ACK: [SRU] [B/C] [PATCH 0/2] Fix for LP: #1815733
Kleber Souza
kleber.souza at canonical.com
Fri May 3 15:51:26 UTC 2019
On 4/24/19 12:23 PM, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1815733
>
> [Impact]
> Quote from the bug description:
> "
> This behavior affects production systems, because every change uevent
> triggers udev to change settings prior to udev rules. Some software, for
> example arcconf (tool for managing adaptec HBA adapters) triggers
> uevents for every block device. So, every call to arcconf utility
> results in latency spike.
> "
>
> [Fix]
> Avoid unnecessary queue freeze in either one of the case:
> - the queue depth is about to be set to the same value, or
> - scheduler is "none" and is about to be set to "none" again.
>
> [Test]
> The user confirm these two patches works.
>
> [Regression Potential]
> Low. The fix has been in Disco for a while, should be safe to backport
> to older releases.
>
> Aleksei Zakharov (2):
> block: avoid setting nr_requests to current value
> block: avoid setting none scheduler if it's already none
>
> block/blk-mq.c | 3 +++
> block/elevator.c | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
Relatively simple fixes, already applied on mainline and on Disco.
Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>
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