From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> commit 41e76c85660c022c6bf5713bfb6c21e64a487cec upstream. bfq_setup_cooperator() uses bfqd->in_serv_last_pos so detect whether it makes sense to merge current bfq queue with the in-service queue. However if the in-service queue is freshly scheduled and didn't dispatch any requests yet, bfqd->in_serv_last_pos is stale and contains value from the previously scheduled bfq queue which can thus result in a bogus decision that the two queues should be merged. This bug can be observed for example with the following fio jobfile: [global] direct=0 ioengine=sync invalidate=1 size=1g rw=read [reader] numjobs=4 directory=/mnt where the 4 processes will end up in the one shared bfq queue although they do IO to physically very distant files (for some reason I was able to observe this only with slice_idle=1ms setting). Fix the problem by invalidating bfqd->in_serv_last_pos when switching in-service queue. Fixes: 058fdecc6de7 ("block, bfq: fix in-service-queue check for queue merging") CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/bfq-iosched.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/block/bfq-iosched.c +++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c @@ -2937,6 +2937,7 @@ static void __bfq_set_in_service_queue(s } bfqd->in_service_queue = bfqq; + bfqd->in_serv_last_pos = 0; } /*