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From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jsbarnes@google.com>
Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@google.com>
Subject: Re: BLKSECDISCARD ioctl and hung tasks
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:54:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200219025456.GD31488@ming.t460p> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJmaN=miqzhnZUTqaTOPp+OWY8+QYhXoE=h5apSucMkEU4nvtA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 08:11:53AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 7:47 PM Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> wrote:
> > What are the 'other operations'? Are they block IOs?
> >
> > If yes, that is why I suggest to fix submit_bio_wait(), which should cover
> > most of sync bio submission.
> >
> > Anyway, the fix is simple & generic enough, I'd plan to post a formal
> > patch if no one figures out better doable approaches.
> 
> Yeah I think any block I/O operation that occurs after the
> BLKSECDISCARD is submitted will also potentially be affected by the
> hung task timeouts, and I think your patch will address that.  My only
> concern with it is that it might hide some other I/O "hangs" that are
> due to device misbehavior instead.  Yes driver and device timeouts
> should generally catch those, but with this in place we might miss a
> few bugs.
> 
> Given the nature of these types of storage devices though, I think
> that's a minor issue and not worth blocking the patch on, given that
> it should prevent a lot of false positive hang reports as Salman
> demonstrated.

Hello Jesse and Salman,

One more question about this issue, do you enable BLK_WBT on your test
kernel?

Thanks,
Ming


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-19  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-12 22:27 BLKSECDISCARD ioctl and hung tasks Salman Qazi
2020-02-12 23:06 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-02-13  1:20   ` Salman Qazi
2020-02-13  1:24     ` Jesse Barnes
2020-02-13  8:26 ` Ming Lei
2020-02-13 17:48   ` Bart Van Assche
2020-02-13 19:21     ` Salman Qazi
2020-02-13 22:08       ` Salman Qazi
2020-02-14  0:25       ` Ming Lei
2020-02-14  5:49       ` Bart Van Assche
2020-02-14  9:22         ` Ming Lei
2020-02-14 19:42           ` Salman Qazi
2020-02-15  3:46             ` Ming Lei
2020-02-18 16:11               ` Jesse Barnes
2020-02-19  1:37                 ` Ming Lei
2020-02-19  2:54                 ` Ming Lei [this message]
2020-02-19 17:54                   ` Salman Qazi
2020-02-19 22:22                     ` Ming Lei
2020-02-19 22:26                       ` Salman Qazi

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