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    block: disable iopoll for split bio · cc29e1bf
    Jeffle Xu 提交于
    iopoll is initially for small size, latency sensitive IO. It doesn't
    work well for big IO, especially when it needs to be split to multiple
    bios. In this case, the returned cookie of __submit_bio_noacct_mq() is
    indeed the cookie of the last split bio. The completion of *this* last
    split bio done by iopoll doesn't mean the whole original bio has
    completed. Callers of iopoll still need to wait for completion of other
    split bios.
    
    Besides bio splitting may cause more trouble for iopoll which isn't
    supposed to be used in case of big IO.
    
    iopoll for split bio may cause potential race if CPU migration happens
    during bio submission. Since the returned cookie is that of the last
    split bio, polling on the corresponding hardware queue doesn't help
    complete other split bios, if these split bios are enqueued into
    different hardware queues. Since interrupts are disabled for polling
    queues, the completion of these other split bios depends on timeout
    mechanism, thus causing a potential hang.
    
    iopoll for split bio may also cause hang for sync polling. Currently
    both the blkdev and iomap-based fs (ext4/xfs, etc) support sync polling
    in direct IO routine. These routines will submit bio without REQ_NOWAIT
    flag set, and then start sync polling in current process context. The
    process may hang in blk_mq_get_tag() if the submitted bio has to be
    split into multiple bios and can rapidly exhaust the queue depth. The
    process are waiting for the completion of the previously allocated
    requests, which should be reaped by the following polling, and thus
    causing a deadlock.
    
    To avoid these subtle trouble described above, just disable iopoll for
    split bio and return BLK_QC_T_NONE in this case. The side effect is that
    non-HIPRI IO also returns BLK_QC_T_NONE now. It should be acceptable
    since the returned cookie is never used for non-HIPRI IO.
    Suggested-by: NMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: NJeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
    Reviewed-by: NMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    cc29e1bf
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