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From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com, Klaus Jensen <its@irrelevant.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Pankaj Raghav <pankydev8@gmail.com>,
	Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>,
	Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: blktests with zbd/006 ZNS triggers a possible false positive RCU stall
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:35:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ylms5eFt2w8Cp1NI@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220415043021.awhfncjjt22vyajg@offworld>

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 09:30:21PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2022, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 06:09:45PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > > No idea, however, why this would happen when using qemu as opposed to
> > > nbd.
> > 
> > This one is a bit strange, no two ways about it.
> > 
> > In theory, vCPU preemption is a possibility.  In practice, if the
> > RCU grace-period kthread's vCPU was preempted for so long, I would
> > have expected the RCU CPU stall warning to complain about starvation.
> > But it still might be worth tracing context switches on the underlying
> > hypervisor.
> 
> Right, but both cases are VMs which is what throws me off, regardless
> of the zns drive. Or is this not the case, Luis?

The nvme controller timeout and rcu splat happens on an 8 core KVM
guest. The hypervisor has no issues reported.

Does that answer the question?

 Luis

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-15 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-14 22:02 blktests with zbd/006 ZNS triggers a possible false positive RCU stall Luis Chamberlain
2022-04-15  1:09 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2022-04-15  3:54   ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-04-15  4:30     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2022-04-15 17:35       ` Luis Chamberlain [this message]
2022-04-15 17:33   ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-04-15 17:42     ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-04-20  5:54 ` Shinichiro Kawasaki
2022-04-21 18:00   ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-04-27  5:08     ` Shinichiro Kawasaki
2022-04-27  5:42       ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-04-27  7:41       ` Klaus Jensen
2022-04-27  8:39         ` Damien Le Moal
2022-04-27  8:55           ` Klaus Jensen
2022-04-27  8:53         ` Shinichiro Kawasaki

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