[ltp] Re: system unresponsive during disk activity

Marcus Better linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:10:12 +0100


Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> I have seen CFS screw up when the SCSI EH is running (e.g. when the
> optical drive in the ultrabay is ejected) on a T43, which uses a ICH6 (not
> AHCI).
> It might be related.  The symptoms are the same: tasks are blocked until
> the
> EH finishes its job.  Kernel 2.6.22 with the latest v24.1 CFS patch.

Any way to test this? Is there a kernel bug report on this?

Marcus