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Christoph Hellwig
90110e04f2 blk-mq: include <linux/blk-mq.h> in block/blk-mq.h
block/blk-mq.h needs various definitions from <linux/blk-mq.h>,
include it there instead of relying on the source files to include
both.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230413064057.707578-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2023-04-13 06:52:29 -06:00
Ming Lei
6a6dcae8f4 blk-mq: Build default queue map via group_cpus_evenly()
The default queue mapping builder of blk_mq_map_queues doesn't take NUMA
topo into account, so the built mapping is pretty bad, since CPUs
belonging to different NUMA node are assigned to same queue. It is
observed that IOPS drops by ~30% when running two jobs on same hctx
of null_blk from two CPUs belonging to two NUMA nodes compared with
from same NUMA node.

Address the issue by reusing group_cpus_evenly() for building queue mapping
since group_cpus_evenly() does group cpus according to CPU/NUMA locality.

Also performance data becomes more stable with this given correct queue
mapping is applied wrt. numa locality viewpoint, for example, on one two
nodes arm64 machine with 160 cpus, node 0(cpu 0~79), node 1(cpu 80~159):

1) modprobe null_blk nr_devices=1 submit_queues=2

2) run 'fio(t/io_uring -p 0 -n 4 -r 20 /dev/nullb0)', and observe that
IOPS becomes much stable on multiple tests:

 - unpatched: IOPS is 2.5M ~ 4.5M
 - patched:   IOPS is 4.3M ~ 5.0M

Lots of drivers may benefit from the change, such as nvme pci poll,
nvme tcp, ...

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221227022905.352674-7-ming.lei@redhat.com
2023-01-17 18:50:06 +01:00
Bart Van Assche
a4e1d0b76e block: Change the return type of blk_mq_map_queues() into void
Since blk_mq_map_queues() and the .map_queues() callbacks always return 0,
change their return type into void. Most callers ignore the returned value
anyway.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Md Haris Iqbal <haris.iqbal@ionos.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220815170043.19489-3-bvanassche@acm.org
[axboe: fold in fix from Bart]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2022-08-22 10:07:53 -06:00
Xianting Tian
576e85c5e9 blk-mq: remove the calling of local_memory_node()
We don't need to check whether the node is memoryless numa node before
calling allocator interface. SLUB(and SLAB,SLOB) relies on the page
allocator to pick a node. Page allocator should deal with memoryless
nodes just fine. It has zonelists constructed for each possible nodes.
And it will automatically fall back into a node which is closest to the
requested node. As long as __GFP_THISNODE is not enforced of course.

The code comments of kmem_cache_alloc_node() of SLAB also showed this:
 * Fallback to other node is possible if __GFP_THISNODE is not set.

blk-mq code doesn't set __GFP_THISNODE, so we can remove the calling
of local_memory_node().

Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <tian.xianting@h3c.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-10-20 07:08:17 -06:00
Ming Lei
556f36e90d blk-mq: balance mapping between present CPUs and queues
Spread queues among present CPUs first, then building mapping on other
non-present CPUs.

So we can minimize count of dead queues which are mapped by un-present
CPUs only. Then bad IO performance can be avoided by unbalanced mapping
between present CPUs and queues.

The similar policy has been applied on Managed IRQ affinity.

Cc: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-08-04 21:43:12 -06:00
Bart Van Assche
cd669f88b1 blk-mq: Document the blk_mq_hw_queue_to_node() arguments
Document the meaning of the blk_mq_hw_queue_to_node() arguments.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chiatanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-05-31 15:12:34 -06:00
Bart Van Assche
ef025d7ec2 blk-mq: Fix spelling in a source code comment
Change one occurrence of 'performace' into 'performance'.

Cc: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Fixes: fe631457ff ("blk-mq: map all HWQ also in hyperthreaded system") # v4.13.
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chiatanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-05-31 15:12:34 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
3dcf60bcb6 block: add SPDX tags to block layer files missing licensing information
Various block layer files do not have any licensing information at all.
Add SPDX tags for the default kernel GPLv2 license to those.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-04-30 16:12:03 -06:00
Jens Axboe
843477d4cc blk-mq: initial support for multiple queue maps
Add a queue offset to the tag map. This enables users to map
iteratively, for each queue map type they support.

