NVMe disk shows 80% io utilization, partitions show 0% io utilization

I have a CentOS 7 server (kernel 3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64) with 2 NVMe disks with the following setup: # lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT nvme0n1 259:0 0 477G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:2 0 511M 0 part /boot/efi ├─nvme0n1p2 259:4 0 19.5G 0 part │ └─md2 9:2 0 19.5G 0 raid1 / ├─nvme0n1p3 259:7 0 511M 0 part [SWAP] └─nvme0n1p4 259:9 0 456.4G 0 part └─data-data 253:0 0 912.8G 0 lvm /data nvme1n1 259:1 0 477G 0 disk ├─nvme1n1p1 259:3 0 511M 0 part ├─nvme1n1p2 259:5 0 19.5G 0 part │ └─md2 9:2 0 19.5G 0 raid1 / ├─nvme1n1p3 259:6 0 511M 0 part [SWAP] └─nvme1n1p4 259:8 0 456.4G 0 part └─data-data 253:0 0 912.8G 0 lvm /data Our monitoring and iostat continually shows nvme0n1 and nvme1n1 with 80%+ io utilization while the individual partitions have 0% io utilization and are fully available (250k iops, 1GB read/write per sec). avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 7.14 0.00 3.51 0.00 0.00 89.36 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util nvme1n1 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.50 0.00 222.00 8.79 0.73 0.02 0.00 0.02 14.48 73.10 nvme1n1p1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 nvme1n1p2 0.00 0.00 0.00 49.50 0.00 218.00 8.81 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.02 0.01 0.05 nvme1n1p3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 nvme1n1p4 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 4.00 8.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 nvme0n1 0.00 0.00 0.00 49.50 0.00 218.00 8.81 0.73 0.02 0.00 0.02 14.77 73.10 nvme0n1p1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 nvme0n1p2 0.00 0.00 0.00 49.50 0.00 218.00 8.81 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.02 0.01 0.05 nvme0n1p3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 nvme0n1p4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 md2 0.00 0.00 0.00 48.50 0.00 214.00 8.82 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 4.00 8.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Any ideas what can be the root cause for such behavior? All seems to be working fine except for monitoring triggering high io alerts.