On 1/27/21 11:15 AM, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> 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>
The V3 patch is added to my for-next queue. Thanks for the fix up.
Coly Li
> ---
> 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);
>
>
