From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Putrid Elevator Behavior 2.4.18/19
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:02:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020320220241.GC29857@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020320120455.A19074@vger.timpanogas.org>
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 12:04:55PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
>
>
> Jens/Linux,
>
> The elevator code is malfunctioning in 2.4.18/19-pre when we start
> reaching the upward limits with multiple 3Ware adapters
> running together. We started seeing the problem when we went to
> 64 K aligned writes with sustained > 200 MB/S writes to
> multiple 3Ware adapters.
>
> We have verified that the 3Ware adapters are not holding the request
> off, but that one of the requests is getting severely starved and
> does not get posted to the 3Ware adapters until thousands of IOs
> have gone before it.
>
This elevator starvation problem has been identified and a patch already
merged into 2.4.19-pre2.
Can you verify the affects it produces for your workload?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-20 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-20 19:04 Putrid Elevator Behavior 2.4.18/19 Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-20 22:02 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2002-03-20 22:20 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-20 22:25 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-21 1:22 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-21 6:45 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-26 1:16 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-26 1:42 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-26 17:03 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-27 7:03 ` Jens Axboe
2002-03-27 23:20 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-26 1:45 ` David Rees
2002-03-26 1:57 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-26 17:00 ` Jeff V. Merkey
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