On 06/08/2017 12:52 AM, James Wang wrote:
> While installing SLES-12 (based on v4.4), I found that the installer
> will stall for 60+ seconds during LVM disk scan. The root cause was
> determined to be the removal of a bound device check in loop_flush()
> by commit b5dd2f6047ca ("block: loop:
On 06/08/2017 03:53 PM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On 06/08/2017 08:52 AM, James Wang wrote:
>> Test method:
>> modprobe loop max_loop=64
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=512 count=200K
>> for((i=0;i<4;i++))do losetup -f disk; done
>> mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/loop0
>> for((i=0;i<4;i++))do mkdir t$i;
On 06/08/2017 08:52 AM, James Wang wrote:
> Test method:
> modprobe loop max_loop=64
> dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=512 count=200K
> for((i=0;i<4;i++))do losetup -f disk; done
> mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/loop0
> for((i=0;i<4;i++))do mkdir t$i; mount /dev/loop$i t$i;done
> for f in `ls /dev/loop[0-9]*|sort`;
While installing SLES-12 (based on v4.4), I found that the installer
will stall for 60+ seconds during LVM disk scan. The root cause was
determined to be the removal of a bound device check in loop_flush()
by commit b5dd2f6047ca ("block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq").
Restoring this
