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authorPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>2021-08-02 17:13:52 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-09-22 12:48:13 +0300
commit2c1b1848357dc69f62ce3630b850e6680b87854b (patch)
treed04f2a547e06c57d71a8ca096a5d1b18ff6c4bce /block
parent052447e9d4aaf6cba23e96b26b3dec79cf63a1bd (diff)
downloadlinux-2c1b1848357dc69f62ce3630b850e6680b87854b.tar.xz
block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges
[ Upstream commit 2d52c58b9c9bdae0ca3df6a1eab5745ab3f7d80b ] The function bfq_setup_merge prepares the merging between two bfq_queues, say bfqq and new_bfqq. To this goal, it assigns bfqq->new_bfqq = new_bfqq. Then, each time some I/O for bfqq arrives, the process that generated that I/O is disassociated from bfqq and associated with new_bfqq (merging is actually a redirection). In this respect, bfq_setup_merge increases new_bfqq->ref in advance, adding the number of processes that are expected to be associated with new_bfqq. Unfortunately, the stable-merging mechanism interferes with this setup. After bfqq->new_bfqq has been set by bfq_setup_merge, and before all the expected processes have been associated with bfqq->new_bfqq, bfqq may happen to be stably merged with a different queue than the current bfqq->new_bfqq. In this case, bfqq->new_bfqq gets changed. So, some of the processes that have been already accounted for in the ref counter of the previous new_bfqq will not be associated with that queue. This creates an unbalance, because those references will never be decremented. This commit fixes this issue by reestablishing the previous, natural behaviour: once bfqq->new_bfqq has been set, it will not be changed until all expected redirections have occurred. Signed-off-by: Davide Zini <davidezini2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210802141352.74353-2-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/bfq-iosched.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
index b2bad345c523..c8c94e8e0f72 100644
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -2137,6 +2137,15 @@ bfq_setup_merge(struct bfq_queue *bfqq, struct bfq_queue *new_bfqq)
* are likely to increase the throughput.
*/
bfqq->new_bfqq = new_bfqq;
+ /*
+ * The above assignment schedules the following redirections:
+ * each time some I/O for bfqq arrives, the process that
+ * generated that I/O is disassociated from bfqq and
+ * associated with new_bfqq. Here we increases new_bfqq->ref
+ * in advance, adding the number of processes that are
+ * expected to be associated with new_bfqq as they happen to
+ * issue I/O.
+ */
new_bfqq->ref += process_refs;
return new_bfqq;
}
@@ -2196,6 +2205,10 @@ bfq_setup_cooperator(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq,
{
struct bfq_queue *in_service_bfqq, *new_bfqq;
+ /* if a merge has already been setup, then proceed with that first */
+ if (bfqq->new_bfqq)
+ return bfqq->new_bfqq;
+
/*
* Prevent bfqq from being merged if it has been created too
* long ago. The idea is that true cooperating processes, and
@@ -2210,9 +2223,6 @@ bfq_setup_cooperator(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq,
if (bfq_too_late_for_merging(bfqq))
return NULL;
- if (bfqq->new_bfqq)
- return bfqq->new_bfqq;
-
if (!io_struct || unlikely(bfqq == &bfqd->oom_bfqq))
return NULL;