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Linus Torvalds bdf7cf1c83 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  loop: export module parameters
  block: export blk_{get,put}_queue()
  block: remove unused variable in bio_attempt_front_merge()
  block: always allocate genhd->ev if check_events is implemented
  brd: export module parameters
  brd: fix comment on initial device creation
  brd: handle on-demand devices correctly
  brd: limit 'max_part' module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS
  brd: get rid of unused members from struct brd_device
  block: fix oops on !disk->queue and sysfs discard alignment display
2011-05-27 10:24:40 -07:00
Jens Axboe d86e0e83b3 block: export blk_{get,put}_queue()
We need them in SCSI to fix a bug, but currently they are not
exported to modules. Export them.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-27 07:45:45 +02:00
Ben Blum f780bdb7c1 cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacks
Add cgroup subsystem callbacks for per-thread attachment in atomic contexts

Add can_attach_task(), pre_attach(), and attach_task() as new callbacks
for cgroups's subsystem interface.  Unlike can_attach and attach, these
are for per-thread operations, to be called potentially many times when
attaching an entire threadgroup.

Also, the old "bool threadgroup" interface is removed, as replaced by
this.  All subsystems are modified for the new interface - of note is
cpuset, which requires from/to nodemasks for attach to be globally scoped
(though per-cpuset would work too) to persist from its pre_attach to
attach_task and attach.

This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-writable.patch.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Luca Tettamanti 700c4f3325 block: remove unused variable in bio_attempt_front_merge()
sector is never read inside the function.

Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-26 21:07:26 +02:00
Tejun Heo 75e3f3ee3c block: always allocate genhd->ev if check_events is implemented
9fd097b149 (block: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for legacy/fringe
drivers) removed DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE from legacy/fringe block
drivers which have inadequate ->check_events().  Combined with earlier
change 7c88a168da (block: don't propagate unlisted DISK_EVENTs to
userland), this enables using ->check_events() for internal processing
while avoiding enabling in-kernel block event polling which can lead
to infinite event loop.

Unfortunately, this made many drivers including floppy without any bit
set in disk->events and ->async_events in which case disk_add_events()
simply skipped allocation of disk->ev, which disables whole event
handling.  As ->check_events() is still used during open processing
for revalidation, this can lead to open failure.

This patch always allocates disk->ev if ->check_events is implemented.
In the long term, it would make sense to simply include the event
structure inline into genhd as it's now used by virtually all block
devices.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Reported-by: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-26 21:06:50 +02:00
Namhyung Kim 1547010e6e cfq-iosched: free cic_index if cfqd allocation fails
When struct cfq_data allocation fails, cic_index need to be freed.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24 10:23:22 +02:00
Namhyung Kim 20359f27e8 cfq-iosched: remove unused 'group_changed' in cfq_service_tree_add()
The 'group_changed' variable is initialized to 0 and never changed, so
checking the variable is meaningless.

It is a leftover from 0bbfeb8320 ("cfq-iosched: Always provide group
iosolation."). Let's get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24 10:23:22 +02:00
Namhyung Kim 229836bd63 cfq-iosched: reduce bit operations in cfq_choose_req()
Reduce the number of bit operations in cfq_choose_req() on average
(and worst) cases.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24 10:23:21 +02:00
Namhyung Kim b9f8ce0599 cfq-iosched: algebraic simplification in cfq_prio_to_maxrq()
Simplify the calculation in cfq_prio_to_maxrq(), plus replace CFQ_PRIO_LISTS to
IOPRIO_BE_NR since they are the same and IOPRIO_BE_NR looks more reasonable in
this context IMHO.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24 10:23:21 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 4cbadbd16e blk-cgroup: Initialize ioc->cgroup_changed at ioc creation time
If we don't explicitly initialize it to zero, CFQ might think that
cgroup of ioc has changed and it generates lots of unnecessary calls
to call_for_each_cic(changed_cgroup). Fix it.

cfq_get_io_context()
  cfq_ioc_set_cgroup()
     call_for_each_cic(ioc, changed_cgroup)

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-23 19:35:04 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 95cf3dd9db block: call elv_bio_merged() when merged
Commit 73c1010119 ("block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging")
removed calls to elv_bio_merged() when @bio merged with @req. Re-add them.

This in turn will update merged stats in associated group. That
should be safe as long as request has got reference to the blkio_group.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-23 10:02:19 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 317389a773 cfq-iosched: Make IO merge related stats per cpu
Make BLKIO_STAT_MERGED per cpu hence gettring rid of need of taking
blkg->stats_lock.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-23 10:02:19 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 2abae55f5a cfq-iosched: Fix a memory leak of per cpu stats for root group
We allocated per cpu stats struct for root group but did not free it.
Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-23 10:02:19 +02:00
Jens Axboe 771949d03b block: get rid of on-stack plugging debug checks
We don't need them anymore, so kill:

- REQ_ON_PLUG checks in various places
- !rq_mergeable() check in plug merging

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:52:16 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0eb8e88572 Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-2.6.40/core
This patch merges in a fix that missed 2.6.39 final.

Conflicts:
	block/blk.h
2011-05-20 20:36:16 +02:00
Vivek Goyal af75cd3c67 blk-throttle: Make no throttling rule group processing lockless
Currently we take a queue lock on each bio to check if there are any
throttling rules associated with the group and also update the stats.
Now access the group under rcu and update the stats without taking
the queue lock. Queue lock is taken only if there are throttling rules
associated with the group.

So the common case of root group when there are no rules, save
unnecessary pounding of request queue lock.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:53 +02:00
Vivek Goyal f0bdc8cdd9 blk-cgroup: Make cgroup stat reset path blkg->lock free for dispatch stats
Now dispatch stats update is lock free. But reset of these stats still
takes blkg->stats_lock and is dependent on that. As stats are per cpu,
we should be able to just reset the stats on each cpu without any locks.
(Atleast for 64bit arch).

On 32bit arch there is a small race where 64bit updates are not atomic.
The result of this race can be that in the presence of other writers,
one might not get 0 value after reset of a stat and might see something
intermediate

One can write more complicated code to cover this race like sending IPI
to other cpus to reset stats and for offline cpus, reset these directly.

Right not I am not taking that path because reset_update is more of a
debug feature and it can happen only on 32bit arch and possibility of
it happening is small. Will fix it if it becomes a real problem. For
the time being going for code simplicity.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:53 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 575969a0dd blk-cgroup: Make 64bit per cpu stats safe on 32bit arch
Some of the stats are 64bit and updation will be non atomic on 32bit
architecture. Use sequence counters on 32bit arch to make reading
of stats safe.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:53 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 5624a4e445 blk-throttle: Make dispatch stats per cpu
Currently we take blkg_stat lock for even updating the stats. So even if
a group has no throttling rules (common case for root group), we end
up taking blkg_lock, for updating the stats.

Make dispatch stats per cpu so that these can be updated without taking
blkg lock.

If cpu goes offline, these stats simply disappear. No protection has
been provided for that yet. Do we really need anything for that?

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:52 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 4843c69d49 blk-throttle: Free up a group only after one rcu grace period
Soon we will allow accessing a throtl_grp under rcu_read_lock(). Hence
start freeing up throtl_grp after one rcu grace period.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:52 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 5617cbef77 blk-throttle: Use helper function to add root throtl group to lists
Use same helper function for root group as we use with dynamically
allocated groups to add it to various lists.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:52 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 269f541555 blk-throttle: Introduce a helper function to fill in device details
A helper function for the code which is used at 2-3 places. Makes reading
code little easier.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:52 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 29b125892f blk-throttle: Dynamically allocate root group
Currently, we allocate root throtl_grp statically. But as we will be
introducing per cpu stat pointers and that will be allocated
dynamically even for root group, we might as well make whole root
throtl_grp allocation dynamic and treat it in same manner as other
groups.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:52 +02:00
Vivek Goyal f469a7b4d5 blk-cgroup: Allow sleeping while dynamically allocating a group
Currently, all the cfq_group or throtl_group allocations happen while
we are holding ->queue_lock and sleeping is not allowed.

