1. 22 5月, 2015 1 次提交
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      block: remove management of bi_remaining when restoring original bi_end_io · 326e1dbb
      Mike Snitzer 提交于
      Commit c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for
      non-chains") regressed all existing callers that followed this pattern:
       1) saving a bio's original bi_end_io
       2) wiring up an intermediate bi_end_io
       3) restoring the original bi_end_io from intermediate bi_end_io
       4) calling bio_endio() to execute the restored original bi_end_io
      
      The regression was due to BIO_CHAIN only ever getting set if
      bio_inc_remaining() is called.  For the above pattern it isn't set until
      step 3 above (step 2 would've needed to establish BIO_CHAIN).  As such
      the first bio_endio(), in step 2 above, never decremented __bi_remaining
      before calling the intermediate bi_end_io -- leaving __bi_remaining with
      the value 1 instead of 0.  When bio_inc_remaining() occurred during step
      3 it brought it to a value of 2.  When the second bio_endio() was
      called, in step 4 above, it should've called the original bi_end_io but
      it didn't because there was an extra reference that wasn't dropped (due
      to atomic operations being optimized away since BIO_CHAIN wasn't set
      upfront).
      
      Fix this issue by removing the __bi_remaining management complexity for
      all callers that use the above pattern -- bio_chain() is the only
      interface that _needs_ to be concerned with __bi_remaining.  For the
      above pattern callers just expect the bi_end_io they set to get called!
      Remove bio_endio_nodec() and also remove all bio_inc_remaining() calls
      that aren't associated with the bio_chain() interface.
      
      Also, the bio_inc_remaining() interface has been moved local to bio.c.
      
      Fixes: c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for non-chains")
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      326e1dbb
  2. 06 5月, 2015 2 次提交
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      bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_cnt for most use cases · dac56212
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      Struct bio has a reference count that controls when it can be freed.
      Most uses cases is allocating the bio, which then returns with a
      single reference to it, doing IO, and then dropping that single
      reference. We can remove this atomic_dec_and_test() in the completion
      path, if nobody else is holding a reference to the bio.
      
      If someone does call bio_get() on the bio, then we flag the bio as
      now having valid count and that we must properly honor the reference
      count when it's being put.
      Tested-by: NRobert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      dac56212
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      bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for non-chains · c4cf5261
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      Struct bio has an atomic ref count for chained bio's, and we use this
      to know when to end IO on the bio. However, most bio's are not chained,
      so we don't need to always introduce this atomic operation as part of
      ending IO.
      
      Add a helper to elevate the bi_remaining count, and flag the bio as
      now actually needing the decrement at end_io time. Rename the field
      to __bi_remaining to catch any current users of this doing the
      incrementing manually.
      
      For high IOPS workloads, this reduces the overhead of bio_endio()
      substantially.
      Tested-by: NRobert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
      Acked-by: NKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
      Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      c4cf5261
  3. 06 2月, 2015 3 次提交
  4. 24 11月, 2014 1 次提交
  5. 04 10月, 2014 1 次提交
  6. 01 10月, 2014 1 次提交
  7. 27 9月, 2014 7 次提交
  8. 02 7月, 2014 1 次提交
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      bio-integrity: add "bip_max_vcnt" into struct bio_integrity_payload · cbcd1054
      Gu Zheng 提交于
      Commit 08778795 ("block: Fix nr_vecs for inline integrity vectors") from
      Martin introduces the function bip_integrity_vecs(get the useful vectors)
      to fix the issue about nr_vecs for inline integrity vectors that reported
      by David Milburn.
      
      But it seems that bip_integrity_vecs() will return the wrong number if the
      bio is not based on any bio_set for some reason(bio->bi_pool == NULL),
      because in that case, the bip_inline_vecs[0] is malloced directly.  So
      here we add the bip_max_vcnt to record the count of vector slots, and
      cleanup the function bip_integrity_vecs().
      Signed-off-by: NGu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
      Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      cbcd1054
  9. 25 6月, 2014 2 次提交
  10. 23 4月, 2014 1 次提交
  11. 09 4月, 2014 1 次提交
  12. 02 4月, 2014 1 次提交
  13. 11 2月, 2014 1 次提交
  14. 10 2月, 2014 1 次提交
  15. 24 11月, 2013 13 次提交
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      block: Kill bio_pair_split() · 4b1faf93
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      4b1faf93
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      block: Introduce new bio_split() · 20d0189b
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      The new bio_split() can split arbitrary bios - it's not restricted to
      single page bios, like the old bio_split() (previously renamed to
      bio_pair_split()). It also has different semantics - it doesn't allocate
      a struct bio_pair, leaving it up to the caller to handle completions.
      
      Then convert the existing bio_pair_split() users to the new bio_split()
      - and also nvme, which was open coding bio splitting.
      
      (We have to take that BUG_ON() out of bio_integrity_trim() because this
      bio_split() needs to use it, and there's no reason it has to be used on
      bios marked as cloned; BIO_CLONED doesn't seem to have clearly
      documented semantics anyways.)
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
      Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
      Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
      Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      20d0189b
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      block: Rename bio_split() -> bio_pair_split() · ee67891b
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      This is prep work for introducing a more general bio_split().
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
      Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
      Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
      ee67891b
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      block: Generic bio chaining · 196d38bc
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      This adds a generic mechanism for chaining bio completions. This is
      going to be used for a bio_split() replacement, and it turns out to be
      very useful in a fair amount of driver code - a fair number of drivers
      were implementing this in their own roundabout ways, often painfully.
      
