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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Subject: Re: Strange block/scsi/workqueue issue
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:18:46 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110413051846.GD24161@mtj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302641036.2604.40.camel@mulgrave.site>

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 03:43:56PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> Heh, you're welcome, but this is for some value of debug.  There's still
> something strange going on on your box causing extreme delays in the way
> we do stuff.  I took advantage of the delays to explore some races in
> block and SCSI, which is what got fixed .. I've still no idea what the
> actual root cause of the delays is.

A lot of thanks for tracking down all the issues.  Something is
definitely strange with Steven's setup tho.

> Now we need to huddle and decide what we're doing in block and SCSI.  I
> think Tejun's patch with the moved signal for queue destruction patch
> would probably work as well.

Steven, can you be enticed to try the combination?  I'll prep a
combined patch and post it but please beware that I'm currently in a
rather zombish state - sleep deprived, jet lagged and malfunctioning
digestion - so the likelihood of doing something stupid is pretty
high.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-13  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-11 14:56 Strange block/scsi/workqueue issue Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-11 17:18 ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-11 17:29   ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 17:52   ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-12  0:14     ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-12  8:49       ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-12  0:47   ` James Bottomley
2011-04-12  2:51     ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-12  4:49       ` James Bottomley
2011-04-12  5:02         ` James Bottomley
2011-04-12  8:42           ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-12 13:42             ` James Bottomley
2011-04-12 14:06               ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-12 15:14                 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-12 16:04                   ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-12 16:27                     ` James Bottomley
2011-04-12 16:51                       ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-12 17:41                         ` James Bottomley
2011-04-12 18:33                           ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-12 19:56                             ` James Bottomley
2011-04-12 20:30                               ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-12 20:43                                 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-13  5:18                                   ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2011-04-13  6:06                                     ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-13  9:20                                       ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-13 14:00                                         ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-13 17:01                                           ` James Bottomley
2011-04-13 19:35                                             ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-13 20:12                                             ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-13 20:17                                               ` James Bottomley
2011-04-22 18:01                                                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-22 18:06                                                   ` James Bottomley
2011-04-22 18:30                                                     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-31  6:05                                             ` Anton V. Boyarshinov
2011-04-22 18:03                                           ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-12  5:15         ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-12 15:15           ` James Bottomley
2011-04-13  5:11             ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-13 14:15               ` James Bottomley

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