Subject: Re: very low IOPS due to "block: reduce kblockd_mod_delayed_work_on()
 CPU consumption"
To:     "Alex Xu (Hello71)" <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>,
        linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
        ming.lei@redhat.com, hch@lst.de, Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>,
        "Michael Kelley (LINUX)" <mikelley@microsoft.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Date:   Sat, 18 Dec 2021 12:02:38 -0700
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On 12/18/21 11:57 AM, Alex Xu (Hello71) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently noticed that between 6441998e2e and 9eaa88c703, I/O became 
> much slower on my machine using ext4 on dm-crypt on NVMe with bfq 
> scheduler. Checking iostat during heavy usage (find / -xdev and fstrim 
> -v /), maximum IOPS had fallen from ~10000 to ~100. Reverting cb2ac2912a 
> ("block: reduce kblockd_mod_delayed_work_on() CPU consumption") resolves 
> the issue.

Hmm interesting. I'll try and see if I can reproduce this and come up
with a fix.

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Jens Axboe