linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH IMPROVEMENT] block, bfq: limit sectors served with interactive weight raising

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Date:   Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:00:56 +0100
From:   Holger Hoffstätte <holger@...lied-asynchrony.com>
To:     Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ulf.hansson@...aro.org, broonie@...nel.org,
        linus.walleij@...aro.org, bfq-iosched@...glegroups.com,
        oleksandr@...alenko.name
Subject: Re: [PATCH IMPROVEMENT] block, bfq: limit sectors served with
 interactive weight raising

On 12/28/17 12:19, Paolo Valente wrote:
(snip half a tech report ;)

So either this or the previous patch ("limit tags for writes and async I/O"
can lead to a hard, unrecoverable hang with heavy writes. Since I couldn't
log into the affected system anymore I couldn't get any stack traces, blk-mq
debug output etc. but there was nothing in dmesg/on the console, so it
wasn't a BUG/OOPS.

-h