linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bcache: dont reset bio opf in bch_data_insert

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:53:09 +0800
From:   Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>
To:     Dongsheng Yang <dongsheng.yang@...ystack.cn>,
        linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mchristi@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcache: dont reset bio opf in bch_data_insert_start

On 1/25/21 12:29 PM, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> commit ad0d9e76(bcache: use bio op accessors) makes the bi_opf
> modified by bio_set_op_attrs(). But there is a logical
> problem in this commit:
> 
>                 trace_bcache_cache_insert(k);
>                 bch_keylist_push(&op->insert_keys);
> 
> -               n->bi_rw |= REQ_WRITE;
> +               bio_set_op_attrs(n, REQ_OP_WRITE, 0);
>                 bch_submit_bbio(n, op->c, k, 0);
>         } while (n != bio);
> 
> The old code add REQ_WRITE into bio n and keep other flags; the
> new code set REQ_OP_WRITE to bi_opf, but reset all other flags.
> 
> This problem is discoverd in our performance testing:
> (1) start a fio with 1M x 128depth for read in /dev/nvme0n1p1
> (2) start a fio with 1M x 128depth for write in /dev/escache0 (cache
> device is /dev/nvme0n1p2)
> 
> We found the BW of reading is 2000+M/s, but the BW of writing is
> 0-100M/s. After some debugging, we found the problem is io submit in
> writting is very slow.
> 
> bch_data_insert_start() insert a bio to /dev/nvme0n1p1, but as
> cached_dev submit stack bio will be added into current->bio_list, and
> return.Then __submit_bio_noacct() will submit the new bio in bio_list
> into /dev/nvme0n1p1. This operation would be slow in
> blk_mq_submit_bio() -> rq_qos_throttle(q, bio);
> 
> The rq_qos_throttle() will call wbt_should_throttle(),
> static inline bool wbt_should_throttle(struct rq_wb *rwb, struct bio *bio)
> {
>         switch (bio_op(bio)) {
>         case REQ_OP_WRITE:
>                 /*
>                  * Don't throttle WRITE_ODIRECT
>                  */
>                 if ((bio->bi_opf & (REQ_SYNC | REQ_IDLE)) ==
>                     (REQ_SYNC | REQ_IDLE))
>                         return false;
> ... ...
> }
> 
> As the bio_set_op_attrs() reset the (REQ_SYNC | REQ_IDLE), so this write
> bio will be considered as non-direct write.
> 
> After this fix, bio to nvme will flaged as (REQ_SYNC | REQ_IDLE),
> then fio for writing will get about 1000M/s bandwidth.
> 
> Fixes: ad0d9e76a4124708dddd00c04fc4b56fc86c02d6

It should be,
Fixes: ad0d9e76a412 ("bcache: use bio op accessors")

> Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <dongsheng.yang@...ystack.cn>

Please CC the fixed patch author  Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>.

> ---
>  drivers/md/bcache/request.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
> index c7cadaafa947..eb734f7ddaac 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
> @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static void bch_data_insert_start(struct closure *cl)
>  		trace_bcache_cache_insert(k);
>  		bch_keylist_push(&op->insert_keys);
>  
> -		bio_set_op_attrs(n, REQ_OP_WRITE, 0);
> +		n->bi_opf |= REQ_OP_WRITE;
>  		bch_submit_bbio(n, op->c, k, 0);
>  	} while (n != bio);

The fix is OK to me, I'd like to see opinion from Mike Christie too.

Thanks for the catch.

Coly Li