Re: [PATCH RFC - TAKE TWO - 00/12] New version of the BFQ I/O Scheduler

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Jun 02 2014 - 09:02:34 EST


Hi!

> > Well, it's all about how to actually route the changes and in general
> > whenever avoidable we try to avoid whole-sale code replacement
> > especially when most of the structural code is similar like in this
> > case. Gradually evolving cfq to bfq is likely to take more work but
> > I'm very positive that it'd definitely be a lot easier to merge the
> > changes that way and people involved, including the developers and
> > reviewers, would acquire a lot clearer picture of what's going on in
> > the process. For example, AFAICS, most of the heuristics added by
>
> Would it make sense to merge bfq first, _then_ turn cfq into bfq, then
> remove bfq?
>
> That way
>
> 1. Users like me would see improvements soon
>
> 2. BFQ would get more testing early.

Like this: I applied patch over today's git...

I only see last bits of panic...

Call trace:
__bfq_bfqq_expire
bfq_bfqq_expire
bfq_dispatch_requests
sci_request_fn
...
EIP: T.1839+0x26
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Shutting down cpus with NMI

...

Will retry.

Any ideas?
Pavel
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