- 18 Dec, 2018 11 commits
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AliOS system security authored
The iv_offset in the mapping table of crypt target is a 64bit number when IV algorithm is plain64, plain64be, essiv or benbi. It will be assigned to iv_offset of struct crypt_config, cc_sector of struct convert_context and iv_sector of struct dm_crypt_request. These structures members are defined as a sector_t. But sector_t is 32bit when CONFIG_LBDAF is not set in 32bit kernel. In this situation sector_t is not big enough to store the 64bit iv_offset. Here is a reproducer. Prepare test image and device (loop is automatically allocated by cryptsetup): # dd if=/dev/zero of=tst.img bs=1M count=1 # echo "tst"|cryptsetup open --type plain -c aes-xts-plain64 \ --skip 500000000000000000 tst.img test On 32bit system (use IV offset value that overflows to 64bit; CONFIG_LBDAF if off) and device checksum is wrong: # dmsetup table test --showkeys 0 2048 crypt aes-xts-plain64 dfa7cfe3c481f2239155739c42e539ae8f2d38f304dcc89d20b26f69daaf0933 3551657984 7:0 0 # sha256sum /dev/mapper/test 533e25c09176632b3794f35303488c4a8f3f965dffffa6ec2df347c168cb6c19 /dev/mapper/test On 64bit system (and on 32bit system with the patch), table and checksum is now correct: # dmsetup table test --showkeys 0 2048 crypt aes-xts-plain64 dfa7cfe3c481f2239155739c42e539ae8f2d38f304dcc89d20b26f69daaf0933 500000000000000000 7:0 0 # sha256sum /dev/mapper/test 5d16160f9d5f8c33d8051e65fdb4f003cc31cd652b5abb08f03aa6fce0df75fc /dev/mapper/test Signed-off-by:
AliOS system security <alios_sys_security@linux.alibaba.com> Tested-and-Reviewed-by:
Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nikos Tsironis authored
When using kcopyd to run callbacks through dm_kcopyd_do_callback() or submitting copy jobs with a source size of 0, the jobs are pushed directly to the complete_jobs list, which could be under processing by the kcopyd thread. As a result, the kcopyd thread can continue running completed jobs indefinitely, without releasing the CPU, as long as someone keeps submitting new completed jobs through the aforementioned paths. Processing of work items, queued for execution on the same CPU as the currently running kcopyd thread, is thus stalled for excessive amounts of time, hurting performance. Running the following test, from the device mapper test suite [1], dmtest run --suite snapshot -n parallel_io_to_many_snaps_N , with 8 active snapshots, we get, in dmesg, messages like the following: [68899.948523] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 95s! [68899.949282] Showing busy workqueues and worker pools: [68899.949288] workqueue events: flags=0x0 [68899.949295] pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256 [68899.949306] pending: vmstat_shepherd, cache_reap [68899.949331] workqueue mm_percpu_wq: flags=0x8 [68899.949337] pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [68899.949345] pending: vmstat_update [68899.949387] workqueue dm_bufio_cache: flags=0x8 [68899.949392] pwq 4: cpus=2 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [68899.949400] pending: work_fn [dm_bufio] [68899.949423] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8 [68899.949429] pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [68899.949437] pending: do_work [dm_mod] [68899.949452] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8 [68899.949458] pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256 [68899.949466] in-flight: 13:do_work [dm_mod] [68899.949474] pending: do_work [dm_mod] [68899.949487] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8 [68899.949493] pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [68899.949501] pending: do_work [dm_mod] [68899.949515] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8 [68899.949521] pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [68899.949529] pending: do_work [dm_mod] [68899.949541] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8 [68899.949547] pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [68899.949555] pending: do_work [dm_mod] [68899.949568] pool 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 hung=95s workers=4 idle: 27130 27223 1084 Fix this by splitting the complete_jobs list into two parts: A user facing part, named callback_jobs, and one used internally by kcopyd, retaining the name complete_jobs. dm_kcopyd_do_callback() and dispatch_job() now push their jobs to the callback_jobs list, which is spliced to the complete_jobs list once, every time the kcopyd thread wakes up. This prevents kcopyd from hogging the CPU indefinitely and causing workqueue stalls. Re-running the aforementioned test: * Workqueue stalls are eliminated * The maximum writing time among all targets is reduced from 09m37.10s to 06m04.85s and the total run time of the test is reduced from 10m43.591s to 7m19.199s [1] https://github.com/jthornber/device-mapper-test-suiteSigned-off-by:Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nikos Tsironis authored
