[RFC PATCH 13/17] btrfs: avoid sync IO prioritization on checksum in HMZONED mode

From: Naohiro Aota
Date: Thu Aug 09 2018 - 14:06:24 EST


By prioritizing sync I/Os, btrfs calls btrfs_map_block() for blocks
allocated later before calling the function allocated earlier. By the
disorder of calling btrfs_map_block(), syncing on I/Os on larger LBAs
sometime wait for I/Os on smaller LBAs.

Since active checksum worker is limited to some specified number, it is
possible to wait for non-starting checksum on smaller LBAs. In such
situation, transactions are stucked waiting for I/Os on smaller LBAs to
finish, which is never finished.

This situation can be reproduced by e.g. fstests btrfs/073.

To avoid such disordering, disable sync IO prioritization for now. In the
future, it will be reworked to finish checksumming of I/Os on smaller I/Os
on committing a transaction.

Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naota@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index 00fa6aca9bb5..f79abd5e6b3a 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ blk_status_t btrfs_wq_submit_bio(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, struct bio *bio,

async->status = 0;

- if (op_is_sync(bio->bi_opf))
+ if (op_is_sync(bio->bi_opf) && !btrfs_fs_incompat(fs_info, HMZONED))
btrfs_set_work_high_priority(&async->work);

btrfs_queue_work(fs_info->workers, &async->work);
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