0528a533f3
commit 5235553d821433e1f4fa720fd025d2c4b7ee9994 upstream. Mikulas reported a workload that saw bad performance, and figured out what it was due to various other types of requests being accounted as reads. Flush requests, for instance. Due to the high latency of those, we heavily throttle the writes to keep the latencies in balance. But they really should be accounted as writes. Fix this by checking the exact type of the request. If it's a read, account as a read, if it's a write or a flush, account as a write. Any other request we disregard. Previously everything would have been mistakenly accounted as reads. Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+ Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.