Hi, I had noticed that I/O requests to one thin device will be blocked when the other thin device is being deleting. The root cause of this is that to delete a thin device will eventually call dm_btree_del() which is a slow function and can block. This means that the device deleting process will need to hold the pool lock for a very long time to wait for this function to delete the whole data mapping subtree. Since I/O to the devices on the same pool needs to held the same pool lock to lookup/insert/delete data mapping, all I/O will be blocked until the delete process finish. For now, I have to discard all the mappings of a thin device before deleting it to prevent I/O from being blocked. Since these discard requests not only take lots of time to finish but hurt the pool I/O throughput, I am still looking for other better solutions to fix this issue. I think the main problem is still the big pool lock in dm-thin which hurts both the scalability and performance of. I am wondering if there is any plan on improving this or any better fix for the I/O block problem. Any help would be grateful. Dennis -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
