From: "Morales, Alejandra" <alejandra.morales@tum.de>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Doubts on IO requests in USB subsystem
Thread-Topic: Doubts on IO requests in USB subsystem
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:33:31 +0000
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2013/9/9 Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
>
> Your prime suspect is the detection of medium change which was
> moved into the kernel in 3.2 or so. It can be disabled by sysfs.
> Generally the notion that a certain task originates a read or write
> on a block device is iffy. Read-ahead and shared data structures
> make it impossible to accurately tell.
>
> USB storage devices are notorious for setting the removable bit
> even if they have no removable medium.
>

Thanks for the answer Oliver. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be the
medium change detection what is causing these requests, since the
removable bit is disabled and the polling period is set to -1:

morales@nonzerodesk:~$ udevadm info --query all --path /sys/block/sdc/ --attribute-walk

looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdc':
    KERNEL=="sdc"
    SUBSYSTEM=="block"
    DRIVER==""
    ATTR{range}=="16"
    ATTR{ext_range}=="256"
    ATTR{removable}=="0"
    ATTR{ro}=="0"
    ATTR{size}=="1953525168"
    ATTR{alignment_offset}=="0"
    ATTR{discard_alignment}=="0"
    ATTR{capability}=="50"
    ATTR{stat}=="   12805     1970   102691    23528   747334     2557  5999128  3340096        0  1963084  3362880"
    ATTR{inflight}=="       0        0"
    ATTR{events}==""
    ATTR{events_async}==""
    ATTR{events_poll_msecs}=="-1"


Regards
- Alejandra--
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