Hello Alexandre, I tried to reproduce this bug, and I believe it has been fixed.
I started a i3.4xlarge instance on AWS, with Xenial as the distro: $ uname -rv 4.4.0-1112-aws #124-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 11:10:25 UTC 2020 >From there, I checked the NVMe disks: $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk `-xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part / nvme0n1 259:0 0 1.7T 0 disk nvme1n1 259:1 0 1.7T 0 disk Made a Raid 0 array: $ sudo mdadm --create --verbose --level=0 /dev/md0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme1n1 mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata mdadm: array /dev/md0 started And formatted it: $ time sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/md0 meta-data=/dev/md0 isize=512 agcount=32, agsize=28989568 blks = sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1 = crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=0 data = bsize=4096 blocks=927666176, imaxpct=5 = sunit=128 swidth=256 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 ftype=1 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=452968, version=2 = sectsz=512 sunit=8 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 real 0m24.414s user 0m0.000s sys 0m7.664s I also tried to fstrim: $ sudo mkdir /mnt/disk $ sudo mount /dev/md0 /mnt/disk $ sudo fstrim /mnt/disk $ time sudo fstrim /mnt/disk real 0m22.083s user 0m0.000s sys 0m7.560s Things seem okay, I think this has been fixed somewhere between 4.4.0-1052-aws and 4.4.0-1112-aws. I'm going to mark this bug as fixed released, but let me know if you still have problems. ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: linux-aws (Ubuntu) ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-aws in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756315 Title: fstrim and discard operations take too long to complete - Ubuntu 16.04 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in linux source package in Xenial: Fix Released Bug description: 1-) Ubuntu Release : Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2-) linux-image-4.4.0.1052.54-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 16.04 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1756315/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp