Re: More information on scsi_cmd_cache leak... (bisect)

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Fri, Jan 27 2006, Mike Christie wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> >On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:06 -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> >
> >>It does not have anything to do with this in scsi_io_completion does it?
> >>
> >>        if (blk_complete_barrier_rq(q, req, good_bytes >> 9))
> >>                return;
> >>
> >>For that case the scsi_cmnd does not get freed. Does it come back around 
> >>again and get released from a different path?
> >
> >
> >It looks such a likely candidate, doesn't it.  Unfortunately, Tejun Heo
> >removed that code around 6 Jan (in [BLOCK] update SCSI to use new
> >blk_ordered for barriers), so if it is that, then the latest kernels
> >should now not be leaking.
> >
> 
> Oh, I thought the reports were for 2.6.15 and below which has that 
> scsi_io_completion test. Have there been reports for this with 
> 2.6.16-rc1 too?

The reports of leaks are only with > 2.6.15, not with 2.6.15.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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