Soon, we will move to per cpu stats and also need to allocate the
per group stats. As one can not call alloc_percpu() from atomic
context as it can sleep, we need to drop ->queue_lock, allocate the
group, retake the lock and continue processing.

In throttling code, I check the queue DEAD flag again to make sure
that driver did not call blk_cleanup_queue() in the mean time.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:52 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 56edf7d75d cfq-iosched: Fix a possible race with cfq cgroup removal code
blkg->key = cfqd is an rcu protected pointer and hence we used to do
call_rcu(cfqd->rcu_head) to free up cfqd after one rcu grace period.

The problem here is that even though cfqd is around, there are no
gurantees that associated request queue (td->queue) or q->queue_lock
is still around. A driver might have called blk_cleanup_queue() and
release the lock.

It might happen that after freeing up the lock we call
blkg->key->queue->queue_ock and crash. This is possible in following
path.

blkiocg_destroy()
 blkio_unlink_group_fn()
  cfq_unlink_blkio_group()

Hence, wait for an rcu peirod if there are groups which have not
been unlinked from blkcg->blkg_list. That way, if there are any groups
which are taking cfq_unlink_blkio_group() path, can safely take queue
lock.

This is how we have taken care of race in throttling logic also.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:52 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 3e59cf9d66 cfq-iosched: Get rid of redundant function parameter "create"
Nobody seems to be using cfq_find_alloc_cfqg() function parameter "create".
Get rid of that.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:52 +02:00
Vivek Goyal a23e686955 blk-cgroup: move some fields of unaccounted_time file under right config option
cgroup unaccounted_time file is created only if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y.
there are some fields which are out side this config option. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:52 +02:00
Vivek Goyal a29a171e7c blk-throttle: Do the new group initialization with the help of a function
Group initialization code seems to be at two places. root group
initialization in blk_throtl_init() and dynamically allocated group
in throtl_find_alloc_tg(). Create a common function and use at both
the places.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:34:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe 698567f3fa Merge commit 'v2.6.39' into for-2.6.40/core
Since for-2.6.40/core was forked off the 2.6.39 devel tree, we've
had churn in the core area that makes it difficult to handle
patches for eg cfq or blk-throttle. Instead of requiring that they
be based in older versions with bugs that have been fixed later
in the rc cycle, merge in 2.6.39 final.

Also fixes up conflicts in the below files.

Conflicts:
	drivers/block/paride/pcd.c
	drivers/cdrom/viocd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20 20:33:15 +02:00
James Bottomley 0a58e077eb block: add proper state guards to __elv_next_request
blk_cleanup_queue() calls elevator_exit() and after this, we can't
touch the elevator without oopsing.  __elv_next_request() must check
for this state because in the refcounted queue model, we can still
call it after blk_cleanup_queue() has been called.

This was reported as causing an oops attributable to scsi.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-18 19:30:32 +02:00
Shaohua Li 3ec717b7ca block: don't delay blk_run_queue_async
Let's check a scenario:
1. blk_delay_queue(q, SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY);
2. blk_run_queue_async();
the second one will became a noop, because q->delay_work already has
WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT set, so the delayed work will still run after
SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY. But blk_run_queue_async actually hopes the delayed
work runs immediately.

Fix this by doing a cancel on potentially pending delayed work
before queuing an immediate run of the workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-18 12:24:03 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen a934a00a69 block: Fix discard topology stacking and reporting
In some cases we would end up stacking discard_zeroes_data incorrectly.
Fix this by enabling the feature by default for stacking drivers and
clearing it for low-level drivers. Incorporating a device that does not
support dzd will then cause the feature to be disabled in the stacking
driver.

Also ensure that the maximum discard value does not overflow when
exported in sysfs and return 0 in the alignment and dzd fields for
devices that don't support discard.

Reported-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-18 10:37:35 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 70087dc38c blk-throttle: Use task_subsys_state() to determine a task's blkio_cgroup
Currentlly we first map the task to cgroup and then cgroup to
blkio_cgroup. There is a more direct way to get to blkio_cgroup
from task using task_subsys_state(). Use that.

The real reason for the fix is that it also avoids a race in generic
cgroup code. During remount/umount rebind_subsystems() is called and
it can do following with and rcu protection.

cgrp->subsys[i] = NULL;

That means if somebody got hold of cgroup under rcu and then it tried
to do cgroup->subsys[] to get to blkio_cgroup, it would get NULL which
is wrong. I was running into this race condition with ltp running on a
upstream derived kernel and that lead to crash.

So ideally we should also fix cgroup generic code to wait for rcu
grace period before setting pointer to NULL. Li Zefan is not very keen
on introducing synchronize_wait() as he thinks it will slow
down moun/remount/umount operations.

So for the time being atleast fix the kernel crash by taking a more
direct route to blkio_cgroup.

One tester had reported a crash while running LTP on a derived kernel
and with this fix crash is no more seen while the test has been
running for over 6 days.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-16 15:24:08 +02:00
Lukas Czerner 8af1954d17 blkdev: Do not return -EOPNOTSUPP if discard is supported
Currently we return -EOPNOTSUPP in blkdev_issue_discard() if any of the
bio fails due to underlying device not supporting discard request.
However, if the device is for example dm device composed of devices
which some of them support discard and some of them does not, it is ok
for some bios to fail with EOPNOTSUPP, but it does not mean that discard
is not supported at all.

This commit removes the check for bios failed with EOPNOTSUPP and change
blkdev_issue_discard() to return operation not supported if and only if
the device does not actually supports it, not just part of the device as
some bios might indicate.

This change also fixes problem with BLKDISCARD ioctl() which now works
correctly on such dm devices.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
CC: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06 19:30:01 -06:00
Lukas Czerner 5baebe5c86 blkdev: Simple cleanup in blkdev_issue_zeroout()
In blkdev_issue_zeroout() we are submitting regular WRITE bios, so we do
not need to check for -EOPNOTSUPP specifically in case of error. Also
there is no need to have label submit: because there is no way to jump
out from the while cycle without an error and we really want to exit,
rather than try again. And also remove the check for (sz == 0) since at
that point sz can never be zero.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06 19:26:28 -06:00
Lukas Czerner 5dba3089ed blkdev: Submit discard bio in batches in blkdev_issue_discard()
Currently we are waiting for every submitted REQ_DISCARD bio separately,
but it can have unwanted consequences of repeatedly flushing the queue,
so we rather submit bios in batches and wait for the entire batch, hence
narrowing the window of other ios going in.

Use bio_batch_end_io() and struct bio_batch for that purpose, the same
is used by blkdev_issue_zeroout(). Also change bio_batch_end_io() so we
always set !BIO_UPTODATE in the case of error and remove the check for
bb, since we are the only user of this function and we always set this.

Remove bio_get()/bio_put() from the blkdev_issue_discard() since
bio_alloc() and bio_batch_end_io() is doing the same thing, hence it is
not needed anymore.

