For cloned bio, bio->bi_vcnt can't be used at all, and we
have resort to bio_segments() to figure out how many
segment there are in the bio.
Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

The problem is introduced by commit 764f612c(blk-merge:
don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for cloned bio),
and merge is needed if number of current segment isn't less than
max segments.

Strictly speaking, bio->bi_vcnt shouldn't be used here since
it may not be accurate in cases of both cloned bio or bio cloned
from, but bio_segments() is a bit expensive, and bi_vcnt is still
the biggest number, so the approach should work.
Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

It isn't correct to figure out req->bi_phys_segments from bio->bi_vcnt
if the bio is cloned.
Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Tested-by: NJeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

We'd occasionally merge requests with conflicting integrity flags.
Introduce a merge helper which checks that the requests have compatible
integrity payloads.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NSagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE is set at default for blk-mq devices,
so bio->bi_phys_segment computed may be bigger than
queue_max_segments(q) for blk-mq devices, then drivers will
fail to handle the case, for example, BUG_ON() in
virtio_queue_rq() can be triggerd for virtio-blk:

	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1359146

This patch fixes the issue by ignoring the QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE
flag if the computed bio->bi_phys_segment is bigger than
queue_max_segments(q), and the regression is caused by commit
05f1dd53(block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging).
Reported-by: NKick In <pierre-andre.morey@canonical.com>
Tested-by: NChris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

Another restriction inherited for NVMe - those devices don't support
SG lists that have "gaps" in them. Gaps refers to cases where the
previous SG entry doesn't end on a page boundary. For NVMe, all SG
entries must start at offset 0 (except the first) and end on a page
boundary (except the last).
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

If devices are not SG starved, we waste a lot of time potentially
collapsing SG segments. Enough that 1.5% of the CPU time goes
to this, at only 400K IOPS. Add a queue flag, QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE,
which just returns the number of vectors in a bio instead of looping
over all segments and checking for collapsible ones.

Add a BLK_MQ_F_SG_MERGE flag so that drivers can opt-in on the sg
merging, if they so desire.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

Immutable biovecs changed the way biovecs are interpreted - drivers no
longer use bi_vcnt, they have to go by bi_iter.bi_size (to allow for
using part of an existing segment without modifying it).

This breaks with discards and write_same bios, since for those bi_size
has nothing to do with segments in the biovec. So for now, we need a
fairly gross hack - we fortunately know that there will never be more
than one segment for the entire request, so we can special case
discard/write_same.
Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Tested-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

The uninitialized_var() macro appears to not work on structs...
Get rid of it, and manually initialize instead.
Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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>

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>
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Acked-by: NGeoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>

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>
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Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>6

For blk-mq, if a driver has requested per-request payload data
to carry command structures, they are stuffed into req->special.
For an old style request based driver, req->special is used
for the same purpose but indicates that a per-driver request
structure has been prepared for the request already. So for the
old style driver, we do not merge such requests.

As most/all blk-mq drivers will use the payload feature, and
since we have no problem merging on these, make this check
dependent on whether it's a blk-mq enabled driver or not.
Reported-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

This is useful in places that recycle the same scatterlist multiple
times, and do not want to incur the cost of sg_init_table every
time in hot paths.
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same
block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a
single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device
writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O.

This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The
blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block
drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to
efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

 - blk_check_merge_flags() verifies that cmd_flags / bi_rw are
   compatible. This function is called for both req-req and req-bio
   merging.

 - blk_rq_get_max_sectors() and blk_queue_get_max_sectors() can be used
   to query the maximum sector count for a given request or queue. The
   calls will return the right value from the queue limits given the
   type of command (RW, discard, write same, etc.)
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Remove special-casing of non-rw fs style requests (discard). The nomerge
flags are consolidated in blk_types.h, and rq_mergeable() and
bio_mergeable() have been modified to use them.

bio_is_rw() is used in place of bio_has_data() a few places. This is
done to to distinguish true reads and writes from other fs type requests
that carry a payload (e.g. write same).
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Add a helper to map a bio to a scatterlist, modelled after
blk_rq_map_sg.

