Hi Hannes, On 03/21/12 00:35, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > The actual problem I'm trying to track down is that I'm seeing an > excessive duration for the 'resume' dm ioctl after a table update. > I've got reports where the ioctl can take up to several seconds. > Which (as this is multipath) causes an extremely erratic behaviour. > > And the 'msleep' here is one of the obvious culprits. > > But I'll continue debugging, maybe I'll find something else. Did you track down which part of the resume ioctl took long? If table is updated and the device is not yet suspended, resume ioctl itself suspends the device. And dm_suspend() could take long depending on lower devices as it waits for already-submitted I/Os to return to dm. Thanks, -- Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Corporation -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