kcopyd has no upper limit to the number of jobs one can allocate and issue. Under certain workloads this can lead to excessive memory usage and workqueue stalls. For example, when creating multiple dm-snapshot targets with a 4K chunk size and then writing to the origin through the page cache. Syncing the page cache causes a large number of BIOs to be issued to the dm-snapshot origin target, which itself issues an even larger (because of the BIO splitting taking place) number of kcopyd jobs. Running the following test, from the device mapper test suite [1], dmtest run --suite snapshot -n many_snapshots_of_same_volume_N , with 8 active snapshots, results in the kcopyd job slab cache growing to 10G. Depending on the available system RAM this can lead to the OOM killer killing user processes: [463.492878] kthreadd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x6040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null), order=1, oom_score_adj=0 [463.492894] kthreadd cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 [463.492948] CPU: 7 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 4.19.0-rc7 #3 [463.492950] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 [463.492952] Call Trace: [463.492964] dump_stack+0x7d/0xbb [463.492973] dump_header+0x6b/0x2fc [463.492987] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xee/0x190 [463.493012] oom_kill_process+0x302/0x370 [463.493021] out_of_memory+0x113/0x560 [463.493030] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xf40/0x1020 [463.493055] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x348/0x3c0 [463.493067] cache_grow_begin+0x81/0x8b0 [463.493072] ? cache_grow_begin+0x874/0x8b0 [463.493078] fallback_alloc+0x1e4/0x280 [463.493092] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xd6/0x370 [463.493098] ? copy_process.part.31+0x1c5/0x20d0 [463.493105] copy_process.part.31+0x1c5/0x20d0 [463.493115] ? __lock_acquire+0x3cc/0x1550 [463.493121] ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70 [463.493129] ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70 [463.493135] ? finish_task_switch+0x90/0x280 [463.493165] _do_fork+0xe0/0x6d0 [463.493191] ? kthreadd+0x19f/0x220 [463.493233] kernel_thread+0x25/0x30 [463.493235] kthreadd+0x1bf/0x220 [463.493242] ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x90/0x90 [463.493248] ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 [463.493279] Mem-Info: [463.493285] active_anon:20631 inactive_anon:4831 isolated_anon:0 [463.493285] active_file:80216 inactive_file:80107 isolated_file:435 [463.493285] unevictable:0 dirty:51266 writeback:109372 unstable:0 [463.493285] slab_reclaimable:31191 slab_unreclaimable:3483521 [463.493285] mapped:526 shmem:4903 pagetables:1759 bounce:0 [463.493285] free:33623 free_pcp:2392 free_cma:0 ... [463.493489] Unreclaimable slab info: [463.493513] Name Used Total [463.493522] bio-6 1028KB 1028KB [463.493525] bio-5 1028KB 1028KB [463.493528] dm_snap_pending_exception 236783KB 243789KB [463.493531] dm_exception 41KB 42KB [463.493534] bio-4 1216KB 1216KB [463.493537] bio-3 439396KB 439396KB [463.493539] kcopyd_job 6973427KB 6973427KB ... [463.494340] Out of memory: Kill process 1298 (ruby2.3) score 1 or sacrifice child [463.494673] Killed process 1298 (ruby2.3) total-vm:435740kB, anon-rss:20180kB, file-rss:4kB, shmem-rss:0kB [463.506437] oom_reaper: reaped process 1298 (ruby2.3), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB Moreover, issuing a large number of kcopyd jobs results in kcopyd hogging the CPU, while processing them. As a result, processing of work items, queued for execution on the same CPU as the currently running kcopyd thread, is stalled for long periods of time, hurting performance. Running the aforementioned test we get, in dmesg, messages like the following: [67501.194592] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 27s! [67501.195586] Showing busy workqueues and worker pools: [67501.195591] workqueue events: flags=0x0 [67501.195597] pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [67501.195611] pending: cache_reap [67501.195641] workqueue mm_percpu_wq: flags=0x8 [67501.195645] pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [67501.195656] pending: vmstat_update [67501.195682] workqueue kblockd: flags=0x18 [67501.195687] pwq 5: cpus=2 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 active=1/256 [67501.195698] pending: blk_timeout_work [67501.195753] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8 [67501.195757] pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [67501.195768] pending: do_work [dm_mod] [67501.195802] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8 [67501.195806] pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [67501.195817] pending: do_work [dm_mod] [67501.195834] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8 [67501.195838] pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [67501.195848] pending: do_work [dm_mod] [67501.195881] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8 [67501.195885] pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 [67501.195896] pending: do_work [dm_mod] [67501.195920] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8 [67501.195924] pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256 [67501.195935] in-flight: 67:do_work [dm_mod] [67501.195945] pending: do_work [dm_mod] [67501.195961] pool 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 hung=27s workers=3 idle: 129 23765 The root cause for these issues is the way dm-snapshot uses kcopyd. In particular, the lack of an explicit or implicit limit to the maximum number of in-flight COW jobs. The merging path is not affected because it implicitly limits the in-flight kcopyd jobs to