I have done simple dd testing with surprising results. The script I have
used is:

for i in $(seq 10); do
        echo $i
        dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=4k &
        sleep 5
done
/usr/bin/time -f %e ./blkdiscard /dev/sdc1

Running time of BLKDISCARD on the whole device:
with patch              without patch
0.95                    15.58

So we can see that in this artificial test the kernel with the patch
applied is approx 16x faster in discarding the device.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
CC: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06 19:26:27 -06:00
shaohua.li@intel.com 3ac0cc4508 block: hold queue if flush is running for non-queueable flush drive
In some drives, flush requests are non-queueable. When flush request is
running, normal read/write requests can't run. If block layer dispatches
such request, driver can't handle it and requeue it.  Tejun suggested we
can hold the queue when flush is running. This can avoid unnecessary
requeue.  Also this can improve performance. For example, we have
request flush1, write1, flush 2. flush1 is dispatched, then queue is
hold, write1 isn't inserted to queue. After flush1 is finished, flush2
will be dispatched. Since disk cache is already clean, flush2 will be
finished very soon, so looks like flush2 is folded to flush1.

In my test, the queue holding completely solves a regression introduced by
commit 53d63e6b0dfb95882ec0219ba6bbd50cde423794:

    block: make the flush insertion use the tail of the dispatch list

    It's not a preempt type request, in fact we have to insert it
    behind requests that do specify INSERT_FRONT.

which causes about 20% regression running a sysbench fileio
workload.

Stable: 2.6.39 only

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06 11:36:25 -06:00
shaohua.li@intel.com f387693095 block: add a non-queueable flush flag
flush request isn't queueable in some drives. Add a flag to let driver
notify block layer about this. We can optimize flush performance with the
knowledge.

Stable: 2.6.39 only

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06 11:36:25 -06:00
Kees Cook 490b94be02 iosched: remove redundant sprintf
After the anticipatory scheduler was dropped, there was no need to
special-case the request_module string. As such, drop the redundant
sprintf and stack variable.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-05 18:02:12 -06:00
Tao Ma addd0a09fc block: Remove 'plug/unplug' comment in blk_execute_rq_nowait
unplug is replaced with blk_run_queue now in blk_execute_rq_nowait,
so change the comment accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-05 15:10:05 -06:00
Tejun Heo 7c88a168da block: don't propagate unlisted DISK_EVENTs to userland
DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE is used for both userland visible event and
internal event for revalidation of removeable devices.  Some legacy
drivers don't implement proper event detection and continuously
generate events under certain circumstances.  For example, ide-cd
generates media changed continuously if there's no media in the drive,
which can lead to infinite loop of events jumping back and forth
between the driver and userland event handler.

This patch updates disk event infrastructure such that it never
propagates events not listed in disk->events to userland.  Those
events are processed the same for internal purposes but uevent
generation is suppressed.

This also ensures that userland only gets events which are advertised
in the @events sysfs node lowering risk of confusion.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-21 19:43:58 +02:00
Jens Axboe 3aa72873ff elevator: check for ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE in !elvpriv case too
The sort insert is the one that goes to the IO scheduler. With
the SORT_MERGE addition, we could bypass IO scheduler setup
but still ask the IO scheduler to insert the request. This would
cause an oops on switching IO schedulers through the sysfs
interface, unless the disk just happened to be idle while it
occured.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-21 19:28:35 +02:00
Tao Ma 60735b6362 block: Remove the extra check in queue_requests_store
In queue_requests_store, the code looks like
	if (rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC] >= q->nr_requests) {
		blk_set_queue_full(q, BLK_RW_SYNC);
	} else if (rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC]+1 <= q->nr_requests) {
		blk_clear_queue_full(q, BLK_RW_SYNC);
		wake_up(&rl->wait[BLK_RW_SYNC]);
	}
If we don't satify the situation of "if", we can get that
rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC} < q->nr_quests. It is the same as
rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC]+1 <= q->nr_requests.
All the "else" should satisfy the "else if" check so it isn't
needed actually.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-19 13:51:53 +02:00
Liu Yuan ed5302d3c2 block, blk-sysfs: Fix an err return path in blk_register_queue()
We do not call blk_trace_remove_sysfs() in err return path
if kobject_add() fails. This path fixes it.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-19 13:51:53 +02:00
Jens Axboe d350e6b6e8 block: remove stale kerneldoc member from __blk_run_queue()
We don't pass in a 'force_kblockd' anymore, get rid of the
stsale comment.

Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-19 13:34:14 +02:00
Jens Axboe c21e6beba8 block: get rid of QUEUE_FLAG_REENTER
We are currently using this flag to check whether it's safe
to call into ->request_fn(). If it is set, we punt to kblockd.
But we get a lot of false positives and excessive punts to
kblockd, which hurts performance.

The only real abuser of this infrastructure is SCSI. So export
the async queue run and convert SCSI over to use that. There's
room for improvement in that SCSI need not always use the async
call, but this fixes our performance issue and they can fix that
up in due time.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-19 13:32:46 +02:00
Jens Axboe 5f45c69589 cfq-iosched: read_lock() does not always imply rcu_read_lock()
For some configurations of CONFIG_PREEMPT that is not true. So
get rid of __call_for_each_cic() and always uses the explicitly
rcu_read_lock() protected call_for_each_cic() instead.

This fixes a potential bug related to IO scheduler removal or
online switching.

Thanks to Paul McKenney for clarifying this.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-19 09:10:35 +02:00
Jens Axboe bd900d4580 block: kill blk_flush_plug_list() export
With all drivers and file systems converted, we only have
in-core use of this function. So remove the export.

Reporteed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 22:06:57 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 24ecfbe27f block: add blk_run_queue_async
Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly.  I've kept
the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 11:41:33 +02:00
Jens Axboe 4521cc4ed5 block: blk_delay_queue() should use kblockd workqueue
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 11:36:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe 99e22598e9 block: drop queue lock before calling __blk_run_queue() for kblockd punt
If we know we are going to punt to kblockd, we can drop the queue
lock before calling into __blk_run_queue() since it only does a
safe bit test and a workqueue call. Since kblockd needs to grab
this very lock as one of the first things it does, it's a good
optimization to drop the lock before waking kblockd.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 09:59:55 +02:00
Jens Axboe b4cb290e0a Revert "block: add callback function for unplug notification"
MD can't use this since it really requires us to be able to
keep more than a single piece of state for the unplug. Commit
048c9374 added the required support for MD, so get rid of this
now unused code.

This reverts commit f75664570d.

Conflicts:

	block/blk-core.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 09:54:05 +02:00
NeilBrown 048c9374a7 block: Enhance new plugging support to support general callbacks
md/raid requires an unplug callback, but as it does not uses
requests the current code cannot provide one.

So allow arbitrary callbacks to be attached to the blk_plug.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 09:52:22 +02:00
Jens Axboe 49cac01e1f block: make unplug timer trace event correspond to the schedule() unplug
It's a pretty close match to what we had before - the timer triggering
would mean that nobody unplugged the plug in due time, in the new
scheme this matches very closely what the schedule() unplug now is.
It's essentially the difference between an explicit unplug (IO unplug)
or an implicit unplug (timer unplug, we scheduled with pending IO
queued).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-16 13:51:05 +02:00
Jens Axboe f6603783f9 block: only force kblockd unplugging from the schedule() path
For the explicit unplugging, we'd prefer to kick things off
immediately and not pay the penalty of the latency to switch
to kblockd. So let blk_finish_plug() do the run inline, while
the implicit-on-schedule-out unplug will punt to kblockd.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-15 15:49:07 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 88b996cd06 block: cleanup the block plug helper functions
It's a bit of a mess currently. task->plug is being cleared
and reset in __blk_finish_plug(), and blk_finish_plug() is
testing for a NULL plug which cannot happen even from schedule()
anymore since it uses blk_needs_flush_plug() to determine
whether to call into this function at all.

