Commit 79bd99596b ("blk: improve order of bio handling in generic_make_request()")
changed current->bio_list so that it did not contain *all* of the
queued bios, but only those submitted by the currently running
make_request_fn.
There are two places which walk the list and requeue selected bios,
and others that check if the list is empty. These are no longer
correct.
So redefine current->bio_list to point to an array of two lists, which
contain all queued bios, and adjust various code to test or walk both
lists.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Fixes: 79bd99596b ("blk: improve order of bio handling in generic_make_request()")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
To avoid recursion on the kernel stack when stacked block devices
are in use, generic_make_request() will, when called recursively,
queue new requests for later handling. They will be handled when the
make_request_fn for the current bio completes.
If any bios are submitted by a make_request_fn, these will ultimately
be handled seqeuntially. If the handling of one of those generates
further requests, they will be added to the end of the queue.
This strict first-in-first-out behaviour can lead to deadlocks in
various ways, normally because a request might need to wait for a
previous request to the same device to complete. This can happen when
they share a mempool, and can happen due to interdependencies
particular to the device. Both md and dm have examples where this happens.
These deadlocks can be erradicated by more selective ordering of bios.
Specifically by handling them in depth-first order. That is: when the
handling of one bio generates one or more further bios, they are
handled immediately after the parent, before any siblings of the
parent. That way, when generic_make_request() calls make_request_fn
for some particular device, we can be certain that all previously
submited requests for that device have been completely handled and are
not waiting for anything in the queue of requests maintained in
generic_make_request().
An easy way to achieve this would be to use a last-in-first-out stack
instead of a queue. However this will change the order of consecutive
bios submitted by a make_request_fn, which could have unexpected consequences.
Instead we take a slightly more complex approach.
A fresh queue is created for each call to a make_request_fn. After it completes,
any bios for a different device are placed on the front of the main queue, followed
by any bios for the same device, followed by all bios that were already on
the queue before the make_request_fn was called.
This provides the depth-first approach without reordering bios on the same level.
This, by itself, it not enough to remove all deadlocks. It just makes
it possible for drivers to take the extra step required themselves.
To avoid deadlocks, drivers must never risk waiting for a request
after submitting one to generic_make_request. This includes never
allocing from a mempool twice in the one call to a make_request_fn.
A common pattern in drivers is to call bio_split() in a loop, handling
the first part and then looping around to possibly split the next part.
Instead, a driver that finds it needs to split a bio should queue
(with generic_make_request) the second part, handle the first part,
and then return. The new code in generic_make_request will ensure the
requests to underlying bios are processed first, then the second bio
that was split off. If it splits again, the same process happens. In
each case one bio will be completely handled before the next one is attempted.
With this is place, it should be possible to disable the
punt_bios_to_recover() recovery thread for many block devices, and
eventually it may be possible to remove it completely.
Ref: http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg54680.html
Tested-by: Jinpu Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>
Inspired-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This reverts commit 0dba1314d4. It causes
leaking of device numbers for SCSI when SCSI registers multiple gendisks
for one request_queue in succession. It can be easily reproduced using
Omar's script [1] on kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE.
Furthermore the protection provided by this commit is not needed anymore
as the problem it was fixing got also fixed by commit 165a5e22fa
"block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()".
[1]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=148554717109098&w=2
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Commit 6cd18e711d "block: destroy bdi before blockdev is
unregistered." moved bdi unregistration (at that time through
bdi_destroy()) from blk_release_queue() to blk_cleanup_queue() because
it needs to happen before blk_unregister_region() call in del_gendisk()
for MD. SCSI though will free up the device number from sd_remove()
called through a maze of callbacks from device_del() in
__scsi_remove_device() before blk_cleanup_queue() and thus similar races
as described in 6cd18e711d can happen for SCSI as well as reported by
Omar [1].
Moving bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk() works for MD and fixes the
problem for SCSI since del_gendisk() gets called from sd_remove() before
freeing the device number.
This also makes device_add_disk() (calling bdi_register_owner()) more
symmetric with del_gendisk().
