linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 061/175] md/raid1: fix read balance when a drive is write-mostly.

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Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:40:39 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tomáš Hodek <tomas.hodek@...ny.cz>,
	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 061/175] md/raid1: fix read balance when a drive is write-mostly.

From: Tomáš Hodek <tomas.hodek@...ny.cz>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

===============

commit d1901ef099c38afd11add4cfb3312c02ef21ec4a upstream.

When a drive is marked write-mostly it should only be the
target of reads if there is no other option.

This behaviour was broken by

commit 9dedf60313fa4dddfd5b9b226a0ef12a512bf9dc
    md/raid1: read balance chooses idlest disk for SSD

which causes a write-mostly device to be *preferred* is some cases.

Restore correct behaviour by checking and setting
best_dist_disk and best_pending_disk rather than best_disk.

We only need to test one of these as they are both changed
from -1 or >=0 at the same time.

As we leave min_pending and best_dist unchanged, any non-write-mostly
device will appear better than the write-mostly device.

Reported-by: Tomáš Hodek <tomas.hodek@...ny.cz>
Reported-by: Dark Penguin <darkpenguin@...dex.ru>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=135982797322422
Fixes: 9dedf60313fa4dddfd5b9b226a0ef12a512bf9dc
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
 drivers/md/raid1.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index 6564eebbdf0e..633b6e1e7d4d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static int read_balance(struct r1conf *conf, struct r1bio *r1_bio, int *max_sect
 		if (test_bit(WriteMostly, &rdev->flags)) {
 			/* Don't balance among write-mostly, just
 			 * use the first as a last resort */
-			if (best_disk < 0) {
+			if (best_dist_disk < 0) {
 				if (is_badblock(rdev, this_sector, sectors,
 						&first_bad, &bad_sectors)) {
 					if (first_bad < this_sector)
@@ -566,7 +566,8 @@ static int read_balance(struct r1conf *conf, struct r1bio *r1_bio, int *max_sect
 					best_good_sectors = first_bad - this_sector;
 				} else
 					best_good_sectors = sectors;
-				best_disk = disk;
+				best_dist_disk = disk;
+				best_pending_disk = disk;
 			}
 			continue;
 		}
-- 
2.3.0

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