Bump maximum number of supported maps to 2, we're now fully
able to support more than 1 map.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-11-07 13:45:00 -07:00
Jens Axboe
ed76e329d7 blk-mq: abstract out queue map
This is in preparation for allowing multiple sets of maps per
queue, if so desired.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-11-07 13:44:59 -07:00
Ming Lei
bffa9909a6 blk-mq: don't keep offline CPUs mapped to hctx 0
From commit 4b855ad371 ("blk-mq: Create hctx for each present CPU),
blk-mq doesn't remap queue after CPU topo is changed, that said when
some of these offline CPUs become online, they are still mapped to
hctx 0, then hctx 0 may become the bottleneck of IO dispatch and
completion.

This patch sets up the mapping from the beginning, and aligns to
queue mapping for PCI device (blk_mq_pci_map_queues()).

Cc: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4b855ad371 ("blk-mq: Create hctx for each present CPU)
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-04-10 08:38:46 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
76451d79bd blk-mq: map queues to all present CPUs
We already do this for PCI mappings, and the higher level code now
expects that CPU on/offlining doesn't have an affect on the queue
mappings.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-07-24 10:01:31 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
03ffbcdd78 Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The irq department delivers:

   - Expand the generic infrastructure handling the irq migration on CPU
     hotplug and convert X86 over to it. (Thomas Gleixner)

     Aside of consolidating code this is a preparatory change for:

   - Finalizing the affinity management for multi-queue devices. The
     main change here is to shut down interrupts which are affine to a
     outgoing CPU and reenabling them when the CPU comes online again.
     That avoids moving interrupts pointlessly around and breaking and
     reestablishing affinities for no value. (Christoph Hellwig)

     Note: This contains also the BLOCK-MQ and NVME changes which depend
     on the rework of the irq core infrastructure. Jens acked them and
     agreed that they should go with the irq changes.

   - Consolidation of irq domain code (Marc Zyngier)

   - State tracking consolidation in the core code (Jeffy Chen)

   - Add debug infrastructure for hierarchical irq domains (Thomas
     Gleixner)

   - Infrastructure enhancement for managing generic interrupt chips via
     devmem (Bartosz Golaszewski)

   - Constification work all over the place (Tobias Klauser)

   - Two new interrupt controller drivers for MVEBU (Thomas Petazzoni)

   - The usual set of fixes, updates and enhancements all over the
     place"

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (112 commits)
  irqchip/or1k-pic: Fix interrupt acknowledgement
  irqchip/irq-mvebu-gicp: Allocate enough memory for spi_bitmap
  irqchip/gic-v3: Fix out-of-bound access in gic_set_affinity
  nvme: Allocate queues for all possible CPUs
  blk-mq: Create hctx for each present CPU
  blk-mq: Include all present CPUs in the default queue mapping
  genirq: Avoid unnecessary low level irq function calls
  genirq: Set irq masked state when initializing irq_desc
  genirq/timings: Add infrastructure for estimating the next interrupt arrival time
  genirq/timings: Add infrastructure to track the interrupt timings
  genirq/debugfs: Remove pointless NULL pointer check
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Don't assume GICv3 hardware supports 16bit INTID
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Add ACPI NUMA node mapping
  irqchip/gic-v3-its-platform-msi: Make of_device_ids const
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Make of_device_ids const
  irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu: Add new driver for Marvell ICU
  irqchip/irq-mvebu-gicp: Add new driver for Marvell GICP
  dt-bindings/interrupt-controller: Add DT binding for the Marvell ICU
  genirq/irqdomain: Remove auto-recursive hierarchy support
  irqchip/MSI: Use irq_domain_update_bus_token instead of an open coded access
  ...
2017-07-03 16:50:31 -07:00
Max Gurtovoy
fe631457ff blk-mq: map all HWQ also in hyperthreaded system
This patch performs sequential mapping between CPUs and queues.
In case the system has more CPUs than HWQs then there are still
CPUs to map to HWQs. In hyperthreaded system, map the unmapped CPUs
and their siblings to the same HWQ.
This actually fixes a bug that found unmapped HWQs in a system with
2 sockets, 18 cores per socket, 2 threads per core (total 72 CPUs)
running NVMEoF (opens upto maximum of 64 HWQs).

