[PATCH 1/2] md/bitmap: Move unplug to daemon thread

From: Jonathan Derrick
Date: Thu Oct 06 2022 - 18:09:18 EST


It's been observed in raid1/raid10 configurations that synchronous I/O
can cause workloads resulting in greater than 40% bitmap updates. This
appears to be due to the synchronous workload requiring a bitmap flush
with every flush of the I/O list. Instead prefer to flush this
configuration in the daemon sleeper thread.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Derrick <jonathan.derrick@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md-bitmap.c | 1 +
drivers/md/raid1.c | 2 --
drivers/md/raid10.c | 4 ----
3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/md-bitmap.c b/drivers/md/md-bitmap.c
index bf6dffadbe6f..451259b38d25 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md-bitmap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md-bitmap.c
@@ -1244,6 +1244,7 @@ void md_bitmap_daemon_work(struct mddev *mddev)
+ mddev->bitmap_info.daemon_sleep))
goto done;

+ md_bitmap_unplug(bitmap);
bitmap->daemon_lastrun = jiffies;
if (bitmap->allclean) {
mddev->thread->timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index 05d8438cfec8..42ba2d884773 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -793,8 +793,6 @@ static int read_balance(struct r1conf *conf, struct r1bio *r1_bio, int *max_sect

static void flush_bio_list(struct r1conf *conf, struct bio *bio)
{
- /* flush any pending bitmap writes to disk before proceeding w/ I/O */
- md_bitmap_unplug(conf->mddev->bitmap);
wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier);

while (bio) { /* submit pending writes */
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index 9117fcdee1be..e43352aae3c4 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -881,9 +881,6 @@ static void flush_pending_writes(struct r10conf *conf)
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);

blk_start_plug(&plug);
- /* flush any pending bitmap writes to disk
- * before proceeding w/ I/O */
- md_bitmap_unplug(conf->mddev->bitmap);
wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier);

while (bio) { /* submit pending writes */
@@ -1078,7 +1075,6 @@ static void raid10_unplug(struct blk_plug_cb *cb, bool from_schedule)

/* we aren't scheduling, so we can do the write-out directly. */
bio = bio_list_get(&plug->pending);
- md_bitmap_unplug(mddev->bitmap);
wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier);

while (bio) { /* submit pending writes */
--
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