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: ad0d9e76a412 ("bcache: use bio op accessors") CC: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <dongsheng.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- V3-V2: remove an unused close-line in commit message. 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); -- 2.25.1