On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:35 PM Jens Axboe [off-list ref] wrote:

On 6/1/20 8:14 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:

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On 6/1/20 8:13 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:04 PM Jens Axboe [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 6/1/20 7:35 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:

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Hi Jens,

with Linux v5.7 final I switched to linux-block.git/for-next and reverted...

"block: read-ahead submission should imply no-wait as well"

...and see no boot-slowdowns.

Can you try with these patches applied instead? Or pull my async-readahead
branch from the same location.

Yes, I can do that.
I pulled from linux-block.git#async-readahead and will report later.

Any specific testing desired by you?

Just do your boot timing test and see if it works, thanks.

Actually, can you just re-test with the current async-buffered.6 branch?
I think the major surgery should wait for 5.9, we can do this a bit
easier without having to touch everything around us.

With linux-block.git#async-readahead:

  mycompiler -Wp,-MD,kernel/.sys.o.d -nostdinc -isystem
/home/dileks/src/llvm-toolchain/install/lib/clang/10.0.1rc1/include
-I./arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated  -I./include
-I./arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi
-I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include
./include/linux/kconfig.h -include ./include/linux/compiler_types.h
-D__KERNEL__ -Qunused-arguments -Wall -Wundef
-Werror=strict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing
-fno-common -fshort-wchar -fno-PIE
-Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=implicit-int
-Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -no-integrated-as
-Werror=unknown-warning-option -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow
-mno-avx -m64 -mno-80387 -mstack-alignment=8 -mtune=generic
-mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -Wno-sign-compare
-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mretpoline-external-thunk
-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Wno-address-of-packed-member -O2
-Wframe-larger-than=2048 -fstack-protector-strong
-Wno-format-invalid-specifier -Wno-gnu -mno-global-merge
-Wno-unused-const-variable -g -gz=zlib -pg -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wvla -Wno-pointer-sign
-Wno-array-bounds -fno-strict-overflow -fno-merge-all-constants
-fno-stack-check -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types
-fmacro-prefix-map=./= -fcf-protection=none -Wno-initializer-overrides
-Wno-format -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-format-zero-length
-Wno-tautological-constant-out-of-range-compare
-DKBUILD_MODFILE='"kernel/sys"' -DKBUILD_BASENAME='"sys"'
-DKBUILD_MODNAME='"sys"' -c -o kernel/sys.o kernel/sys.c
fs/9p/vfs_addr.c:112:4: error: use of undeclared identifier 'filp'
                        filp->private_data);
                        ^
1 error generated.
make[5]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:267: fs/9p/vfs_addr.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:488: fs/9p] Error 2
make[3]: *** [Makefile:1735: fs] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

I guess block.git#async-buffered.6 needs the same revert of "block:
read-ahead submission should imply no-wait as well".

- Sedat -