      Note that this means it's no longer to call bio_endio() more than once
      on the same bio! This can cause problems for drivers that save/restore
      bi_end_io. Arguably they shouldn't be saving/restoring bi_end_io at all
      - in all but the simplest cases they'd be better off just cloning the
      bio, and immutable biovecs is making bio cloning cheaper. But for now,
      we add a bio_endio_nodec() for these cases.
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      196d38bc
    • K
      dm: Refactor for new bio cloning/splitting · 1c3b13e6
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      We need to convert the dm code to the new bvec_iter primitives which
      respect bi_bvec_done; they also allow us to drastically simplify dm's
      bio splitting code.
      
      Also, it's no longer necessary to save/restore the bvec array anymore -
      driver conversions for immutable bvecs are done, so drivers should never
      be modifying it.
      
      Also kill bio_sector_offset(), dm was the only user and it doesn't make
      much sense anymore.
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
      Reviewed-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      1c3b13e6
    • K
      block: Add bio_clone_fast() · 59d276fe
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      bio_clone() just got more expensive - however, most users of bio_clone()
      don't actually need to modify the biovec. If they aren't modifying the
      biovec, and they can guarantee that the original bio isn't freed before
      the clone (also true in most cases), we can just point the clone at the
      original bio's biovec.
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      59d276fe
    • K
      block: Kill bio_iovec_idx(), __bio_iovec() · f619d254
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      bio_iovec_idx() and __bio_iovec() don't have any valid uses anymore -
      previous users have been converted to bio_iovec_iter() or other methods.
      
      __BVEC_END() has to go too - the bvec array can't be used directly for
      the last biovec because we might only be using the first portion of it,
      we have to iterate over the bvec array with bio_for_each_segment() which
      checks against the current value of bi_iter.bi_size.
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      f619d254
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      block: Kill bio_segments()/bi_vcnt usage · 458b76ed
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      When we start sharing biovecs, keeping bi_vcnt accurate for splits is
      going to be error prone - and unnecessary, if we refactor some code.
      
      So bio_segments() has to go - but most of the existing users just needed
      to know if the bio had multiple segments, which is easier - add a
      bio_multiple_segments() for them.
      
      (Two of the current uses of bio_segments() are going to go away in a
      couple patches, but the current implementation of bio_segments() is
      unsafe as soon as we start doing driver conversions for immutable
      biovecs - so implement a dumb version for bisectability, it'll go away
      in a couple patches)
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com>
      Cc: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com>
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
      458b76ed
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      bio-integrity: Convert to bvec_iter · d57a5f7c
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      The bio integrity is also stored in a bvec array, so if we use the bvec
      iter code we just added, the integrity code won't need to implement its
      own iteration stuff (bio_integrity_mark_head(), bio_integrity_mark_tail())
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
      d57a5f7c
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      block: Immutable bio vecs · 4550dd6c
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      This adds a mechanism by which we can advance a bio by an arbitrary
      number of bytes without modifying the biovec: bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done
      indicates the number of bytes completed in the current bvec.
      
      Various driver code still needs to be updated to not refer to the bvec
      directly before we can use this for interesting things, like efficient
      bio splitting.
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
      Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
      Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
      Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
      4550dd6c
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      block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter · 7988613b
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      More prep work for immutable biovecs - with immutable bvecs drivers
      won't be able to use the biovec directly, they'll need to use helpers
      that take into account bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done.
      
      This updates callers for the new usage without changing the
      implementation yet.
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
      Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
      Cc: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
      Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
      Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
      Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
      Cc: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
      Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
      Cc: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com>
      Cc: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com>
      Cc: support@lsi.com
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
      Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
      Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
      Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
      Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
      Cc: Quoc-Son Anh <quoc-sonx.anh@intel.com>
      Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
      Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
      Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
      Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
      Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
      Cc: cbe-oss-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
      Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
      Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
      Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: DL-MPTFusionLinux@lsi.com
      Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
      Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
      Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
      Acked-by: NGeoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
      7988613b
    • K
      block: Convert bio_iovec() to bvec_iter · a4ad39b1
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      For immutable biovecs, we'll be introducing a new bio_iovec() that uses
      our new bvec iterator to construct a biovec, taking into account
      bvec_iter->bi_bvec_done - this patch updates existing users for the new
      usage.
      
      Some of the existing users really do need a pointer into the bvec array
      - those uses are all going to be removed, but we'll need the
      functionality from immutable to remove them - so for now rename the
      existing bio_iovec() -> __bio_iovec(), and it'll be removed in a couple
      patches.
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
      Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
      a4ad39b1
    • K
      block: Abstract out bvec iterator · 4f024f37
      Kent Overstreet 提交于
      Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
      implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
      member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
      things.
      Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
      Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
      Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
      Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
      Cc: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
      Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
      Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
      Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
      Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
      Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
      Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org>
      Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
      Cc: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
      Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
      Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
      Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
      Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
      Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
      Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
      Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
      Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
      Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
      Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
      Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
      Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
      Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
      Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
      Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
      Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchand@redhat.com>
      Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
      Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
      Cc: fanchaoting <fanchaoting@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
      Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
      Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
      Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
      Cc: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
      Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>6
      4f024f37
  16. 09 11月, 2013 1 次提交
  17. 25 10月, 2013 1 次提交
    • J
      blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism · 320ae51f
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      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: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      320ae51f
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