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Subject: Re: [PATCH] f2fs: fix long latency due to discard during umount
To:     Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
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From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
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Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 17:08:58 +0800
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On 2020/3/18 12:44, Sahitya Tummala wrote:
> F2FS already has a default timeout of 5 secs for discards that
> can be issued during umount, but it can take more than the 5 sec
> timeout if the underlying UFS device queue is already full and there
> are no more available free tags to be used. In that case, submit_bio()
> will wait for the already queued discard requests to complete to get
> a free tag, which can potentially take way more than 5 sec.
> 
> Fix this by submitting the discard requests with REQ_NOWAIT
> flags during umount. This will return -EAGAIN for UFS queue/tag full
> scenario without waiting in the context of submit_bio(). The FS can
> then handle these requests by retrying again within the stipulated
> discard timeout period to avoid long latencies.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>

Thanks,