bfq: Avoid false bfq queue merging

bfq_setup_cooperator() uses bfqd->in_serv_last_pos so detect whether it
makes sense to merge current bfq queue with the in-service queue.
However if the in-service queue is freshly scheduled and didn't dispatch
any requests yet, bfqd->in_serv_last_pos is stale and contains value
from the previously scheduled bfq queue which can thus result in a bogus
decision that the two queues should be merged. This bug can be observed
for example with the following fio jobfile:

[global]
direct=0
ioengine=sync
invalidate=1
size=1g
rw=read

[reader]
numjobs=4
directory=/mnt

where the 4 processes will end up in the one shared bfq queue although
they do IO to physically very distant files (for some reason I was able to
observe this only with slice_idle=1ms setting).

Fix the problem by invalidating bfqd->in_serv_last_pos when switching
in-service queue.

Fixes: 68db94066a5b ("block, bfq: fix in-service-queue check for queue merging")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
index 23e293d2943c5adb0581254a19ef4b99361f9390..4157cfe99ae23ff49ff51c523e2bfcb65949605d 100644 (file)
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -3007,6 +3007,7 @@ static void __bfq_set_in_service_queue(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
        }
 
        bfqd->in_service_queue = bfqq;
+       bfqd->in_serv_last_pos = 0;
 }
 
 /*