[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 036/165] md/raid1: fix read balance when a drive is write-mostly.
From: Luis Henriques <hidden>
Date: 2015-03-25 14:50:35
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Song Liu, Yu Kuai, Linus Torvalds
3.16.7-ckt9 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1=20Hodek?= <redacted>
commit d1901ef099c38afd11add4cfb3312c02ef21ec4a upstream.
When a drive is marked write-mostly it should only be the
target of reads if there is no other option.
This behaviour was broken by
commit 9dedf60313fa4dddfd5b9b226a0ef12a512bf9dc
md/raid1: read balance chooses idlest disk for SSD
which causes a write-mostly device to be *preferred* is some cases.
Restore correct behaviour by checking and setting
best_dist_disk and best_pending_disk rather than best_disk.
We only need to test one of these as they are both changed
from -1 or >=0 at the same time.
As we leave min_pending and best_dist unchanged, any non-write-mostly
device will appear better than the write-mostly device.
Reported-by: Tomáš Hodek <redacted>
Reported-by: Dark Penguin <redacted>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <redacted>
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=135982797322422
Fixes: 9dedf60313fa4dddfd5b9b226a0ef12a512bf9dc
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <redacted>
---
drivers/md/raid1.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index 55de4f6f7eaf..b96ee9d78aa3 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ static int read_balance(struct r1conf *conf, struct r1bio *r1_bio, int *max_sect if (test_bit(WriteMostly, &rdev->flags)) { /* Don't balance among write-mostly, just * use the first as a last resort */ - if (best_disk < 0) { + if (best_dist_disk < 0) { if (is_badblock(rdev, this_sector, sectors, &first_bad, &bad_sectors)) { if (first_bad < this_sector)
@@ -570,7 +570,8 @@ static int read_balance(struct r1conf *conf, struct r1bio *r1_bio, int *max_sect best_good_sectors = first_bad - this_sector; } else best_good_sectors = sectors; - best_disk = disk; + best_dist_disk = disk; + best_pending_disk = disk; } continue; }