[PATCH v3 1/2] block: disable iopoll for split bio

[Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>]

iopoll is initially for small size, latency sensitive IO. It doesn't
work well for big IO, especially when it needs to be split to multiple
bios. In this case, the returned cookie of __submit_bio_noacct_mq() is
indeed the cookie of the last split bio. The completion of *this* last
split bio done by iopoll doesn't mean the whole original bio has
completed. Callers of iopoll still need to wait for completion of other
split bios.

Besides bio splitting may cause more trouble for iopoll which isn't
supposed to be used in case of big IO.

iopoll for split bio may cause potential race if CPU migration happens
during bio submission. Since the returned cookie is that of the last
split bio, polling on the corresponding hardware queue doesn't help
complete other split bios, if these split bios are enqueued into
different hardware queues. Since interrupts are disabled for polling
queues, the completion of these other split bios depends on timeout
mechanism, thus causing a potential hang.

iopoll for split bio may also cause hang for sync polling. Currently
both the blkdev and iomap-based fs (ext4/xfs, etc) support sync polling
in direct IO routine. These routines will submit bio without REQ_NOWAIT
flag set, and then start sync polling in current process context. The
process may hang in blk_mq_get_tag() if the submitted bio has to be
split into multiple bios and can rapidly exhaust the queue depth. The
process are waiting for the completion of the previously allocated
requests, which should be reaped by the following polling, and thus
causing a deadlock.

To avoid these subtle trouble described above, just disable iopoll for
split bio.

Suggested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 block/blk-merge.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
index bcf5e4580603..924db7c428b4 100644
--- a/block/blk-merge.c
+++ b/block/blk-merge.c
@@ -279,6 +279,20 @@ static struct bio *blk_bio_segment_split(struct request_queue *q,
 	return NULL;
 split:
 	*segs = nsegs;
+
+	/*
+	 * bio splitting may cause more trouble for iopoll which isn't supposed
+	 * to be used in case of big IO.
+	 * iopoll is initially for small size, latency sensitive IO. It doesn't
+	 * work well for big IO, especially when it needs to be split to multiple
+	 * bios. In this case, the returned cookie of __submit_bio_noacct_mq()
+	 * is indeed the cookie of the last split bio. The completion of *this*
+	 * last split bio done by iopoll doesn't mean the whole original bio has
+	 * completed. Callers of iopoll still need to wait for completion of
+	 * other split bios.
+	 */
+	bio->bi_opf &= ~REQ_HIPRI;
+
 	return bio_split(bio, sectors, GFP_NOIO, bs);
 }
 
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