one. Fix these issues by using a semaphore to limit the maximum number of in-flight kcopyd jobs. We grab the semaphore before allocating a new kcopyd job in start_copy() and start_full_bio() and release it after the job finishes in copy_callback(). The initial semaphore value is configurable through a module parameter, to allow fine tuning the maximum number of in-flight COW jobs. Setting this parameter to zero initializes the semaphore to INT_MAX. A default value of 2048 maximum in-flight kcopyd jobs was chosen. This value was decided experimentally as a trade-off between memory consumption, stalling the kernel's workqueues and maintaining a high enough throughput. Re-running the aforementioned test: * Workqueue stalls are eliminated * kcopyd's job slab cache uses a maximum of 130MB * The time taken by the test to write to the snapshot-origin target is reduced from 05m20.48s to 03m26.38s [1] https://github.com/jthornber/device-mapper-test-suiteSigned-off-by: -
Shenghui Wang authored
* Hashtable has been replaced by rbtree to manage buffers. Update the comment. * Fix typo in the comment for dm_bufio_issue_flush Signed-off-by:
Shenghui Wang <shhuiw@foxmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Shenghui Wang authored
The error msg should be "flush thread" instead of "endio thread" for writecache_flush_thread. Signed-off-by:
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Mike Snitzer authored
No need to be so fancy. Signed-off-by: -
wuzhouhui authored
The workqueues are shared by many multipath devices, only flush whole workqueue when necessary. Otherwise, we just flush works as needed. Signed-off-by:
wuzhouhui <wuzhouhui14@mails.ucas.ac.cn> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Snitzer authored
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Indirect calls are inefficient because of retpolines that are used for spectre workaround. This patch replaces an indirect call with a condition (that can be predicted by the branch predictor). Signed-off-by:
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Ming Lei authored
The queue mapping of type poll only exists when set->map[HCTX_TYPE_POLL].nr_queues is bigger than zero, so enhance the constraint by checking .nr_queues of type poll before enabling IO poll. Otherwise IO race & timeout can be observed when running block/007. Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Jens Axboe authored
There's a single user of this function, dm, and dm just wants to check if IO is inflight, not that it's just allocated. This fixes a hang with srp/002 in blktests with dm, where it tries to suspend but waits for inflight IO to finish first. As it checks for just allocated requests, this fails. Tested-by:
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- 17 Dec, 2018 11 commits
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Ming Lei authored
From 7e849dd9 ("nvme-pci: don't share queue maps"), the mapping table won't be initialized actually if map->nr_queues is zero, so we can't use blk_mq_map_queue_type() to retrieve hctx any more. This way still may cause broken mapping, fix it by skipping zero-queues maps in blk_mq_map_swqueue(). Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
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Dennis Zhou authored
The blk-iolatency controller measures the time from rq_qos_throttle() to rq_qos_done_bio() and attributes this time to the first bio that needs to create the request. This means if a bio is plug-mergeable or bio-mergeable, it gets to bypass the blk-iolatency controller. The recent series [1], to tag all bios w/ blkgs undermined how iolatency was determining which bios it was charging and should process in rq_qos_done_bio(). Because all bios are being tagged, this caused the atomic_t for the struct rq_wait inflight count to underflow and result in a stall. This patch adds a new flag BIO_TRACKED to let controllers know that a bio is going through the rq_qos path. blk-iolatency now checks if this flag is set to see if it should process the bio in rq_qos_done_bio(). Overloading BLK_QUEUE_ENTERED works, but makes the flag rules confusing. BIO_THROTTLED was another candidate, but the flag is set for all bios that have gone through blk-throttle code. Overloading a flag comes with the burden of making sure that when either implementation changes, a change in setting rules for one doesn't cause a bug in the other. So here, we unfortunately opt for adding a new flag. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181205171039.73066-1-dennis@kernel.org/ Fixes: 5cdf2e3f ("blkcg: associate blkg when associating a device") Signed-off-by:
Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ming Lei authored
When a request is added to rq list of sw queue(ctx), the rq may be from a different type of hctx, especially after multi queue mapping is introduced. So when dispach request from sw queue via blk_mq_flush_busy_ctxs() or blk_mq_dequeue_from_ctx(), one request belonging to other queue type of hctx can be dispatched to current hctx in case that read queue or poll queue is enabled. This patch fixes this issue by introducing per-queue-type list. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Damien Le Moal authored
