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

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Date:   Wed, 17 Aug 2022 20:06:51 +0800
From:   Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
To:     Chris Murphy <lists@...orremedies.com>
Cc:     Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>,
        Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.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>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: stalling IO regression since linux 5.12, through 5.18

Hello Chris,

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:35 PM Chris Murphy <lists@...orremedies.com> wrote:
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> I already reported on that: always happens with bfq within an hour or less. Doesn't happen with mq-deadline for ~25+ hours. Does happen with bfq with the above patches removed. Does happen with cgroup.disabled=io set.
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> Sounds to me like it's something bfq depends on and is somehow becoming perturbed in a way that mq-deadline does not, and has changed between 5.11 and 5.12. I have no idea what's under bfq that matches this description.
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blk-mq debugfs log is usually helpful for io stall issue, care to post
the blk-mq debugfs log:

(cd /sys/kernel/debug/block/$disk && find . -type f -exec grep -aH . {} \;)

Thanks,
Ming