This helper is useful for any driver that wants to create
a scatterlist from its ->make_request_fn method.

Changes in v2:
 - Use __blk_segment_map_sg to avoid duplicated code
 - Add cocbook style function comment

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAsias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Split the mapping code in blk_rq_map_sg() to a helper
__blk_segment_map_sg(), so that other mapping function, e.g.
blk_bio_map_sg(), can share the code.

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Suggested-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Suggested-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAsias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

blk_rq_merge_ok() is the elevator-neutral part of merge eligibility
test.  blk_try_merge() determines merge direction and expects the
caller to have tested elv_rq_merge_ok() previously.

elv_rq_merge_ok() now wraps blk_rq_merge_ok() and then calls
elv_iosched_allow_merge().  elv_try_merge() is removed and the two
callers are updated to call elv_rq_merge_ok() explicitly followed by
blk_try_merge().  While at it, make rq_merge_ok() functions return
bool.

This is to prepare for plug merge update and doesn't introduce any
behavior change.

This is based on Jens' patch to skip elevator_allow_merge_fn() from
plug merge.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4F16F3CA.90904@kernel.dk>
Original-patch-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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: NJens 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: NJens 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: NJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NYasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

When stacking devices, a request_queue is not always available. This
forced us to have a no_cluster flag in the queue_limits that could be
used as a carrier until the request_queue had been set up for a
metadevice.

There were several problems with that approach. First of all it was up
to the stacking device to remember to set queue flag after stacking had
completed. Also, the queue flag and the queue limits had to be kept in
sync at all times. We got that wrong, which could lead to us issuing
commands that went beyond the max scatterlist limit set by the driver.

The proper fix is to avoid having two flags for tracking the same thing.
We deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use the queue limit directly in the
block layer merging functions. The queue_limit 'no_cluster' is turned
into 'cluster' to avoid double negatives and to ease stacking.
Clustering defaults to being enabled as before. The queue flag logic is
removed from the stacking function, and explicitly setting the cluster
flag is no longer necessary in DM and MD.
Reported-by: NEd Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

This reverts commit 7681bfee.

Conflicts:

	include/linux/genhd.h

It has numerous issues with the cleanup path and non-elevator
devices. Revert it for now so we can come up with a clean
version without rushing things.
Signed-off-by: NJens 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.

When reloading partition tables, quiesce IO to ensure that no
request references to the partition struct exists. When it is safe
to free the partition table, the IO for that device is restarted
again.
Signed-off-by: NYasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Add logic to prevent two I/O requests being merged if
only one of them is a discard.  Ditto secure discard.

Without this fix, it is possible for write requests
to transform into discard requests.  For example:

  Submit bio 1 to discard 8 sectors from sector n
  Submit bio 2 to write 8 sectors from sector n + 16
  Submit bio 3 to write 8 sectors from sector n + 8

Bio 1 becomes request 1.  Bio 2 becomes request 2.
Bio 3 is merged with request 2, and then subsequently
request 2 is merged with request 1 resulting in just
one I/O request which discards all 24 sectors.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>

(Moved the checks above the position checks /Jens)
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Some controllers have a hardware limit on the number of protection
information scatter-gather list segments they can handle.

Introduce a max_integrity_segments limit in the block layer and provide
a new scsi_host_template setting that allows HBA drivers to provide a
value suitable for the hardware.

Add support for honoring the integrity segment limit when merging both
bios and requests.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>

Just some dead code.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in
struct requests.  This allows much easier grepping for different request
types instead of unwinding through macros.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Except for SCSI no device drivers distinguish between physical and
hardware segment limits.  Consolidate the two into a single segment
limit.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Commit a9327cac added seperate read
and write statistics of in_flight requests. And exported the number
of read and write requests in progress seperately through sysfs.

But  Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> reported getting strange
output from "iostat -kx 2". Global values for service time and
utilization were garbage. For interval values, utilization was always
100%, and service time is higher than normal.