[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=148554717109098&w=2
Tested-by: Lekshmi Pillai <lekshmicpillai@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a new merge strategy that merges discard bios into a request until the
maximum number of discard ranges (or the maximum discard size) is reached
from the plug merging code. I/O scheduler merging is not wired up yet
but might also be useful, although not for fast devices like NVMe which
are the only user for now.
Note that for now we don't support limiting the size of each discard range,
but if needed that can be added later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Switch these constants to an enum, and make let the compiler ensure that
all callers of blk_try_merge and elv_merge handle all potential values.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If we end up doing a request-to-request merge when we have completed
a bio-to-request merge, we free the request from deep down in that
path. For blk-mq-sched, the merge path has to hold the appropriate
lock, but we don't need it for freeing the request. And in fact
holding the lock is problematic, since we are now calling the
mq sched put_rq_private() hook with the lock held. Other call paths
do not hold this lock.
Fix this inconsistency by ensuring that the caller frees a merged
request. Then we can do it outside of the lock, making it both more
efficient and fixing the blk-mq-sched problem of invoking parts of
the scheduler with an unknown lock state.
Reported-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
When I added the blk-mq debugging information to debugfs, I didn't
notice that blktrace also creates a "block" directory in debugfs. Make
them use the same dentry, now created in the core block code. Based on a
patch from Jens.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Warnings of the following form occur because scsi reuses a devt number
while the block layer still has it referenced as the name of the bdi
[1]:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 93 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x62/0x80
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/8:192'
[..]
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x86/0xc3
__warn+0xcb/0xf0
warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80
? kernfs_path_from_node+0x4f/0x60
sysfs_warn_dup+0x62/0x80
sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x77/0x90
kobject_add_internal+0xb2/0x350
kobject_add+0x75/0xd0
device_add+0x15a/0x650
device_create_groups_vargs+0xe0/0xf0
device_create_vargs+0x1c/0x20
bdi_register+0x90/0x240
? lockdep_init_map+0x57/0x200
bdi_register_owner+0x36/0x60
device_add_disk+0x1bb/0x4e0
? __pm_runtime_use_autosuspend+0x5c/0x70
sd_probe_async+0x10d/0x1c0
async_run_entry_fn+0x39/0x170
This is a brute-force fix to pass the devt release information from
sd_probe() to the locations where we register the bdi,
device_add_disk(), and unregister the bdi, blk_cleanup_queue().
Thanks to Omar for the quick reproducer script [2]. This patch survives
where an unmodified kernel fails in a few seconds.
[1]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=147116857810716&w=4
[2]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=148554717109098&w=2
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_get_backing_dev_info() is now a simple dereference. Remove that
function and simplify some code around that.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currenly blk_get_backing_dev_info() is not safe to be called when the
block device is not open as bdev->bd_disk is NULL in that case. However
inode_to_bdi() uses this function and may be call called from flusher
worker or other writeback related functions without bdev being open
which leads to crashes such as:
[113031.075540] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000
[113031.075614] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000003692e0
0:mon> t
[c0000000fb65f900] c00000000036cb6c writeback_sb_inodes+0x30c/0x590
[c0000000fb65fa10] c00000000036ced4 __writeback_inodes_wb+0xe4/0x150
[c0000000fb65fa70] c00000000036d33c wb_writeback+0x30c/0x450
[c0000000fb65fb40] c00000000036e198 wb_workfn+0x268/0x580
[c0000000fb65fc50] c0000000000f3470 process_one_work+0x1e0/0x590
[c0000000fb65fce0] c0000000000f38c8 worker_thread+0xa8/0x660
[c0000000fb65fd80] c0000000000fc4b0 kthread+0x110/0x130
[c0000000fb65fe30] c0000000000098f0 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x6c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of storing backing_dev_info inside struct request_queue,
allocate it dynamically, reference count it, and free it when the last
reference is dropped. Currently only request_queue holds the reference
but in the following patch we add other users referencing
backing_dev_info.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from
struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info
to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional
changes in this patch.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_set_queue_dying() does not acquire queue lock before it calls
blk_queue_for_each_rl(). This allows a racing blkg_destroy() to
remove blkg->q_node from the linked list and have
blk_queue_for_each_rl() loop infitely over the removed blkg->q_node
list node.
