On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 10:40:05AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > Hello Matthew, > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 06:44:16PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > Everything starts going very slowly after this commit: > > > > commit 37f4a24c2469a10a4c16c641671bd766e276cf9f (refs/bisect/bad) > > Author: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Tue Jun 30 22:03:57 2020 +0800 > > > > blk-mq: centralise related handling into blk_mq_get_driver_tag > > Yeah, the above is one known bad commit, which is reverted in > 4e2f62e566b5 ("Revert "blk-mq: put driver tag when this request is completed") > > Finally the fixed patch of 'blk-mq: centralise related handling into blk_mq_get_driver_tag' > is merged as 568f27006577 ("blk-mq: centralise related handling into blk_mq_get_driver_tag"). > > So please test either 4e2f62e566b5 or 568f27006577 and see if there is > such issue. 4e2f62e566b5 is good 568f27006577 is bad As before, the stack points to the tag code: # cat /proc/9986/stack [<0>] blk_mq_get_tag+0x109/0x250 [<0>] __blk_mq_alloc_request+0x67/0xf0 [<0>] blk_mq_submit_bio+0xee/0x560 [<0>] submit_bio_noacct+0x3a3/0x410 [<0>] submit_bio+0x33/0xf0 It's not nice to leave these little landmines in the git history for bisect to fall into ;-(