So get rid of some of the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-15 15:20:10 +02:00
Liu Yuan 80656b67b3 block, blk-sysfs: Use the variable directly instead of a function call
In the function blk_register_queue(), var _dev_ is already assigned by
disk_to_dev().So use it directly instead of calling disk_to_dev() again.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@taobao.com>

Modified by me to delete an empty line in the same function while
in there anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-13 22:14:54 +02:00
Jens Axboe f4af3c3d07 block: move queue run on unplug to kblockd
There are worries that we are now consuming a lot more stack in
some cases, since we potentially call into IO dispatch from
schedule() or io_schedule(). We can reduce this problem by moving
the running of the queue to kblockd, like the old plugging scheme
did as well.

This may or may not be a good idea from a performance perspective,
depending on how many tasks have queue plugs running at the same
time. For even the slightly contended case, doing just a single
queue run from kblockd instead of multiple runs directly from the
unpluggers will be faster.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 14:58:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe cf82c79839 block: kill queue_sync_plugs()
The original use for this dates back to when we had to track write
requests for serializing around barriers. That's not needed anymore,
so kill it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:30:53 +02:00
Jens Axboe dc6d36c971 block: readd plug trace event
This was removed with the queue plug state. But we can easily readd
by checking if this is the first request going to this queue. It's
good information to have when tracing to see how effective the
plugging is.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:28:28 +02:00
Jens Axboe f75664570d block: add callback function for unplug notification
MD would like to know when a queue is unplugged, so it can flush
it's bitmap writes. Add such a callback.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:17:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe 188112722c block: add comment on why we save and disable interrupts in flush_plug_list()
It's done at the top to avoid doing it for every queue we unplug.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:12:29 +02:00
Jens Axboe 94b5eb28b4 block: fixup block IO unplug trace call
It was removed with the on-stack plugging, readd it and track the
depth of requests added when flushing the plug.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:12:19 +02:00
NeilBrown 109b81296c block: splice plug list to local context
If the request_fn ends up blocking, we could be re-entering
the plug flush. Since the list is protected by explicitly
not allowing schedule events, this isn't a terribly good idea.

Additionally, it can cause us to recurse. As request_fn called by
__blk_run_queue is allowed to 'schedule()' (after dropping the queue
lock of course), it is possible to get a recursive call:

 schedule -> blk_flush_plug -> __blk_finish_plug -> flush_plug_list
      -> __blk_run_queue -> request_fn -> schedule

We must make sure that the second schedule does not call into
blk_flush_plug again.  So instead of leaving the list of requests on
blk_plug->list, move them to a separate list leaving blk_plug->list
empty.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-11 14:13:10 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 42933bac11 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov f83e826181 block: fix request sorting at unplug
Comparison function for list_sort() must be anticommutative,
otherwise it is not sorting in ordinary meaning.

But fortunately list_sort() always check ((*cmp)(priv, a, b) <= 0)
it not distinguish negative and zero, so comparison function can
implement only less-or-equal instead of full three-way comparison.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:52:49 +02:00
Mike Snitzer a63a5cf84d dm: improve block integrity support
The current block integrity (DIF/DIX) support in DM is verifying that
all devices' integrity profiles match during DM device resume (which
is past the point of no return).  To some degree that is unavoidable
(stacked DM devices force this late checking).  But for most DM
devices (which aren't stacking on other DM devices) the ideal time to
verify all integrity profiles match is during table load.

Introduce the notion of an "initialized" integrity profile: a profile
that was blk_integrity_register()'d with a non-NULL 'blk_integrity'
template.  Add blk_integrity_is_initialized() to allow checking if a
profile was initialized.

Update DM integrity support to:
- check all devices with _initialized_ integrity profiles match
  during table load; uninitialized profiles (e.g. for underlying DM
  device(s) of a stacked DM device) are ignored.
- disallow a table load that would result in an integrity profile that
  conflicts with a DM device's existing (in-use) integrity profile
- avoid clearing an existing integrity profile
- validate all integrity profiles match during resume; but if they
  don't all we can do is report the mismatch (during resume we're past
  the point of no return)

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:52:43 +02:00
Andreas Schwab 6f03793770 blk-throttle: don't call xchg on bool
xchg does not work portably with smaller than 32bit types.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:51:37 +02:00
Jens Axboe 53d63e6b0d block: make the flush insertion use the tail of the dispatch list
It's not a preempt type request, in fact we have to insert it
behind requests that do specify INSERT_FRONT.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:51:37 +02:00
Jens Axboe b710a48055 block: get rid of elv_insert() interface
Merge it with __elv_add_request(), it's pretty pointless to
have a function with only two callers. The main interface
is elv_add_request()/__elv_add_request().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:51:37 +02:00
Jens Axboe 8182924bc5 block: dump request state on seeing a corrupted request completion
Currently we just dump a non-informative 'request botched' message.
Lets actually try and print something sane to help debug issues
around this.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:51:37 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Jens Axboe ad3d9d7ede block: fix issue with calling blk_stop_queue() from the request_fn handler
When the queue work handler was converted to delayed work, the
stopping was inadvertently made sync as well. Change this back
to being async stop, using __cancel_delayed_work() instead of
cancel_delayed_work().

Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-25 17:04:08 +01:00
Jens Axboe 401a18e92c block: fix bug with inserting flush requests as sort/merge
With the introduction of the on-stack plugging, we would assume
that any request being inserted was a normal file system request.
As flush/fua requires a special insert mode, this caused problems.

Fix this up by checking for this in flush_plug_list() and use
the appropriate insert mechanism.

Big thanks goes to Markus Tripplesdorf for tirelessly testing
patches, and to Sergey Senozhatsky for helping find the real
issue.

Reported-by: Markus Tripplesdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-25 17:04:08 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Li, Shaohua c4ade94fc0 cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
Removing think time checking. A high thinktime queue might means the queue
dispatches several requests and then do away. Limitting such queue seems
meaningless. And also this can simplify code. This is suggested by Vivek.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-23 08:30:34 +01:00
Justin TerAvest 62a37f6bad cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
For v2, I added back lines to cfq_preempt_queue() that were removed
during updates for accounting unaccounted_time. Thanks for pointing out
that I'd missed these, Vivek.

Previous commit "cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt" wrongly
cleared stats for preempting queues when it shouldn't have, because when
we choose a queue to preempt, it still isn't necessarily scheduled next.

Thanks to Vivek Goyal for figuring this out and understanding how the
preemption code works.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-23 08:25:44 +01:00
Vivek Goyal 04521db04e blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
Lina reported that if throttle limits are initially very high and then
dropped, then no new bio might be dispatched for a long time. And the
reason being that after dropping the limits we don't reset the existing
slice and do the rate calculation with new low rate and account the bios
dispatched at high rate. To fix it, reset the slice upon rate change.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/10/298

Another problem with very high limit is that we never queued the
bio on throtl service tree. That means we kept on extending the
group slice but never trimmed it. Fix that also by regulary
trimming the slice even if bio is not being queued up.

Reported-by: Lina Lu <lulina_nuaa@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-22 21:55:00 +01:00
Justin TerAvest 9026e521c0 blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
This change moves unaccounted_time to only be reported when
CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP is true.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-22 21:26:54 +01:00
Justin TerAvest eda5e0c91f cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
Commit "Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used" changed the behavior of
cfq_preempt_queue to set cfqq active. Vivek pointed out that other
preemption rules might get involved, so we shouldn't manually set which
queue is active.