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of keeping two levels of indirection for requests types, fold it
all into the operations. The little caveat here is that previously
cmd_type only applied to struct request, while the request and bio op
fields were set to plain REQ_OP_READ/WRITE even for passthrough
operations.
Instead this patch adds new REQ_OP_* for SCSI passthrough and driver
private requests, althought it has to add two for each so that we
can communicate the data in/out nature of the request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This can be used to check for fs vs non-fs requests and basically
removes all knowledge of BLOCK_PC specific from the block layer,
as well as preparing for removing the cmd_type field in struct request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
These days we have the proper flags set since request allocation time.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
And require all drivers that want to support BLOCK_PC to allocate it
as the first thing of their private data. To support this the legacy
IDE and BSG code is switched to set cmd_size on their queues to let
the block layer allocate the additional space.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This mirrors the blk-mq capabilities to allocate extra drivers-specific
data behind struct request by setting a cmd_size field, as well as having
a constructor / destructor for it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Return an errno value instead of the passed in queue so that the callers
don't have to keep track of two queues, and move the assignment of the
request_fn and lock to the caller as passing them as argument doesn't
simplify anything. While we're at it also remove two pointless NULL
assignments, given that the request structure is zeroed on allocation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We can't initalize the elevator fields for flushes as flush share space
in struct request with the elevator data. But currently we can't
communicate that a request is a flush through blk_get_request as we
can only pass READ or WRITE, and the low-level code looks at the
possible NULL bio to check for a flush.
Fix this by allowing to pass any block op and flags, and by checking for
the flush flags in __get_request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of letting the caller check this and handle the details
of inserting a flush request, put the logic in the scheduler
insertion function. This fixes direct flush insertion outside
of the usual make_request_fn calls, like from dm via
blk_insert_cloned_request().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This centralizes the checks for bios that needs to be go into the flush
state machine.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This adds a set of hooks that intercepts the blk-mq path of
allocating/inserting/issuing/completing requests, allowing
us to develop a scheduler within that framework.
We reuse the existing elevator scheduler API on the registration
side, but augment that with the scheduler flagging support for
the blk-mq interfce, and with a separate set of ops hooks for MQ
devices.
We split driver and scheduler tags, so we can run the scheduling
independently of device queue depth.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
We want to use it outside of blk-core.c.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:
- Adam added opt-in ATA command priority support.
- There are machines which hide multiple nvme devices behind an ahci
BAR. Dan Williams proposed a solution to force-switch the mode but
deemed too hackishd. People are gonna discuss the proper way to
handle the situation in nvme standard meetings. For now, detect and
warn about the situation.
- Low level driver specific changes.
Christoph Hellwig pipes in about the hidden nvme warning:
"I wish that was the case. We've pretty much agreed that we'll want to
implement it as a virtual PCIe root bridge, similar to Intels other
'innovation' VMD that we work around that way.
But Intel management has apparently decided that they don't want to
spend more cycles on this now that Lenovo has an optional BIOS that
doesn't force this broken mode anymore, and no one outside of Intel
has enough information to implement something like this.
So for now I guess this warning is it, until Intel reconsideres and
spends resources on fixing up the damage their Chipset people caused"
* 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata:
ahci: warn about remapped NVMe devices
ahci-remap.h: add ahci remapping definitions
nvme: move NVMe class code to pci_ids.h
pata: imx: support controller modes up to PIO4
pata: imx: add support of setting timings for PIO modes
pata: imx: set controller PIO mode with .set_piomode callback
pata: imx: sort headers out
ata: set ncq_prio_enabled iff device has support
ata: ATA Command Priority Disabled By Default
ata: Enabling ATA Command Priorities
block: Add iocontext priority to request
ahci: qoriq: added ls1046a platform support
Instead of allocating a single unused biovec for discard requests, send
them down without any payload. Instead we allow the driver to add a
"special" payload using a biovec embedded into struct request (unioned
over other fields never used while in the driver), and overloading
the number of segments for this case.
