Re: bug in tag handling in blk-mq?
From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed May 09 2018 - 12:57:40 EST
On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 09:18 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 5/8/18 10:11 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 19:09 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>
> >> Alright, I managed to reproduce it. What I think is happening is that
> >> BFQ is limiting the inflight case to something less than the wake
> >> batch for sbitmap, which can lead to stalls. I don't have time to test
> >> this tonight, but perhaps you can give it a go when you are back at it.
> >> If not, I'll try tomorrow morning.
> >>
> >> If this is the issue, I can turn it into a real patch. This is just to
> >> confirm that the issue goes away with the below.
> >
> > Confirmed. Impressive high speed bug stomping.
>
> Well, that's good news. Can I get you to try this patch?
Sure thing. The original hang (minus provocation patch) being
annoyingly non-deterministic, this will (hopefully) take a while.
-Mike