Metadata I/Os are scheduled to minimize their impact on user data I/Os.
When there are enough LUNs instantiated (i.e., enough bandwidth), it is
easy to interleave metadata and data one after the other so that
metadata I/Os are the ones being blocked and not vice-versa.

We do this by calculating the distance between the I/Os in terms of the
LUNs that are not in used, and selecting a free LUN that satisfies a
the simple heuristic that metadata is scheduled behind. The per-LUN
semaphores guarantee consistency. This works fine on >1 LUN
configuration. However, when a single LUN is instantiated, this design
leads to a deadlock, where metadata waits to be scheduled on a free LUN.

This patch implements the 1 LUN case by simply scheduling the metadada
I/O after the data I/O. In the process, we refactor the way a line is
replaced to ensure that metadata writes are submitted after data writes
in order to guarantee block sequentiality. Note that, since there is
only one LUN, both I/Os will block each other by design. However, such
configuration only pursues tight read latencies, not write bandwidth.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

When a line is recycled during garbage collection, reads can still be
issued to the line. If the line is freed in the middle of this process,
data corruption might occur.

This patch guarantees that lines are not freed in the middle of reads
that target them (lines). Specifically, we use the existing line
reference to decide when a line is eligible for being freed after the
recycle process.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

For consistency with the rest of pblk, use rqd->end_io to point to the
function taking care of ending the request on the completion path.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Refactor the rqd allocation and free functions so that all I/O types can
use these helper functions.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Each request type sent to the LightNVM subsystem requires different
metadata. Until now, we have tailored this metadata based on write, read
and erase commands. However, pblk uses different metadata for internal
writes that do not hit the write buffer. Instead of abusing the metadata
for reads, create a new request type - internal write to improve
code readability.

In the process, create internal values for each I/O type instead of
abusing the READ/WRITE macros, as suggested by Christoph.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Simplify put bio by doing it on bio end_io instead of manually putting
it on the completion path.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

When a line is selected for recycling by the garbage collector (GC), the
line state changes and the invalid bitmap is frozen, preventing
invalidations from happening. Throughout the GC, the L2P map is checked
to verify that not data being recycled has been updated. The last check
is done before the new map is being stored on the L2P table. Though
this algorithm works, it requires a number of corner cases to be checked
each time the L2P table is being updated. This complicates readability
and is error prone in case that the recycling algorithm is modified.

Instead, this patch makes the invalid bitmap accessible even when the
line is being recycled. When recycled data is being remapped, it is
enough to check the invalid bitmap for the line before updating the L2P
table.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Normalize the way we name ppa variables to improve code readability.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

As part of the mempool audit on pblk, remove unnecessary mempool
allocation checks on mempools.
Reported-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

pblk holds two sector bitmaps: one to keep track of the mapped sectors
while the line is active and another one to keep track of the invalid
sectors. The latter is kept during the whole live of the line, until it
is recycled. Since we cannot guarantee forward progress for the mempool
in this case, get rid of the mempool and simply allocate memory through
kmalloc.
Reported-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Since read and erase paths offer different guarantees for inflight I/Os,
separate the mempools to set the right min_nr for each on creation.
Reported-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

In pblk, we have a mempool to allocate a generic structure that we
pass along workqueues. This is heavily used in the GC path in order
to have enough inflight reads and fully utilize the GC bandwidth.

However, the current GC path copies data to the host memory and puts it
back into the write buffer. This requires a vmalloc allocation for the
data and a memory copy. Thus, guaranteeing the allocation by using a
mempool for the structure in itself does not give us much. Until we
implement support for vector copy to avoid moving data through the host,
just allocate the workqueue structure using kmalloc.

This allows us to have a much smaller mempool.
Reported-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

pblk uses an internal page mempool for allocating pages on internal
bios. The main two users of this memory pool are partial reads (reads
with some sectors in cache and some on media) and padded writes, which
need to add dummy pages to an existing bio already containing valid
data (and with a large enough bioset allocated). In both cases, the
maximum number of pages per bio is defined by the maximum number of
physical sectors supported by the underlying device.

This patch fixes a bad mempool allocation, where the min_nr of elements
on the pool was fixed (to 16), which is lower than the maximum number
of sectors supported by NVMe (as of the time for this patch). Instead,
use the maximum number of allowed sectors reported by the device.
Reported-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

When a REQ_FLUSH reaches pblk, the bio cannot be directly completed.
Instead, data on the write buffer is flushed and the bio is completed on
the completion pah. This might require some sectors to be padded in
order to guarantee a successful write.

This patch fixes a memory leak on the padded pages. A consequence of
this bad free was that internal bios not containing data (only a flush)
were not being completed.

