On Wed, Aug 23 2017 at 11:12am -0400, Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2017-08-23 at 19:35 +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > > soft lockup still can be observed easily with patch d4acf3650c7c( > > block: Make blk_mq_delay_kick_requeue_list() rerun the queue at a quiet time), > > but no hard lockup. > > Hello Ming, > > I never claimed that commit d4acf3650c7c was a full solution to avoid these > soft lockups. I assume these results mean that patch series "[PATCH 0/7] > Device mapper and dm-mpath fixes" was not applied to the kernel used in your > tests? A colleague of you has reported that that patch series is sufficient > to avoid these soft lockups. See also > https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2017-August/msg00122.html. FYI, I'll try to review/stage that patchset for 4.14 over the next few days. (I'm not yet back to working full-time but will try to handle my upstream responsibilities) Mike