This cleans up the code to just clear the queue stats at preemption
time.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-22 21:26:49 +01:00
Jens Axboe 5e84ea3a9c block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
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: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-21 10:14:27 +01:00
Linus Torvalds c55d267de2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (170 commits)
  [SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Add MD36xxf into device list
  [SCSI] scsi_debug: add consecutive medium errors
  [SCSI] libsas: fix ata list corruption issue
  [SCSI] hpsa: export resettable host attribute
  [SCSI] hpsa: move device attributes to avoid forward declarations
  [SCSI] scsi_debug: Logical Block Provisioning (SBC3r26)
  [SCSI] sd: Logical Block Provisioning update
  [SCSI] Include protection operation in SCSI command trace
  [SCSI] hpsa: fix incorrect PCI IDs and add two new ones (2nd try)
  [SCSI] target: Fix volume size misreporting for volumes > 2TB
  [SCSI] bnx2fc: Broadcom FCoE offload driver
  [SCSI] fcoe: fix broken fcoe interface reset
  [SCSI] fcoe: precedence bug in fcoe_filter_frames()
  [SCSI] libfcoe: Remove stale fcoe-netdev entries
  [SCSI] libfcoe: Move FCOE_MTU definition from fcoe.h to libfcoe.h
  [SCSI] libfc: introduce __fc_fill_fc_hdr that accepts fc_hdr as an argument
  [SCSI] fcoe, libfc: initialize EM anchors list and then update npiv EMs
  [SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] libfc: fix exchange being deleted when the abort itself is timed out"
  [SCSI] libfc: Fixing a memory leak when destroying an interface
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog update
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts due to whitespace differences in
drivers/scsi/libsas/{sas_ata.c,sas_scsi_host.c}
2011-03-17 17:54:40 -07:00
Justin TerAvest 8184f93ece cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
Version 3 is updated to apply to for-2.6.39/core.

For version 2, I took Vivek's advice and made sure we update the group
weight from cfq_group_service_tree_add().

If a weight was updated while a group is on the service tree, the
calculation for the total weight of the service tree can be adjusted
improperly, which either leads to bad service tree weights, or
potentially crashes (if total_weight becomes 0).

This patch defers updates to the weight until a group is off the service
tree.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-17 16:12:36 +01:00
Justin TerAvest 167400d340 blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
There are two kind of times that tasks are not charged for: the first
seek and the extra time slice used over the allocated timeslice. Both
of these exported as a new unaccounted_time stat.

I think it would be good to have this reported in 'time' as well, but
that is probably a separate discussion.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-12 16:54:00 +01:00
Tao Ma eba2ed9c96 block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
barrier is already removed, so remove the obsolete comments
in blkdev_issue_zeroout.

Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-11 20:13:54 +01:00
Lukas Czerner 0aeea18964 block: fix mis-synchronisation in blkdev_issue_zeroout()
BZ29402
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29402

We can hit serious mis-synchronization in bio completion path of
blkdev_issue_zeroout() leading to a panic.

The problem is that when we are going to wait_for_completion() in
blkdev_issue_zeroout() we check if the bb.done equals issued (number of
submitted bios). If it does, we can skip the wait_for_completition()
and just out of the function since there is nothing to wait for.
However, there is a ordering problem because bio_batch_end_io() is
calling atomic_inc(&bb->done) before complete(), hence it might seem to
blkdev_issue_zeroout() that all bios has been completed and exit. At
this point when bio_batch_end_io() is going to call complete(bb->wait),
bb and wait does not longer exist since it was allocated on stack in
blkdev_issue_zeroout() ==> panic!

(thread 1)                      (thread 2)
bio_batch_end_io()              blkdev_issue_zeroout()
  if(bb) {                      ...
    if (bb->end_io)             ...
      bb->end_io(bio, err);     ...
    atomic_inc(&bb->done);      ...
    ...                         while (issued != atomic_read(&bb.done))
    ...                         (let issued == bb.done)
    ...                         (do the rest of the function)
    ...                         return ret;
    complete(bb->wait);
    ^^^^^^^^
    panic

We can fix this easily by simplifying bio_batch and completion counting.

Also remove bio_end_io_t *end_io since it is not used.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Tested-by: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-11 15:36:08 +01:00
Jens Axboe 4c63f5646e Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/stack-plug' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	block/blk-flush.c
	drivers/md/raid1.c
	drivers/md/raid10.c
	drivers/md/raid5.c
	fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
	fs/nilfs2/mdt.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:58:35 +01:00
Vivek Goyal 69d60eb96a blk-throttle: Use blk_plug in throttle dispatch
Use plug in throttle dispatch also as we are dispatching a bunch of
bios in throttle context and some of them might merge.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
Jens Axboe 721a9602e6 block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
Jens Axboe 7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
Jens Axboe 73c1010119 block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging
This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.

The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.

The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Jens Axboe 3cca6dc1c8 block: add API for delaying work/request_fn a little bit
Currently we use plugging for that, but as plugging is going away,
we need an alternative mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Tejun Heo facc31ddc3 block: Don't implicitly trigger event check on disk_unblock_events()
Currently, disk_unblock_events() implicitly kick event check if the
block count reaches zero.  This behavior is not described in the
comment and hinders with future changes.  Make the unblocker
explicitly check events by calling disk_check_events() as necessary.

This patch doesn't cause any behavior difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
2011-03-09 19:54:27 +01:00
Justin TerAvest df457f845e blk-cgroup: Lower minimum weight from 100 to 10.
We've found that we still get good, useful isolation at weights this
low. I'd like to adjust the minimum so that any other changes can take
these values into account.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-08 19:45:00 +01:00
Vivek Goyal de701c74a3 blk-throttle: Some cleanups and race fixes in limit update code
When throttle group limits are updated through cgroups, a thread is
woken up to process these updates. While reviewing that code, oleg noted
couple of race conditions existed in the code and he also suggested that
code can be simplified.

This patch fixes the races simplifies the code based on Oleg's suggestions:

	- Use xchg().
	- Introduced a common function throtl_update_blkio_group_common()
          which is shared now by all iops/bps update functions.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

Fixed a merge issue, throtl_schedule_delayed_work() takes throtl_data
as the argument now, not the queue.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07 21:09:32 +01:00
Vivek Goyal 231d704b4a blk-throttle: process limit change only through one function
With the help of cgroup interface one can go and upate the bps/iops
limits of existing group. Once the limits are udpated, a thread is
woken up to see if some blocked group needs recalculation based on new
limits and needs to be requeued.

There was also a piece of code where I was checking for group limit
update when a fresh bio comes in. This patch gets rid of that piece of
code and keeps processing the limit change at one place
throtl_process_limit_change().  It just keeps the code simple and easy
to understand.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07 21:05:14 +01:00
Jens Axboe b873c5d692 Merge branch 'block-for-2.6.39-core' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into for-2.6.39/core 2011-03-07 09:40:21 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng a60327107b cfq-iosched: Fix update_vdisktime logic
The update_vdisktime logic is broken since commit
b54ce60eb7, st->min_vdisktime never makes
a progress. Fix it.

Thanks Vivek for pointing it out.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07 09:28:09 +01:00
Shaohua Li ef8a41df8c cfq-iosched: give busy sync queue no dispatch limit
If there are a sync and an async queue and the sync queue's think time
is small, we can ignore the sync queue's dispatch quantum. Because the
sync queue will always preempt the async queue, we don't need to care
about async's latency.  This can fix a performance regression of
aiostress test, which is introduced by commit f8ae6e3eb8. The issue
should exist even without the commit, but the commit amplifies the
impact.

