Re: [PATCH] md: remove REQ_NOWAIT support
From: yu kuai
Date: Sat Jul 11 2026 - 11:26:35 EST
在 2026/6/28 22:27, Abd-Alrhman Masalkhi 写道:
> REQ_NOWAIT support in md is fundamentally incomplete. While reads can
> avoid some blocking paths, write requests can still encounter cases
> where one mirror succeeds while another returns -EAGAIN. At that point
> md cannot distinguish queue pressure from a real device failure, so it
> can neither record a bad block nor safely retry the write without
> REQ_NOWAIT, leaving mirrors with divergent data.
>
> Rather than continue advertising REQ_NOWAIT support that cannot be
> implemented correctly, remove it from md and its raid personalities.
> This simplifies the waiting paths and avoids exposing incorrect
> non-blocking semantics.
>
> Fixes: bf2c411bb1cf ("md: raid456 add nowait support")
> Fixes: c9aa889b035f ("md: raid10 add nowait support")
> Fixes: 5aa705039c4f ("md: raid1 add nowait support")
> Fixes: f51d46d0e7cb ("md: add support for REQ_NOWAIT")
> Suggested-by: Yu Kuai<yukuai@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Abd-Alrhman Masalkhi<abd.masalkhi@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/md/md-bitmap.c | 9 +---
> drivers/md/md-bitmap.h | 2 +-
> drivers/md/md-llbitmap.c | 10 +----
> drivers/md/md.c | 15 ++-----
> drivers/md/raid1-10.c | 8 ++--
> drivers/md/raid1.c | 91 +++++++++-------------------------------
> drivers/md/raid10.c | 80 +++++++++--------------------------
> drivers/md/raid5.c | 13 ------
> 8 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@xxxxxxx>
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Thanks,
Kuai