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block, bfq: reset waker pointer with shared queues
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Commit 85686d0 ("block, bfq: keep shared queues out of the waker
mechanism") leaves shared bfq_queues out of the waker-detection
mechanism. It attains this goal by not updating the pointer
last_completed_rq_bfqq, if the last request completed belongs to a
shared bfq_queue (so that the pointer will not point to the shared
bfq_queue).

Yet this has a side effect: the pointer last_completed_rq_bfqq keeps
pointing, deceptively, to a bfq_queue that actually is not the last
one to have had a request completed. As a consequence, such a
bfq_queue may deceptively be considered as a waker of some bfq_queue,
even of some shared bfq_queue.

To address this issue, reset last_completed_rq_bfqq if the last
request completed belongs to a shared queue.

Fixes: 85686d0 ("block, bfq: keep shared queues out of the waker mechanism")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
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Algodev-github authored and axboe committed Jun 21, 2021
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions block/bfq-iosched.c
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Expand Up @@ -6165,11 +6165,13 @@ static void bfq_completed_request(struct bfq_queue *bfqq, struct bfq_data *bfqd)
* of other queues. But a false waker will unjustly steal
* bandwidth to its supposedly woken queue. So considering
* also shared queues in the waking mechanism may cause more
* control troubles than throughput benefits. Then do not set
* last_completed_rq_bfqq to bfqq if bfqq is a shared queue.
* control troubles than throughput benefits. Then reset
* last_completed_rq_bfqq if bfqq is a shared queue.
*/
if (!bfq_bfqq_coop(bfqq))
bfqd->last_completed_rq_bfqq = bfqq;
else
bfqd->last_completed_rq_bfqq = NULL;

/*
* If we are waiting to discover whether the request pattern
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