NeilBrown d1613e3496 md: only call set_in_sync() when it is expected to succeed.
commit 480523feae581ab714ba6610388a3b4619a2f695 upstream.

Since commit 4ad23a976413 ("MD: use per-cpu counter for
writes_pending"), set_in_sync() is substantially more expensive: it
can wait for a full RCU grace period which can be 10s of milliseconds.

So we should only call it when the cost is justified.

md_check_recovery() currently calls set_in_sync() every time it finds
anything to do (on non-external active arrays).  For an array
performing resync or recovery, this will be quite often.
Each call will introduce a delay to the md thread, which can noticeable
affect IO submission latency.

In md_check_recovery() we only need to call set_in_sync() if
'safemode' was non-zero at entry, meaning that there has been not
recent IO.  So we save this "safemode was nonzero" state, and only
call set_in_sync() if it was non-zero.

This measurably reduces mean and maximum IO submission latency during
resync/recovery.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com>
Fixes: 4ad23a976413 ("MD: use per-cpu counter for writes_pending")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.12+)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-10-05 12:48:10 +02:00
2019-08-16 10:13:55 +02:00

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