Re: More information on scsi_cmd_cache leak... (bisect)

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Fri, Jan 27 2006, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:06 -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> > It does not have anything to do with this in scsi_io_completion does it?
> > 
> >          if (blk_complete_barrier_rq(q, req, good_bytes >> 9))
> >                  return;
> > 
> > For that case the scsi_cmnd does not get freed. Does it come back around 
> > again and get released from a different path?
> 
> It looks such a likely candidate, doesn't it.  Unfortunately, Tejun Heo
> removed that code around 6 Jan (in [BLOCK] update SCSI to use new
> blk_ordered for barriers), so if it is that, then the latest kernels
> should now not be leaking.

Ah I thought so, seems my memory wasn't totally shot (don't have the
sources with me).

> However, all the avaliable evidence does seem to point to the write
> barrier enforcement.  I'll take another look over those code paths.

The fact that it only happens with raid is very odd, though.

-- 
Jens Axboe