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block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges
authorPaolo Valente <[email protected]>
Mon, 2 Aug 2021 14:13:52 +0000 (16:13 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <[email protected]>
Thu, 2 Sep 2021 12:36:58 +0000 (06:36 -0600)
commit2d52c58b9c9bdae0ca3df6a1eab5745ab3f7d80b
tree2b7f1c47daa86d0fd4625ff14c4d2b0a3004d837
parent55a51ea14094a1e7dd0d7f33237d246033dd39ab
block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges

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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
block/bfq-iosched.c
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