Merge tag 'for-linus-20190726' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - Several io_uring fixes/improvements:
     - Blocking fix for O_DIRECT (me)
     - Latter page slowness for registered buffers (me)
     - Fix poll hang under certain conditions (me)
     - Defer sequence check fix for wrapped rings (Zhengyuan)
     - Mismatch in async inc/dec accounting (Zhengyuan)
     - Memory ordering issue that could cause stall (Zhengyuan)
      - Track sequential defer in bytes, not pages (Zhengyuan)

 - NVMe pull request from Christoph

 - Set of hang fixes for wbt (Josef)

 - Redundant error message kill for libahci (Ding)

 - Remove unused blk_mq_sched_started_request() and related ops (Marcos)

 - drbd dynamic alloc shash descriptor to reduce stack use (Arnd)

 - blkcg ->pd_stat() non-debug print (Tejun)

 - bcache memory leak fix (Wei)

 - Comment fix (Akinobu)

 - BFQ perf regression fix (Paolo)

* tag 'for-linus-20190726' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
  io_uring: ensure ->list is initialized for poll commands
  Revert "nvme-pci: don't create a read hctx mapping without read queues"
  nvme: fix multipath crash when ANA is deactivated
  nvme: fix memory leak caused by incorrect subsystem free
  nvme: ignore subnqn for ADATA SX6000LNP
  drbd: dynamically allocate shash descriptor
  block: blk-mq: Remove blk_mq_sched_started_request and started_request
  bcache: fix possible memory leak in bch_cached_dev_run()
  io_uring: track io length in async_list based on bytes
  io_uring: don't use iov_iter_advance() for fixed buffers
  block: properly handle IOCB_NOWAIT for async O_DIRECT IO
  blk-mq: allow REQ_NOWAIT to return an error inline
  io_uring: add a memory barrier before atomic_read
  rq-qos: use a mb for got_token
  rq-qos: set ourself TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE after we schedule
  rq-qos: don't reset has_sleepers on spurious wakeups
  rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle
  wait: add wq_has_single_sleeper helper
  block, bfq: check also in-flight I/O in dispatch plugging
  block: fix sysfs module parameters directory path in comment
  ...

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
index 72860325245a..586fcfe227ea 100644
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -3354,38 +3354,57 @@ static void bfq_dispatch_remove(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
  * there is no active group, then the primary expectation for
  * this device is probably a high throughput.
  *
- * We are now left only with explaining the additional
- * compound condition that is checked below for deciding
- * whether the scenario is asymmetric. To explain this
- * compound condition, we need to add that the function
+ * We are now left only with explaining the two sub-conditions in the
+ * additional compound condition that is checked below for deciding
+ * whether the scenario is asymmetric. To explain the first
+ * sub-condition, we need to add that the function
  * bfq_asymmetric_scenario checks the weights of only
- * non-weight-raised queues, for efficiency reasons (see
- * comments on bfq_weights_tree_add()). Then the fact that
- * bfqq is weight-raised is checked explicitly here. More
- * precisely, the compound condition below takes into account
- * also the fact that, even if bfqq is being weight-raised,
- * the scenario is still symmetric if all queues with requests
- * waiting for completion happen to be
- * weight-raised. Actually, we should be even more precise
- * here, and differentiate between interactive weight raising
- * and soft real-time weight raising.
+ * non-weight-raised queues, for efficiency reasons (see comments on
+ * bfq_weights_tree_add()). Then the fact that bfqq is weight-raised
+ * is checked explicitly here. More precisely, the compound condition
+ * below takes into account also the fact that, even if bfqq is being
+ * weight-raised, the scenario is still symmetric if all queues with
+ * requests waiting for completion happen to be
+ * weight-raised. Actually, we should be even more precise here, and
+ * differentiate between interactive weight raising and soft real-time
+ * weight raising.
+ *
+ * The second sub-condition checked in the compound condition is
+ * whether there is a fair amount of already in-flight I/O not
+ * belonging to bfqq. If so, I/O dispatching is to be plugged, for the
+ * following reason. The drive may decide to serve in-flight
+ * non-bfqq's I/O requests before bfqq's ones, thereby delaying the
+ * arrival of new I/O requests for bfqq (recall that bfqq is sync). If
+ * I/O-dispatching is not plugged, then, while bfqq remains empty, a
+ * basically uncontrolled amount of I/O from other queues may be
+ * dispatched too, possibly causing the service of bfqq's I/O to be
+ * delayed even longer in the drive. This problem gets more and more
+ * serious as the speed and the queue depth of the drive grow,
+ * because, as these two quantities grow, the probability to find no
+ * queue busy but many requests in flight grows too. By contrast,
+ * plugging I/O dispatching minimizes the delay induced by already
+ * in-flight I/O, and enables bfqq to recover the bandwidth it may
+ * lose because of this delay.
  *
  * As a side note, it is worth considering that the above
- * device-idling countermeasures may however fail in the
- * following unlucky scenario: if idling is (correctly)
- * disabled in a time period during which all symmetry
- * sub-conditions hold, and hence the device is allowed to
- * enqueue many requests, but at some later point in time some
- * sub-condition stops to hold, then it may become impossible
- * to let requests be served in the desired order until all
- * the requests already queued in the device have been served.
+ * device-idling countermeasures may however fail in the following
+ * unlucky scenario: if I/O-dispatch plugging is (correctly) disabled
+ * in a time period during which all symmetry sub-conditions hold, and
+ * therefore the device is allowed to enqueue many requests, but at
+ * some later point in time some sub-condition stops to hold, then it
+ * may become impossible to make requests be served in the desired
+ * order until all the requests already queued in the device have been
+ * served. The last sub-condition commented above somewhat mitigates
+ * this problem for weight-raised queues.
  */
 static bool idling_needed_for_service_guarantees(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
 						 struct bfq_queue *bfqq)
 {
 	return (bfqq->wr_coeff > 1 &&
-		bfqd->wr_busy_queues <
-		bfq_tot_busy_queues(bfqd)) ||
+		(bfqd->wr_busy_queues <
+		 bfq_tot_busy_queues(bfqd) ||
+		 bfqd->rq_in_driver >=
+		 bfqq->dispatched + 4)) ||
 		bfq_asymmetric_scenario(bfqd, bfqq);
 }