Re: scsi: aic7xxx hang since v2.6.28-rc1 ...

From: Mike Anderson
Date: Wed Feb 18 2009 - 14:17:22 EST


Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have no idea if this will make any difference for the
> > problem you're seeing, but it has been submitted and it's
> > worth trying out. If the problem still occurs, I'll write a
> > diagnostic patch to add log messages giving the destiny of
> > each request in scsi_io_completion().
>
> OK, i've undone the reverts and have applied your fix - it will
> take a few hours to see whether the hang still occurs.
>

I know already started your testing, but..

I find it informative to set my scsi logging to the value below to display
non-zero IO status on commands. The overhead impact is low for good
completions.

sysctl -w dev.scsi.logging_level=4100

Note: This does not provide the exact policy that scsi_io_completion will
take on the IO, but it provides the input to scsi_io_completion which
should help.

-andmike
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