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2.4.19' drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c

DISCUSSION Marc-Christian Petersen 2 participants 2 messages Aug 5, 2002 – Aug 6, 2002

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Hi there,

could you please consider changing those very slow behaviour in "drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c"? ... Benchmarked against 2.4.18 this is horribly slower ... Doing some heavy disk i/o, want to start another thing, system freeze for some seconds ... Opening a xterm , Ctrl-D to leave, this takes about 5 seconds and somewhat is doing flushing to the disk.

Maybe req_finished_io ?

Adrian, could this be the problem you've experienced?

Afaik this was changed for 2.4.19-pre7 and above.

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Quoted 11 lines · Marc-Christian Petersen

Hi there,

could you please consider changing those very slow behaviour in "drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c"? ... Benchmarked against 2.4.18 this is horribly slower ... Doing some heavy disk i/o, want to start another thing, system freeze for some seconds ... Opening a xterm , Ctrl-D to leave, this takes about 5 seconds and somewhat is doing flushing to the disk.

Maybe req_finished_io ?

Adrian, could this be the problem you've experienced?

This is a crazy bug report, sorry :-)

What slow behaviour in ll_rw_blk.c?! Consider providing vmstat when the slowdown takes place. Also, try enable profiling if it seems like hard system freezes.

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Afaik this was changed for 2.4.19-pre7 and above.

2.4.19-pre7 works fine, 2.4.19-pre8 stinks?

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