Observing Softlockup's while running heavy IOs

[Bart Van Assche]

On 08/17/16 22:55, Sreekanth Reddy wrote:
> Observing softlockups while running heavy IOs on 8 SSD drives
> connected behind our LSI SAS 3004 HBA.

Hello Sreekanth,

This means that more than 23s was spent before the scheduler was 
invoked, probably due to a loop. Can you give the attached (untested) 
patch a try to see whether it is the loop in __blk_mq_run_hw_queue()?

Thanks,

Bart.

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