From 5235553d821433e1f4fa720fd025d2c4b7ee9994 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:16:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] blk-wbt: account flush requests correctly 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 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+ Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/blk-wbt.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/blk-wbt.c b/block/blk-wbt.c index ae8de9780085..f92fc84b5e2c 100644 --- a/block/blk-wbt.c +++ b/block/blk-wbt.c @@ -697,7 +697,15 @@ u64 wbt_default_latency_nsec(struct request_queue *q) static int wbt_data_dir(const struct request *rq) { - return rq_data_dir(rq); + const int op = req_op(rq); + + if (op == REQ_OP_READ) + return READ; + else if (op == REQ_OP_WRITE || op == REQ_OP_FLUSH) + return WRITE; + + /* don't account */ + return -1; } int wbt_init(struct request_queue *q)