There is a case which will lead to io stall. The case is described as
follows.
/test1
|-subtest1
/test2
|-subtest2
And subtest1 and subtest2 each has 32 queued bios already.
Now upgrade to max. In throtl_upgrade_state, it will try to dispatch
bios as follows:
1) tg=subtest1, do nothing;
2) tg=test1, transfer 32 queued bios from subtest1 to test1; no pending
left, no need to schedule next dispatch;
3) tg=subtest2, do nothing;
4) tg=test2, transfer 32 queued bios from subtest2 to test2; no pending
left, no need to schedule next dispatch;
5) tg=/, transfer 8 queued bios from test1 to /, 8 queued bios from
test2 to /, 8 queued bios from test1 to /, and 8 queued bios from test2
to /; note that test1 and test2 each still has 16 queued bios left;
6) tg=/, try to schedule next dispatch, but since disptime is now
(update in tg_update_disptime, wait=0), pending timer is not scheduled
in fact;
7) In throtl_upgrade_state it totally dispatches 32 queued bios and with
32 left. test1 and test2 each has 16 queued bios;
8) throtl_pending_timer_fn sees the left over bios, but could do
nothing, because throtl_select_dispatch returns 0, and test1/test2 has
no pending tg.
The blktrace shows the following:
8,32 0 0 2.539007641 0 m N throtl upgrade to max
8,32 0 0 2.539072267 0 m N throtl /test2 dispatch nr_queued=16 read=0 write=16
8,32 7 0 2.539077142 0 m N throtl /test1 dispatch nr_queued=16 read=0 write=16
So force schedule dispatch if there are pending children.
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <qijiang.qj@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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