Thread (58 messages) 58 messages, 10 authors, 2022-09-06

Re: stalling IO regression since linux 5.12, through 5.18

From: Chris Murphy <hidden>
Date: 2022-08-17 19:24:15
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, at 2:54 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, at 2:33 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
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On Wed 17-08-22 14:18:01, Chris Murphy wrote:
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, at 2:15 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
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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.



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Chris Murphy
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