On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 19:09 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> Alright, I managed to reproduce it. What I think is happening is that
> BFQ is limiting the inflight case to something less than the wake
> batch for sbitmap, which can lead to stalls. I don't have time to test
> this tonight, but perhaps you can give it a go when you are back at it.
> If not, I'll try tomorrow morning.
>
> If this is the issue, I can turn it into a real patch. This is just to
> confirm that the issue goes away with the below.
Confirmed. Impressive high speed bug stomping.
> diff --git a/lib/sbitmap.c b/lib/sbitmap.c
> index e6a9c06ec70c..94ced15b6428 100644
> --- a/lib/sbitmap.c
> +++ b/lib/sbitmap.c
> @@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sbitmap_bitmap_show);
>
> static unsigned int sbq_calc_wake_batch(unsigned int depth)
> {
> +#if 0
> unsigned int wake_batch;
>
> /*
> @@ -284,6 +285,9 @@ static unsigned int sbq_calc_wake_batch(unsigned int depth)
> wake_batch = max(1U, depth / SBQ_WAIT_QUEUES);
>
> return wake_batch;
> +#else
> + return 1;
> +#endif
> }
>
> int sbitmap_queue_init_node(struct sbitmap_queue *sbq, unsigned int depth,
>