For a zoned block device using mq-deadline, if a write request for a zone is received while another write was already dispatched for the same zone, dd_dispatch_request() will return NULL and the newly inserted write request is kept in the scheduler queue waiting for the ongoing zone write to complete. With this behavior, when no other request has been dispatched, rq_list in blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests() is empty and blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx() not called. This in turn leads to __blk_mq_free_request() call of blk_mq_sched_restart() to not run the queue when the already dispatched write request completes. The newly dispatched request stays stuck in the scheduler queue until eventually another request is submitted. This problem does not affect SCSI disk as the SCSI stack handles queue restart on request completion. However, this problem is can be triggered the nullblk driver with zoned mode enabled. Fix this by always requesting a queue restart in dd_dispatch_request() if no request was dispatched while WRITE requests are queued. Fixes: 5700f691 ("mq-deadline: Introduce zone locking support") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Add missing export of blk_mq_sched_restart() Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Now that the block layer checks if a queue map has any queues inside it there is no more reason to duplicate the maps for the non-default types. Reviewed-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
We should check if a given queue map actually has queues enabled before dispatching to it. This allows drivers to not initialize optional but not used map types, which subsequently will allow fixing problems with queue map rebuilds for that case. Reviewed-by:
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Ming Lei authored
Now we only export hctx->type via sysfs, and there isn't such info in hctx entry under debugfs. We often use debugfs only to diagnose queue mapping issue, so add the support in debugfs. Queue mapping becomes a bit more complicated after multiple queue mapping is supported, we may write blktest to verify if queue mapping is valid based on blk-mq-debugfs. Given not necessary to export hctx->type twice, so remove the export from sysfs. Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
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Ming Lei authored
Type of each element in queue mapping table is 'unsigned int, intead of 'struct blk_mq_queue_map)', so fix it. Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by:
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Ming Lei authored
This information is helpful to either investigate issues, or understand wbt's internal behaviour. Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ming Lei authored
blk-mq-debugfs has been proved as very helpful for debug some tough issues, such as IO hang. We have seen blk-wbt related IO hang several times, even inside Red Hat BZ, there is such report not sovled yet, so this patch adds support debugfs on rq_qos. Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by:
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Damien Le Moal authored
Add the description of the zoned, nr_zones and chunk_sectors sysfs queue attributes to Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt. The description of the zoned and chunk_sector attributes are mostly copied from ABI/testing/sysfs-block (added a typo fix). While at it, also fix a typo in the description of the io_poll_delay attribute. nr_zones description is also added to ABI/testing/sysfs-block and contact email address updated for the zoned attribute. Signed-off-by:
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- 16 Dec, 2018 8 commits
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Chengguang Xu authored
blk_mq_init_queue() will not return NULL pointer to its caller, so it's better to replace IS_ERR_OR_NULL using IS_ERR in loop_add(). If in the future things change to check NULL pointer inside loop_add(), we should return -ENOMEM as return code instead of PTR_ERR(NULL). Signed-off-by:
Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com> Signed-off-by:
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Chengguang Xu authored
Add __exit annotation to cleanup helper which is only called once in the module. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
This prevents a HIPRI bio from being submitted through a stacking driver that does not support polling and thus won't poll for I/O completion. Signed-off-by:
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Jianchao Wang authored
Replace blk_mq_request_issue_directly with blk_mq_try_issue_directly in blk_insert_cloned_request and kill it as nobody uses it any more. Signed-off-by:
Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jianchao Wang authored
It is not necessary to issue request directly with bypass 'true' in blk_mq_sched_insert_requests and handle the non-issued requests itself. Just set bypass to 'false' and let blk_mq_try_issue_directly handle them totally. Remove the blk_rq_can_direct_dispatch check, because blk_mq_try_issue_directly can handle it well.If request is direct-issued unsuccessfully, insert the reset. Signed-off-by:
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Jianchao Wang authored
