There is a lock contention when there are many processes which send flush bios
to md device. eg. Create many lvs on one raid device and mkfs.xfs on each lv.
Now it just can handle flush request sequentially. It needs to wait mddev->flush_bio
to be NULL, otherwise get mddev->lock.
This patch remove mddev->flush_bio and handle flush bio asynchronously.
I did a test with command dbench -s 128 -t 300. This is the test result:
The test is done on raid1 disk with two rotational disks
V5: V4 is more complicated than the version with memory pool. So revert to the memory pool
version
V4: use address of fbio to do hash to choose free flush info.
V3:
Shaohua suggests mempool is overkill. In v3 it allocs memory during creating raid device
and uses a simple bitmap to record which resource is free.
Fix a bug from v2. It should set flush_pending to 1 at first.
V2:
Neil pointed out two problems. One is counting error problem and another is return value
when allocat memory fails.
1. counting error problem
This isn't safe. It is only safe to call rdev_dec_pending() on rdevs
that you previously called
atomic_inc(&rdev->nr_pending);
If an rdev was added to the list between the start and end of the flush,
this will do something bad.
Now it doesn't use bio_chain. It uses specified call back function for each
flush bio.
2. Returned on IO error when kmalloc fails is wrong.
I use mempool suggested by Neil in V2
3. Fixed some places pointed by Guoqing
Suggested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>