linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #32982] Kernel locks up a few minutes after boot

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Message-ID: <4DAC82E6.3020809@fusionio.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:28:54 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
To:	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>,
	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [Bug #32982] Kernel locks up a few minutes after boot

On 2011-04-18 20:21, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com> wrote:
>> Bart, can you try and pull:
>>
>> git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus
>>
>> into Linus' tree and see if that works? This has, among other things,
>> Neils fixes for MD.
> 
> md seems to work stable with the resulting tree, but it looks there is

OK, that's the most important bit.

> a performance regression in the block layer not related to the md
> issue. If I run a small block IOPS test on a block device created by
> ib_srp (NOOP scheduler) I see about 11% less IOPS than with 2.6.38.3
> (155.000 IOPS with 2.6.38.3 and 140.000 IOPS with 2.6.39-rc3+).

That's not good. What's the test case?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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