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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Noisy dd operation
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:29:10
Message-Id: CA+czFiBxPEFAUdo956A9Hobw-2XXmG0m3ZeJjsUuCgN8TDF85A@mail.gmail.com
1 So, I'm using dd to write the Gentoo LiveDVD ISO directly to an SDHC
2 card. I was wondering why the transfer rate had slowed from 20MB/s to
3 6MB/s, so I ran 'sudo tail -f /var/log/messages' to see if there were
4 I/O errors slowing things down.
5
6 What I found was a flood-stream of message blocks that look like this:
7
8 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458632] usb-storage:
9 queuecommand_lck called
10 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458670] usb-storage: *** thread awakened.
11 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458685] usb-storage: Command
12 WRITE_10 (10 bytes)
13 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458687] usb-storage: 2a 00 00
14 2b f3 80 00 00 f0 00
15 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458694] usb-storage:
16 rts51x_invoke_transport: <---
17 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458697] usb-storage:
18 rts51x_invoke_transport: working scsi,
19 intf->pm_usage_cnt:1,power.usage:1
20 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458701] usb-storage: Bulk
21 Command S 0x43425355 T 0x34ef L 122880 F 0 Trg 0 LUN 0 CL 10
22 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458704] usb-storage:
23 usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: xfer 31 bytes
24 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458759] usb-storage: Status
25 code 0; transferred 31/31
26 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458761] usb-storage: -- transfer complete
27 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458763] usb-storage: Bulk
28 command transfer result=0
29 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.458766] usb-storage:
30 usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sglist: xfer 122880 bytes, 18 entries
31 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.486031] usb-storage: Status
32 code 0; transferred 122880/122880
33 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.486035] usb-storage: -- transfer complete
34 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.486037] usb-storage: Bulk data
35 transfer result 0x0
36 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.486039] usb-storage: Attempting
37 to get CSW...
38 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.486042] usb-storage:
39 usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: xfer 13 bytes
40 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.491787] usb-storage: Status
41 code 0; transferred 13/13
42 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.491790] usb-storage: -- transfer complete
43 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.491793] usb-storage: Bulk
44 status result = 0
45 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.491795] usb-storage: Bulk
46 Status S 0x53425355 T 0x34ef R 0 Stat 0x0
47 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.491800] usb-storage:
48 rts51x_invoke_transport: state:2
49 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.491802] usb-storage:
50 rts51x_modi_suspend_timer: <---, state:2
51 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.491805] usb-storage:
52 rts51x_modi_suspend_timer: --->
53 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.491807] usb-storage:
54 rts51x_invoke_transport: --->
55 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.491809] usb-storage: scsi cmd
56 done, result=0x0
57 Jun 17 19:21:18 saffron kernel: [39023.491815] usb-storage: *** thread sleeping.
58
59 ... Any idea what kernel configuration flag I may have enabled to
60 cause these to be continually generated? My first guess would be
61 something like 'kernel lock debugging'...if that's what I'm seeing
62 here, where would I go to file a bug report against the usb-storage
63 subsystem?
64
65 --
66 :wq

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Noisy dd operation Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Noisy dd operation Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>