On Fri, Nov 30 2018 at  4:52pm -0500,
Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/30/18 2:44 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27 2018 at  7:42pm -0500,
> > Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> Now when part_round_stats is gone, we can switch to per-cpu in-flight
> >> counters.
> >>
> >> We use the local-atomic type local_t, so that if part_inc_in_flight or
> >> part_dec_in_flight is reentrantly called from an interrupt, the value will
> >> be correct.
> >>
> >> The other counters could be corrupted due to reentrant interrupt, but the
> >> corruption only results in slight counter skew - the in_flight counter
> >> must be exact, so it needs local_t.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> ---
> >>  block/bio.c           |    4 ++--
> >>  block/blk-core.c      |    4 ++--
> >>  block/blk-merge.c     |    2 +-
> >>  block/genhd.c         |   47 
> >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> >>  drivers/md/dm.c       |    4 +---
> >>  include/linux/genhd.h |    7 ++++---
> >>  6 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> Index: linux-block/block/genhd.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- linux-block.orig/block/genhd.c 2018-11-28 00:09:59.000000000 +0100
> >> +++ linux-block/block/genhd.c      2018-11-28 00:09:59.000000000 +0100
> >> @@ -45,53 +45,76 @@ static void disk_add_events(struct gendi
> >>  static void disk_del_events(struct gendisk *disk);
> >>  static void disk_release_events(struct gendisk *disk);
> >>  
> >> -void part_inc_in_flight(struct request_queue *q, struct hd_struct *part, 
> >> int rw)
> >> +void part_inc_in_flight(struct request_queue *q, int cpu, struct 
> >> hd_struct *part, int rw)
> >>  {
> >>    if (queue_is_mq(q))
> >>            return;
> >>  
> >> -  atomic_inc(&part->in_flight[rw]);
> >> +  local_inc(per_cpu_ptr(part->dkstats, cpu)->in_flight);
> >>    if (part->partno)
> >> -          atomic_inc(&part_to_disk(part)->part0.in_flight[rw]);
> >> +          local_inc(per_cpu_ptr(part_to_disk(part)->part0.dkstats, 
> >> cpu)->in_flight);
> >>  }
> >>  
> >> -void part_dec_in_flight(struct request_queue *q, struct hd_struct *part, 
> >> int rw)
> >> +void part_dec_in_flight(struct request_queue *q, int cpu, struct 
> >> hd_struct *part, int rw)
> >>  {
> >>    if (queue_is_mq(q))
> >>            return;
> >>  
> >> -  atomic_dec(&part->in_flight[rw]);
> >> +  local_dec(per_cpu_ptr(part->dkstats, cpu)->in_flight);
> >>    if (part->partno)
> >> -          atomic_dec(&part_to_disk(part)->part0.in_flight[rw]);
> >> +          local_dec(per_cpu_ptr(part_to_disk(part)->part0.dkstats, 
> >> cpu)->in_flight);
> >>  }
> > 
> > 
> > The above is wrong, needs this incremental fix:
> 
> Should also be using this_cpu_inc/dec instead.

How so?  Mikulas is using local_t (original header speaks to why)

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