From: "Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)" <regressions@leemhuis.info>
To: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linux regressions mailing list <regressions@lists.linux.dev>,
Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>,
Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
Christopher Price <pricechrispy@gmail.com>,
anand.jain@oracle.com, clm@fb.com, dsterba@suse.com,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [6.2 regression][bisected]discard storm on idle since v6.1-rc8-59-g63a7cb130718 discard=async
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 10:17:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb5c2b8c-f1da-22e8-7e81-b1f79b2152ec@leemhuis.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230404193909.GC344341@zen>
On 04.04.23 21:39, Boris Burkov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 09:22:05PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 11:51:51AM -0700, Boris Burkov wrote:
>>> Our reasonable options, as I see them:
>>> - back to nodiscard, rely on periodic trims from the OS.
>>
>> We had that before and it's a fallback in case we can't fix it but still
>> the problem would persist for anyone enabling async discard so it's only
>> limiting the impact.
>>
>>> - leave low iops_limit, drives stay busy unexpectedly long, conclude that
>>> that's OK, and communicate the tuning/measurement options better.
>>
>> This does not sound user friendly, tuning should be possible but not
>> required by default. We already have enough other things that users need
>> to decide and in this case I don't know if there's enough information to
>> even make a good decision upfront.
>>
>>> - set a high iops_limit (e.g. 1000) drives will get back to idle faster.
>>> - change an unset iops_limit to mean truly unlimited async discard, set
>>> that as the default, and anyone who cares to meter it can set an
>>> iops_limit.
>>>
>>> The regression here is in drive idle time due to modest discard getting
>>> metered out over minutes rather than dealt with relatively quickly. So
>>> I would favor the unlimited async discard mode and will send a patch to
>>> that effect which we can discuss.
>>
>> Can we do options 3 and 4, i.e. set a high iops so that the batch gets
>> processed faster and (4) that there's the manual override to drop the
>> limit completely?
>
> Yup, I'm on it.
> [...]
Thx everyone for looking into this and the fruitful discussion
yesterday, much appreciated.
/me will now get back to watching this only from afar and leave things
to the experts
Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-20 22:40 [6.2 regression][bisected]discard storm on idle since v6.1-rc8-59-g63a7cb130718 discard=async Christopher Price
2023-03-21 21:26 ` Josef Bacik
2023-03-22 8:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-23 22:26 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2023-04-04 10:49 ` Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)
2023-04-04 16:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-04-04 16:20 ` Roman Mamedov
2023-04-04 16:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-04-04 23:37 ` Damien Le Moal
2023-04-04 18:15 ` Chris Mason
2023-04-04 18:51 ` Boris Burkov
2023-04-04 19:22 ` David Sterba
2023-04-04 19:39 ` Boris Burkov
2023-04-05 8:17 ` Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) [this message]
2023-04-10 2:03 ` Michael Bromilow
2023-04-11 17:52 ` David Sterba
2023-04-11 18:15 ` Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)
2023-04-04 19:08 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2023-04-05 6:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-04-05 12:01 ` Chris Mason
2023-04-04 18:23 ` Boris Burkov
2023-04-04 19:12 ` Sergei Trofimovich
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2023-03-02 8:04 ` Linux regression tracking #adding (Thorsten Leemhuis)
2023-04-04 10:52 ` Linux regression tracking #update (Thorsten Leemhuis)
2023-04-21 13:56 ` Linux regression tracking #update (Thorsten Leemhuis)
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2023-03-15 11:44 ` Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)
2023-03-15 16:34 ` Sergei Trofimovich
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