@@ -1087,12 +1087,20 @@ bool blk_attempt_plug_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio,
if (!plug || rq_list_empty(plug->mq_list))
return false;
- /* check the previously added entry for a quick merge attempt */
- rq = rq_list_peek(&plug->mq_list);
- if (rq->q == q) {
- if (blk_attempt_bio_merge(q, rq, bio, nr_segs, false) ==
- BIO_MERGE_OK)
- return true;
+ rq_list_for_each(&plug->mq_list, rq) {
+ if (rq->q == q) {
+ if (blk_attempt_bio_merge(q, rq, bio, nr_segs, false) ==
+ BIO_MERGE_OK)
+ return true;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Only keep iterating plug list for merges if we have multiple
+ * queues
+ */
+ if (!plug->multiple_queues)
+ break;
}
return false;
}
Song reports that a RAID rebuild workload runs much slower recently, and it is seeing a lot less merging than it did previously. The reason is that a previous commit reduced the amount of work we do for plug merging. RAID rebuild interleaves requests between disks, so a last-entry check in plug merging always misses a merge opportunity since we always find a different disk than what we are looking for. Modify the logic such that it's still a one-hit cache, but ensure that we check enough to find the right target before giving up. Fixes: d38a9c04c0d5 ("block: only check previous entry for plug merge attempt") Reported-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Tested-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> --- block/blk-merge.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)