From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: Gong Su <gongsu@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.x block device driver question
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 07:52:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030602135228.10819.qmail@eklektix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Jun 2003 18:54:56 EDT." <5sukdv4jvcd417f7chvla92je3su1le1r8@4ax.com>
> I was trying to see how __make_request throttles a fast writing process
> from overrunning a slow device. So I took Alessandro Rubini's spull.c
> code from his device driver book (2nd edition)
Alessandro's...and that other guy's...:)
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/pda bs=1024 count=1000000
>
> What I expect is that the kernel will quickly stop dd after all 128 (64
> on machines with less than 32MB of ram) free request slots are taken.
As you noted, that didn't happen. My guess is you ran out of memory. The
requests you are generating will be, shall we say, easily merged in the
block subsystem. So you have a bunch of requests in the device's queue,
but each one will have a long chain of buffer heads hanging off it. You
may not have even managed to use up all the available request structures
before things came to a halt. Try dropping the max_sectors[] count way
down, and things might work a little better. After your fsck completes,
that is.
jon
Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet@lwn.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-02 13:39 UTC|newest]
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2003-06-01 22:54 Gong Su
2003-06-02 13:52 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2003-06-02 17:23 Gong Su
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