fsfreeze of xfs filesystem can be significantly delayed in xfs_wait_buftarg

Solution Verified - Updated -

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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