Performance results running fio (72 jobs, 128 iodepth)
using null_blk (w/w.o patch):

bs      IOPS(read submit_queues=72)   IOPS(write submit_queues=72)   IOPS(read submit_queues=24)  IOPS(write submit_queues=24)
-----  ----------------------------  ------------------------------ ---------------------------- -----------------------------
512    4890.4K/4723.5K                 4524.7K/4324.2K                   4280.2K/4264.3K               3902.4K/3909.5K
1k     4910.1K/4715.2K                 4535.8K/4309.6K                   4296.7K/4269.1K               3906.8K/3914.9K
2k     4906.3K/4739.7K                 4526.7K/4330.6K                   4301.1K/4262.4K               3890.8K/3900.1K
4k     4918.6K/4730.7K                 4556.1K/4343.6K                   4297.6K/4264.5K               3886.9K/3893.9K
8k     4906.4K/4748.9K                 4550.9K/4346.7K                   4283.2K/4268.8K               3863.4K/3858.2K
16k    4903.8K/4782.6K                 4501.5K/4233.9K                   4292.3K/4282.3K               3773.1K/3773.5K
32k    4885.8K/4782.4K                 4365.9K/4184.2K                   4307.5K/4289.4K               3780.3K/3687.3K
64k    4822.5K/4762.7K                 2752.8K/2675.1K                   4308.8K/4312.3K               2651.5K/2655.7K
128k   2388.5K/2313.8K                 1391.9K/1375.7K                   2142.8K/2152.2K               1395.5K/1374.2K

Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-29 08:40:11 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
5f042e7cbd blk-mq: Include all present CPUs in the default queue mapping
This way we get a nice distribution independent of the current cpu
online / offline state.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626102058.10200-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-06-28 23:00:06 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
9e5a7e2295 blk-mq: export blk_mq_map_queues
This will allow SCSI to have a single blk_mq_ops structure that either
lets the LLDD map the queues to PCIe MSIx vectors or use the default.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2016-11-08 17:30:00 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
da695ba236 blk-mq: allow the driver to pass in a queue mapping
This allows drivers specify their own queue mapping by overriding the
setup-time function that builds the mq_map.  This can be used for
example to build the map based on the MSI-X vector mapping provided
by the core interrupt layer for PCI devices.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-09-15 08:42:03 -06:00
Raghavendra K T
bffed45716 blk-mq: Avoid memoryless numa node encoded in hctx numa_node
In architecture like powerpc, we can have cpus without any local memory
attached to it (a.k.a memoryless nodes). In such cases cpu to node mapping
can result in memory allocation hints for block hctx->numa_node populated
with node values which does not have real memory.

Instead use local_memory_node(), which is guaranteed to have memory.
local_memory_node is a noop in other architectures that does not support
memoryless nodes.

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-12-03 09:56:27 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
5778322e67 blk-mq: avoid inserting requests before establishing new mapping
Notifier callbacks for CPU_ONLINE action can be run on the other CPU
than the CPU which was just onlined.  So it is possible for the
process running on the just onlined CPU to insert request and run
hw queue before establishing new mapping which is done by
blk_mq_queue_reinit_notify().

This can cause a problem when the CPU has just been onlined first time
since the request queue was initialized.  At this time ctx->index_hw
for the CPU, which is the index in hctx->ctxs[] for this ctx, is still
zero before blk_mq_queue_reinit_notify() is called by notifier
callbacks for CPU_ONLINE action.

For example, there is a single hw queue (hctx) and two CPU queues
(ctx0 for CPU0, and ctx1 for CPU1).  Now CPU1 is just onlined and
a request is inserted into ctx1->rq_list and set bit0 in pending
bitmap as ctx1->index_hw is still zero.

And then while running hw queue, flush_busy_ctxs() finds bit0 is set
in pending bitmap and tries to retrieve requests in
hctx->ctxs[0]->rq_list.  But htx->ctxs[0] is a pointer to ctx0, so the
request in ctx1->rq_list is ignored.

