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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@osdl.org, a.titov@host.bg, askernel2615@dsgml.com,
	jamie@audible.transient.net
Subject: Re: More information on scsi_cmd_cache leak... (bisect)
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:20:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138389616.3293.13.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43DA6F33.3070101@cs.wisc.edu>

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:06 -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> It does not have anything to do with this in scsi_io_completion does it?
> 
>          if (blk_complete_barrier_rq(q, req, good_bytes >> 9))
>                  return;
> 
> For that case the scsi_cmnd does not get freed. Does it come back around 
> again and get released from a different path?

It looks such a likely candidate, doesn't it.  Unfortunately, Tejun Heo
removed that code around 6 Jan (in [BLOCK] update SCSI to use new
blk_ordered for barriers), so if it is that, then the latest kernels
should now not be leaking.

However, all the avaliable evidence does seem to point to the write
barrier enforcement.  I'll take another look over those code paths.

James



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-27 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-27 10:09 More information on scsi_cmd_cache leak... (bisect) Chase Venters
2006-01-27 11:11 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-27 11:23   ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-27 11:28     ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-27 15:20       ` Chase Venters
2006-01-27 19:06       ` Mike Christie
2006-01-27 19:16         ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-27 19:20         ` James Bottomley [this message]
2006-01-27 19:29           ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-27 19:46           ` Mike Christie
2006-01-27 19:49             ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-27 19:53               ` Chase Venters
2006-01-27 20:00                 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-27 20:02                 ` askernel2615
2006-01-27 20:06                   ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-27 22:50                     ` Tim Morley
2006-01-27 13:33 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-27 18:41 ` Ariel
2006-01-27 18:58   ` Chase Venters
2006-01-27 21:07   ` Neil Brown
2006-01-27 18:53 ` Ariel

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