We don't pass in a 'force_kblockd' anymore, get rid of the
stsale comment.
Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
We are currently using this flag to check whether it's safe
to call into ->request_fn(). If it is set, we punt to kblockd.
But we get a lot of false positives and excessive punts to
kblockd, which hurts performance.
The only real abuser of this infrastructure is SCSI. So export
the async queue run and convert SCSI over to use that. There's
room for improvement in that SCSI need not always use the async
call, but this fixes our performance issue and they can fix that
up in due time.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
With all drivers and file systems converted, we only have
in-core use of this function. So remove the export.
Reporteed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly. I've kept
the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If we know we are going to punt to kblockd, we can drop the queue
lock before calling into __blk_run_queue() since it only does a
safe bit test and a workqueue call. Since kblockd needs to grab
this very lock as one of the first things it does, it's a good
optimization to drop the lock before waking kblockd.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
MD can't use this since it really requires us to be able to
keep more than a single piece of state for the unplug. Commit
048c9374 added the required support for MD, so get rid of this
now unused code.
This reverts commit f75664570d.
Conflicts:
block/blk-core.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
md/raid requires an unplug callback, but as it does not uses
requests the current code cannot provide one.
So allow arbitrary callbacks to be attached to the blk_plug.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
It's a pretty close match to what we had before - the timer triggering
would mean that nobody unplugged the plug in due time, in the new
scheme this matches very closely what the schedule() unplug now is.
It's essentially the difference between an explicit unplug (IO unplug)
or an implicit unplug (timer unplug, we scheduled with pending IO
queued).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
For the explicit unplugging, we'd prefer to kick things off
immediately and not pay the penalty of the latency to switch
to kblockd. So let blk_finish_plug() do the run inline, while
the implicit-on-schedule-out unplug will punt to kblockd.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
It's a bit of a mess currently. task->plug is being cleared
and reset in __blk_finish_plug(), and blk_finish_plug() is
testing for a NULL plug which cannot happen even from schedule()
anymore since it uses blk_needs_flush_plug() to determine
whether to call into this function at all.
So get rid of some of the cruft.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
There are worries that we are now consuming a lot more stack in
some cases, since we potentially call into IO dispatch from
schedule() or io_schedule(). We can reduce this problem by moving
the running of the queue to kblockd, like the old plugging scheme
did as well.
This may or may not be a good idea from a performance perspective,
depending on how many tasks have queue plugs running at the same
time. For even the slightly contended case, doing just a single
queue run from kblockd instead of multiple runs directly from the
unpluggers will be faster.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The original use for this dates back to when we had to track write
requests for serializing around barriers. That's not needed anymore,
so kill it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This was removed with the queue plug state. But we can easily readd
by checking if this is the first request going to this queue. It's
good information to have when tracing to see how effective the
plugging is.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
MD would like to know when a queue is unplugged, so it can flush
it's bitmap writes. Add such a callback.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
It was removed with the on-stack plugging, readd it and track the
depth of requests added when flushing the plug.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If the request_fn ends up blocking, we could be re-entering
the plug flush. Since the list is protected by explicitly
not allowing schedule events, this isn't a terribly good idea.
Additionally, it can cause us to recurse. As request_fn called by
__blk_run_queue is allowed to 'schedule()' (after dropping the queue
lock of course), it is possible to get a recursive call:
schedule -> blk_flush_plug -> __blk_finish_plug -> flush_plug_list
-> __blk_run_queue -> request_fn -> schedule
We must make sure that the second schedule does not call into
blk_flush_plug again. So instead of leaving the list of requests on
blk_plug->list, move them to a separate list leaving blk_plug->list
empty.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Comparison function for list_sort() must be anticommutative,
otherwise it is not sorting in ordinary meaning.
But fortunately list_sort() always check ((*cmp)(priv, a, b) <= 0)
it not distinguish negative and zero, so comparison function can
implement only less-or-equal instead of full three-way comparison.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Currently we just dump a non-informative 'request botched' message.
