Re: AW: Slow I/O on USB media after commit f664a3cc17b7d0a2bc3b3ab96181e1029b0ec0e6

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Il giorno mar, 03/12/2019 alle 10.23 +0800, Ming Lei ha scritto:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 03:41:01PM +0100, Andrea Vai wrote:
> > Il giorno ven, 29/11/2019 alle 10.35 +0800, Ming Lei ha scritto:
> > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 08:57:34AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > Andrea, can you collect the following log when running the
> test
> > > > on current new(bad) kernel?
> > > > 
> > > > 	/usr/share/bcc/tools/stackcount  -K
> blk_mq_make_request
> > > 
> > > Instead, please run the following trace, given insert may be
> > > called from other paths, such as flush plug:
> > > 
> > > 	/usr/share/bcc/tools/stackcount -K t:block:block_rq_insert
> > 
> > Attached, for new (patched) bad kernel.
> > 
> > Produced by: start the trace script (with the pendrive already
> > plugged), wait some seconds, run the test (1 trial, 1 GB), wait
> for
> > the test to finish, stop the trace.
> > 
> > The copy took ~1700 seconds.
> 
> See the two path[1][2] of inserting request, and path[1] is
> triggered
> 4358 times, and the path[2] is triggered 5763 times.
> 
> The path[2] is expected behaviour. Not sure path [1] is correct,
> given
> ext4_release_file() is supposed to be called when this inode is
> released. That means the file is closed 4358 times during 1GB file
> copying to usb storage.
> 
> Cc filesystem list.
> 
> 
> [1] insert requests when returning to user mode from syscall
> 
>   b'blk_mq_sched_request_inserted'
>   b'blk_mq_sched_request_inserted'
>   b'dd_insert_requests'
>   b'blk_mq_sched_insert_requests'
>   b'blk_mq_flush_plug_list'
>   b'blk_flush_plug_list'
>   b'io_schedule_prepare'
>   b'io_schedule'
>   b'rq_qos_wait'
>   b'wbt_wait'
>   b'__rq_qos_throttle'
>   b'blk_mq_make_request'
>   b'generic_make_request'
>   b'submit_bio'
>   b'ext4_io_submit'
>   b'ext4_writepages'
>   b'do_writepages'
>   b'__filemap_fdatawrite_range'
>   b'ext4_release_file'
>   b'__fput'
>   b'task_work_run'
>   b'exit_to_usermode_loop'
>   b'do_syscall_64'
>   b'entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe'
>     4358
> 
> [2] insert requests from writeback wq context
> 
>   b'blk_mq_sched_request_inserted'
>   b'blk_mq_sched_request_inserted'
>   b'dd_insert_requests'
>   b'blk_mq_sched_insert_requests'
>   b'blk_mq_flush_plug_list'
>   b'blk_flush_plug_list'
>   b'io_schedule_prepare'
>   b'io_schedule'
>   b'rq_qos_wait'
>   b'wbt_wait'
>   b'__rq_qos_throttle'
>   b'blk_mq_make_request'
>   b'generic_make_request'
>   b'submit_bio'
>   b'ext4_io_submit'
>   b'ext4_bio_write_page'
>   b'mpage_submit_page'
>   b'mpage_process_page_bufs'
>   b'mpage_prepare_extent_to_map'
>   b'ext4_writepages'
>   b'do_writepages'
>   b'__writeback_single_inode'
>   b'writeback_sb_inodes'
>   b'__writeback_inodes_wb'
>   b'wb_writeback'
>   b'wb_workfn'
>   b'process_one_work'
>   b'worker_thread'
>   b'kthread'
>   b'ret_from_fork'
>     5763
> 
> Thanks,
> Ming
> 

Is there any update on this? Sorry if I am making noise, but I would
like to help to improve the kernel (or fix it) if I can help.
Otherwise, please let me know how to consider this case,

Thanks, and bye
Andrea




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