Re: [PATCH v4 6/9] md/raid1,raid10: Fix missing retries Failfast write bios on no-bbl rdevs

From: Kenta Akagi

Date: Thu Sep 18 2025 - 12:23:41 EST




On 2025/09/18 15:58, Li Nan wrote:
>
>
> 在 2025/9/17 21:33, Kenta Akagi 写道:
>>
>>
>> On 2025/09/17 19:06, Li Nan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 在 2025/9/15 11:42, Kenta Akagi 写道:
>>>> In the current implementation, write failures are not retried on rdevs
>>>> with badblocks disabled. This is because narrow_write_error, which issues
>>>> retry bios, immediately returns when badblocks are disabled. As a result,
>>>> a single write failure on such an rdev will immediately mark it as Faulty.
>>>>
>>>
>>> IMO, there's no need to add extra logic for scenarios where badblocks
>>> is not enabled. Do you have real-world scenarios where badblocks is
>>> disabled?
>>
>> No, badblocks are enabled in my environment.
>> I'm fine if it's not added, but I still think it's worth adding WARN_ON like:
>>
>> @@ -2553,13 +2554,17 @@ static bool narrow_write_error(struct r1bio *r1_bio, int i)
>>    fail = true;
>> + WARN_ON( (bio->bi_opf & MD_FAILFAST) && (rdev->badblocks.shift < 0) );
>>    if (!narrow_write_error(r1_bio, m))
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>
> How about this?
>
> --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
> @@ -2522,10 +2522,11 @@ static bool narrow_write_error(struct r1bio *r1_bio, int i)
>         bool ok = true;
>
>         if (rdev->badblocks.shift < 0)
> -               return false;
> +               block_sectors = bdev_logical_block_size(rdev->bdev) >> 9;
> +       else
> +               block_sectors = roundup(1 << rdev->badblocks.shift,
> +                                       bdev_logical_block_size(rdev->bdev) >> 9);
>
> -       block_sectors = roundup(1 << rdev->badblocks.shift,
> -                               bdev_logical_block_size(rdev->bdev) >> 9);
>         sector = r1_bio->sector;
>         sectors = ((sector + block_sectors)
>                    & ~(sector_t)(block_sectors - 1))
>
> rdev_set_badblocks() checks shift, too. rdev is marked to Faulty if setting
> badblocks fails.

Sounds good. If badblocks are disabled, rdev_set_badblocks() returns false, so there
should be no problem.

Can this be included in the cleanup?
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/20250917093508.456790-3-linan666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u

or should I resend this patch as proposed?

Thanks,
Akagi

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>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Akagi
>>
>>>> The retry mechanism appears to have been implemented under the assumption
>>>> that a bad block is involved in the failure. However, the retry after
>>>> MD_FAILFAST write failure depend on this code, and a Failfast write request
>>>> may fail for reasons unrelated to bad blocks.
>>>>
>>>> Consequently, if failfast is enabled and badblocks are disabled on all
>>>> rdevs, and all rdevs encounter a failfast write bio failure at the same
>>>> time, no retries will occur and the entire array can be lost.
>>>>
>>>> This commit adds a path in narrow_write_error to retry writes even on rdevs
>>>> where bad blocks are disabled, and failed bios marked with MD_FAILFAST will
>>>> use this path. For non-failfast cases, the behavior remains unchanged: no
>>>> retry writes are attempted to rdevs with bad blocks disabled.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 1919cbb23bf1 ("md/raid10: add failfast handling for writes.")
>>>> Fixes: 212e7eb7a340 ("md/raid1: add failfast handling for writes.")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kenta Akagi <k@xxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/md/raid1.c  | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>>>>    drivers/md/raid10.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>>>>    2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>>>                   !test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags) &&
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nan
>>>
>>>
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>> .
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> -- 
> Thanks,
> Nan
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