block: ensure plug merging checks the correct queue at least once
Song reports that a RAID rebuild workload runs much slower recently, and it is seeing a lot less merging than it did previously. The reason is that a previous commit reduced the amount of work we do for plug merging. RAID rebuild interleaves requests between disks, so a last-entry check in plug merging always misses a merge opportunity since we always find a different disk than what we are looking for. Modify the logic such that it's still a one-hit cache, but ensure that we check enough to find the right target before giving up. Fixes: d38a9c04 ("block: only check previous entry for plug merge attempt") Reported-and-tested-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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