linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 279/280] bcache: use (REQ_META|REQ

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Message-Id: <20190322111347.937046833@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:17:12 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>,
        Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>, Andre Noll <maan@...bingen.mpg.de>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 279/280] bcache: use (REQ_META|REQ_PRIO) to indicate bio for metadata

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

------------------

From: Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>

commit dc7292a5bcb4c878b076fca2ac3fc22f81b8f8df upstream.

In 'commit 752f66a75aba ("bcache: use REQ_PRIO to indicate bio for
metadata")' REQ_META is replaced by REQ_PRIO to indicate metadata bio.
This assumption is not always correct, e.g. XFS uses REQ_META to mark
metadata bio other than REQ_PRIO. This is why Nix noticed that bcache
does not cache metadata for XFS after the above commit.

Thanks to Dave Chinner, he explains the difference between REQ_META and
REQ_PRIO from view of file system developer. Here I quote part of his
explanation from mailing list,
   REQ_META is used for metadata. REQ_PRIO is used to communicate to
   the lower layers that the submitter considers this IO to be more
   important that non REQ_PRIO IO and so dispatch should be expedited.

   IOWs, if the filesystem considers metadata IO to be more important
   that user data IO, then it will use REQ_PRIO | REQ_META rather than
   just REQ_META.

Then it seems bios with REQ_META or REQ_PRIO should both be cached for
performance optimation, because they are all probably low I/O latency
demand by upper layer (e.g. file system).

So in this patch, when we want to decide whether to bypass the cache,
REQ_META and REQ_PRIO are both checked. Then both metadata and
high priority I/O requests will be handled properly.

Reported-by: Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@...bingen.mpg.de>
Tested-by: Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/bcache/request.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
@@ -392,10 +392,11 @@ static bool check_should_bypass(struct c

 	/*
 	 * Flag for bypass if the IO is for read-ahead or background,
-	 * unless the read-ahead request is for metadata (eg, for gfs2).
+	 * unless the read-ahead request is for metadata
+	 * (eg, for gfs2 or xfs).
 	 */
 	if (bio->bi_opf & (REQ_RAHEAD|REQ_BACKGROUND) &&
-	    !(bio->bi_opf & REQ_META))
+	    !(bio->bi_opf & (REQ_META|REQ_PRIO)))
 		goto skip;

 	if (bio->bi_iter.bi_sector & (c->sb.block_size - 1) ||
@@ -877,7 +878,7 @@ static int cached_dev_cache_miss(struct
 	}

 	if (!(bio->bi_opf & REQ_RAHEAD) &&
-	    !(bio->bi_opf & REQ_META) &&
+	    !(bio->bi_opf & (REQ_META|REQ_PRIO)) &&
 	    s->iop.c->gc_stats.in_use < CUTOFF_CACHE_READA)
 		reada = min_t(sector_t, dc->readahead >> 9,
 			      get_capacity(bio->bi_disk) - bio_end_sector(bio));