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[Dmitry Maslennikov <1446786@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

This bug related to `mdadm` `--write-mostly` option. When we create SSD
for read operation, but want to use HDD to mirror SSD content we can
create RAID-1 with SSD and 'write-mostly' HDD disk.

In Ubuntu kernel there is a bug, which lead to havy read from both SSD
and HDD drives. More over if we add HDD as regular disk and SSD as a
'write-mostly' replica most read operations will go to SSD drive (which
is clear from sources and we have prove it in our setup).

In upstream kernel sources this was already fixed:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/63a7d0a9160421a23baac407847e484e8488d12a

Could you backport this functionality? - This patch looks safe to apply
as is.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Wrong read balance when a drive is write-mostly

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This bug related to `mdadm` `--write-mostly` option. When we create
  SSD for read operation, but want to use HDD to mirror SSD content we
  can create RAID-1 with SSD and 'write-mostly' HDD disk.

  In Ubuntu kernel there is a bug, which lead to havy read from both SSD
  and HDD drives. More over if we add HDD as regular disk and SSD as a
  'write-mostly' replica most read operations will go to SSD drive
  (which is clear from sources and we have prove it in our setup).

  In upstream kernel sources this was already fixed:

  https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/63a7d0a9160421a23baac407847e484e8488d12a

  Could you backport this functionality? - This patch looks safe to
  apply as is.

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