From: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
dm-devel@redhat.com, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
john.cooper@redhat.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, hch@infradead.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] virtio-blk serial attribute causes guest to hang [Was: Re: [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm]
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:35:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100909183554.GK30086@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100909175537.GA9589@redhat.com>
* Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> [2010-09-09 12:56]:
> On Thu, Sep 09 2010 at 12:03pm -0400,
> Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > * Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> [2010-09-09 10:58]:
>
> > > I'm using virtio-blk w/ cache=none for the root device. virtio-blk
> > > isn't used for any other devices in the guest.
> >
> > And you don't have any other disks in the guest (I see just the root and
> > the cdrom), the lv stuff is happening against some sort of dummy target?
>
> Correct. I have used variants of the script I provided against both
> scsi-debug devices and iscsi devices in the guest. The script I shared
> uses multipath on scsi-debug (ram-based) devices.
>
> That script causes udev to run its various callouts via multipath and
> LVM (both packages, upstream and RHEL6, now use udev).
>
> I have verified that I no longer get the hang if I switch the root
> device from virtio to ide.
And in the failing case, do you see:
/sys/block/vda/serial
attribute in sysfs?
--
Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
ryanh@us.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-09 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-30 9:58 [PATCHSET 2.6.36-rc2] block, dm: finish REQ_FLUSH/FUA conversion, take#2 Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` [PATCH 1/5] block: make __blk_rq_prep_clone() copy most command flags Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 15:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` [PATCH 2/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for bio-based dm Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 13:43 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 13:50 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 13:54 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 13:56 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` [PATCH 3/5] dm: relax ordering of bio-based flush implementation Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 13:51 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 13:51 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 13:56 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 13:56 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-03 6:04 ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2010-09-03 9:42 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` [PATCH 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 13:28 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-30 13:59 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 13:59 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 15:07 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 15:07 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 19:08 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-30 21:28 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-31 10:29 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-31 13:02 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-31 13:14 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 19:08 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-30 15:42 ` [PATCH] block: initialize flush request with WRITE_FLUSH instead of REQ_FLUSH Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 15:42 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 15:45 ` [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 19:18 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-30 19:18 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 7:15 ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2010-09-01 12:25 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-02 13:22 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-02 13:32 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-03 5:46 ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2010-09-02 17:43 ` [PATCH] block: make sure FSEQ_DATA request has the same rq_disk as the original Tejun Heo
2010-09-03 5:47 ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2010-09-03 9:33 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-03 10:28 ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2010-09-03 11:42 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-03 11:51 ` Kiyoshi Ueda
[not found] ` <20100830194731.GA10702@redhat.com>
2010-09-01 10:31 ` [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm Mikulas Patocka
2010-09-01 11:20 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 12:12 ` Mikulas Patocka
2010-09-01 12:42 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 12:54 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 15:20 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 15:35 ` Mikulas Patocka
2010-09-01 17:07 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 18:59 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-02 3:22 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-02 10:24 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-02 15:11 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 15:26 ` [REGRESSION][BISECTED] virtio-blk serial attribute causes guest to hang [Was: Re: [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm] Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 15:44 ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-09 15:57 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 16:03 ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-09 17:55 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 18:35 ` Ryan Harper [this message]
2010-09-09 19:15 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 19:43 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 20:14 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 20:30 ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-09 21:00 ` [PATCH] virtio-blk: put request that was created to retrieve the device id Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 21:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-17 14:58 ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-21 21:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 16:06 ` [2.6.36 REGRESSION] " Mike Snitzer
2010-10-09 1:41 ` [PATCH] " Rusty Russell
2010-08-30 15:45 ` [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 13:28 ` [PATCH " Mike Snitzer
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` [PATCH 5/5] block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` Tejun Heo
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