Public bug reported:
1-) Ubuntu Release : Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
2-) linux-image-3.13.0-143-generic and linux-image-4.4.0-1014-aws
3-) mkfs.xfs and fstrim -v on a raid0 array using nvme and md should not
take more than some seconds to complete.
4-) Formating the raid0 array with xfs took around 2 hours. Running
fstrim -v on the mount point mounted on top of the raid array took
around 2 hours.
How to reproduce the issue:
- Launch an i3.4xlarge instance on Amazon AWS using an Ubuntu 14.04.5 AMI (
ami-78d2be01 on EU-WEST-1 ), this will generate an instance with one 8Gb EBS
root volume and two 1.9T SSD drives that are presented to the instance using
the nvme driver.
- Compose a raid0 array with the following command :
# mdadm --create --verbose --level=0 /dev/md0 --raid-devices=2
/dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme1n1
- When trying to format the raid0 array ( /dev/md0 ) using xfs it takes
around 2 hours to complete. I tried other AMIs like RHEL7, CentOS7 and
Ubuntu 18.04 and the time needed was around 2 seconds.
root@ip-172-31-30-133:~# time mkfs.xfs /dev/md0
real 120m45.725s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m18.248s
- Running fstrim -v on a filesystem mounted on top of /dev/md0 can take
around 2 hours to complete. With other AMIs like RHEL7, CentOS7 and
Ubuntu 18.04 and the time needed was around 2 seconds.
- When I try the same with any of the nvme SSD devices alone, let's say
/dev/nvme0n1, the issue doesn't happen.
- I tried to replicate this issue using LVM and striping, fstrim and
mkfs.xfs, the tasks complete without taking hours :
root@ip-172-31-27-69:~# pvcreate /dev/nvme0n1
Physical volume "/dev/nvme0n1" successfully created
root@ip-172-31-27-69:~# pvcreate /dev/nvme1n1
Physical volume "/dev/nvme1n1" successfully created
root@ip-172-31-27-69:~# vgcreate raid0 /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme1n1
Volume group "raid0" successfully created
root@ip-172-31-27-69:~# lvcreate --type striped --stripes 2 --extents 100%FREE
raid0 /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme1n1
Using default stripesize 64.00 KiB.
Logical volume "lvol0" created.
root@ip-172-31-27-69:~# vgchange -ay
1 logical volume(s) in volume group "raid0" now active
root@ip-172-31-27-69:~# lvchange -ay /dev/raid0/lvol0
root@ip-172-31-27-69:~# lvs -a /dev/raid0/lvol0
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync
Convert
lvol0 raid0 -wi-a----- 3.46t
htop
root@ip-172-31-27-69:~# time mkfs.xfs /dev/raid0/lvol0
meta-data=/dev/raid0/lvol0 isize=512 agcount=32, agsize=28991664 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1
= crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=0
data = bsize=4096 blocks=927733248, imaxpct=5
= sunit=16 swidth=32 blks
naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=453008, version=2
= sectsz=512 sunit=16 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
real 0m2.926s
user 0m0.180s
sys 0m0.000s
root@ip-172-31-27-69:~# mount /dev/raid0/lvol0 /mnt
root@ip-172-31-27-69:~# time fstrim -v /mnt
/mnt: 3.5 TiB (3798138650624 bytes) trimmed
real 0m1.794s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
So the issue only happens when using nvme and md to compose the raid0
array.
Bellow follows some information that may be useful:
started formating the md array with mkfs.xfs. Process looks hanged.
root@ip-172-31-24-66:~# ps aux | grep -i mkfs.xfs
root 1693 12.0 0.0 12728 968 pts/1 D+ 07:54 0:03 mkfs.xfs
/dev/md0
PID 1693 is in uninterruptible sleep ( D )
Looking at /proc/7965/stack
root@ip-172-31-24-66:~# cat /proc/1693/stack
[<ffffffff8134d8c2>] blkdev_issue_discard+0x232/0x2a0
[<ffffffff813524bd>] blkdev_ioctl+0x61d/0x7d0
[<ffffffff811ff6f1>] block_ioctl+0x41/0x50
[<ffffffff811d89b3>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2e3/0x4d0
[<ffffffff811d8c21>] SyS_ioctl+0x81/0xa0
[<ffffffff81748030>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
Looking at the stack, looks like it's hanged on a discard operation
root@ip-172-31-24-66:~# ps -flp 1693
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD
4 D root 1693 1682 2 80 0 - 3182 blkdev 07:54 pts/1 00:00:03
mkfs.xfs /dev/md0
root@ip-172-31-24-66:~# cat /proc/1693/wchan
blkdev_issue_discard
Process stuck with function --> blkdev_issue_discard
** Affects: linux-aws (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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