[PATCH 5.11 013/775] bfq: Avoid false bfq queue merging

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Mar 01 2021 - 22:11:01 EST


From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

commit 41e76c85660c022c6bf5713bfb6c21e64a487cec upstream.

bfq_setup_cooperator() uses bfqd->in_serv_last_pos so detect whether it
makes sense to merge current bfq queue with the in-service queue.
However if the in-service queue is freshly scheduled and didn't dispatch
any requests yet, bfqd->in_serv_last_pos is stale and contains value
from the previously scheduled bfq queue which can thus result in a bogus
decision that the two queues should be merged. This bug can be observed
for example with the following fio jobfile:

[global]
direct=0
ioengine=sync
invalidate=1
size=1g
rw=read

[reader]
numjobs=4
directory=/mnt

where the 4 processes will end up in the one shared bfq queue although
they do IO to physically very distant files (for some reason I was able to
observe this only with slice_idle=1ms setting).

Fix the problem by invalidating bfqd->in_serv_last_pos when switching
in-service queue.

Fixes: 058fdecc6de7 ("block, bfq: fix in-service-queue check for queue merging")
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/bfq-iosched.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -2937,6 +2937,7 @@ static void __bfq_set_in_service_queue(s
}

bfqd->in_service_queue = bfqq;
+ bfqd->in_serv_last_pos = 0;
}

/*