Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

[manish]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

>
>On Mon, 26 May 2003, manish wrote:
>
>>Hello !
>>
>>I am running the 2.4.20 kernel on a system with 3.5 GB RAM and dual CPU.
>>I am running bonnie accross four drives in parallel:
>>
>>bonnie -s 1000 -d /<dir-name>
>>
>>bdflush settings on this system:
>>
>>[root@dyn-10-123-130-235 vm]# cat bdflush
>>2       50      32      100     50      300     1       0       0
>>
>>All the bonnie process and any other process (like df, ps -ef etc.) are
>>hung in __lock_page. Breaking into kdb, I observe the following for one
>>such bonnie process:
>>
>>schedule(..)
>>__lock_page(..)
>>lock_page(..)
>>do_generic_file_read(..)
>>generic_file_read(..)
>>
>>After this, the processes never exit the hang. At times, a couple of
>>bonnie processes complete but the hang still occurs with the remaining
>>processes and with the other processes.
>>
>>I tried out the 2.5.33 kernel (one of the 2.5 series) and observed that
>>the hang does not occur. If I run, two bonnie processes, they never get
>>stuck. Actually, if I run 4 parallel mke2fs, they too get stuck.
>>
>>Any clues where this could be happening?
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>Are you sure there is no disk activity ?
>
>Run vmstat and check that, please.
>
Hello !

My bad. This is one of the kernels that had modified the IO subsystem to 
replace the io_request_lock with a finer grained host_lock and queue_lock.

I also noticed that the hang occurs when the settings of bdflush are the 
following:

root@dyn-10-123-130-235 vm]# cat bdflush
30      50      32      100     50      300     60      0       0

Thanks
-Manish