Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2023-10-09

Re: [PATCH -next] md/raid1: don't split discard io for write behind

From: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Date: 2023-10-09 23:33:40
Also in: lkml

On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 8:24 PM Yu Kuai [off-list ref] wrote:
From: Yu Kuai <redacted>

Currently, discad io is treated the same as normal write io, and for
write behind case, io size is limited to:

BIO_MAX_VECS * (PAGE_SIZE >> 9)

For 0.5KB sector size and 4KB PAGE_SIZE, this is just 1MB. For
consequence, if 'WriteMostly' is set to one of the underlying disks,
then diskcard io will be splited into 1MB and it will take a long time
for the diskcard to finish.

Fix this problem by disable write behind for discard io.

Reported-by: Roman Mamedov <redacted>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a1165f7-c792-c054-b8f0-1ad4f7b8ae01@ultracoder.org/ (local)
Reported-and-tested-by: Kirill Kirilenko <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <redacted>
Applied to md-next. Thanks!

Song
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---
 drivers/md/raid1.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index 3a78f79ee6d5..35d12948e0a9 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -1345,6 +1345,7 @@ static void raid1_write_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
        int first_clone;
        int max_sectors;
        bool write_behind = false;
+       bool is_discard = (bio_op(bio) == REQ_OP_DISCARD);

        if (mddev_is_clustered(mddev) &&
             md_cluster_ops->area_resyncing(mddev, WRITE,
@@ -1405,7 +1406,7 @@ static void raid1_write_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
                 * write-mostly, which means we could allocate write behind
                 * bio later.
                 */
-               if (rdev && test_bit(WriteMostly, &rdev->flags))
+               if (!is_discard && rdev && test_bit(WriteMostly, &rdev->flags))
                        write_behind = true;

                if (rdev && unlikely(test_bit(Blocked, &rdev->flags))) {
--
2.39.2
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