Btrfs: keep processing bios for a given bdev if our proc is batching

Btrfs uses async helper threads to submit write bios so the checksumming
helper threads don't block on the disk.

The submit bio threads may process bios for more than one block device,
so when they find one device congested they try to move on to other
devices instead of blocking in get_request_wait for one device.

This does a pretty good job of keeping multiple devices busy, but the
congested flag has a number of problems.  A congested device may still
give you a request, and other procs that aren't backing off the congested
device may starve you out.

This commit uses the io_context stored in current to decide if our process
has been made a batching process by the block layer.  If so, it keeps
sending IO down for at least one batch.  This helps make sure we do
a good amount of work each time we visit a bdev, and avoids large IO
stalls in multi-device workloads.

It's also very ugly.  A better solution is in the works with Jens Axboe.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index dd06e18e5aa..cc01abff03d 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/iocontext.h>
 #include <asm/div64.h>
 #include "compat.h"
 #include "ctree.h"
@@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ static noinline int run_scheduled_bios(struct btrfs_device *device)
 	int again = 0;
 	unsigned long num_run = 0;
 	unsigned long limit;
+	unsigned long last_waited = 0;
 
 	bdi = device->bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info;
 	fs_info = device->dev_root->fs_info;
@@ -207,7 +209,32 @@ loop_lock:
 		if (pending && bdi_write_congested(bdi) && num_run > 16 &&
 		    fs_info->fs_devices->open_devices > 1) {
 			struct bio *old_head;
+			struct io_context *ioc;
 
+			ioc = current->io_context;
+
+			/*
+			 * the main goal here is that we don't want to
+			 * block if we're going to be able to submit
+			 * more requests without blocking.
+			 *
+			 * This code does two great things, it pokes into
+			 * the elevator code from a filesystem _and_
+			 * it makes assumptions about how batching works.
+			 */
+			if (ioc && ioc->nr_batch_requests > 0 &&
+			    time_before(jiffies, ioc->last_waited + HZ/50UL) &&
+			    (last_waited == 0 ||
+			     ioc->last_waited == last_waited)) {
+				/*
+				 * we want to go through our batch of
+				 * requests and stop.  So, we copy out
+				 * the ioc->last_waited time and test
+				 * against it before looping
+				 */
+				last_waited = ioc->last_waited;
+				continue;
+			}
 			spin_lock(&device->io_lock);
 
 			old_head = device->pending_bios;