Re: freezing system for several second on high I/O [kernel 4.15]

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:40:04PM +0500, mikhail wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I  launched several application which highly use I/O on start and it
> caused freezing system for several second.
> 
> All traces lead to xfs.
> 
> Whether there is a useful info in trace or just it means that disk is slow?

Could be a disk that is slow, or could be many other
things. More information required:

http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_What_information_should_I_include_when_reporting_a_problem.3F

....
> [  369.301111] disk_cache:0    D12928  5241   5081 0x00000000

Your "disk_cache" process is walking the inobt during inode
allocation:

> [  369.301118] Call Trace:
> [  369.301124]  __schedule+0x2dc/0xba0
> [  369.301133]  ? wait_for_completion+0x10e/0x1a0
> [  369.301137]  schedule+0x33/0x90
> [  369.301140]  schedule_timeout+0x25a/0x5b0
> [  369.301146]  ? mark_held_locks+0x5f/0x90
> [  369.301150]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2c/0x40
> [  369.301153]  ? wait_for_completion+0x10e/0x1a0
> [  369.301157]  ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xf4/0x190
> [  369.301162]  ? wait_for_completion+0x10e/0x1a0
> [  369.301166]  wait_for_completion+0x136/0x1a0
> [  369.301172]  ? wake_up_q+0x80/0x80
> [  369.301203]  ? _xfs_buf_read+0x23/0x30 [xfs]
> [  369.301232]  xfs_buf_submit_wait+0xb2/0x530 [xfs]
> [  369.301262]  _xfs_buf_read+0x23/0x30 [xfs]
> [  369.301290]  xfs_buf_read_map+0x14b/0x300 [xfs]
> [  369.301324]  ? xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0xc4/0x5d0 [xfs]
> [  369.301360]  xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0xc4/0x5d0 [xfs]
> [  369.301390]  xfs_btree_read_buf_block.constprop.36+0x72/0xc0 [xfs]
> [  369.301423]  xfs_btree_lookup_get_block+0x88/0x180 [xfs]
> [  369.301454]  xfs_btree_lookup+0xcd/0x410 [xfs]
> [  369.301462]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x79/0x80
> [  369.301495]  ? kmem_zone_alloc+0x6c/0xf0 [xfs]
> [  369.301530]  xfs_dialloc_ag_update_inobt+0x49/0x120 [xfs]
> [  369.301557]  ? xfs_inobt_init_cursor+0x3e/0xe0 [xfs]
> [  369.301588]  xfs_dialloc_ag+0x17c/0x260 [xfs]
> [  369.301616]  ? xfs_dialloc+0x236/0x270 [xfs]
> [  369.301652]  xfs_dialloc+0x59/0x270 [xfs]
> [  369.301718]  xfs_ialloc+0x6a/0x520 [xfs]
> [  369.301724]  ? find_held_lock+0x3c/0xb0
> [  369.301757]  xfs_dir_ialloc+0x67/0x210 [xfs]
> [  369.301792]  xfs_create+0x514/0x840 [xfs]
> [  369.301833]  xfs_generic_create+0x1fa/0x2d0 [xfs]
> [  369.301865]  xfs_vn_mknod+0x14/0x20 [xfs]
> [  369.301889]  xfs_vn_mkdir+0x16/0x20 [xfs]
> [  369.301893]  vfs_mkdir+0x10c/0x1d0
> [  369.301900]  SyS_mkdir+0x7e/0xf0
> [  369.301909]  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96

And everything else is backed up behind it trying to allocate
inodes. There could be many, many reasons for that, and that's why
we need more information to begin to isolate the cause.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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