I'm trying the cfq io scheduler (in vanilla 2.6.16-rc5, TP 600X, Debian
testing/unstable) and noticed that a massive 'apt-get upgrade' (300MB
downloaded, 266 packages to upgrade) stalled at the 'Setting up sed'
line below, for about 1 minute. The machine was otherwise idle (top
showed no processes chewing CPU), and no disk activity was going on --
strange since an 'apt-get upgrade' usually makes 'dpkg' chew on the
disk.
<snip>
(Reading database ... 184123 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace sed 4.1.2-8 (using .../archives/sed_4.1.4-5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement sed ...
Setting up sed (4.1.4-5) ...
<stalls here for about 1 minute>
<snip>
I had ioniced the shell to SCHED_IDLE with
ionice -p$$ -c3
Then I ran the 'apt-get upgrade' so that the setting would be inherited.
After the minute-long stall, it continued as if nothing had gone wrong.
Maybe nothing is wrong, and it's something strange about dpkg needing a
lock and having too low a priority to get one (but who would it fight
with)?
While the dpkg was stalled, I did 'ps x' in another root window and
these were the interesting ones:
4823 pts/7 S+ 0:04 apt-get upgrade
5228 ? D 0:00 [pdflush]
5261 pts/7 S+ 0:01 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 29 --unpack /var/cache/apt/
5267 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
5268 pts/7 D+ 0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 29 --unpack /var/cache/apt/
The ionice.c utility, with
for n in `ps x|tail +2 | awk '{print $1}' ` ; do
ionice -p$n ; echo
done
produced these entries for some of the processes above:
pid=4733, 24583
idle: prio 7
pid=4823, 24583
idle: prio 7
pid=5228, 0
none: prio 0
pid=5261, 24583
idle: prio 7
pid=5268, 24583
idle: prio 7
I don't understand the ", 24583" in the pid lines. In ionice.c it comes
from this code:
ioprio = ioprio_get(IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, pid);
printf("pid=%d, %d\n", pid, ioprio);
So ioprio_get is returning a strange value -- or is 24583 correct?
Perhaps I should have set the priority explicitly with "-n" when I did
"ionice -p$$ -c3", but I thought IOPRIO_SCHED_IDLE didn't need one since
there was only one idle class.
Here is the full ionice.c (unmodified by me -- I'm pretty sure I got it
from lkml):
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <getopt.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
extern int sys_ioprio_set(int, int, int);
extern int sys_ioprio_get(int, int);
#if defined(__i386__)
#define __NR_ioprio_set 289
#define __NR_ioprio_get 290
#elif defined(__ppc__)
#define __NR_ioprio_set 273
#define __NR_ioprio_get 274
#elif defined(__x86_64__)
#define __NR_ioprio_set 251
#define __NR_ioprio_get 252
#elif defined(__ia64__)
#define __NR_ioprio_set 1274
#define __NR_ioprio_get 1275
#else
#error "Unsupported arch"
#endif
_syscall3(int, ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio);
_syscall2(int, ioprio_get, int, which, int, who);
enum {
IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE,
IOPRIO_CLASS_RT,
IOPRIO_CLASS_BE,
IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE,
};
enum {
IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS = 1,
IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP,
IOPRIO_WHO_USER,
};
#define IOPRIO_CLASS_SHIFT 13
const char *to_prio[] = { "none", "realtime", "best-effort", "idle", };
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int ioprio = 4, set = 0, ioprio_class = IOPRIO_CLASS_BE;
int c, pid = 0;
while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "+n:c:p:")) != EOF) {
switch (c) {
case 'n':
ioprio = strtol(optarg, NULL, 10);
set = 1;
break;
case 'c':
ioprio_class = strtol(optarg, NULL, 10);
set = 1;
break;
case 'p':
pid = strtol(optarg, NULL, 10);
break;
}
}
switch (ioprio_class) {
case IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE:
ioprio_class = IOPRIO_CLASS_BE;
break;
case IOPRIO_CLASS_RT:
case IOPRIO_CLASS_BE:
break;
case IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE:
ioprio = 7;
break;
default:
printf("bad prio class %d\n", ioprio_class);
return 1;
}
if (!set) {
if (!pid && argv[optind])
pid = strtol(argv[optind], NULL, 10);
ioprio = ioprio_get(IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, pid);
printf("pid=%d, %d\n", pid, ioprio);
if (ioprio == -1)
perror("ioprio_get");
else {
ioprio_class = ioprio >> IOPRIO_CLASS_SHIFT;
ioprio = ioprio & 0xff;
printf("%s: prio %d\n", to_prio[ioprio_class], ioprio);
}
} else {
if (ioprio_set(IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, pid, ioprio | ioprio_class << IOPRIO_CLASS_SHIFT) == -1) {
perror("ioprio_set");
return 1;
}
if (argv[optind])
execvp(argv[optind], &argv[optind]);
}
return 0;
}
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