Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Fix I/O priority lost in device-mapper

From: Henry King
Date: Wed Dec 13 2023 - 04:24:46 EST


Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> 于2023年12月13日周三 12:45写道:
>
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 07:11:45PM +0800, Hongyu Jin wrote:
> > From: Hongyu Jin <hongyu.jin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > A high-priority task obtains data from the dm-verity device using the
> > RT IO priority, during the verification, the IO reading FEC and hash
> > by kworker loses the RT priority and is blocked by the low-priority IO.
> > dm-crypt has the same problem in the process of writing data.
> >
> > This is because io_context and blkcg are missing.
> >
> > Move bio_set_ioprio() into submit_bio():
> > 1. Only call bio_set_ioprio() once to set the priority of original bio,
> > the bio that cloned and splited from original bio will auto inherit
> > the priority of original bio in clone process.
> >
> > 2. Make the IO priority of the original bio to be passed to dm,
> > and the dm target inherits the IO priority as needed.
> >
>
> What commit does this patch series apply to?
>
> - Eric

Changes are based on the master branch
commit 9bacdd8996c7 (origin/master, origin/HEAD) Merge tag
'for-6.7-rc1-tag' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux