1. 19 Jan, 2018 1 commit
    • Joseph Qi's avatar
      blk-throttle: track read and write request individually · b889bf66
      Joseph Qi authored
      In mixed read/write workload on SSD, write latency is much lower than
      read. But now we only track and record read latency and then use it as
      threshold base for both read and write io latency accounting. As a
      result, write io latency will always be considered as good and
      bad_bio_cnt is much smaller than 20% of bio_cnt. That is to mean, the
      tg to be checked will be treated as idle most of the time and still let
      others dispatch more ios, even it is truly running under low limit and
      wants its low limit to be guaranteed, which is not we expected in fact.
      So track read and write request individually, which can bring more
      precise latency control for low limit idle detection.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoseph Qi <qijiang.qj@alibaba-inc.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      b889bf66
  2. 18 Jan, 2018 9 commits
  3. 17 Jan, 2018 7 commits
    • Bart Van Assche's avatar
      block: Fix __bio_integrity_endio() documentation · de99a346
      Bart Van Assche authored
      Fixes: 4246a0b6 ("block: add a bi_error field to struct bio")
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      de99a346
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      blk-mq-sched: remove unused 'can_block' arg from blk_mq_sched_insert_request · 9e97d295
      Mike Snitzer authored
      After commit:
      
      923218f6 ("blk-mq: don't allocate driver tag upfront for flush rq")
      
      we no longer use the 'can_block' argument in
      blk_mq_sched_insert_request(). Kill it.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      
      Added actual commit message as to why it's being removed.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      9e97d295
    • Ming Lei's avatar
      blk-mq: improve DM's blk-mq IO merging via blk_insert_cloned_request feedback · 396eaf21
      Ming Lei authored
      blk_insert_cloned_request() is called in the fast path of a dm-rq driver
      (e.g. blk-mq request-based DM mpath).  blk_insert_cloned_request() uses
      blk_mq_request_bypass_insert() to directly append the request to the
      blk-mq hctx->dispatch_list of the underlying queue.
      
      1) This way isn't efficient enough because the hctx spinlock is always
      used.
      
      2) With blk_insert_cloned_request(), we completely bypass underlying
      queue's elevator and depend on the upper-level dm-rq driver's elevator
      to schedule IO.  But dm-rq currently can't get the underlying queue's
      dispatch feedback at all.  Without knowing whether a request was issued
      or not (e.g. due to underlying queue being busy) the dm-rq elevator will
      not be able to provide effective IO merging (as a side-effect of dm-rq
      currently blindly destaging a request from its elevator only to requeue
      it after a delay, which kills any opportunity for merging).  This
      obviously causes very bad sequential IO performance.
      
      Fix this by updating blk_insert_cloned_request() to use
      blk_mq_request_direct_issue().  blk_mq_request_direct_issue() allows a
      request to be issued directly to the underlying queue and returns the
      dispatch feedback (blk_status_t).  If blk_mq_request_direct_issue()
      returns BLK_SYS_RESOURCE the dm-rq driver will now use DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE
      to _not_ destage the request.  Whereby preserving the opportunity to
      merge IO.
      
      With this, request-based DM's blk-mq sequential IO performance is vastly
      improved (as much as 3X in mpath/virtio-scsi testing).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
      [blk-mq.c changes heavily influenced by Ming Lei's initial solution, but
      they were refactored to make them less fragile and easier to read/review]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      396eaf21
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      blk-mq: factor out a few helpers from __blk_mq_try_issue_directly · 0f95549c
      Mike Snitzer authored
      No functional change.  Just makes code flow more logically.
      
      In following commit, __blk_mq_try_issue_directly() will be used to
      return the dispatch result (blk_status_t) to DM.  DM needs this
      information to improve IO merging.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      0f95549c
    • Ming Lei's avatar
      blk-mq: turn WARN_ON in __blk_mq_run_hw_queue into printk · 7df938fb
      Ming Lei authored
      We know this WARN_ON is harmless and in reality it may be trigged,
      so convert it to printk() and dump_stack() to avoid to confusing
      people.
      
      Also add comment about two releated races here.
      
      Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "jianchao.wang" <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      7df938fb
    • Ming Lei's avatar
      blk-mq: make sure hctx->next_cpu is set correctly · 7bed4595
      Ming Lei authored
      When hctx->next_cpu is set from possible online CPUs, there is one
      race in which hctx->next_cpu may be set as >= nr_cpu_ids, and finally
      break workqueue.
      
      The race can be triggered in the following two sitations:
      
      1) when one CPU is becoming DEAD, blk_mq_hctx_notify_dead() is called
      to dispatch requests from the DEAD cpu context, but at that
      time, this DEAD CPU has been cleared from 'cpu_online_mask', so all
      CPUs in hctx->cpumask may become offline, and cause hctx->next_cpu set
      a bad value.
      