Merge blk_mq_try_issue_directly and __blk_mq_try_issue_directly into one interface to unify the interfaces to issue requests directly. The merged interface takes over the requests totally, it could insert, end or do nothing based on the return value of .queue_rq and 'bypass' parameter. Then caller needn't any other handling any more and then code could be cleaned up. And also the commit c616cbee ( blk-mq: punt failed direct issue to dispatch list ) always inserts requests to hctx dispatch list whenever get a BLK_STS_RESOURCE or BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE, this is overkill and will harm the merging. We just need to do that for the requests that has been through .queue_rq. This patch also could fix this. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
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Christoph Hellwig authored
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- 14 Dec, 2018 4 commits
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Christoph Hellwig authored
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Christoph Hellwig authored
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Christoph Hellwig authored
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- 13 Dec, 2018 6 commits
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Sagi Grimberg authored
free the controller discard_page correctly. Fixes: cb5b7262 ("nvme: provide fallback for discard alloc failure") Signed-off-by:
Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by:
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git://git.infradead.org/nvmeJens Axboe authored
Pull NVMe updates from Christoph: "Here is the second large chunk of nvme updates for 4.21: - host and target support for NVMe over TCP (Sagi Grimberg, Roy Shterman, Solganik Alexander) - error log page support in target (Chaitanya Kulkarni) plus small fixes and improvements from Jens Axboe and Chengguang Xu." * 'nvme-4.21' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme: (33 commits) nvme-rdma: support separate queue maps for read and write nvme-tcp: support separate queue maps for read and write nvme-fabrics: allow user to set nr_write_queues for separate queue maps nvme-fabrics: add missing nvmf_ctrl_options documentation blk-mq-rdma: pass in queue map to blk_mq_rdma_map_queues nvmet: update smart log with num err log entries nvmet: add error log page cmd handler nvmet: add error log support for file backend nvmet: add error log support for bdev backend nvmet: add error log support for admin-cmd nvmet: add error log support for rdma backend nvmet: add error log support for fabrics-cmd nvmet: add error log support in the core nvmet: add interface to update error-log page nvmet: add error-log definitions nvme: add error log page slot definition nvme: remove nvme_common command cdw10 array nvmet: remove unused variable nvme: provide fallback for discard alloc failure nvme: add __exit annotation ...
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Guoju Fang authored
Sometimes flush journal may be very frequent, so it's useful to dump number of keys every time write journal. Signed-off-by:
Guoju Fang <fangguoju@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Coly Li authored
Because CUTOFF_WRITEBACK is defined as 40, so before the changes of dynamic cutoff writeback values, writeback_percent is limited to [0, CUTOFF_WRITEBACK]. Any value larger than CUTOFF_WRITEBACK will be fixed up to 40. Now cutof writeback limit is a dynamic value bch_cutoff_writeback, so the range of writeback_percent can be a more flexible range as [0, bch_cutoff_writeback]. The flexibility is, it can be expended to a larger or smaller range than [0, 40], depends on how value bch_cutoff_writeback is specified. The default value is still strongly recommended to most of users for most of workloads. But for people who want to do research on bcache writeback perforamnce tuning, they may have chance to specify more flexible writeback_percent in range [0, 70]. Signed-off-by:
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Coly Li authored
Currently the cutoff writeback and cutoff writeback sync thresholds are defined by CUTOFF_WRITEBACK (40) and CUTOFF_WRITEBACK_SYNC (70) as static values. Most of time these they work fine, but when people want to do research on bcache writeback mode performance tuning, there is no chance to modify the soft and hard cutoff writeback values. This patch introduces two module parameters bch_cutoff_writeback_sync and bch_cutoff_writeback which permit people to tune the values when loading bcache.ko. If they are not specified by module loading, current values CUTOFF_WRITEBACK_SYNC and CUTOFF_WRITEBACK will be used as default and nothing changes. When people want to tune this two values, - cutoff_writeback can be set in range [1, 70] - cutoff_writeback_sync can be set in range [1, 90] - cutoff_writeback always <= cutoff_writeback_sync The default values are strongly recommended to most of users for most of workloads. Anyway, if people wants to take their own risk to do research on new writeback cutoff tuning for their own workload, now they can make it. Signed-off-by:
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Coly Li authored
This patch moves MODULE_AUTHOR and MODULE_LICENSE to end of super.c, and add MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Bcache: a Linux block layer cache"). This is preparation for adding module parameters. Signed-off-by:
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