Lets actually try and print something sane to help debug issues
around this.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When the queue work handler was converted to delayed work, the
stopping was inadvertently made sync as well. Change this back
to being async stop, using __cancel_delayed_work() instead of
cancel_delayed_work().
Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
With the introduction of the on-stack plugging, we would assume
that any request being inserted was a normal file system request.
As flush/fua requires a special insert mode, this caused problems.
Fix this up by checking for this in flush_plug_list() and use
the appropriate insert mechanism.
Big thanks goes to Markus Tripplesdorf for tirelessly testing
patches, and to Sergey Senozhatsky for helping find the real
issue.
Reported-by: Markus Tripplesdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
...
Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
One of the disadvantages of on-stack plugging is that we potentially
lose out on merging since all pending IO isn't always visible to
everybody. When we flush the on-stack plugs, right now we don't do
any checks to see if potential merge candidates could be utilized.
Correct this by adding a new insert variant, ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE.
It works just ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT, but first checks whether we can
merge with an existing request before doing the insertion (if we fail
merging).
This fixes a regression with multiple processes issuing IO that
can be merged.
Thanks to Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> for testing and fixing
an accounting bug.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (170 commits)
[SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Add MD36xxf into device list
[SCSI] scsi_debug: add consecutive medium errors
[SCSI] libsas: fix ata list corruption issue
[SCSI] hpsa: export resettable host attribute
[SCSI] hpsa: move device attributes to avoid forward declarations
[SCSI] scsi_debug: Logical Block Provisioning (SBC3r26)
[SCSI] sd: Logical Block Provisioning update
[SCSI] Include protection operation in SCSI command trace
[SCSI] hpsa: fix incorrect PCI IDs and add two new ones (2nd try)
[SCSI] target: Fix volume size misreporting for volumes > 2TB
[SCSI] bnx2fc: Broadcom FCoE offload driver
[SCSI] fcoe: fix broken fcoe interface reset
[SCSI] fcoe: precedence bug in fcoe_filter_frames()
[SCSI] libfcoe: Remove stale fcoe-netdev entries
[SCSI] libfcoe: Move FCOE_MTU definition from fcoe.h to libfcoe.h
[SCSI] libfc: introduce __fc_fill_fc_hdr that accepts fc_hdr as an argument
[SCSI] fcoe, libfc: initialize EM anchors list and then update npiv EMs
[SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] libfc: fix exchange being deleted when the abort itself is timed out"
[SCSI] libfc: Fixing a memory leak when destroying an interface
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog update
...
Fix up trivial conflicts due to whitespace differences in
drivers/scsi/libsas/{sas_ata.c,sas_scsi_host.c}
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.
The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.
The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This merge creates two set of conflicts. One is simple context
conflicts caused by removal of throtl_scheduled_delayed_work() in
for-linus and removal of throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() in
for-2.6.39/core.
The other is caused by commit 255bb490c8 (block: blk-flush shouldn't
call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue()) in for-linus
crashing with FLUSH reimplementation in for-2.6.39/core. The conflict
isn't trivial but the resolution is straight-forward.
* __blk_run_queue() calls in flush_end_io() and flush_data_end_io()
should be called with @force_kblockd set to %true.
* elv_insert() in blk_kick_flush() should use
%ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE.
Both changes are to avoid invoking ->request_fn() directly from
request completion path and closely match the changes in the commit
255bb490c8.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Move blk_throtl_exit() in blk_cleanup_queue() as blk_throtl_exit() is
written in such a way that it needs queue lock. In blk_release_queue()
there is no gurantee that ->queue_lock is still around.
Initially blk_throtl_exit() was in blk_cleanup_queue() but Ingo reported
one problem.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/23/86
And a quick fix moved blk_throtl_exit() to blk_release_queue().
commit 7ad58c0286
Author: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Date: Sat Oct 23 20:40:26 2010 +0200
block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle code
This patch reverts above change and does not try to shutdown the
throtl work in blk_sync_queue(). By avoiding call to
throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() from blk_sync_queue(), we should also avoid
the problem reported by Ingo.
blk_sync_queue() seems to be used only by md driver and it seems to be
using it to make sure q->unplug_fn is not called as md registers its
own unplug functions and it is about to free up the data structures
used by unplug_fn(). Block throttle does not call back into unplug_fn()
or into md. So there is no need to cancel blk throttle work.
