Currently, statistics are gathered in ~0.13s windows, and users grab the
statistics whenever they need them. This is not ideal for both in-tree
users:
1. Writeback throttling wants its own dynamically sized window of
statistics. Since the blk-stats statistics are reset after every
window and the wbt windows don't line up with the blk-stats windows,
wbt doesn't see every I/O.
2. Polling currently grabs the statistics on every I/O. Again, depending
on how the window lines up, we may miss some I/Os. It's also
unnecessary overhead to get the statistics on every I/O; the hybrid
polling heuristic would be just as happy with the statistics from the
previous full window.
This reworks the blk-stats infrastructure to be callback-based: users
register a callback that they want called at a given time with all of
the statistics from the window during which the callback was active.
Users can dynamically bucketize the statistics. wbt and polling both
currently use read vs. write, but polling can be extended to further
subdivide based on request size.
The callbacks are kept on an RCU list, and each callback has percpu
stats buffers. There will only be a few users, so the overhead on the
I/O completion side is low. The stats flushing is also simplified
considerably: since the timer function is responsible for clearing the
statistics, we don't have to worry about stale statistics.
wbt is a trivial conversion. After the conversion, the windowing problem
mentioned above is fixed.
For polling, we register an extra callback that caches the previous
window's statistics in the struct request_queue for the hybrid polling
heuristic to use.
Since we no longer have a single stats buffer for the request queue,
this also removes the sysfs and debugfs stats entries. To replace those,
we add a debugfs entry for the poll statistics.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The stats buckets will become generic soon, so make the existing users
use the common READ and WRITE definitions instead of one internal to
blk-stat.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
When I added the blk-mq debugging information to debugfs, I didn't
notice that blktrace also creates a "block" directory in debugfs. Make
them use the same dentry, now created in the core block code. Based on a
patch from Jens.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Replace the two debugfs_create_file() loops by a call to the new
debugfs_create_files() function. Add an empty element at the end
of the two attribute arrays such that the array size does not have
to be passed to debugfs_create_files().
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Allow users to interrupt show operations instead of making a user
space process unkillable if ownership of q->sysfs_lock cannot be
obtained.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of keeping two levels of indirection for requests types, fold it
all into the operations. The little caveat here is that previously
cmd_type only applied to struct request, while the request and bio op
fields were set to plain REQ_OP_READ/WRITE even for passthrough
operations.
Instead this patch adds new REQ_OP_* for SCSI passthrough and driver
private requests, althought it has to add two for each so that we
can communicate the data in/out nature of the request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
These counters aren't as out-of-place in sysfs as the other stuff, but
debugfs is a slightly better home for them.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
These statistics _might_ be useful to userspace, but it's better not to
commit to an ABI for these yet. Also, the dispatched file in sysfs
couldn't be cleared, so make it clearable like the others in debugfs.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
These can be used to debug issues like tag leaks and stuck requests.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
These are very tied to the blk-mq tag implementation, so exposing them
to sysfs isn't a great idea. Move the debugging information to debugfs
and add basic entries for the number of tags and the number of reserved
tags to sysfs.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This is useful for debugging problems where we've gotten stuck with
requests in the software queues.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The request pointers by themselves aren't super useful.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
These lists are only useful for debugging; they definitely don't belong
in sysfs. Putting them in debugfs also removes the limitation of a
single page of output.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
hctx->state could come in handy for bugs where the hardware queue gets
stuck in the stopped state, and hctx->flags is just useful to know.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
In preparation for putting blk-mq debugging information in debugfs,
create a directory tree mirroring the one in sysfs:
# tree -d /sys/kernel/debug/block
/sys/kernel/debug/block
|-- nvme0n1
| `-- mq
| |-- 0
| | `-- cpu0
| |-- 1
| | `-- cpu1
| |-- 2
| | `-- cpu2
| `-- 3
| `-- cpu3
`-- vda
`-- mq
`-- 0
|-- cpu0
|-- cpu1
|-- cpu2
`-- cpu3
Also add the scaffolding for the actual files that will go in here,
either under the hardware queue or software queue directories.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Omar Sandoval