From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Kirby Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:53:37 +0000 Subject: lots of unplugged by timer normal or abnormal? Message-Id: <20091006185337.GF26949@hostway.ca> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org Hello, I was just testing out blktrace/blkparse/btrace on a box that is hitting some performance walls, and noticed that there are a fair amonut of "UT" events (unplug by timer). Is this normal/expected? For example: [sroot@nas04:/root]# btrace /dev/etherd/e7.0 | grep T 152,32 4 1379 3.582513494 0 UT N [swapper] 8 152,32 1 1289 4.329760067 0 UT N [swapper] 1 152,32 3 1132 4.362257911 0 UT N [swapper] 3 152,32 7 1070 4.375258374 0 UT N [swapper] 1 152,32 3 1146 4.382260172 0 UT N [swapper] 5 152,32 1 1318 4.417759727 2830 UT N [nfsd] 3 152,32 5 1003 4.498757105 0 UT N [swapper] 1 152,32 1 1368 4.517761127 0 UT N [swapper] 1 152,32 0 1133 4.585522116 0 UT N [swapper] 5 This is on 2.6.30.5 with the 2.6.30.6 XFS patches. Cheers, Simon-