Fix it by ensuring that new mapping is established before onlined cpu
starts running.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-09-29 11:32:50 -06:00
Bartosz Golaszewski
06931e6224 sched/topology: Rename topology_thread_cpumask() to topology_sibling_cpumask()
Rename topology_thread_cpumask() to topology_sibling_cpumask()
for more consistency with scheduler code.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Benoit Cousson <bcousson@baylibre.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432645896-12588-2-git-send-email-bgolaszewski@baylibre.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-27 15:22:15 +02:00
Bart Van Assche
959f5f5b2f blk-mq: Use all available hardware queues
Suppose that a system has two CPU sockets, three cores per socket,
that it does not support hyperthreading and that four hardware
queues are provided by a block driver. With the current algorithm
this will lead to the following assignment of CPU cores to hardware
queues:

  HWQ 0: 0 1
  HWQ 1: 2 3
  HWQ 2: 4 5
  HWQ 3: (none)

This patch changes the queue assignment into:

  HWQ 0: 0 1
  HWQ 1: 2
  HWQ 2: 3 4
  HWQ 3: 5

In other words, this patch has the following three effects:
- All four hardware queues are used instead of only three.
- CPU cores are spread more evenly over hardware queues. For the
  above example the range of the number of CPU cores associated
  with a single HWQ is reduced from [0..2] to [1..2].
- If the number of HWQ's is a multiple of the number of CPU sockets
  it is now guaranteed that all CPU cores associated with a single
  HWQ reside on the same CPU socket.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-12-09 09:08:21 -07:00
Jens Axboe
a33c1ba291 blk-mq: use 'nr_cpu_ids' as highest CPU ID count for hwq <-> cpu map
We currently use num_possible_cpus(), but that breaks on sparc64 where
the CPU ID space is discontig. Use nr_cpu_ids as the highest CPU ID
instead, so we don't end up reading from invalid memory.

Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-11-24 15:02:42 -07:00
Jens Axboe
75bb4625bb blk-mq: add file comments and update copyright notices
None of the blk-mq files have an explanatory comment at the top
for what that particular file does. Add that and add appropriate
copyright notices as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-28 10:15:41 -06:00
Jens Axboe
f14bbe77a9 blk-mq: pass in suggested NUMA node to ->alloc_hctx()
Drivers currently have to figure this out on their own, and they
are missing information to do it properly. The ones that did
attempt to do it, do it wrong.

So just pass in the suggested node directly to the alloc
function.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-27 12:06:53 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
24d2f90309 blk-mq: split out tag initialization, support shared tags
Add a new blk_mq_tag_set structure that gets set up before we initialize
the queue.  A single blk_mq_tag_set structure can be shared by multiple
queues.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Modular export of blk_mq_{alloc,free}_tagset added by me.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-15 14:18:02 -06:00
Jens Axboe
676141e48a blk-mq: don't dump CPU -> hw queue map on driver load
Now that we are out of initial debug/bringup mode, remove
the verbose dump of the mapping table.

Provide the mapping table in sysfs, under the hardware queue
directory, in the cpu_list file.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-03-20 13:31:44 -06:00
Jens Axboe
320ae51fee blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism
Linux currently has two models for block devices:

- The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct
  request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper
  functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag
  management, timeout handling, queueing, etc.

- The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the
  block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack,
  driver generally have to manage everything themselves.

With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic
request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates
back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with
scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on
smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands
per device.

The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model
for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent
everything, and along with that we get all the problems again
that the shared approach solved.

This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The
design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which
then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues.
We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be
an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports.

blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include:

- Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to
  be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and
  to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed
  tags, to enable cache hot reuse.

- Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device
  basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification,
  if a request happens to fail.

- Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and
  submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the
  desired location.

- Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need
  to associate a request structure with some driver private
  command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time,
  and then any request handed to the driver will have the
  required size of memory associated with it.

- Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model
  gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging
  sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus
  increases bandwidth.

For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with
the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic
and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real
model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md
devices (as it was originally intended).

Contributions in this patch from the following people:

Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-10-25 11:56:00 +01:00