From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>
Cc: Andrea Vai <andrea.vai@unipv.it>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@cavium.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>, Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Hans Holmberg <Hans.Holmberg@wdc.com>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Slow I/O on USB media after commit f664a3cc17b7d0a2bc3b3ab96181e1029b0ec0e6
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 18:09:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191109100903.GA7696@ming.t460p> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR04MB5816ECD4302AD94338CB9072E77B0@BYAPR04MB5816.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 08:42:53AM +0000, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 2019/11/08 4:00, Andrea Vai wrote:
> > [Sorry for the duplicate message, it didn't reach the lists due to
> > html formatting]
> > Il giorno gio 7 nov 2019 alle ore 08:54 Damien Le Moal
> > <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com> ha scritto:
> >>
> >> On 2019/11/07 16:04, Andrea Vai wrote:
> >>> Il giorno mer, 06/11/2019 alle 22.13 +0000, Damien Le Moal ha scritto:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Please simply try your write tests after doing this:
> >>>>
> >>>> echo mq-deadline > /sys/block/<name of your USB
> >>>> disk>/queue/scheduler
> >>>>
> >>>> And confirm that mq-deadline is selected with:
> >>>>
> >>>> cat /sys/block/<name of your USB disk>/queue/scheduler
> >>>> [mq-deadline] kyber bfq none
> >>>
> >>> ok, which kernel should I test with this: the fresh git cloned, or the
> >>> one just patched with Alan's patch, or doesn't matter which one?
> >>
> >> Probably all of them to see if there are any differences.
> >
> > with both kernels, the output of
> > cat /sys/block/sdh/queue/schedule
> >
> > already contains [mq-deadline]: is it correct to assume that the echo
> > command and the subsequent testing is useless? What to do now?
>
> Probably, yes. Have you obtained a blktrace of the workload during these
> tests ? Any significant difference in the IO pattern (IO size and
> randomness) and IO timing (any device idle time where the device has no
> command to process) ? Asking because the problem may be above the block
> layer, with the file system for instance.
You may get the IO pattern via the previous trace
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20190710024439.GA2621@ming.t460p/
IMO, if it is related write order, one possibility could be that
the queue lock is killed in .make_request_fn().
Thanks,
Ming
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-09 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <0cd6ac36b7ab644576fc0f3f5bd4a880c33855d1.camel@unipv.it>
2019-11-05 18:31 ` Slow I/O on USB media after commit f664a3cc17b7d0a2bc3b3ab96181e1029b0ec0e6 Alan Stern
2019-11-05 23:29 ` Jens Axboe
2019-11-06 16:03 ` Alan Stern
2019-11-06 22:13 ` Damien Le Moal
2019-11-07 7:04 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-07 7:54 ` Damien Le Moal
2019-11-07 18:59 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-08 8:42 ` Damien Le Moal
2019-11-08 14:33 ` Jens Axboe
2019-11-11 10:46 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-09 10:09 ` Ming Lei [this message]
2019-11-09 22:28 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-11 10:50 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-11 11:05 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-11 11:13 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-22 19:16 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-23 7:28 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-23 15:44 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-25 3:54 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-25 10:11 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-25 10:29 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-25 14:58 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-25 15:15 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-25 18:51 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-26 2:32 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-26 7:46 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-26 9:15 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-26 10:24 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-26 11:14 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-27 2:05 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-27 9:39 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-27 13:08 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-27 15:01 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-27 0:21 ` Finn Thain
2019-11-27 8:14 ` AW: " Schmid, Carsten
2019-11-27 21:49 ` Finn Thain
2019-11-28 7:46 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-28 8:12 ` AW: " Schmid, Carsten
2019-11-28 11:40 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-28 17:39 ` Alan Stern
2019-11-28 9:17 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-28 17:34 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-29 0:57 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-29 2:35 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-29 14:41 ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-03 2:23 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-10 7:35 ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-10 8:05 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-11 2:41 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-11 4:00 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-11 16:07 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-11 21:33 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-12 7:34 ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-18 8:25 ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-18 9:48 ` Ming Lei
[not found] ` <b1b6a0e9d690ecd9432025acd2db4ac09f834040.camel@unipv.it>
2019-12-23 13:08 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-23 14:02 ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-24 1:32 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-24 8:04 ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-24 8:47 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-23 16:26 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-23 16:29 ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-23 17:22 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-23 18:45 ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-23 19:53 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-24 1:27 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-24 6:49 ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-24 8:51 ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-24 9:35 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-25 5:17 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-26 2:27 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-26 3:30 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-26 8:37 ` Ming Lei
2020-01-07 7:51 ` Andrea Vai
[not found] ` <20200101074310.10904-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2020-01-01 13:53 ` slow IO on USB media Ming Lei
2019-11-29 11:44 ` AW: Slow I/O on USB media after commit f664a3cc17b7d0a2bc3b3ab96181e1029b0ec0e6 Bernd Schubert
2019-12-02 7:01 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-28 17:10 ` Andrea Vai
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