      2) blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() is called from CPU B, and found the queue
      should be run on the other CPU A, then CPU A may become offline at the
      same time and all CPUs in hctx->cpumask become offline.
      
      This patch deals with this issue by re-selecting next CPU, and making
      sure it is set correctly.
      
      Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Reported-by: default avatar"jianchao.wang" <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
      Tested-by: default avatar"jianchao.wang" <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
      Fixes: 20e4d813 ("blk-mq: simplify queue mapping & schedule with each possisble CPU")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      7bed4595
    • Tina Ruchandani's avatar
      aoe: use ktime_t instead of timeval · 85cf955d
      Tina Ruchandani authored
      'struct frame' uses two variables to store the sent timestamp - 'struct
      timeval' and jiffies. jiffies is used to avoid discrepancies caused by
      updates to system time. 'struct timeval' is deprecated because it uses
      32-bit representation for seconds which will overflow in year 2038.
      
      This patch does the following:
      - Replace the use of 'struct timeval' and jiffies with ktime_t, which
        is the recommended type for timestamping
      - ktime_t provides both long range (like jiffies) and high resolution
        (like timeval). Using ktime_get (monotonic time) instead of wall-clock
        time prevents any discprepancies caused by updates to system time.
      
      [updates by Arnd below]
      The original patch from Tina never went anywhere as we discussed how
      to keep the impact on performance minimal. I've started over now but
      arrived at basically the same patch that she had originally, except for
      an slightly improved tsince_hr() function. I'm making it more robust
      against overflows, and also optimize explicitly for the common case
      in which a frame is less than 4.2 seconds old, using only a 32-bit
      division in that case.
      
      This should make the new version more efficient than the old code,
      since we replace the existing two 32-bit division in do_gettimeofday()
      plus one multiplication with a single single 32-bit division in
      tsince_hr() and drop the double bookkeeping. It's also more efficient
      than the ktime_get_us() API we discussed before, since that would
      also rely on multiple divisions.
      
      Link: https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/y2038/2015-May/000276.htmlSigned-off-by: default avatarTina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ed Cashin <ed.cashin@acm.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      85cf955d
  4. 16 Jan, 2018 1 commit
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      blkcg: simplify statistic accumulation code · ddc21231
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      Some older compilers (gcc-4.4 through 4.6 in particular) struggle
      with the way that blkg_rwstat_read() returns a structure, leading
      to excessive stack usage and rather inefficient code:
      
      block/blk-cgroup.c: In function 'blkg_destroy':
      block/blk-cgroup.c:354:1: error: the frame size of 1296 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
      block/cfq-iosched.c: In function 'cfqg_stats_add_aux':
      block/cfq-iosched.c:753:1: error: the frame size of 1928 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
      block/bfq-cgroup.c: In function 'bfqg_stats_add_aux':
      block/bfq-cgroup.c:299:1: error: the frame size of 1928 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
      
      I also notice that there is no point in using atomic accesses
      for the local variables, so storing the temporaries in simple 'u64'
      variables not only avoids the stack usage on older compilers but
      also improves the object code on modern versions.
      
      Fixes: e6269c44 ("blkcg: add blkg_[rw]stat->aux_cnt and replace cfq_group->dead_stats with it")
      Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      ddc21231
  5. 15 Jan, 2018 5 commits
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      dm: fix incomplete request_queue initialization · c100ec49
      Mike Snitzer authored
      DM is no longer prone to having its request_queue be improperly
      initialized.
      
      Summary of changes:
      
      - defer DM's blk_register_queue() from add_disk()-time until
        dm_setup_md_queue() by using add_disk_no_queue_reg() in alloc_dev().
      
      - dm_setup_md_queue() is updated to fully initialize DM's request_queue
        (_after_ all table loads have occurred and the request_queue's type,
        features and limits are known).
      
      A very welcome side-effect of these changes is DM no longer needs to:
      1) backfill the "mq" sysfs entry (because historically DM didn't
      initialize the request_queue to use blk-mq until _after_
      blk_register_queue() was called via add_disk()).
      2) call elv_register_queue() to get .request_fn request-based DM
      device's "iosched" exposed in syfs.
      
      In addition, blk-mq debugfs support is now made available because
      request-based DM's blk-mq request_queue is now properly initialized
      before dm_setup_md_queue() calls blk_register_queue().
      
      These changes also stave off the need to introduce new DM-specific
      workarounds in block core, e.g. this proposal:
      https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10067961/
      
      In the end DM devices should be less unicorn in nature (relative to
      initialization and availability of block core infrastructure provided by
      the request_queue).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      c100ec49
    • Douglas Gilbert's avatar
      blk_rq_map_user_iov: fix error override · 69e0927b
      Douglas Gilbert authored
      During stress tests by syzkaller on the sg driver the block layer
      infrequently returns EINVAL. Closer inspection shows the block
      layer was trying to return ENOMEM (which is much more
      understandable) but for some reason overroad that useful error.
      
      Patch below does not show this (unchanged) line:
         ret =__blk_rq_map_user_iov(rq, map_data, &i, gfp_mask, copy);
      That 'ret' was being overridden when that function failed.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      69e0927b
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      block: allow gendisk's request_queue registration to be deferred · fa70d2e2
      Mike Snitzer authored
      Since I can remember DM has forced the block layer to allow the
      allocation and initialization of the request_queue to be distinct
      operations.  Reason for this is block/genhd.c:add_disk() has requires
      that the request_queue (and associated bdi) be tied to the gendisk
      before add_disk() is called -- because add_disk() also deals with
      exposing the request_queue via blk_register_queue().
      
      DM's dynamic creation of arbitrary device types (and associated
      request_queue types) requires the DM device's gendisk be available so
      that DM table loads can establish a master/slave relationship with
      subordinate devices that are referenced by loaded DM tables -- using
      bd_link_disk_holder().  But until these DM tables, and their associated
      subordinate devices, are known DM cannot know what type of request_queue
      it needs -- nor what its queue_limits should be.
      
      This chicken and egg scenario has created all manner of problems for DM
      and, at times, the block layer.
      
      Summary of changes:
      
      - Add device_add_disk_no_queue_reg() and add_disk_no_queue_reg() variant
        that drivers may use to add a disk without also calling
        blk_register_queue().  Driver must call blk_register_queue() once its
        request_queue is fully initialized.
      
      - Return early from blk_unregister_queue() if QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED
        is not set.  It won't be set if driver used add_disk_no_queue_reg()
        but driver encounters an error and must del_gendisk() before calling
        blk_register_queue().
      
      - Export blk_register_queue().
      
      These changes allow DM to use add_disk_no_queue_reg() to anchor its
      gendisk as the "master" for master/slave relationships DM must establish
      with subordinate devices referenced in DM tables that get loaded.  Once
      all "slave" devices for a DM device are known its request_queue can be
      properly initialized and then advertised via sysfs -- important
      improvement being that no request_queue resource initialization
      performed by blk_register_queue() is missed for DM devices anymore.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      fa70d2e2
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      block: properly protect the 'queue' kobj in blk_unregister_queue · 667257e8
      Mike Snitzer authored
      The original commit e9a823fb (block: fix warning when I/O elevator
      is changed as request_queue is being removed) is pretty conflated.
      "conflated" because the resource being protected by q->sysfs_lock isn't
      the queue_flags (it is the 'queue' kobj).
      
      q->sysfs_lock serializes __elevator_change() (via elv_iosched_store)
      from racing with blk_unregister_queue():
      1) By holding q->sysfs_lock first, __elevator_change() can complete
      before a racing blk_unregister_queue().
      2) Conversely, __elevator_change() is testing for QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED
      in case elv_iosched_store() loses the race with blk_unregister_queue(),
      it needs a way to know the 'queue' kobj isn't there.
      
      Expand the scope of blk_unregister_queue()'s q->sysfs_lock use so it is
      held until after the 'queue' kobj is removed.
      
      To do so blk_mq_unregister_dev() must not also take q->sysfs_lock.  So
      rename __blk_mq_unregister_dev() to blk_mq_unregister_dev().
      
      Also, blk_unregister_queue() should use q->queue_lock to protect against
      any concurrent writes to q->queue_flags -- even though chances are the
      queue is being cleaned up so no concurrent writes are likely.
      
      Fixes: e9a823fb ("block: fix warning when I/O elevator is changed as request_queue is being removed")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      667257e8
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      block: only bdi_unregister() in del_gendisk() if !GENHD_FL_HIDDEN · bc8d062c
      Mike Snitzer authored
      device_add_disk() will only call bdi_register_owner() if
      !GENHD_FL_HIDDEN, so it follows that del_gendisk() should only call
      bdi_unregister() if !GENHD_FL_HIDDEN.
      
      Found with code inspection.  bdi_unregister() won't do any harm if
      bdi_register_owner() wasn't used but best to avoid the unnecessary
      call to bdi_unregister().
      
      Fixes: 8ddcd653 ("block: introduce GENHD_FL_HIDDEN")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      bc8d062c
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