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Revision ab0fd1debe730ec9998678a0c53caefbd121ed10 authored by Tejun Heo on 03 July 2009, 10:56:18 UTC, committed by Jens Axboe on 03 July 2009, 19:06:45 UTC
Block layer used to merge requests and bios with different failfast
settings.  This caused regular IOs to fail prematurely when they were
merged into failfast requests for readahead.

Niel Lambrechts could trigger the problem semi-reliably on ext4 when
resuming from STR.  ext4 uses readahead when reading inodes and
combined with the deterministic extra SATA PHY exception cycle during
resume on the specific configuration, non-readahead inode read would
fail causing ext4 errors.  Please read the following thread for
details.

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/23/21

This patch makes block layer reject merging if the failfast settings
don't match.  This is correct but likely to lower IO performance by
preventing regular IOs from mingling into surrounding readahead
requests.  Changes to allow such mixed merges and handle errors
correctly will be added later.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>
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Tip revision: 644e9524388a5dbc6d4f58c492ee9ef7bd4ddf4d authored by Linus Torvalds on 26 November 2022, 02:02:49 UTC
Merge tag 'for-v6.1-rc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sre/linux-power-supply
Tip revision: 644e952
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