In fact I think cancelling block throttle work is bad because it might
happen that some bios are throttled and scheduled to be dispatched later
with the help of pending work and if work is cancelled, these bios might
never be dispatched.
Block layer also uses blk_sync_queue() during blk_cleanup_queue() and
blk_release_queue() time. That should be safe as we are also calling
blk_throtl_exit() which should make sure all the throttling related
data structures are cleaned up.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
There does not seem to be a clear convention whether q->queue_lock is
initialized or not when blk_cleanup_queue() is called. In the past it
was not necessary but now blk_throtl_exit() takes up queue lock by
default and needs queue lock to be available.
In fact elevator_exit() code also has similar requirement just that it
is less stringent in the sense that elevator_exit() is called only if
elevator is initialized.
Two problems have been noticed because of ambiguity about spin lock
status.
- If a driver calls blk_alloc_queue() and then soon calls
blk_cleanup_queue() almost immediately, (because some other
driver structure allocation failed or some other error happened)
then blk_throtl_exit() will run into issues as queue lock is not
initialized. Loop driver ran into this issue recently and I
noticed error paths in md driver too. Similar error paths should
exist in other drivers too.
- If some driver provided external spin lock and zapped the lock
before blk_cleanup_queue(), then it can lead to issues.
So this patch initializes the default queue lock at queue allocation time.
block throttling code is one of the users of queue lock and it is
initialized at the queue allocation time, so it makes sense to
initialize ->queue_lock also to internal lock. A driver can overide that
lock later. This will take care of the issue where a driver does not have
to worry about initializing the queue lock to default before calling
blk_cleanup_queue()
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
__blk_run_queue() automatically either calls q->request_fn() directly
or schedules kblockd depending on whether the function is recursed.
blk-flush implementation needs to be able to explicitly choose
kblockd. Add @force_kblockd.
All the current users are converted to specify %false for the
parameter and this patch doesn't introduce any behavior change.
stable: This is prerequisite for fixing ide oops caused by the new
blk-flush implementation.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Dominik Klein reported a system hang issue while doing some blkio
throttling testing.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/173
o Some tracing revealed that CFQ was not dispatching any more jobs as
queue unplug was not happening. And queue unplug was not happening
because unplug work was not being called as there was one throttling
work on same cpu which as not finished yet. And throttling work had not
finished as it was tyring to dispatch a bio to CFQ but all the request
descriptors were consume to it was put to sleep.
o So basically it is a cyclic dependecny between CFQ unplug work and
throtl dispatch work. Tejun suggested that use separate workqueue for
such cases.
o This patch uses a separate workqueue for throttle related work and
does not rely on kblockd workqueue anymore.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Dominik Klein <dk@in-telegence.net>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Classify severity of I/O errors for target, nexus, and
transport errors.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Skip elevator initialization for flush requests by passing priv=0 to
blk_alloc_request() in get_request(). As such elv_set_request() is
never called for flush requests.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The current FLUSH/FUA support has evolved from the implementation
which had to perform queue draining. As such, sequencing is done
queue-wide one flush request after another. However, with the
draining requirement gone, there's no reason to keep the queue-wide
sequential approach.
This patch reimplements FLUSH/FUA support such that each FLUSH/FUA
request is sequenced individually. The actual FLUSH execution is
double buffered and whenever a request wants to execute one for either
PRE or POSTFLUSH, it queues on the pending queue. Once certain
conditions are met, a flush request is issued and on its completion
all pending requests proceed to the next sequence.
This allows arbitrary merging of different type of flushes. How they
are merged can be primarily controlled and tuned by adjusting the
above said 'conditions' used to determine when to issue the next
flush.
This is inspired by Darrick's patches to merge multiple zero-data
flushes which helps workloads with highly concurrent fsync requests.
