On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 10:17 +0800, James Wang wrote:
> This condition check was exist at before commit b5dd2f6047ca ("block: loop:
> improve performance via blk-mq") When add MQ support to loop device, it be
> removed because the member of '->lo_thread' be removed. And then upstream
> add '->worker_task', I think they forget add it to here.
>
> When I install SLES-12 product is base on 4.4 kernel I found installer will
> hang +60 second at scan disks. and I found LVM tools would take this action.
> finally I found this problem is more obvious on AMD platform. This problem
> will impact all scenarios that scan loop devcie.
>
> When the loop device didn't configure backing file or Request Queue, we
> shouldn't to cost a lot of time to flush it.
The changelog sounds odd to me, perhaps reword/condense a bit?...
While installing SLES-12 (based on v4.4), I found that the installer
will stall for 60+ seconds during LVM disk scan. The root cause was
determined to be the removal of a bound device check in loop_flush()
by commit b5dd2f6047ca ("block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq").
Restoring this check, examining ->lo_state as set by loop_set_fd()
eliminates the bad behavior.
Test method:
modprobe loop max_loop=64
dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=512 count=200K
for((i=0;i<4;i++))do losetup -f disk; done
mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/loop0
for((i=0;i<4;i++))do mkdir t$i; mount /dev/loop$i t$i;done
for f in `ls /dev/loop[0-9]*|sort`; do \
echo $f; dd if=$f of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1; \
done
Test output: stock patched
/dev/loop0 18.1217e-05 8.3842e-05
/dev/loop1 6.1114e-05 0.000147979
/dev/loop10 0.414701 0.000116564
/dev/loop11 0.7474 6.7942e-05
/dev/loop12 0.747986 8.9082e-05
/dev/loop13 0.746532 7.4799e-05
/dev/loop14 0.480041 9.3926e-05
/dev/loop15 1.26453 7.2522e-05
Note that from loop10 onward, the device is not mounted, yet the
stock kernel consumes several orders of magnitude more wall time
than it does for a mounted device.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: James Wang <jnw...@suse.com>
Fixes: b5dd2f6047ca ("block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq")
---
> drivers/block/loop.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
> index 48f6fa6f810e..2e5b8538760c 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
> @@ -625,6 +625,9 @@ static int loop_switch(struct loop_device *lo, struct
> file *file)
> */
> static int loop_flush(struct loop_device *lo)
> {
> + /* loop not yet configured, no running thread, nothing to flush */
> + if (lo->lo_state != Lo_bound)
> + return 0;
> return loop_switch(lo, NULL);
> }
>