So this was reverted by commit 0f78ab98

The problem was in part_round_stats_single(), I missed the following:
        if (now == part->stamp)
                return;

-       if (part->in_flight) {
+       if (part_in_flight(part)) {
                __part_stat_add(cpu, part, time_in_queue,
                                part_in_flight(part) * (now - part->stamp));
                __part_stat_add(cpu, part, io_ticks, (now - part->stamp));

With this chunk included, the reported regression gets fixed.
Signed-off-by: NNikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>

--
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

This reverts commit a9327cac.

Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> reports:

"with 2.6.32-rc1 I started getting the following strange output from
"iostat -kx 2":
Linux 2.6.31bisect (et2) 	04/10/2009 	_i686_	(2 CPU)

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
          10,70    0,00    3,16   15,75    0,00   70,38

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda              18,22     0,00    0,67    0,01    14,77     0,02
43,94     0,01   10,53 39043915,03 2629219,87
sdb              60,89     9,68   50,79    3,04  1724,43    50,52
65,95     0,70   13,06 488437,47 2629219,87

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           2,72    0,00    0,74    0,00    0,00   96,53

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           6,68    0,00    0,99    0,00    0,00   92,33

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           4,40    0,00    0,73    1,47    0,00   93,40

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     4,00    0,00    3,00     0,00    28,00
18,67     0,06   19,50 333,33 100,00

Global values for service time and utilization are garbage. For
interval values, utilization is always 100%, and service time is
higher than normal.

I bisected it down to:
[a9327cac] Seperate read and write
statistics of in_flight requests
and verified that reverting just that commit indeed solves the issue
on 2.6.32-rc1."

So until this is debugged, revert the bad commit.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Currently, there is a single in_flight counter measuring the number of
requests in the request_queue. But some monitoring tools would like to
know how many read requests and write requests are in progress. Split the
current in_flight counter into two seperate counters for read and write.

This information is exported as a sysfs attribute, as changing the
currently available stat files would break the existing tools.
Signed-off-by: NNikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Update scsi_io_completion() such that it only fails requests till the
next error boundary and retry the leftover.  This enables block layer
to merge requests with different failfast settings and still behave
correctly on errors.  Allow merge of requests of different failfast
settings.

As SCSI is currently the only subsystem which follows failfast status,
there's no need to worry about other block drivers for now.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Failfast has characteristics from other attributes.  When issuing,
executing and successuflly completing requests, failfast doesn't make
any difference.  It only affects how a request is handled on failure.
Allowing requests with different failfast settings to be merged cause
normal IOs to fail prematurely while not allowing has performance
penalties as failfast is used for read aheads which are likely to be
located near in-flight or to-be-issued normal IOs.

This patch introduces the concept of 'mixed merge'.  A request is a
mixed merge if it is merge of segments which require different
handling on failure.  Currently the only mixable attributes are
failfast ones (or lack thereof).

When a bio with different failfast settings is added to an existing
request or requests of different failfast settings are merged, the
merged request is marked mixed.  Each bio carries failfast settings
and the request always tracks failfast state of the first bio.  When
the request fails, blk_rq_err_bytes() can be used to determine how
many bytes can be safely failed without crossing into an area which
requires further retrials.

This allows request merging regardless of failfast settings while
keeping the failure handling correct.

This patch only implements mixed merge but doesn't enable it.  The
next one will update SCSI to make use of mixed merge.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Block layer used to merge requests and bios with different failfast
settings.  This caused regular IOs to fail prematurely when they were
merged into failfast requests for readahead.

Niel Lambrechts could trigger the problem semi-reliably on ext4 when
resuming from STR.  ext4 uses readahead when reading inodes and
combined with the deterministic extra SATA PHY exception cycle during
resume on the specific configuration, non-readahead inode read would
fail causing ext4 errors.  Please read the following thread for
details.

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/23/21

This patch makes block layer reject merging if the failfast settings
don't match.  This is correct but likely to lower IO performance by
preventing regular IOs from mingling into surrounding readahead
requests.  Changes to allow such mixed merges and handle errors
correctly will be added later.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: NNiel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>

Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions
instead of poking the request queue variables directly.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>