Fixes: a4bd217b ("lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target")
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

This is a trivial change which reuses pblk_gc_should_kick instead of
repeating it again in pblk_rl_free_lines_inc.
Signed-off-by: NRakesh Pandit <rakesh@tuxera.com>
Made it apply to the common case.
Reviewed-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Correct it by converting little endian to cpu endian and also define
a macro for line version so that maintenance is easy.
Signed-off-by: NRakesh Pandit <rakesh@tuxera.com>
Reviewed-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

The two pr_err messages are useless as they don't differentiate
error code.
Signed-off-by: NRakesh Pandit <rakesh@tuxera.com>
Reviewed-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

It seems pblk_dealloc_page would race against pblk_alloc_pages for
line bitmap for sector allocation.The chances are very low but might
as well protect the bitmap properly.
Signed-off-by: NRakesh Pandit <rakesh@tuxera.com>
Reviewed-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

When removing a pblk instance, control the write I/O flow to the
controller as we do in the fast path.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Do bitmap checks only when debug mode is enable. The line bitmap used
for mapping to physical addresses is fairly large (~512KB) and it is
expensive to do this checks on the fast path.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

When removing a pblk instance, pad the current line using asynchronous
I/O. This reduces the removal time from ~1 minute in the worst case to a
couple of seconds.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

For now, we allocate a per I/O buffer for GC data. Since the potential
size of the buffer is 256KB and GC is not in the fast path, do this
allocation with vmalloc. This puts lets pressure on the memory
allocator at no performance cost.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Use the right types and conversions on le64 variables. Reported by
sparse.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Due to user writes being decoupled from media writes because of the need
of an intermediate write buffer, irrecoverable media write errors lead
to pblk stalling; user writes fill up the buffer and end up in an
infinite retry loop.

In order to let user writes fail gracefully, it is necessary for pblk to
keep track of its own internal state and prevent further writes from
being placed into the write buffer.

This patch implements a state machine to keep track of internal errors
and, in case of failure, fail further user writes in an standard way.
Depending on the type of error, pblk will do its best to persist
buffered writes (which are already acknowledged) and close down on a
graceful manner. This way, data might be recovered by re-instantiating
pblk. Such state machine paves out the way for a state-based FTL log.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Make constants to define sizes for internal mempools and workqueues. In
this process, adjust the values to be more meaningful given the internal
constrains of the FTL. In order to do this for workqueues, separate the
current auxiliary workqueue into two dedicated workqueues to manage
lines being closed and bad blocks.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

At the moment, in order to get enough read parallelism, we have recycled
several lines at the same time. This approach has proven not to work
well when reaching capacity, since we end up mixing valid data from all
lines, thus not maintaining a sustainable free/recycled line ratio.

The new design, relies on a two level workqueue mechanism. In the first
level, we read the metadata for a number of lines based on the GC list
they reside on (this is governed by the number of valid sectors in each
line). In the second level, we recycle a single line at a time. Here, we
issue reads in parallel, while a single GC write thread places data in
the write buffer. This design allows to (i) only move data from one line
at a time, thus maintaining a sane free/recycled ration and (ii)
maintain the GC writer busy with recycled data.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Add lockdep assertions on helper functions.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Cleanup unnecessary headers and code lines.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Set a dma area for all I/Os in order to read/write from/to the metadata
stored on the per-sector out-of-bound area.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

smeta size will always be suitable for a kmalloc allocation. Simplify
the code and leave the vmalloc fallback only for emeta, where the pblk
configuration has an impact.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

If a read request is sequential and its size aligns with a
multi-plane page size, use the multi-plane hint to process the I/O in
parallel in the controller.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

After refactoring the metadata path, the backpointer controlling
synced I/Os in a line becomes unnecessary; metadata is scheduled
on the write thread, thus we know when the end of the line is reached
and act on it directly.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

At the moment, line metadata is persisted on a separate work queue, that
is kicked each time that a line is closed. The assumption when designing
this was that freeing the write thread from creating a new write request
was better than the potential impact of writes colliding on the media
(user I/O and metadata I/O). Experimentation has proven that this
assumption is wrong; collision can cause up to 25% of bandwidth and
introduce long tail latencies on the write thread, which potentially
cause user write threads to spend more time spinning to get a free entry
on the write buffer.

This patch moves the metadata logic to the write thread. When a line is
closed, remaining metadata is written in memory and is placed on a
metadata queue. The write thread then takes the metadata corresponding
to the previous line, creates the write request and schedules it to
minimize collisions on the media. Using this approach, we see that we
can saturate the media's bandwidth, which helps reducing both write
latencies and the spinning time for user writer threads.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Read requests allocate some extra memory to store its per I/O context.
Instead of requiring yet another memory pool for other type of requests,
generalize this context allocation (and change naming accordingly).
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Erase I/Os are scheduled with the following goals in mind: (i) minimize
LUNs collisions with write I/Os, and (ii) even out the price of erasing
on every write, instead of putting all the burden on when garbage
collection runs. This works well on the current design, but is specific
to the default mapping algorithm.

This patch generalizes the erase path so that other mapping algorithms
can select an arbitrary line to be erased instead. It also gets rid of
the erase semaphore since it creates jittering for user writes.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Allow to configure the number of maximum sectors per write command
through sysfs. This makes it easier to tune write command sizes for
different controller configurations.
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

When block erases fail, these blocks are marked bad. The number of valid
blocks in the line was not updated, which could cause an infinite loop
on the erase path.

Fix this atomic counter and, in order to avoid taking an irq lock on the
interrupt context, make the erase counters atomic too.

Also, in the case that a significant number of blocks become bad in a
line, the result is the double shared metadata buffer (emeta) to stop
the pipeline until all metadata is flushed to the media. Increase the
number of metadata lines from 2 to 4 to avoid this case.

Fixes: a4bd217b "lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target"
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

When a line allocation fails, for example, due to having too many bad
blocks, free its metadata correctly.

Fixes: a4bd217b "lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target"
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

Fix bad error check

Fixes: a4bd217b "lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target"
Signed-off-by: NJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: NMatias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>