89e3d1a85d
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@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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