The initial post does the same optimization for RT queue too, but since
I have no real workload for it, Vivek suggests to drop it.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07 09:26:29 +01:00
Jens Axboe 93803e0140 cfq-iosched: fix race in cfq_set_request()
We need to hold the queue lock over the reference increment,
it's not atomic anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07 08:59:06 +01:00
Tejun Heo e83a46bbb1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of ../linux-2.6-block into block-for-2.6.39/core
This merge creates two set of conflicts.  One is simple context
conflicts caused by removal of throtl_scheduled_delayed_work() in
for-linus and removal of throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() in
for-2.6.39/core.

The other is caused by commit 255bb490c8 (block: blk-flush shouldn't
call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue()) in for-linus
crashing with FLUSH reimplementation in for-2.6.39/core.  The conflict
isn't trivial but the resolution is straight-forward.

* __blk_run_queue() calls in flush_end_io() and flush_data_end_io()
  should be called with @force_kblockd set to %true.

* elv_insert() in blk_kick_flush() should use
  %ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE.

Both changes are to avoid invoking ->request_fn() directly from
request completion path and closely match the changes in the commit
255bb490c8.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-03-04 19:09:02 +01:00
Vivek Goyal da52777000 block: Move blk_throtl_exit() call to blk_cleanup_queue()
Move blk_throtl_exit() in blk_cleanup_queue() as blk_throtl_exit() is
written in such a way that it needs queue lock. In blk_release_queue()
there is no gurantee that ->queue_lock is still around.

Initially blk_throtl_exit() was in blk_cleanup_queue() but Ingo reported
one problem.

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/23/86

  And a quick fix moved blk_throtl_exit() to blk_release_queue().

        commit 7ad58c0286
        Author: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
        Date:   Sat Oct 23 20:40:26 2010 +0200

        block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle code

This patch reverts above change and does not try to shutdown the
throtl work in blk_sync_queue(). By avoiding call to
throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() from blk_sync_queue(), we should also avoid
the problem reported by Ingo.

blk_sync_queue() seems to be used only by md driver and it seems to be
using it to make sure q->unplug_fn is not called as md registers its
own unplug functions and it is about to free up the data structures
used by unplug_fn(). Block throttle does not call back into unplug_fn()
or into md. So there is no need to cancel blk throttle work.

In fact I think cancelling block throttle work is bad because it might
happen that some bios are throttled and scheduled to be dispatched later
with the help of pending work and if work is cancelled, these bios might
never be dispatched.

Block layer also uses blk_sync_queue() during blk_cleanup_queue() and
blk_release_queue() time. That should be safe as we are also calling
blk_throtl_exit() which should make sure all the throttling related
data structures are cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02 19:06:49 -05:00
Vivek Goyal c94a96ac93 block: Initialize ->queue_lock to internal lock at queue allocation time
There does not seem to be a clear convention whether q->queue_lock is
initialized or not when blk_cleanup_queue() is called. In the past it
was not necessary but now blk_throtl_exit() takes up queue lock by
default and needs queue lock to be available.

In fact elevator_exit() code also has similar requirement just that it
is less stringent in the sense that elevator_exit() is called only if
elevator is initialized.

Two problems have been noticed because of ambiguity about spin lock
status.

      - If a driver calls blk_alloc_queue() and then soon calls
        blk_cleanup_queue() almost immediately, (because some other
	driver structure allocation failed or some other error happened)
	then blk_throtl_exit() will run into issues as queue lock is not
	initialized. Loop driver ran into this issue recently and I
	noticed error paths in md driver too. Similar error paths should
	exist in other drivers too.

      - If some driver provided external spin lock and zapped the lock
        before blk_cleanup_queue(), then it can lead to issues.

So this patch initializes the default queue lock at queue allocation time.

block throttling code is one of the users of queue lock and it is
initialized at the queue allocation time, so it makes sense to
initialize ->queue_lock also to internal lock. A driver can overide that
lock later. This will take care of the issue where a driver does not have
to worry about initializing the queue lock to default before calling
blk_cleanup_queue()

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02 19:06:49 -05:00
Liu Yuan 53f22956ef block/genhd: Change some numerals into macros
Rename the numerals in the diskstats_show() into the macros.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02 11:00:15 -05:00
Tejun Heo 255bb490c8 block: blk-flush shouldn't call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue()
blk-flush decomposes a flush into sequence of multiple requests.  On
completion of a request, the next one is queued; however, block layer
must not implicitly call into q->request_fn() directly from completion
path.  This makes the queue behave unexpectedly when seen from the
drivers and violates the assumption that q->request_fn() is called
with process context + queue_lock.

This patch makes blk-flush the following two changes to make sure
q->request_fn() is not called directly from request completion path.

- blk_flush_complete_seq_end_io() now asks __blk_run_queue() to always
  use kblockd instead of calling directly into q->request_fn().

- queue_next_fseq() uses ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE instead of
  ELEVATOR_INSERT_FRONT so that elv_insert() doesn't try to unplug the
  request queue directly.

Reported by Jan in the following threads.

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/48778
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/48786

stable: applicable to v2.6.37.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02 08:48:06 -05:00
Tejun Heo 1654e7411a block: add @force_kblockd to __blk_run_queue()
__blk_run_queue() automatically either calls q->request_fn() directly
or schedules kblockd depending on whether the function is recursed.
blk-flush implementation needs to be able to explicitly choose
kblockd.  Add @force_kblockd.

All the current users are converted to specify %false for the
parameter and this patch doesn't introduce any behavior change.

stable: This is prerequisite for fixing ide oops caused by the new
        blk-flush implementation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02 08:48:05 -05:00
Justin TerAvest 0bbfeb8320 cfq-iosched: Always provide group isolation.
Effectively, make group_isolation=1 the default and remove the tunable.
The setting group_isolation=0 was because by default we idle on
sync-noidle tree and on fast devices, this can be very harmful for
throughput.

However, this problem can also be addressed by tuning slice_idle and
possibly group_idle on faster storage devices.

This change simplifies the CFQ code by removing the feature entirely.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01 15:05:08 -05:00
Jens Axboe 6fae9c2513 Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc6' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/cfq-iosched.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01 15:04:39 -05:00
Ben Hutchings 291d24f6d9 block: fix kernel-doc format for blkdev_issue_zeroout
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01 13:45:24 -05:00
Vivek Goyal 450adcbe51 blk-throttle: Do not use kblockd workqueue for throtl work
o Dominik Klein reported a system hang issue while doing some blkio
  throttling testing.

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/173

o Some tracing revealed that CFQ was not dispatching any more jobs as
  queue unplug was not happening. And queue unplug was not happening
  because unplug work was not being called as there was one throttling
  work on same cpu which as not finished yet. And throttling work had not
  finished as it was tyring to dispatch a bio to CFQ but all the request
  descriptors were consume to it was put to sleep.

o So basically it is a cyclic dependecny between CFQ unplug work and
  throtl dispatch work. Tejun suggested that use separate workqueue for
  such cases.

o This patch uses a separate workqueue for throttle related work and
  does not rely on kblockd workqueue anymore.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Dominik Klein <dk@in-telegence.net>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01 13:41:53 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 638691a7a4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: Fix - again - partition detection when array becomes active
  Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size.
  md: avoid spinlock problem in blk_throtl_exit
  md: correctly handle probe of an 'mdp' device.
  md: don't set_capacity before array is active.
  md: Fix raid1->raid0 takeover
2011-02-25 11:13:26 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 3c522cedb5 block: fix refcounting in BLKBSZSET
Adam Kovari and others reported that disconnecting an USB drive with
an ntfs-3g filesystem would cause "kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:1421!" to
be triggered.

