We used to insert the data commands following a pre-flush to the head of the queue until commit 1e82fadfc6b ("blk-mq: do not do head insertions post-pre-flush commands"). Not doing this seems to cause hangs of such commands on NFS workloads when exported from file systems with SATA SSDs. I have no idea why this would starve these workloads, but doing a semantic revert of this patch (which looks quite different due to various other changes) fixes the hangs. Fixes: 1e82fadfc6b ("blk-mq: do not do head insertions post-pre-flush commands") Reported-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230714143014.11879-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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