Re: cfq: depth 4 reached, tagging now on

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 09:20 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Starting around 2.6.11-rc4 I get this printk during the boot process
> > after kjournald starts, and again if I stress the filesystem.
> > 
> > cfq: depth 4 reached, tagging now on
> > 
> > Is this printk intentional?  I am sure users will wonder about it,
> > especially because (presumably) cfq turns tagging off at some point in
> > between, and doesn't say anything about it.
> 
> It is intentional, but could be supressed. But I'm wondering if the
> accounting change introduced a bug - what hardware are you using cfq on
> (ie does it actually do tagged command queueing, is it SCSI?)?
> 

Yes, this is an all SCSI system using the aic7xxx driver.

> It's a one-time message. CFQ starts out assuming the drive doesn't do
> TCQ, if the driver depth goes beyond a defined limit (4), it will assume
> that the hardware can do tagged queueing and change its internal
> accounting accordingly. The setting stays that way, it's not a
> transitional state.
> 


OK.  Then the multiple messages were CFQ enabling TCQ for the different
drives.

Lee