linux-kernel - Re: stalling IO regression since linux 5.12, through 5.18

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Date:   Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:23:43 -0400
From:   "Chris Murphy" <lists@...orremedies.com>
To:     "Jan Kara" <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Holger Hoffstätte <holger@...lied-asynchrony.com>,
        "Nikolay Borisov" <nborisov@...e.com>,
        "Jens Axboe" <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        "Paolo Valente" <paolo.valente@...aro.org>,
        Linux-RAID <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Josef Bacik" <josef@...icpanda.com>
Subject: Re: stalling IO regression since linux 5.12, through 5.18



On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, at 2:54 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, at 2:33 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>> On Wed 17-08-22 14:18:01, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, at 2:15 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>>> 
>>> > OK, if this indeed passes then b6e68ee82585 ("blk-mq: Improve performance
>>> > of non-mq IO schedulers with multiple HW queues") might be what's causing
>>> > issues (although I don't know how yet...).
>>> 
>>> I can revert it from 5.12.0 and try. Let me know which next test is preferred :)
>>
>> Let's try to revert this first so that we have it narrowed down what
>> started causing the issues. 
>
> OK I've reverted b6e68ee82585, and removing 
> megaraid_sas.host_tagset_enable=0, and will restart the workload...
>
> Usually it's within 10 minutes but the newer the kernel it seems the 
> longer it takes, or the more things I have to throw at it. The problem 
> doesn't reproduce at all with 5.19 series unless I also run a separate 
> dnf install, and that only triggers maybe 1 in 3 times.

What I'm seeing is similar to 5.18 and occasionally 5.19...

top reports high %wa, above 30% sometimes above 60%, and increasing load (48 cpus so load 48 is OK, but this is triple digits which never happens on 5.11 series kernels).

IO pressure is 10x higher than with mq-deadline (or bfq on 5.11 series kernel) 40-50% right now

iotop usually craters to 0 by now, but it's near normal.

So I think b6e68ee82585 is s contributing factor. But isn't the only factor. I'm going to let this keep running and see if it matures into the more typical failure pattern.



-- 
Chris Murphy