[dm-devel] [PATCH RESEND] md: Make flush bios explicitely sync

[Jan Kara]

Commit b685d3d65ac7 "block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as
synchronous" removed REQ_SYNC flag from WRITE_{FUA|PREFLUSH|...}
definitions.  generic_make_request_checks() however strips REQ_FUA and
REQ_PREFLUSH flags from a bio when the storage doesn't report volatile
write cache and thus write effectively becomes asynchronous which can
lead to performance regressions

Fix the problem by making sure all bios which are synchronous are
properly marked with REQ_SYNC.

CC: linux-raid at vger.kernel.org
CC: Shaohua Li <shli at kernel.org>
CC: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
CC: dm-devel at redhat.com
Fixes: b685d3d65ac791406e0dfd8779cc9b3707fea5a3
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
---
 drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c | 3 ++-
 drivers/md/md.c                 | 2 +-
 drivers/md/raid5-cache.c        | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Guys, I don't know enough about DM/MD to judge whether I've identified all the
places that want REQ_SYNC right. Can you please have a look?

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c b/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c
index b93476c3ba3f..b92ab4cb0710 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c
@@ -741,7 +741,8 @@ static void persistent_commit_exception(struct dm_exception_store *store,
 	/*
 	 * Commit exceptions to disk.
 	 */
-	if (ps->valid && area_io(ps, REQ_OP_WRITE, REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA))
+	if (ps->valid && area_io(ps, REQ_OP_WRITE,
+				 REQ_SYNC | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA))
 		ps->valid = 0;
 
 	/*
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 10367ffe92e3..212a6777ff31 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ void md_super_write(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev,
 	    test_bit(FailFast, &rdev->flags) &&
 	    !test_bit(LastDev, &rdev->flags))
 		ff = MD_FAILFAST;
-	bio->bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA | ff;
+	bio->bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA | ff;
 
 	atomic_inc(&mddev->pending_writes);
 	submit_bio(bio);
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
index 4c00bc248287..0a7af8b0a80a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
@@ -1782,7 +1782,7 @@ static int r5l_log_write_empty_meta_block(struct r5l_log *log, sector_t pos,
 	mb->checksum = cpu_to_le32(crc32c_le(log->uuid_checksum,
 					     mb, PAGE_SIZE));
 	if (!sync_page_io(log->rdev, pos, PAGE_SIZE, page, REQ_OP_WRITE,
-			  REQ_FUA, false)) {
+			  REQ_SYNC | REQ_FUA, false)) {
 		__free_page(page);
 		return -EIO;
 	}
@@ -2388,7 +2388,7 @@ r5c_recovery_rewrite_data_only_stripes(struct r5l_log *log,
 		mb->checksum = cpu_to_le32(crc32c_le(log->uuid_checksum,
 						     mb, PAGE_SIZE));
 		sync_page_io(log->rdev, ctx->pos, PAGE_SIZE, page,
-			     REQ_OP_WRITE, REQ_FUA, false);
+			     REQ_OP_WRITE, REQ_SYNC | REQ_FUA, false);
 		sh->log_start = ctx->pos;
 		list_add_tail(&sh->r5c, &log->stripe_in_journal_list);
 		atomic_inc(&log->stripe_in_journal_count);
-- 
2.12.0