On Thu, Sep 09 2010 at 3:43pm -0400, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Interestingly, just this loop: > > while true ; do cat /sys/block/vda/serial && date && sleep 1 ; done > Thu Sep 9 15:29:30 EDT 2010 > ... > Thu Sep 9 15:31:19 EDT 2010 > > caused the following hang: ... > So it seems like the virtio requests aren't being properly cleaned up? Yeap, here is the result with the attached debug patch that Vivek wrote last week to help chase this issue (which adds 'nr_requests_used'). We thought the mpath device might be leaking requests; concern for other devices wasn't on our radar: # cat /sys/block/vda/queue/nr_requests 128 # while true ; do cat /sys/block/vda/queue/nr_requests_used && cat /sys/block/vda/serial && date && sleep 1 ; done 10 Thu Sep 9 16:04:40 EDT 2010 11 Thu Sep 9 16:04:41 EDT 2010 ... Thu Sep 9 16:06:38 EDT 2010 127 Thu Sep 9 16:06:39 EDT 2010 128 I'll have a quick look at the virtio-blk code to see if I can spot where the request isn't getting cleaned up. But I welcome others to have a look too (I've already spent entirely way to much time on this issue). Mike
--- block/blk-sysfs.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/block/blk-sysfs.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/block/blk-sysfs.c 2010-09-01 09:23:55.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6/block/blk-sysfs.c 2010-09-01 17:55:50.000000000 -0400 @@ -36,6 +36,19 @@ static ssize_t queue_requests_show(struc return queue_var_show(q->nr_requests, (page)); } +static ssize_t queue_requests_used_show(struct request_queue *q, char *page) +{ + struct request_list *rl = &q->rq; + + printk("Vivek: count[sync]=%d count[async]=%d" + " congestion_on_thres=%d queue_congestion_off_threshold=%d\n", + rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC], rl->count[BLK_RW_ASYNC], + queue_congestion_on_threshold(q), + queue_congestion_off_threshold(q)); + + return queue_var_show(rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC], (page)); +} + static ssize_t queue_requests_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, size_t count) { @@ -266,6 +279,11 @@ static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_re .store = queue_requests_store, }; +static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_requests_used_entry = { + .attr = {.name = "nr_requests_used", .mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR }, + .show = queue_requests_used_show, +}; + static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_ra_entry = { .attr = {.name = "read_ahead_kb", .mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR }, .show = queue_ra_show, @@ -371,6 +389,7 @@ static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_ra static struct attribute *default_attrs[] = { &queue_requests_entry.attr, + &queue_requests_used_entry.attr, &queue_ra_entry.attr, &queue_max_hw_sectors_entry.attr, &queue_max_sectors_entry.attr,
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