Patch "blk-wbt: account flush requests correctly" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    blk-wbt: account flush requests correctly

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     blk-wbt-account-flush-requests-correctly.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 5235553d821433e1f4fa720fd025d2c4b7ee9994 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:16:56 -0700
Subject: blk-wbt: account flush requests correctly

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

commit 5235553d821433e1f4fa720fd025d2c4b7ee9994 upstream.

Mikulas reported a workload that saw bad performance, and figured
out what it was due to various other types of requests being
accounted as reads. Flush requests, for instance. Due to the
high latency of those, we heavily throttle the writes to keep
the latencies in balance. But they really should be accounted
as writes.

Fix this by checking the exact type of the request. If it's a
read, account as a read, if it's a write or a flush, account
as a write. Any other request we disregard. Previously everything
would have been mistakenly accounted as reads.

Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 block/blk-wbt.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/block/blk-wbt.c
+++ b/block/blk-wbt.c
@@ -697,7 +697,15 @@ u64 wbt_default_latency_nsec(struct requ
 
 static int wbt_data_dir(const struct request *rq)
 {
-	return rq_data_dir(rq);
+	const int op = req_op(rq);
+
+	if (op == REQ_OP_READ)
+		return READ;
+	else if (op == REQ_OP_WRITE || op == REQ_OP_FLUSH)
+		return WRITE;
+
+	/* don't account */
+	return -1;
 }
 
 int wbt_init(struct request_queue *q)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from axboe@kernel.dk are

queue-4.15/blk-wbt-account-flush-requests-correctly.patch