This has a couple of advantages:
- we don't have to allocate the bio_vec
- the amount of special casing for discard requests in the block
layer is significantly reduced
- using this same scheme for other request types is trivial,
which will be important for implementing the new WRITE_ZEROES
op on devices where it actually requires a payload (e.g. SCSI)
- we can get rid of playing games with the request length, as
we'll never touch it and completions will work just fine
- it will allow us to support ranged discard operations in the
future by merging non-contiguous discard bios into a single
request
- last but not least it removes a lot of code
This patch is the common base for my WIP series for ranges discards and to
remove discard_zeroes_data in favor of always using REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES,
so it would be good to get it in quickly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Since commit e73c23ff73 ("block: add async variant of
blkdev_issue_zeroout") messages like the following show up:
EXT4-fs (dm-1): Delayed block allocation failed for inode 2368848 at
logical offset 0 with max blocks 1 with error 95
EXT4-fs (dm-1): This should not happen!! Data will be lost
Due to the following fallthrough introduced with
commit 2d253440b5 ("block: Define zoned block device operations"),
generic_make_request_checks() would accept a REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME bio only
if the block device supports "write same" *and* is a zoned one:
switch (bio_op(bio)) {
[...]
case REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME:
if (!bdev_write_same(bio->bi_bdev))
goto not_supported;
case REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT:
case REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET:
if (!bdev_is_zoned(bio->bi_bdev))
goto not_supported;
break;
[...]
}
Thus, although the bio setup as done by __blkdev_issue_write_same() from
commit e73c23ff73 ("block: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout")
would succeed, its actual submission would not, resulting in the
EOPNOTSUPP == 95.
Fix this by removing the fallthrough which, due to the lack of an explicit
comment, seems to be unintended anyway.
Fixes: e73c23ff73 ("block: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout")
Fixes: 2d253440b5 ("block: Define zoned block device operations")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This adds a new block layer operation to zero out a range of
LBAs. This allows to implement zeroing for devices that don't use
either discard with a predictable zero pattern or WRITE SAME of zeroes.
The prominent example of that is NVMe with the Write Zeroes command,
but in the future, this should also help with improving the way
zeroing discards work. For this operation, suitable entry is exported in
sysfs which indicate the number of maximum bytes allowed in one
write zeroes operation by the device.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If a ZBC device is partitioned and operations are performed on the partition
the zone information is rebased to the partition, however the zone reset
is not mapped from the partition to device as are other operations.
This causes the API (report zones / reset zone) to be unbalanced in this
regard. Checking for the zone reset op code explicitly will balance the
API.
Signed-off-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
In both legacy and mq path, req count of plug list is computed
before allocating request, so the number can be stale when falling
back to slept allocation, also the new introduced wbt can sleep
too.
This patch deals with the case by checking if plug list becomes
empty, and fixes the KASAN report of 'BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds'
which is introduced by Shaohua's patches of dispatching big request.
Fixes: 600271d900002(blk-mq: immediately dispatch big size request)
Fixes: 50d24c34403c6(block: immediately dispatch big size request)
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The poll code is blk-mq specific, let's move it to blk-mq.c. This
is a prep patch for improving the polling code.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Enable throttling of buffered writeback to make it a lot
more smooth, and has way less impact on other system activity.
Background writeback should be, by definition, background
activity. The fact that we flush huge bundles of it at the time
means that it potentially has heavy impacts on foreground workloads,
which isn't ideal. We can't easily limit the sizes of writes that
we do, since that would impact file system layout in the presence
of delayed allocation. So just throttle back buffered writeback,
unless someone is waiting for it.
