Re: [PROBLEM] Badness in cfq_account_completion at drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c:916

[Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@yahoo.com.au>]

 --- Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote: 
> ... 
> Does this fix it?
> 
> ===== drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c 1.17 vs edited
> =====
> --- 1.17/drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c	2004-12-24
> 09:12:58 +01:00
> +++ edited/drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c	2005-01-11
> 10:03:17 +01:00
> @@ -622,8 +622,10 @@
>  			cfq_sort_rr_list(cfqq, 0);
>  		}
>  
> -		crq->accounted = 0;
> -		cfqq->cfqd->rq_in_driver--;
> +		if (crq->accounted) {
> +			crq->accounted = 0;
> +			cfqq->cfqd->rq_in_driver--;
> +		}
>  	}
>  	list_add(&rq->queuelist, &q->queue_head);
>  }

Yes, it does fix the problem with cfq, and the system
works fine. No more "Badness" error messages. Thanks
Jens.

While you are at it, is this acceptable?:
--- test/drivers/block/elevator.c.orig	2005-01-11
15:47:07.000000000 +1100
+++ test/drivers/block/elevator.c	2005-01-12
12:16:19.365813400 +1100
@@ -170,8 +170,6 @@
 #else
 #error "You must build at least 1 IO scheduler into
the kernel"
 #endif
-	printk(KERN_INFO "elevator: using %s as default io
scheduler\n",
-							chosen_elevator);
 }
 
 static int __init elevator_setup(char *str)
@@ -516,6 +514,9 @@
 	spin_unlock_irq(&elv_list_lock);
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "io scheduler %s registered\n",
e->elevator_name);
+	if (!strcmp(e->elevator_name, chosen_elevator))
+		printk(KERN_INFO "elevator: using %s as default io
scheduler\n",
+                                                     
  e->elevator_name);
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(elv_register);

It has an advantage of working even when one uses
"elevator=" kernel boot parameter. If it is wrong
completely, I am sorry about it.

Thank you.
Hari

PS: I am using web email interface, if things appear
funny, sorry about that.


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