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Commit 9a42891c authored by Yu Kuai's avatar Yu Kuai Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: fix lost bio for plug enabled bio based device

With the following two conditions, bio will be lost:

1) blk plug is not enabled, for example, __blkdev_direct_IO_simple() and
__blkdev_direct_IO_async();
2) bio plug is enabled, for example write IO for raid1/raid10 while
bitmap is enabled;

Root cause is that blk_finish_plug() will add the bio to
curent->bio_list, while such bio will not be handled:

__submit_bio_noacct
 current->bio_list = bio_list_on_stack;
 blk_start_plug

 do {
  dm_submit_bio
   md_handle_request
    raid10_write_request
     -> generate new bio for underlying disks
     raid1_add_bio_to_plug -> bio is added to plug
 } while ((bio = bio_list_pop(&bio_list_on_stack[0])))
 -> previous bio are all handled

 blk_finish_plug
  raid10_unplug
   raid1_submit_write
    submit_bio_noacct
     if (current->bio_list)
      bio_list_add(&current->bio_list[0], bio)
      -> add new bio

 current->bio_list = NULL
 -> new bio is lost

Fix the problem by moving the plug into the while loop, so that
current->bio_list will still be handled after blk_finish_plug().

By the way, enable plug for raid1/raid10 in this case will also prevent
delay IO handling into daemon thread, which should also improve IO
performance.

Fixes: 060406c6

 ("block: add plug while submitting IO")
Reported-by: default avatarChanghui Zhong <czhong@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAGVVp+Xsmzy2G9YuEatfMT6qv1M--YdOCQ0g7z7OVmcTbBxQAg@mail.gmail.com/


Signed-off-by: default avatarYu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Tested-by: default avatarChanghui Zhong <czhong@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240521200308.983986-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent f0eab3e8
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