The algorithm for when to throttle takes its inspiration in the
CoDel networking scheduling algorithm. Like CoDel, blk-wb monitors
the minimum latencies of requests over a window of time. In that
window of time, if the minimum latency of any request exceeds a
given target, then a scale count is incremented and the queue depth
is shrunk. The next monitoring window is shrunk accordingly. Unlike
CoDel, if we hit a window that exhibits good behavior, then we
simply increment the scale count and re-calculate the limits for that
scale value. This prevents us from oscillating between a
close-to-ideal value and max all the time, instead remaining in the
windows where we get good behavior.
Unlike CoDel, blk-wb allows the scale count to to negative. This
happens if we primarily have writes going on. Unlike positive
scale counts, this doesn't change the size of the monitoring window.
When the heavy writers finish, blk-bw quickly snaps back to it's
stable state of a zero scale count.
The patch registers a sysfs entry, 'wb_lat_usec'. This sets the latency
target to me met. It defaults to 2 msec for non-rotational storage, and
75 msec for rotational storage. Setting this value to '0' disables
blk-wb. Generally, a user would not have to touch this setting.
We don't enable WBT on devices that are managed with CFQ, and have
a non-root block cgroup attached. If we have a proportional share setup
on this particular disk, then the wbt throttling will interfere with
that. We don't have a strong need for wbt for that case, since we will
rely on CFQ doing that for us.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For legacy block, we simply track them in the request queue. For
blk-mq, we track them on a per-sw queue basis, which we can then
sum up through the hardware queues and finally to a per device
state.
The stats are tracked in, roughly, 0.1s interval windows.
Add sysfs files to display the stats.
The feature is off by default, to avoid any extra overhead. In-kernel
users of it can turn it on by setting QUEUE_FLAG_STATS in the queue
flags. We currently don't turn it on if someone just reads any of
the stats files, that is something we could add as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently block plug holds up to 16 non-mergeable requests. This makes
sense if the request size is small, eg, reduce lock contention. But if
request size is big enough, we don't need to worry about lock
contention. Holding such request makes no sense and it lows the disk
utilization.
In practice, this improves 10% throughput for my raid5 sequential write
workload.
The size (128k) is arbitrary right now, but it makes sure lock
contention is small. This probably could be more intelligent, eg, check
average request size holded. Since this is mainly for sequential IO,
probably not worthy.
V2: check the last request instead of the first request, so as long as
there is one big size request we flush the plug.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Now that we don't need the common flags to overflow outside the range
of a 32-bit type we can encode them the same way for both the bio and
request fields. This in addition allows us to place the operation
first (and make some room for more ops while we're at it) and to
stop having to shift around the operation values.
In addition this allows passing around only one value in the block layer
instead of two (and eventuall also in the file systems, but we can do
that later) and thus clean up a lot of code.
Last but not least this allows decreasing the size of the cmd_flags
field in struct request to 32-bits. Various functions passing this
value could also be updated, but I'd like to avoid the churn for now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
A lot of the REQ_* flags are only used on struct requests, and only of
use to the block layer and a few drivers that dig into struct request
internals.
This patch adds a new req_flags_t rq_flags field to struct request for
them, and thus dramatically shrinks the number of common requests. It
also removes the unfortunate situation where we have to fit the fields
from the same enum into 32 bits for struct bio and 64 bits for
struct request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Patch adds an association between iocontext ioprio and the ioprio of a
request. This is done to enable request based drivers the ability to
act on priority information stored in the request. An example being
ATA devices that support command priorities. If the ATA driver discovers
that the device supports command priorities and the request has valid
priority information indicating the request is high priority, then a high
priority command can be sent to the device. This should improve tail
latencies for high priority IO on any device that queues requests
internally and can make use of the priority information stored in the
request.
The ioprio of the request is set in blk_rq_set_prio which takes the
request and the ioc as arguments. If the ioc is valid in blk_rq_set_prio
then the iopriority of the request is set as the iopriority of the ioc.
In init_request_from_bio a check is made to see if the ioprio of the bio
is valid and if so then the request prio comes from the bio.
Signed-off-by: Adam Manzananares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Define REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT and REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET for handling zones of
host-managed and host-aware zoned block devices. With with these two
new operations, the total number of operations defined reaches 8 and
still fits with the 3 bits definition of REQ_OP_BITS.
