The blk-iolatency controller measures the time from rq_qos_throttle() to
rq_qos_done_bio() and attributes this time to the first bio that needs
to create the request. This means if a bio is plug-mergeable or
bio-mergeable, it gets to bypass the blk-iolatency controller.
The recent series [1], to tag all bios w/ blkgs undermined how iolatency
was determining which bios it was charging and should process in
rq_qos_done_bio(). Because all bios are being tagged, this caused the
atomic_t for the struct rq_wait inflight count to underflow and result
in a stall.
This patch adds a new flag BIO_TRACKED to let controllers know that a
bio is going through the rq_qos path. blk-iolatency now checks if this
flag is set to see if it should process the bio in rq_qos_done_bio().
Overloading BLK_QUEUE_ENTERED works, but makes the flag rules confusing.
BIO_THROTTLED was another candidate, but the flag is set for all bios
that have gone through blk-throttle code. Overloading a flag comes with
the burden of making sure that when either implementation changes, a
change in setting rules for one doesn't cause a bug in the other. So
here, we unfortunately opt for adding a new flag.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
20181205171039.73066-1-dennis@kernel.org/
Fixes:
5cdf2e3fea5e ("blkcg: associate blkg when associating a device")
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
bool enabled = false;
blkg = bio->bi_blkg;
- if (!blkg)
+ if (!blkg || !bio_flagged(bio, BIO_TRACKED))
return;
iolat = blkg_to_lat(bio->bi_blkg);
static inline void rq_qos_throttle(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
{
+ /*
+ * BIO_TRACKED lets controllers know that a bio went through the
+ * normal rq_qos path.
+ */
+ bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_TRACKED);
if (q->rq_qos)
__rq_qos_throttle(q->rq_qos, bio);
}
#define BIO_TRACE_COMPLETION 10 /* bio_endio() should trace the final completion
* of this bio. */
#define BIO_QUEUE_ENTERED 11 /* can use blk_queue_enter_live() */
+#define BIO_TRACKED 12 /* set if bio goes through the rq_qos path */
/* See BVEC_POOL_OFFSET below before adding new flags */