > higher than normal.
> >
> > I bisected it down to:
> > [a9327cac440be4d8333bba975cbbf76045096275] Seperate read and write
> > statistics of in_flight requests
> > and verified that reverting just that commit indeed solves the issue
> > on 2.6.32-rc1.
>

Thanks for reporting.

> I've reverted this commit since the next -rc is close, then we can debug
> and potentially re-introduce this change after that. Thanks a lot for
> reporting and bisecting it, too!

Sorry. I missed converting to 2 seperate variables at 

@@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ static void part_round_stats_single(int cpu, struct 
hd_struct *part,
 	if (now == part->stamp)
 		return;
 
-	if (part->in_flight) {
+	if (part_in_flight(part)) {
 		__part_stat_add(cpu, part, time_in_queue,
 				part_in_flight(part) * (now - part->stamp));
 		__part_stat_add(cpu, part, io_ticks, (now - part->stamp));

which caused this regression. I would post the patch with this fix included.

Thanks
Nikanth
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