Re: [regression/bisected] 4.19 cycle boot time IO stalls

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Sep 05 2018 - 12:28:21 EST


On Wed, 2018-09-05 at 07:39 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> I bet it's the host busy change from Ming, which I already
> reported as being the culprit for another test failure I had. For
> some reason it's not merged yet, nudge nudge Martin. You can test
> by reverting:
>
> commit 328728630d9f2bf14b82ca30b5e47489beefe361
> Author: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun Jun 24 22:03:27 2018 +0800
>
> scsi: core: avoid host-wide host_busy counter for scsi_mq
>
> which was slightly modified by 265d59aacbce, so you'll want to
> yank that one first.

Bingo (woohoo, no dog slow take 2 required).

> BTW, that suse email for me hasn't worked in 12 years :-)

Yeah, I must have double tapped mouse, and picked up one of the many
ancient artifacts in Evolution's DB. Sorry about that.

-Mike