Re: Kernel panic: Inactive in scsi_request_queueable

Mark Veteikis (mark@iphase.com)
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:42:23 -0500 (CDT)


>
> Fellow developers,
>
> I'm gaving the following problem with a SCSI driver I'm writing.
> I have had the driver running fine for some time on a uniprocessor machine, but the smp kernel is still giving me headaches.
>
> I get a:
>
> Kernel panic: Inactive in scsi_request_queueable
> In interrupt handler - not syncing
>
> panic after a moderate amount of I/O (namely couple of thousand
> of writes to a raw disk device).
>
> I'm running stock RedHat 6.0 with 2.2.5-15smp kernel on a Dell
> PowerEdge 1300 with 2x500Mhz PIIIs.
>
> Before I dive into the kernel scsi code I wanted to see if anyone
> had an idea on what might be going afoul.
>
> cheers
> Gokhan Sozmen

I posted almost the exact same question about 2 months ago.
This is still an outstanding issue with my driver. My config is with
2 450 PII's running an Fibre Channel Adapter. Runs very well under
uniprocessor but I see the above situation with heavy IO to disk.

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Mark Veteikis     mark@iphase.com         1-214-654-5257
Interphase Corp.  13800 Senlac Dallas Tx. 75234

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