md: add support for REQ_NOWAIT
commit 021a2446 ("block: add QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT") added support for checking whether a given bdev supports handling of REQ_NOWAIT or not. Since then commit 6abc4946 ("dm: add support for REQ_NOWAIT and enable it for linear target") added support for REQ_NOWAIT for dm. This uses a similar approach to incorporate REQ_NOWAIT for md based bios. This patch was tested using t/io_uring tool within FIO. A nvme drive was partitioned into 2 partitions and a simple raid 0 configuration /dev/md0 was created. md0 : active raid0 nvme4n1p1[1] nvme4n1p2[0] 937423872 blocks super 1.2 512k chunks Before patch: $ ./t/io_uring /dev/md0 -p 0 -a 0 -d 1 -r 100 Running top while the above runs: $ ps -eL | grep $(pidof io_uring) 38396 38396 pts/2 00:00:00 io_uring 38396 38397 pts/2 00:00:15 io_uring 38396 38398 pts/2 00:00:13 iou-wrk-38397 We can see iou-wrk-38397 io worker thread created which gets created when io_uring sees that the underlying device (/dev/md0 in this case) doesn't support nowait. After patch: $ ./t/io_uring /dev/md0 -p 0 -a 0 -d 1 -r 100 Running top while the above runs: $ ps -eL | grep $(pidof io_uring) 38341 38341 pts/2 00:10:22 io_uring 38341 38342 pts/2 00:10:37 io_uring After running this patch, we don't see any io worker thread being created which indicated that io_uring saw that the underlying device does support nowait. This is the exact behaviour noticed on a dm device which also supports nowait. For all the other raid personalities except raid0, we would need to train pieces which involves make_request fn in order for them to correctly handle REQ_NOWAIT. Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vverma@digitalocean.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
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