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Commit 4bc034d3 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Jens Axboe
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Revert "MD: fix lock contention for flush bios"

This reverts commit 5a409b4f.

This patch has two problems.

1/ it make multiple calls to submit_bio() from inside a make_request_fn.
 The bios thus submitted will be queued on current->bio_list and not
 submitted immediately.  As the bios are allocated from a mempool,
 this can theoretically result in a deadlock - all the pool of requests
 could be in various ->bio_list queues and a subsequent mempool_alloc
 could block waiting for one of them to be released.

2/ It aims to handle a case when there are many concurrent flush requests.
  It handles this by submitting many requests in parallel - all of which
  are identical and so most of which do nothing useful.
  It would be more efficient to just send one lower-level request, but
  allow that to satisfy multiple upper-level requests.

Fixes: 5a409b4f

 ("MD: fix lock contention for flush bios")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19+
Tested-by: default avatarXiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 4f4fd7c5
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