Re: qemu-kvm hangs if multipath device is queing

[Peter Lieven <pl@dlh.net>]

Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 19.05.2010 09:29, schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
>   
>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:22:36PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>     
>>> I think it's stuck here in an endless loop:
>>>
>>>     while (laiocb->ret == -EINPROGRESS)
>>>         qemu_laio_completion_cb(laiocb->ctx);
>>>
>>> Can you verify this by single-stepping one or two loop iterations? ret
>>> and errno after the read call could be interesting, too.
>>>       
>> Maybe the compiler is just too smart.  Without some form of barrier
>> it could just optimize the loop away as laiocb->ret couldn't change
>> in a normal single-threaded environment.
>>     
>
> It probably could in theory, but in practice we're in a read() inside
> qemu_laio_completion, so it didn't do it here.
>   
if you supply a patch that will add some usleeps at the point in
question i'm willing to test if it solves the 100% cpu problem.
> Kevin
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