From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio pmem: fix async flush ordering
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 08:09:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4haUOM92uzCBfVyrANxnNHKucivq053MFBmGOL3vqMgwQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1617854972.35808055.1574323227395.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:00 AM Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > >
> > > > > Remove logic to create child bio in the async flush function which
> > > > > causes child bio to get executed after parent bio 'pmem_make_request'
> > > > > completes. This resulted in wrong ordering of REQ_PREFLUSH with the
> > > > > data write request.
> > > > >
> > > > > Instead we are performing flush from the parent bio to maintain the
> > > > > correct order. Also, returning from function 'pmem_make_request' if
> > > > > REQ_PREFLUSH returns an error.
> > > > >
> > > > > Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
> > > >
> > > > There's a slight change in behavior for the error path in the
> > > > virtio_pmem driver. Previously, all errors from virtio_pmem_flush were
> > > > converted to -EIO. Now, they are reported as-is. I think this is
> > > > actually an improvement.
> > > >
> > > > I'll also note that the current behavior can result in data corruption,
> > > > so this should be tagged for stable.
> > >
> > > I added that and was about to push this out, but what about the fact
> > > that now the guest will synchronously wait for flushing to occur. The
> > > goal of the child bio was to allow that to be an I/O wait with
> > > overlapping I/O, or at least not blocking the submission thread. Does
> > > the block layer synchronously wait for PREFLUSH requests? If not I
> > > think a synchronous wait is going to be a significant performance
> > > regression. Are there any numbers to accompany this change?
> >
> > Why not just swap the parent child relationship in the PREFLUSH case?
>
> I we are already inside parent bio "make_request" function and we create child
> bio. How we exactly will swap the parent/child relationship for PREFLUSH case?
>
> Child bio is queued after parent bio completes.
Sorry, I didn't quite mean with bio_split, but issuing another request
in front of the real bio. See md_flush_request() for inspiration.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-21 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-20 9:28 [PATCH] virtio pmem: fix async flush ordering Pankaj Gupta
2019-11-20 17:26 ` Jeff Moyer
2019-11-21 6:44 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-11-21 7:23 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-21 7:32 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-21 8:00 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-11-21 16:09 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2019-11-22 4:38 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-11-22 5:17 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-22 5:37 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-11-22 22:52 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-21 8:01 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-11-22 16:08 ` Jeff Moyer
2019-11-22 16:13 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-22 16:25 ` Jeff Moyer
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