Mike Snitzer 37a098e9d1 dm round robin: revert "use percpu 'repeat_count' and 'current_path'" ...

The sloppy nature of lockless access to percpu pointers
(s->current_path) in rr_select_path(), from multiple threads, is
causing some paths to used more than others -- which results in less
IO performance being observed.

Revert these upstream commits to restore truly symmetric round-robin
IO submission in DM multipath:

b0b477c dm round robin: use percpu 'repeat_count' and 'current_path'
802934b dm round robin: do not use this_cpu_ptr() without having preemption disabled

There is no benefit to all this complexity if repeat_count = 1 (which is
the recommended default).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.6+
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

2017-02-17 00:54:09 -05:00

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