KVM guest low IO performance for newly created guests
Issue
Low IO performance for newly created guests
- Various application processes doing IO receive hung_task_timeout_secs messages
- Initially poor IO performance
- IO performance improves after the file system has been filled up
e.g. creating files filling up the file system and then removing them
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7
- KVM guest
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