Signed-off-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
In order to help determine the effectiveness of polling in a running
system it is usful to determine the ratio of how often the poll
function is called vs how often the completion is checked. For this
reason we add a poll_considered variable and add it to the sysfs entry
for io_poll.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_set_queue_dying() can be called while another thread is
submitting I/O or changing queue flags, e.g. through dm_stop_queue().
Hence protect the QUEUE_FLAG_DYING flag change with locking.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Since commit 63a4cc2486, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower
portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that
old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely
going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger,
rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break
at compile time instead of at runtime.
No intended functional changes in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
"This branch also contains core changes. I've come to the conclusion
that from 4.9 and forward, I'll be doing just a single branch. We
often have dependencies between core and drivers, and it's hard to
always split them up appropriately without pulling core into drivers
when that happens.
That said, this contains:
- separate secure erase type for the core block layer, from
Christoph.
- set of discard fixes, from Christoph.
- bio shrinking fixes from Christoph, as a followup up to the
op/flags change in the core branch.
- map and append request fixes from Christoph.
- NVMeF (NVMe over Fabrics) code from Christoph. This is pretty
exciting!
- nvme-loop fixes from Arnd.
- removal of ->driverfs_dev from Dan, after providing a
device_add_disk() helper.
- bcache fixes from Bhaktipriya and Yijing.
- cdrom subchannel read fix from Vchannaiah.
- set of lightnvm updates from Wenwei, Matias, Johannes, and Javier.
- set of drbd updates and fixes from Fabian, Lars, and Philipp.
- mg_disk error path fix from Bart.
- user notification for failed device add for loop, from Minfei.
- NVMe in general:
+ NVMe delay quirk from Guilherme.
+ SR-IOV support and command retry limits from Keith.
+ fix for memory-less NUMA node from Masayoshi.
+ use UINT_MAX for discard sectors, from Minfei.
+ cancel IO fixes from Ming.
+ don't allocate unused major, from Neil.
+ error code fixup from Dan.
+ use constants for PSDT/FUSE from James.
+ variable init fix from Jay.
+ fabrics fixes from Ming, Sagi, and Wei.
+ various fixes"
* 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (115 commits)
nvme/pci: Provide SR-IOV support
nvme: initialize variable before logical OR'ing it
block: unexport various bio mapping helpers
scsi/osd: open code blk_make_request
target: stop using blk_make_request
block: simplify and export blk_rq_append_bio
block: ensure bios return from blk_get_request are properly initialized
virtio_blk: use blk_rq_map_kern
memstick: don't allow REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests
block: shrink bio size again
block: simplify and cleanup bvec pool handling
block: get rid of bio_rw and READA
block: don't ignore -EOPNOTSUPP blkdev_issue_write_same
block: introduce BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO to fix zeroout
NVMe: don't allocate unused nvme_major
nvme: avoid crashes when node 0 is memoryless node.
nvme: Limit command retries
loop: Make user notify for adding loop device failed
nvme-loop: fix nvme-loop Kconfig dependencies
nvmet: fix return value check in nvmet_subsys_alloc()
...
I wish the OSD code could simply use blk_rq_map_* helpers like
everyone else, but the complex nature of deciding if we have
DATA IN and/or DATA OUT buffers might make this impossible
(at least for a mere human like me).
But using blk_rq_append_bio at least allows sharing the setup code
between request with or without dat a buffers, and given that this
is the last user of blk_make_request it allows getting rid of that
somewhat awkward interface.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The target SCSI passthrough backend is much better served with the low-level
blk_rq_append_bio construct then the helpers built on top of it, so export it.
Also use the opportunity to remove the pointless request_queue argument and
make the code flow a little more readable.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_get_request is used for BLOCK_PC and similar passthrough requests.
Currently we always need to call blk_rq_set_block_pc or an open coded
version of it to allow appending bios using the request mapping helpers
later on, which is a somewhat awkward API. Instead move the
initialization part of blk_rq_set_block_pc into blk_get_request, so that
we always have a safe to use request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
