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From: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Cc: jaxboe@fusionio.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, ctalbott@google.com,
	mrubin@google.com, jmoyer@redhat.com, guijanfeng@cn.fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Don't update group weights when on service tree.
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:13:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D55FAC1.9070208@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297372086-16138-1-git-send-email-teravest@google.com>

Justin TerAvest wrote:
> With some instrumentation, we can observe that the total_weight for a 
> service tree can be badly adjusted; particularly when the weight for a 
> group is adjusted without taking it off of the tree. This can be 
> reproduced on the HEAD of the linux-2.6-block tree.
> 
> We have seen this problem in workloads when total_weight becomes 0 and 
> we divide by 0 in cfq_group_slice(), crashing the kernel, but it's
> easier to illustrate by adding a BUG_ON and making it signed, like this:

Justin,

I have also catch this BUG by browsing code a few days ago. ;)

The problem is we don't update st->total_weight when we setting a new weight
for a group.

Thanks,
Gui


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-12  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-10 21:08 [PATCH 0/1] Don't update group weights when on service tree Justin TerAvest
2011-02-10 21:08 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Justin TerAvest
2011-02-11 18:58   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-02-11 19:56     ` Justin TerAvest
2011-02-11 18:54 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Vivek Goyal
2011-02-12  3:13 ` Gui Jianfeng [this message]

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