Re: Slow I/O on USB media after commit f664a3cc17b7d0a2bc3b3ab96181e1029b0ec0e6

Ming Lei
2019-11-23T07:28:47Z

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 08:16:30PM +0100, Andrea Vai wrote:
> Il giorno dom, 10/11/2019 alle 06.28 +0800, Ming Lei ha scritto:
> > Another thing we could try is to use 'none' via the following
> > command:
> >
> > echo none > /sys/block/sdh/queue/scheduler #suppose 'sdh' points
> > to the usb storage disk
> >
> > Because USB storage HBA is single hw queue, which depth is 1. This
> > way
> > should change to dispatch IO in the order of bio submission.
> >
> > Andrea, could you switch io scheduler to none and update us if
> > difference
> > can be made?
>
> Using the new kernel, there is indeed a difference because the time to
> copy a file is 1800 seconds with [mq-deadline], and 340 seconds with
> [none]. But that is still far away from the old kernel, which performs
> the copy of the same file in 76 seconds.

Please post the log of 'lsusb -v', and I will try to make a patch for
addressing the issue.

thanks,
Ming