fsfreeze of xfs filesystem can be significantly delayed in xfs_wait_buftarg
Issue
- On RHEL 8 or higher, freeze operation could take very long time.
- This happens in presence of continuous read workload on the affected Filesystem.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- XFS Filesystem
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