Matthew Dharm wrote:
It would be interesting to turn on CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG and capture the
debugging output.

Matt

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:37:31PM +0100, Kostas Peletidis wrote:
Matthew Dharm wrote:
Did you change any USB-related compile options between the two builds?

Do you have usb device suspend enabled?

Can you tell (via top) where the 100% CPU usage is coming from (i.e. df,
usb-storage thread, syswait, etc)?

Matt

Hi Matt,

The most relevant USB configuration option I changed seems to be "CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS=y". I have also added module support for CONFIG_USB_USBNET but I don't think this is related. Please find attached the kernel configuration.

USB suspend is disabled (# CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND is not set) and when I run top and press Shift+P I see that df is at the top of the list, followed by Xorg and usb-storage. The load average reaches 1.17. Interestingly enough, when df is at the top of the list I see roughly "90%wa" which I presume means the CPU spends most of the time waiting. Here are the times derived from "time df":

real    1m4.612s
user    0m0.006s
sys     0m2.867s

It is worth mentioning that the problem happens only the first time I run df. Subsequent runs of df work normally. If I unmount the disk and remount it I see the same problem.

Regards,
Kostas


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I enabled usb storage debugging and now I get a lot of messages. It seems to me that part of the traced information is lost e.g. there is a message "kernel: <>[ 125.105000] usb-stora transfer result 0x0" which seems to have some characters missing.

I noticed that now top shows roughly 33%us and 67%sy usage(no waiting percentage this time, however the problem is still there) probably because the debugging code uses a lot of cpu time.Apart from that I see quite a lot of "usb-storage: Attempting to get CSW..." messages.

I don't know what to look for so perhaps I missed some more important messages. Can you please have a look at the attached file? Thank you.

Regards,
Kostas

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