[dm-devel] [REGRESSION][BISECTED] virtio-blk serial attribute causes guest to hang [Was: Re: [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm]

[Mike Snitzer]

On Thu, Sep 09 2010 at 12:03pm -0400,
Ryan Harper <ryanh at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> * Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com> [2010-09-09 10:58]:

> > I'm using virtio-blk w/ cache=none for the root device.  virtio-blk
> > isn't used for any other devices in the guest.
> 
> And you don't have any other disks in the guest (I see just the root and
> the cdrom), the lv stuff is happening against some sort of dummy target?

Correct.  I have used variants of the script I provided against both
scsi-debug devices and iscsi devices in the guest.  The script I shared
uses multipath on scsi-debug (ram-based) devices.

That script causes udev to run its various callouts via multipath and
LVM (both packages, upstream and RHEL6, now use udev).

I have verified that I no longer get the hang if I switch the root
device from virtio to ide.

Mike