On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 05:33:49PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> From: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
> 
> Async CRCs and compression submit IO through helper threads, which
> means they have IO priority inversions when cgroup IO controllers are
> in use.
> 
> This flags all of the writes submitted by btrfs helper threads as
> REQ_CGROUP_PUNT.  submit_bio() will punt these to dedicated per-blkcg
> work items to avoid the priority inversion.
> 
> For the compression code, we take a reference on the wbc's blkg css and
> pass it down to the async workers.
> 
> For the async crcs, the bio already has the correct css, we just need to
> tell the block layer to use REQ_CGROUP_PUNT.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
> Modified-and-reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>

Thanks,

Josef

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