Messages in this thread | | | From | Karl Vogel <> | Subject | RE: Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - CFQ scheduler=culprit | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:10:55 +0200 |
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> > Jens, is this huge amount of bio/biovec's allocations > expected with CFQ? Its really really bad. > > Nope, it's not by design :-) > > A test case would be nice, then I'll fix it as soon as possible. But > please retest with 2.6.8.1 marcelo, 2.6.8-rc4 is missing an important > fix to ll_rw_blk that can easily cause this. The first report is for > 2.6.8.1, so I'm more puzzled on that.
I tried with 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.8.1-mm4, both had the problem. If there is anything extra I need to try/record, just shoot!
Original post with testcase + stats: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/228156
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