On 05/03/2017 04:36 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
On Tue 02-05-17 09:28:13, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
Commit b685d3d65ac7 "block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as
synchronous" removed REQ_SYNC flag from WRITE_FUA implementation.
Since REQ_FUA and REQ_FLUSH flags are stripped from submitted IO
when the disk doesn't have volatile write cache and thus effectively
make the write async. This was seen to cause performance hits up
to 90% regression in disk IO related benchmarks such as reaim and
dbench[1].
Fix the problem by making sure the first superblock write is also
treated as synchronous since they can block progress of the
journalling (commit, log syncs) machinery and thus the whole filesystem.
Fixes: b685d3d65ac (block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as synchronous)
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
I wasn't patient enough and already sent the fix as part of my series
fixing other filesystems [1]. It also fixes one more place in btrfs that
needs REQ_SYNC to return to the original behavior.
Thanks guys.
-chris