On 05/15/2015 09:26 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
Am 15.05.2015 um 15:42 schrieb Jeff Moyer:
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I see a significant latency (can be minutes with 2000 disks and HZ=100)
when exiting a QEMU process that has lots of disk devices via aio. The
process sits idle doing nothing as zombie in exit_aio waiting for the
completion.
Turns out that
commit 6098b45b32 ("aio: block exit_aio() until all context requests are
completed") caused the delay.
Patch description was:
It seems that exit_aio() also needs to wait for all iocbs to complete (like
io_destroy), but we missed the wait step in current implemention, so fix
it in the same way as we did in io_destroy.
Now: io_destroy requires to block until everything is cleaned up from its
interface description in the manpage:
DESCRIPTION
The io_destroy() system call will attempt to cancel all outstanding
asynchronous I/O operations against ctx_id, will block on the completion
of all operations that could not be canceled, and will destroy the ctx_id.
Does process exit require the same full blocking? We might be able to
cleanup the process and let the aio data structures be freed lazily.
Opinions or better ideas?
This has already been fixed:
commit dc48e56d761610da4ea1088d1bea0a030b8e3e43
Author: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed Apr 15 11:17:23 2015 -0600
aio: fix serial draining in exit_aio()
Cheers,
Jeff
Cool thanks. As the original patch had cc stable, shouldnt the fix also be backported?
I'll email stable.
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Jens Axboe
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