Hi Jens,
Just over 3 years ago, with commit a1e1cb72d9649 ("dm: fix redundant
IO accounting for bios that need splitting") I focused too narrowly on
fixing the reported potential for redundant accounting for IO totals.
Which, at least mentally for me, papered over how inaccurate all other
bio-based DM's IO accounting is for bios that get split.
This set fixes things up properly by allowing DM to start IO
accounting _after_ IO is submitted and a split is occurred. The
proper start_time is still established (prior to submission), it is
passed in to a new bio_start_io_acct_time(). This eliminates the need
for any DM hack to rewind block core's excessive accounting in the
face of a split bio recursing back to block core.
All said: If you'd provide your Acked-by(s) I'm happy to send this set
to Linus for v5.17-rc (and shepherd the changes into stable@ kernels).
Or you're welcome to pickup this set to send along (I'd obviously
still do any stable@ backports). NOTE: the 3rd patch references the
linux-dm.git commit id for the 1st patch.. so that'll require tweaking
no matter who sends the changes to Linus.
Please advise, thanks.
Mike
v1 -> v2: made block changes suggested by Christoph
Mike Snitzer (3):
block: add bio_start_io_acct_time() to control start_time
dm: revert partial fix for redundant bio-based IO accounting
dm: properly fix redundant bio-based IO accounting
block/blk-core.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
drivers/md/dm.c | 20 +++-----------------
include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
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