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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
To: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] block: Adding ROW scheduling algorithm
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:35:30 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1209210631060.13993@nerf07.vanv.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1209190718030.29967@nerf07.vanv.qr>


On Wednesday 2012-09-19 07:29, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Monday 2012-08-06 18:35, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>>Tatyana Brokhman writes:
>>
>>> This patch adds the implementation of a new scheduling algorithm - ROW.
>>> The policy of this algorithm is to prioritize READ requests over WRITE
>>> as much as possible without starving the WRITE requests.
>>
>>Perhaps you could start off by describing the workload, and describing
>>why the existing I/O schedulers do not perform well.

There seems to a bug with ROW. After about 43 hours of continued
operation, programs (./configure was what I ran at the time this
happened) first become slow, then got stuck in D state within a
minute. Ctrl-C/Z worked at first, soon not, then these messages
appeared in dmesg.

[319952.630605] row: forced dispatching is broken (nr_sorted=17), please report
this
[319952.631174] row: forced dispatching is broken (nr_sorted=17), please report
this

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-21  4:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1344166241-18708-1-git-send-email-tlinder@codeaurora.org>
2012-08-05 11:30 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/2] block: Expose kblock_schedule_delayed_work() Tatyana Brokhman
2012-08-05 11:30 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/2] block: Adding ROW scheduling algorithm Tatyana Brokhman
2012-08-06 16:35   ` Jeff Moyer
2012-08-07 11:28     ` Tanya Brokhman
2012-09-19  5:29     ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-09-21  4:35       ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2012-09-21  4:58         ` Tanya Brokhman

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