[Drbd-dev] [PATCH v2] drbd: fix throttling on newly created DM backing devices

[Imre Palik]

From: "Palik, Imre" <imrep at amazon.de>

If the drbd backing device is a new device mapper device (e.g., a
dm-linear mapping of an existing block device that contains data), the
counters are initially 0 even though the device contains useful
data. This causes throttling until something accesses the drbd device
or the backing device.

The patch disables throttling, as long as only resync is responsible
for disk activity on a freshly created device.

Reported-by: Mikhail Sugakov <msugakov at amazon.de>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw at amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Imre Palik <imrep at amazon.de>
---
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c     |    3 ++-
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c |    3 ++-
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.c    |    2 +-
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c   |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
index 9b465bb..f4e3944 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
@@ -1966,6 +1966,7 @@ void drbd_init_set_defaults(struct drbd_device *device)
 	device->resync_wenr = LC_FREE;
 	device->peer_max_bio_size = DRBD_MAX_BIO_SIZE_SAFE;
 	device->local_max_bio_size = DRBD_MAX_BIO_SIZE_SAFE;
+	device->rs_last_events = -1;
 }
 
 void drbd_device_cleanup(struct drbd_device *device)
@@ -1985,7 +1986,7 @@ void drbd_device_cleanup(struct drbd_device *device)
 	device->rs_start     =
 	device->rs_total     =
 	device->rs_failed    = 0;
-	device->rs_last_events = 0;
+	device->rs_last_events = -1;
 	device->rs_last_sect_ev = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < DRBD_SYNC_MARKS; i++) {
 		device->rs_mark_left[i] = 0;
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
index 9342b8d..d33355c 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
@@ -2482,7 +2482,8 @@ bool drbd_rs_c_min_rate_throttle(struct drbd_device *device)
 			atomic_read(&device->rs_sect_ev);
 
 	if (atomic_read(&device->ap_actlog_cnt)
-	    || !device->rs_last_events || curr_events - device->rs_last_events > 64) {
+		|| device->rs_last_events < 0
+		|| curr_events - device->rs_last_events > 64) {
 		unsigned long rs_left;
 		int i;
 
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.c
index c35c0f0..8789f8a 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.c
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ __drbd_set_state(struct drbd_device *device, union drbd_state ns,
 
 		set_ov_position(device, ns.conn);
 		device->rs_start = now;
-		device->rs_last_events = 0;
+		device->rs_last_events = -1;
 		device->rs_last_sect_ev = 0;
 		device->ov_last_oos_size = 0;
 		device->ov_last_oos_start = 0;
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
index 50776b3..e2db4e4 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
@@ -1743,7 +1743,7 @@ void drbd_start_resync(struct drbd_device *device, enum drbd_conns side)
 		device->rs_failed    = 0;
 		device->rs_paused    = 0;
 		device->rs_same_csum = 0;
-		device->rs_last_events = 0;
+		device->rs_last_events = -1;
 		device->rs_last_sect_ev = 0;
 		device->rs_total     = tw;
 		device->rs_start     = now;
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