Comment 12 for bug 1880943

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Frode Nordahl (fnordahl) wrote :

Playing around with the now available IO schedulers does not appear to help much and looking at iotop while the test runs does show ext4lazyinit consuming much of the IO most of the time while the test runs.

I wonder if this is a more ominous change of behavior after all

Total DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE: 0.00 B/s
Current DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Current DISK WRITE: 22.22 M/s
    TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND
    948 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 99.99 % [ext4lazyinit]
   5651 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 99.99 % fio /usr~write.fio
     22 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 94.61 % [kworker~-252:384]

Reopening to get some take from kernel team on the change of IO schedulers and if this is an anticipated side effect and/or if any known regression surrounding the ext4lazyinit process.