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Message-ID: <v7r19baz.fsf@damenly.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:42:28 +0800
From: Su Yue <l@...enly.org>
To: Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
Cc: axboe@...nel.dk,  xni@...hat.com,  agk@...hat.com,  snitzer@...nel.org,
  mpatocka@...hat.com,  song@...nel.org,  yukuai3@...wei.com,
  viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,  akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
  nadav.amit@...il.com,  ubizjak@...il.com,  cl@...ux.com,
  linux-block@...r.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
  dm-devel@...ts.linux.dev,  linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
  yi.zhang@...wei.com,  yangerkun@...wei.com,  johnny.chenyi@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] md: fix is_mddev_idle()

On Fri 18 Apr 2025 at 09:09, Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com> 
wrote:

> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
>
> If sync_speed is above speed_min, then is_mddev_idle() will be 
> called
> for each sync IO to check if the array is idle, and inflihgt 
> sync_io
> will be limited if the array is not idle.
>
> However, while mkfs.ext4 for a large raid5 array while recovery 
> is in
> progress, it's found that sync_speed is already above speed_min 
> while
> lots of stripes are used for sync IO, causing long delay for 
> mkfs.ext4.
>
> Root cause is the following checking from is_mddev_idle():
>
> t1: submit sync IO: events1 = completed IO - issued sync IO
> t2: submit next sync IO: events2  = completed IO - issued sync 
> IO
> if (events2 - events1 > 64)
>
> For consequence, the more sync IO issued, the less likely 
> checking will
> pass. And when completed normal IO is more than issued sync IO, 
> the
> condition will finally pass and is_mddev_idle() will return 
> false,
> however, last_events will be updated hence is_mddev_idle() can 
> only
> return false once in a while.
>
> Fix this problem by changing the checking as following:
>
> 1) mddev doesn't have normal IO completed;
> 2) mddev doesn't have normal IO inflight;
> 3) if any member disks is partition, and all other partitions 
> doesn't
>    have IO completed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/md/md.c | 84 
>  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  drivers/md/md.h |  3 +-
>  2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
> index 52cadfce7e8d..dfd85a5d6112 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/md.c
> @@ -8625,50 +8625,58 @@ void md_cluster_stop(struct mddev 
> *mddev)
>  	put_cluster_ops(mddev);
>  }
>
> -static int is_mddev_idle(struct mddev *mddev, int init)
> +static bool is_rdev_holder_idle(struct md_rdev *rdev, bool 
> init)
>  {
> +	unsigned long last_events = rdev->last_events;
> +
> +	if (!bdev_is_partition(rdev->bdev))
> +		return true;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If rdev is partition, and user doesn't issue IO to the 
> array, the
> +	 * array is still not idle if user issues IO to other 
> partitions.
> +	 */
> +	rdev->last_events = 
> part_stat_read_accum(rdev->bdev->bd_disk->part0,
> +						 sectors) -
> +			    part_stat_read_accum(rdev->bdev, sectors);
> +
> +	if (!init && rdev->last_events > last_events)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	return true;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * mddev is idle if following conditions are match since last 
> check:
> + * 1) mddev doesn't have normal IO completed;
> + * 2) mddev doesn't have inflight normal IO;
> + * 3) if any member disk is partition, and other partitions 
> doesn't have IO
> + *    completed;
> + *
> + * Noted this checking rely on IO accounting is enabled.
> + */
> +static bool is_mddev_idle(struct mddev *mddev, int init)
> +{
> +	unsigned long last_events = mddev->last_events;
> +	struct gendisk *disk;
>  	struct md_rdev *rdev;
> -	int idle;
> -	int curr_events;
> +	bool idle = true;
>
> -	idle = 1;
> -	rcu_read_lock();
> -	rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev, mddev) {
> -		struct gendisk *disk = rdev->bdev->bd_disk;
> +	disk = mddev_is_dm(mddev) ? mddev->dm_gendisk : 
> mddev->gendisk;
> +	if (!disk)
> +		return true;
>
> -		if (!init && !blk_queue_io_stat(disk->queue))
> -			continue;
> +	mddev->last_events = part_stat_read_accum(disk->part0, 
> sectors);
> +	if (!init && (mddev->last_events > last_events ||
> +		      bdev_count_inflight(disk->part0)))
> +		idle = false;
>

Forgot return or goto here?

--
Su

> -		curr_events = (int)part_stat_read_accum(disk->part0, 
> sectors) -
> -			      atomic_read(&disk->sync_io);
> -		/* sync IO will cause sync_io to increase before the 
> disk_stats
> -		 * as sync_io is counted when a request starts, and
> -		 * disk_stats is counted when it completes.
> -		 * So resync activity will cause curr_events to be smaller 
> than
> -		 * when there was no such activity.
> -		 * non-sync IO will cause disk_stat to increase without
> -		 * increasing sync_io so curr_events will (eventually)
> -		 * be larger than it was before.  Once it becomes
> -		 * substantially larger, the test below will cause
> -		 * the array to appear non-idle, and resync will slow
> -		 * down.
> -		 * If there is a lot of outstanding resync activity when
> -		 * we set last_event to curr_events, then all that 
> activity
> -		 * completing might cause the array to appear non-idle
> -		 * and resync will be slowed down even though there might
> -		 * not have been non-resync activity.  This will only
> -		 * happen once though.  'last_events' will soon reflect
> -		 * the state where there is little or no outstanding
> -		 * resync requests, and further resync activity will
> -		 * always make curr_events less than last_events.
> -		 *
> -		 */
> -		if (init || curr_events - rdev->last_events > 64) {
> -			rdev->last_events = curr_events;
> -			idle = 0;
> -		}
> -	}
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev, mddev)
> +		if (!is_rdev_holder_idle(rdev, init))
> +			idle = false;
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
> +
>  	return idle;
>  }
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
> index b57842188f18..1d51c2405d3d 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md.h
> +++ b/drivers/md/md.h
> @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ struct md_rdev {
>
>  	sector_t sectors;		/* Device size (in 512bytes sectors) 
>  */
>  	struct mddev *mddev;		/* RAID array if running */
> -	int last_events;		/* IO event timestamp */
> +	unsigned long last_events;	/* IO event timestamp */
>
>  	/*
>  	 * If meta_bdev is non-NULL, it means that a separate device 
>  is
> @@ -520,6 +520,7 @@ struct mddev {
>  							 * adding a spare
>  							 */
>
> +	unsigned long			last_events;	/* IO event timestamp 
> */
>  	atomic_t			recovery_active; /* blocks scheduled, but 
>  not written */
>  	wait_queue_head_t		recovery_wait;
>  	sector_t			recovery_cp;

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