Re: 2.6.35-rc2-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.34

Vivek Goyal
2010-06-11T19:48:49Z

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 09:11:49PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 11/06/10 21.07, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:18:47AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> On 2010-06-11 10:55, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>>>> Caused by the same blkiocg_update_io_add_stats() function. Bootlog and config
> >>>>> attached. Reproducible on that sha1 and with that config.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think I see it, the internal CFQ blkg groups are not properly
> >>>> initialized... Will send a patch shortly.
> >>>
> >>> Cool - can test it with a short turnaround, the bug is easy to reproduce.
> >>
> >> Here's a nasty patch that should fix it. Not optimal, since we really
> >> just want empty functions for these when cfq group scheduling is not
> >> defined.
> >>
> >> CC'ing the guilty parties to come up with a better patch that does NOT
> >> involve ifdefs in cfq-iosched.c. We want blk-cgroup.[ch] fixed up.
> >> And trimming the CC list a bit.
> >
> > Jens, Ingo, I am sorry for this mess.
> >
> > Jens,
> >
> > How about introducing "block/cfq.h" and declaring additional set of wrapper
> > functions to update blkiocg stats and make these do nothing if
> > CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=n.
> >
> > For example, in linux-2.6/block/cfq.h, we can define functions as follows.
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
> > cfq_blkiocg_update_dequeue_stats () {
> > blkiocg_update_dequeue_stats()
> > }
> > #else
> > cfq_blkiocg_update_dequeue_stats () {}
> > #endif
> >
> > Fixing it blk-cgroup.[ch] might not be best as BLK_CGROUP is set.
> > Secondly, if there are other IO control policies later, they might
> > want to make use of BLK_CGROUP while cfq has disabled the group io
> > scheduling.
>
> I already tried such a patch, but it's not exactly pretty. How about
> splitting blk-cgroup.c into two parts, one that is built for
> BLK_CGROUP and an additional one that is also built for
> CFQ_GROUP_SCHED? Lets try and improve on the ifdef mess, not extend
> it.

Sorry, I did not understand your suggestion. Can you please throw some more
light on it.

blk-cgroup.c does not have any cfq specific parts. So I can't split it
out and build part of it based on CFQ_GROUP_SCHED.

Thanks
Vivek