On Thursday den 31 January 2002 16.05, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> hi all
> - - -
> Versions tested:
>
> Linux-2.4.1([3-7]|8-pre.) tested. All buggy. Bug #1 was fixed in -rmap11c
>
> TEST SETUP
>
> Reading 100 500MB files with dd, tux, apache, cat, something, and
> redirecting the output to /dev/null. With tux/apache, I used another
> computer using wget to retrieve the same amount of data.
>
> The test scripts look something like this
>
> #!/bin/bash
> dd if=file0000 of=/dev/null &
> dd if=file0001 of=/dev/null &
> dd if=file0002 of=/dev/null &
> dd if=file0003 of=/dev/null &
> ...
> dd if=file0099 of=/dev/null &
>
> or similar - just with wget -O /dev/null ... &
>
> BUGS
>
> Bug #1:
>
> When (RAMx2) bytes has been read from disk, I/O as reported from vmstat
> drops to a mere 1MB/s
>
> When reading starts, the speed is initially high. Then, slowly, the speed
> decreases until it goes to something close to a complete halt (see output
> from vmstat below).
>
Wait a minute - it might be readahead that gets killed.
If I remember correctly READA requests are dropped when failing to allocate
space for it - yes I did...
/usr/src/develop/linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_block.c:746 (earlier kernel)
/*
* Grab a free request from the freelist - if that is empty, check
* if we are doing read ahead and abort instead of blocking for
* a free slot.
*/
get_rq:
if (freereq) {
req = freereq;
freereq = NULL;
} else if ((req = get_request(q, rw)) == NULL) {
spin_unlock_irq(&io_request_lock);
if (rw_ahead)
goto end_io;
freereq = __get_request_wait(q, rw);
goto again;
}
Suppose we fail with get_request, the request is a rw_ahead,
it quits... => no read ahead.
Try to add a prink there...
if (rw_ahead) {
printk("Skipping readahead...\n");
goto end_io;
}
Can it be the problem???
/RogerL
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