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From: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com>
To: axboe@kernel.dk, hch@lst.de
Cc: yukuai@fnnas.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com>,
	Leon Hwang <leon.huangfu@shopee.com>
Subject: [PATCH] block: propagate in_flight to whole disk on partition I/O
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 19:37:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260522113751.171630-1-yizhou.tang@shopee.com> (raw)

From: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com>

Now when I/O is submitted to a partition, the per-CPU in_flight[]
counter is incremented only on the partition's block_device, not on the
underlying whole disk. This leads to a problem which can be shown by a
fio test:

lsblk
  NAME     MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
  mydev    252:1    0   20G  0 disk
  └─mydev1 259:0    0   10G  0 part

iostat -xp 1
  Device       r/s        rkB/s      ... aqu-sz   %util
  mydev    128153.00  512612.00      ...  13.22   72.20
  mydev1   128154.00  512616.00      ...  13.22  100.00

%util is different between mydev and mydev1, which is unexpected.

This is the cumulative effect of a series of patches.  The key step is
commit 10ec5e86f9b8 ("block: merge part_{inc,dev}_in_flight into their
only callers"), which folded the whole-disk in_flight accounting into
generic_start_io_acct() and generic_end_io_acct().  Those two helpers
were then removed by commit e722fff238bb ("block: remove
generic_{start,end}_io_acct"), and from that point on the whole disk's
in_flight is no longer accounted at all.

Fix it by restoring the whole-disk in_flight accounting.

Fixes: e722fff238bb ("block: remove generic_{start,end}_io_acct")

Suggested-by: Leon Hwang <leon.huangfu@shopee.com>
Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com>
---
 block/blk-core.c | 4 ++++
 block/blk-mq.c   | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 17450058ea6d..03f4b7015e69 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -1043,6 +1043,8 @@ unsigned long bdev_start_io_acct(struct block_device *bdev, enum req_op op,
 	part_stat_lock();
 	update_io_ticks(bdev, start_time, false);
 	part_stat_local_inc(bdev, in_flight[op_is_write(op)]);
+	if (bdev_is_partition(bdev))
+		part_stat_local_inc(bdev_whole(bdev), in_flight[op_is_write(op)]);
 	part_stat_unlock();
 
 	return start_time;
@@ -1074,6 +1076,8 @@ void bdev_end_io_acct(struct block_device *bdev, enum req_op op,
 	part_stat_add(bdev, sectors[sgrp], sectors);
 	part_stat_add(bdev, nsecs[sgrp], jiffies_to_nsecs(duration));
 	part_stat_local_dec(bdev, in_flight[op_is_write(op)]);
+	if (bdev_is_partition(bdev))
+		part_stat_local_dec(bdev_whole(bdev), in_flight[op_is_write(op)]);
 	part_stat_unlock();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdev_end_io_acct);
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index d0c37daf568f..60ead16f1496 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -1084,6 +1084,9 @@ static inline void blk_account_io_done(struct request *req, u64 now)
 		part_stat_add(req->part, nsecs[sgrp], now - req->start_time_ns);
 		part_stat_local_dec(req->part,
 				    in_flight[op_is_write(req_op(req))]);
+		if (bdev_is_partition(req->part))
+			part_stat_local_dec(bdev_whole(req->part),
+					    in_flight[op_is_write(req_op(req))]);
 		part_stat_unlock();
 	}
 }
@@ -1144,6 +1147,9 @@ static inline void blk_account_io_start(struct request *req)
 	part_stat_lock();
 	update_io_ticks(req->part, jiffies, false);
 	part_stat_local_inc(req->part, in_flight[op_is_write(req_op(req))]);
+	if (bdev_is_partition(req->part))
+		part_stat_local_inc(bdev_whole(req->part),
+				    in_flight[op_is_write(req_op(req))]);
 	part_stat_unlock();
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-22 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-22 11:37 Tang Yizhou [this message]
2026-05-22 12:12 ` [PATCH] block: propagate in_flight to whole disk on partition I/O Christoph Hellwig
2026-05-22 12:36   ` Tang Yizhou

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