Re: [Bug #32982] Kernel locks up a few minutes after boot
From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Apr 19 2011 - 05:09:51 EST
On 2011-04-18 20:32, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2011-04-18 20:21, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> Nothing more than a fio IOPS test:
>
> fio --bs=512 --ioengine=libaio --buffered=0 --rw=read --thread
> --iodepth=64 --numjobs=2 --loops=10000 --group_reporting --size=1G
> --gtod_reduce=1 --name=iops-test --filename=/dev/${dev} --invalidate=1
Bart, can you try the below:
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 5fa3dd2..9b41da1 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -307,11 +307,7 @@ void __blk_run_queue(struct request_queue *q)
* Only recurse once to avoid overrunning the stack, let the unplug
* handling reinvoke the handler shortly if we already got there.
*/
- if (!queue_flag_test_and_set(QUEUE_FLAG_REENTER, q)) {
- q->request_fn(q);
- queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_REENTER, q);
- } else
- queue_delayed_work(kblockd_workqueue, &q->delay_work, 0);
+ q->request_fn(q);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__blk_run_queue);
--
Jens Axboe
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