Re: Strange IO behaviour on wakeup from sleep

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 01:32:07 EST


On Wed, Oct 27 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Not much datas at this point yet, but paulus and I noticed that current
> bk (happened already last saturday or so) has a very strange problem
> when waking up from sleep (suspend to ram) on our laptops.
>
> This doesn't seem to be directly related to the PM code, at least not
> the arch one, as far as I know. The IDE throughput goes down to less
> than 100k/sec on hdparm. We haven't yet figured out where the time is
> lost, the disk seem to properly be restored to UDMA4 as usual, that code
> didn't change for ages, I don't think it's a problem at that level in
> IDE.
>
> I'm not sure yet how to track that down, it could be the IO scheduler
> getting messed up on wakeup for some reason. Any clue appreciated.

Just saw the same thing here yesterday. It's not io scheduler related
(happened with even noop, if you switch to it), but apart from that I
have no clues so far either.

--
Jens Axboe

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