Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2000 03:21:06 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Weirdness in block device queues. |
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Eric, sorry for the late reply.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> The oddness is this. We were observing stalls in the processing of >commands that was traced to the fact that the queue had remained plugged >for an excessive amount of time. The stalls last for about 5 seconds or >so.
If during the stalls the disk is writing to disk at full speed (not idle), then I agree the right fix is to unplug the queue before putting kflushd to sleep (after all it makes sense to do the I/O while the disk is otherwise idle).
However I'm also worried by the size of the queues, maybe the high latency is a sign that the queue is too big (5 seconds at 20mbyte/sec are 100mbytes of stuff into the I/O queue, are you really waiting 5 seconds while the disk is writing?).
Andrea
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