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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 18:57:10 +0200
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On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 09:18 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 5/8/18 10:11 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 19:09 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>
> >> Alright, I managed to reproduce it. What I think is happening is that
> >> BFQ is limiting the inflight case to something less than the wake
> >> batch for sbitmap, which can lead to stalls. I don't have time to test
> >> this tonight, but perhaps you can give it a go when you are back at it.
> >> If not, I'll try tomorrow morning.
> >>
> >> If this is the issue, I can turn it into a real patch. This is just to
> >> confirm that the issue goes away with the below.
> > 
> > Confirmed.  Impressive high speed bug stomping.
> 
> Well, that's good news. Can I get you to try this patch?

Sure thing.  The original hang (minus provocation patch) being
annoyingly non-deterministic, this will (hopefully) take a while.

	-Mike