Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block, bfq: deschedule empty bfq_queues not referred by any process

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Nov 13 2019 - 17:46:44 EST


On 11/13/19 10:42 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
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>> Il giorno 13 nov 2019, alle ore 16:01, Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
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>> On 13.11.2019 15:25, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
>>> I didn't try to switch schedulers, but what I see now is once the
>>> system is able to boot with BFQ, the I/O can still hang on I/O burst
>>> (which for me happens to happen during VM reboot).
>>> This may also not hang forever, but just slow down considerably. I've
>>> noticed this inside a KVM VM, not on a real HW.
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>> Possible call traces:
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> Ok, you may have given me enough information, thank you very much.
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> Could you please apply the attached (compressed) patch on top of my
> offending patch? For review purposes, here is the simple change:

FWIW, I dropped the previous patch.

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Jens Axboe