From: Martin Devera <devik@cdi.cz>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wrong in_flight diskstat in 2.6.16.1
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:30:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4472D651.5010206@cdi.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060523092324.GO26261@suse.de>
Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, May 23 2006, Martin Devera wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I see weird output from /sys/block/sd{a,b}/stat on our AMD64-X2 smp
>> machine with HT1000 (Broadcom) SATA with 2 WD 250GB HDDs in MD raid1. AS
>> scheduler was used, change to noop didn't change anything. It is vanilla
>> 2.6.16.1 and here are absolute values in hex and one second differences
>> below:
>>
>> 132CDF 56D62 61753C0 6966BC 165A8EB 5FF5B6C 3B32D6C0 1110594C FFCA89A4
>> FEE85878 49FF74E4
>> 132CDF 56D62 61753C0 6966BC 165A8EF 5FF5B6C 3B32D6E0 111059D0 FFCA89A1
>> FEE85C60 79291244
>> 0: 0
>> 1: 0
>> 2: 0
>> 3: 0
>> 4: 4
>> 5: 0
>> 6: 32
>> 7: 132
>> 8: -3
>> 9: 1000
>> 10: 791256416
>>
>> As you can see in_flight is constantly negative and it is DECREASING
>> slowly all the time.
>> I can't find any reason for it :-\
>
> Are you using io barriers?
>
> [PATCH] blk: fix gendisk->in_flight accounting during barrier sequence
I don't think so, I just used
mount / -o remount,barrier=0
to make it sure and it keeps decrementing. I'll however apply the patch
(and others up to 2.6.16.18) at night (I'm not allowed to restart the
machine just now).
thanks, Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-23 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-23 8:52 wrong in_flight diskstat in 2.6.16.1 Martin Devera
2006-05-23 9:23 ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-23 9:30 ` Martin Devera [this message]
2006-05-23 9:47 ` Jens Axboe
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