* As flush requests are never put on the IO scheduler, request fields
used for flush share space with rq->rb_node. rq->completion_data is
moved out of the union. This increases the request size by one
pointer.
As rq->elevator_private* are used only by the iosched too, it is
possible to reduce the request size further. However, to do that,
we need to modify request allocation path such that iosched data is
not allocated for flush requests.
* FLUSH/FUA processing happens on insertion now instead of dispatch.
- Comments updated as per Vivek and Mike.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
bio's for flush are completed twice - once during the data phase and
one more time after the whole sequence is complete. The first
completion shouldn't notify completion to the issuer.
This was achieved by skipping all bio completion steps in
req_bio_endio() for the first completion; however, this has two
drawbacks.
* Error is not recorded in bio and must be tracked somewhere else.
* Partial completion is not supported.
Both don't cause problems for the current users; however, they make
further improvements difficult. Change req_bio_endio() such that it
only skips the actual notification part for the first completion. bio
completion is implemented with partial completions on mind anyway so
this is as simple as moving the REQ_FLUSH_SEQ conditional such that
only calling of bio_endio() is skipped.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
rq == &q->flush_rq was used to determine whether a rq is part of a
flush sequence, which worked because all requests in a flush sequence
were sequenced using the single dedicated request. This is about to
change, so introduce REQ_FLUSH_SEQ flag to distinguish flush sequence
requests.
This patch doesn't cause any behavior change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
We can't use krefs since it's apparently restricted to very basic
reference counting.
This reverts commit e4a683c8.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
/proc/diskstats would display a strange output as follows.
$ cat /proc/diskstats |grep sda
8 0 sda 90524 7579 102154 20464 0 0 0 0 0 14096 20089
8 1 sda1 19085 1352 21841 4209 0 0 0 0 4294967064 15689 4293424691
~~~~~~~~~~
8 2 sda2 71252 3624 74891 15950 0 0 0 0 232 23995 1562390
8 3 sda3 54 487 2188 92 0 0 0 0 0 88 92
8 4 sda4 4 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 5 sda5 81 2027 2130 138 0 0 0 0 0 87 137
Its reason is the wrong way of accounting hd_struct->in_flight. When a bio is
merged into a request belongs to different partition by ELEVATOR_FRONT_MERGE.
The detailed root cause is as follows.
Assuming that there are two partition, sda1 and sda2.
1. A request for sda2 is in request_queue. Hence sda1's hd_struct->in_flight
is 0 and sda2's one is 1.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | 0
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
2. A bio belongs to sda1 is issued and is merged into the request mentioned on
step1 by ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE. The first sector of the request is changed
from sda2 region to sda1 region. However the two partition's
hd_struct->in_flight are not changed.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | 0
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
3. The request is finished and blk_account_io_done() is called. In this case,
sda2's hd_struct->in_flight, not a sda1's one, is decremented.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | -1
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
The patch fixes the problem by caching the partition lookup
inside the request structure, hence making sure that the increment
and decrement will always happen on the same partition struct. This
also speeds up IO with accounting enabled, since it cuts down on
the number of lookups we have to do.
Also add a refcount to struct hd_struct to keep the partition in
memory as long as users exist. We use kref_test_and_get() to ensure
we don't add a reference to a partition which is going away.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
kblockd is used for unplugging and may affect IO latency and
throughput and the max number of concurrent work items are bound by
the number of block devices. Make it HIGHPRI workqueue w/ default max
concurrency.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers. What's left
at this point is:
- various checks inside the block layer.
- sanity checks in bio based drivers.
- now unused bio_empty_barrier helper.
- Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while,
but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton.
- setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi
drivers.
- scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been
removed when flushes were converted to FS requests.
- blktrace handling of barriers - removed. Someone who knows blktrace
better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Convert direct reads of an inode's i_size to using i_size_read().
i_size_{read,write} use a seqcount to protect reads from accessing
incomple writes. Concurrent i_size_write()s require mutual exclussion
to protect the seqcount that is used by i_size_{read,write}. But
i_size_read() callers do not need to use additional locking.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Jens Axboe