Thanks Paolo! I will try and get some test time on this patch.
On 06/21/2017 09:36 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 21/06/2017 16:21, Douglas Miller wrote:
The problem I have seen is that the standard SCSI driver has a default
timeout on I/O of 30 seconds. But when this driver is used on a KVM
guest via virtio-scsi, the host should be controlling the timeout based
on the actual type of media, and those timeouts may need to be longer.
The KVM guest 'sd' I/O then happily timeout at 30 seconds and try to
abort the commands. With a heavy I/O load it become likely that an abort
will also timeout and this leads to fatal errors like filesystems going
offline.
It seems that the virtio-scsi driver should disable the 'sd' timeout and
allow the host to handle that. Maybe this has been done already and just
not been backported to distros, but is it reasonable to disable the 'sd'
timeout in KVM guests? Or at least should the default timeout be
increased to a much larger value?
Actually that patch has been posted, but never committed. I have just
sent it again.
Paolo