The BUG could be traced back to ioctl(BLKBSZSET), which would
erroneously decrement the refcount on the bdev.  This is because
blkdev_get() expects the refcount to be already incremented and either
returns success or decrements the refcount and returns an error.

The bug was introduced by e525fd89 (block: make blkdev_get/put()
handle exclusive access), which didn't take into account this behavior
of blkdev_get().

This fixes
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29202
(and likely 29792 too)

Reported-by: Adam Kovari <kovariadam@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-24 08:54:21 -08:00
NeilBrown 93b270f76e Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size.
There are two cases when we call flush_disk.
In one, the device has disappeared (check_disk_change) so any
data will hold becomes irrelevant.
In the oter, the device has changed size (check_disk_size_change)
so data we hold may be irrelevant.

In both cases it makes sense to discard any 'clean' buffers,
so they will be read back from the device if needed.

In the former case it makes sense to discard 'dirty' buffers
as there will never be anywhere safe to write the data.  In the
second case it *does*not* make sense to discard dirty buffers
as that will lead to file system corruption when you simply enlarge
the containing devices.

flush_disk calls __invalidate_devices.
__invalidate_device calls both invalidate_inodes and invalidate_bdev.

invalidate_inodes *does* discard I_DIRTY inodes and this does lead
to fs corruption.

invalidate_bev *does*not* discard dirty pages, but I don't really care
about that at present.

So this patch adds a flag to __invalidate_device (calling it
__invalidate_device2) to indicate whether dirty buffers should be
killed, and this is passed to invalidate_inodes which can choose to
skip dirty inodes.

flusk_disk then passes true from check_disk_change and false from
check_disk_size_change.

dm avoids tripping over this problem by calling i_size_write directly
rathher than using check_disk_size_change.

md does use check_disk_size_change and so is affected.

This regression was introduced by commit 608aeef17a which causes
check_disk_size_change to call flush_disk, so it is suitable for any
kernel since 2.6.27.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-02-24 17:25:47 +11:00
Hannes Reinecke 79775567e0 [SCSI] block: improve detail in I/O error messages
Classify severity of I/O errors for target, nexus, and
transport errors.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-02-12 10:33:37 -06:00
Mike Snitzer c186794dbb block: share request flush fields with elevator_private
Flush requests are never put on the IO scheduler.  Convert request
structure's elevator_private* into an array and have the flush fields
share a union with it.

Reclaim the space lost in 'struct request' by moving 'completion_data'
back in the union with 'rb_node'.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-02-11 11:08:00 +01:00
Mike Snitzer 9d5a4e946c block: skip elevator data initialization for flush requests
Skip elevator initialization for flush requests by passing priv=0 to
blk_alloc_request() in get_request().  As such elv_set_request() is
never called for flush requests.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-02-11 11:05:46 +01:00
Linus Torvalds aceb91cd35 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cdrom: support devices that have check_events but not media_changed
  cfq-iosched: Don't wait if queue already has requests.
  blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group
  cfq: rename a function to give it more appropriate name
  cciss: make cciss_revalidate not loop through CISS_MAX_LUNS volumes unnecessarily.
  drivers/block/aoe/Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y
  loop: queue_lock NULL pointer derefence in blk_throtl_exit
  drivers/block/Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y
  blktrace: Don't output messages if NOTIFY isn't set.
2011-02-09 11:45:21 -08:00
Justin TerAvest 02a8f01b5a cfq-iosched: Don't wait if queue already has requests.
Commit 7667aa0630 added logic to wait for
the last queue of the group to become busy (have at least one request),
so that the group does not lose out for not being continuously
backlogged. The commit did not check for the condition that the last
queue already has some requests. As a result, if the queue already has
requests, wait_busy is set. Later on, cfq_select_queue() checks the
flag, and decides that since the queue has a request now and wait_busy
is set, the queue is expired.  This results in early expiration of the
queue.

This patch fixes the problem by adding a check to see if queue already
has requests. If it does, wait_busy is not set. As a result, time slices
do not expire early.

The queues with more than one request are usually buffered writers.
Testing shows improvement in isolation between buffered writers.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-02-09 14:22:36 +01:00
Tejun Heo ae1b153962 block: reimplement FLUSH/FUA to support merge
The current FLUSH/FUA support has evolved from the implementation
which had to perform queue draining.  As such, sequencing is done
queue-wide one flush request after another.  However, with the
draining requirement gone, there's no reason to keep the queue-wide
sequential approach.

This patch reimplements FLUSH/FUA support such that each FLUSH/FUA
request is sequenced individually.  The actual FLUSH execution is
double buffered and whenever a request wants to execute one for either
PRE or POSTFLUSH, it queues on the pending queue.  Once certain
conditions are met, a flush request is issued and on its completion
all pending requests proceed to the next sequence.

This allows arbitrary merging of different type of flushes.  How they
are merged can be primarily controlled and tuned by adjusting the
above said 'conditions' used to determine when to issue the next
flush.

This is inspired by Darrick's patches to merge multiple zero-data
flushes which helps workloads with highly concurrent fsync requests.

* As flush requests are never put on the IO scheduler, request fields
  used for flush share space with rq->rb_node.  rq->completion_data is
  moved out of the union.  This increases the request size by one
  pointer.

  As rq->elevator_private* are used only by the iosched too, it is
  possible to reduce the request size further.  However, to do that,
  we need to modify request allocation path such that iosched data is
  not allocated for flush requests.

* FLUSH/FUA processing happens on insertion now instead of dispatch.

- Comments updated as per Vivek and Mike.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-25 12:43:54 +01:00
Tejun Heo 143a87f4c9 block: improve flush bio completion
bio's for flush are completed twice - once during the data phase and
one more time after the whole sequence is complete.  The first
completion shouldn't notify completion to the issuer.

This was achieved by skipping all bio completion steps in
req_bio_endio() for the first completion; however, this has two
drawbacks.

* Error is not recorded in bio and must be tracked somewhere else.

* Partial completion is not supported.

Both don't cause problems for the current users; however, they make
further improvements difficult.  Change req_bio_endio() such that it
only skips the actual notification part for the first completion.  bio
completion is implemented with partial completions on mind anyway so
this is as simple as moving the REQ_FLUSH_SEQ conditional such that
only calling of bio_endio() is skipped.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-25 12:43:52 +01:00
Tejun Heo 414b4ff5ee block: add REQ_FLUSH_SEQ
rq == &q->flush_rq was used to determine whether a rq is part of a
flush sequence, which worked because all requests in a flush sequence
were sequenced using the single dedicated request.  This is about to
change, so introduce REQ_FLUSH_SEQ flag to distinguish flush sequence
requests.

This patch doesn't cause any behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-25 12:43:49 +01:00
David Rientjes 6a108a14fa kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.

This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel.  A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).

Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
Vivek Goyal be2c6b1990 blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group
o Jeff Moyer was doing some testing on a RAM backed disk and
  blkiocg_lookup_group() showed up high overhead after memcpy(). Similarly
  somebody else reported that blkiocg_lookup_group() is eating 6% extra
  cpu. Though looking at the code I can't think why the overhead of
  this function is so high. One thing is that it is called with very high
  frequency (once for every IO).

o For lot of folks blkio controller will be compiled in but they might
  not have actually created cgroups. Hence optimize the case of root
  cgroup where we can avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() if IO is happening
  in root group (common case).

Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-19 08:25:02 -07:00
Vivek Goyal ba5bd520f6 cfq: rename a function to give it more appropriate name
o Rename a function to give it more approprate name. We are calculating
  cfq queue slice and function name gives the impression as if cfq group
  slice length is being calculated.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-19 08:25:02 -07:00
Shaohua Li c553f8e335 block cfq: compensate preempted queue even if it has no slice assigned
If a queue is preempted before it gets slice assigned, the queue doesn't get
compensation, which looks unfair. For such queue, we compensate it for a whole
slice.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-14 08:41:03 +01:00
Shaohua Li f8ae6e3eb8 block cfq: make queue preempt work for queues from different workload
I got this:
             fio-874   [007]  2157.724514:   8,32   m   N cfq874 preempt
             fio-874   [007]  2157.724519:   8,32   m   N cfq830 slice expired t=1
             fio-874   [007]  2157.724520:   8,32   m   N cfq830 sl_used=1 disp=0 charge=1 iops=0 sect=0
             fio-874   [007]  2157.724521:   8,32   m   N cfq830 set_active wl_prio:0 wl_type:0
             fio-874   [007]  2157.724522:   8,32   m   N cfq830 Not idling. st->count:1

cfq830 is an async queue, and preempted by a sync queue cfq874. But since we
have cfqg->saved_workload_slice mechanism, the preempt is a nop.
Looks currently our preempt is totally broken if the two queues are not from
the same workload type.
Below patch fixes it. This will might make async queue starvation, but it's
what our old code does before cgroup is added.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-14 08:41:02 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 275220f0fc Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
  block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
  blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
  block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
  block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
  block: trace event block fix unassigned field
  block: add internal hd part table references
  block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
  kref: add kref_test_and_get
  bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
  block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
  Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
  block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
  Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
  fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
  block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
  cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
  fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
  cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
  sd: implement sd_check_events()
  sr: implement sr_check_events()
  ...
2011-01-13 10:45:01 -08:00
Jens Axboe 81c5e2ae33 Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/event-handling' into for-2.6.38/core 2011-01-13 14:47:54 +01:00
Shaohua Li 329a67815b block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
cfq_group->ref is used with queue_lock hold, the only exception is
cfq_set_request, which looks like a bug to me, so ref doesn't need
to be an atomic and atomic operation is slower.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-07 08:48:28 +01:00
Shaohua Li 30d7b9448f block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
cfq_queue->ref is used with queue_lock hold, so ref doesn't need to be an atomic
and atomic operation is slower.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-07 08:46:59 +01:00
Jens Axboe 6c23a9681c block: add internal hd part table references
We can't use krefs since it's apparently restricted to very basic
reference counting.

This reverts commit e4a683c8.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-07 08:43:37 +01:00
Jerome Marchand 09e099d4ba block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
/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: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-05 16:57:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo 89b90be2d8 block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
kblockd is used for unplugging and may affect IO latency and
throughput and the max number of concurrent work items are bound by
the number of block devices.  Make it HIGHPRI workqueue w/ default max
concurrency.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-03 15:01:47 +01:00
Jiri Kosina 4b7bd36470 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
	drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c

Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
2010-12-22 18:57:02 +01:00
Bart Van Assche 27667c996f block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
This patch fixes a spelling error in a source code comment and removes
superfluous braces in the function exit_io_context().

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-21 15:07:45 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 7f8635cc9e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic
  block: max hardware sectors limit wrapper
  block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead
  blk-throttle: Correct the placement of smp_rmb()
  blk-throttle: Trim/adjust slice_end once a bio has been dispatched
  block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
  drbd: fix for spin_lock_irqsave in endio callback
  drbd: don't recvmsg with zero length
2010-12-20 09:19:46 -08:00
Yang Zhang e61eb2e93f fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
The major/minor device numbers are always defined and used as `unsigned'.

Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <kthreadd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 09:00:18 +01:00
Yang Zhang b9f985b6e0 block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <kthreadd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 08:58:36 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng 7278c9c19b cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
When cfq_choose_cfqg() is called in select_queue(), there must be at least one
backlogged CFQ queue waiting for dispatching, hence there must be at least one
backlogged CFQ group on service tree. So we never call choose_service_tree()
with cfqg == NULL.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 08:57:14 +01:00
Mike Snitzer 72d4cd9f38 block: max hardware sectors limit wrapper
Implement blk_limits_max_hw_sectors() and make
blk_queue_max_hw_sectors() a wrapper around it.

DM needs this to avoid setting queue_limits' max_hw_sectors and
max_sectors directly.  dm_set_device_limits() now leverages
blk_limits_max_hw_sectors() logic to establish the appropriate
max_hw_sectors minimum (PAGE_SIZE).  Fixes issue where DM was
incorrectly setting max_sectors rather than max_hw_sectors (which
caused dm_merge_bvec()'s max_hw_sectors check to be ineffective).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 08:36:01 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen e692cb668f block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead
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: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 08:35:53 +01:00
Tejun Heo 77ea887e43 implement in-kernel gendisk events handling
Currently, media presence polling for removeable block devices is done
from userland.  There are several issues with this.

* Polling is done by periodically opening the device.  For SCSI
  devices, the command sequence generated by such action involves a
  few different commands including TEST_UNIT_READY.  This behavior,
  while perfectly legal, is different from Windows which only issues
  single command, GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION.  Unfortunately, some
  ATAPI devices lock up after being periodically queried such command
  sequences.

* There is no reliable and unintrusive way for a userland program to
  tell whether the target device is safe for media presence polling.
  For example, polling for media presence during an on-going burning
  session can make it fail.  The polling program can avoid this by
  opening the device with O_EXCL but then it risks making a valid
  exclusive user of the device fail w/ -EBUSY.

* Userland polling is unnecessarily heavy and in-kernel implementation
  is lighter and better coordinated (workqueue, timer slack).

This patch implements framework for in-kernel disk event handling,
which includes media presence polling.

* bdops->check_events() is added, which supercedes ->media_changed().
  It should check whether there's any pending event and return if so.
  Currently, two events are defined - DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE and
  DISK_EVENT_EJECT_REQUEST.  ->check_events() is guaranteed not to be
  called parallelly.

* gendisk->events and ->async_events are added.  These should be
  initialized by block driver before passing the device to add_disk().
  The former contains the mask of all supported events and the latter
  the mask of all events which the device can report without polling.
  /sys/block/*/events[_async] export these to userland.

* Kernel parameter block.events_dfl_poll_msecs controls the system
  polling interval (default is 0 which means disable) and
  /sys/block/*/events_poll_msecs control polling intervals for
  individual devices (default is -1 meaning use system setting).  Note
  that if a device can report all supported events asynchronously and
  its polling interval isn't explicitly set, the device won't be
  polled regardless of the system polling interval.

* If a device is opened exclusively with write access, event checking
  is automatically disabled until all write exclusive accesses are
  released.

* There are event 'clearing' events.  For example, both of currently
  defined events are cleared after the device has been successfully
  opened.  This information is passed to ->check_events() callback
  using @clearing argument as a hint.

* Event checking is always performed from system_nrt_wq and timer
  slack is set to 25% for polling.

* Nothing changes for drivers which implement ->media_changed() but
  not ->check_events().  Going forward, all drivers will be converted
  to ->check_events() and ->media_change() will be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-16 17:53:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo d2bf1b6723 block: move register_disk() and del_gendisk() to block/genhd.c
There's no reason for register_disk() and del_gendisk() to be in
fs/partitions/check.c.  Move both to genhd.c.  While at it, collapse
unlink_gendisk(), which was artificially in a separate function due to
genhd.c / check.c split, into del_gendisk().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-16 17:53:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo dddd9dc340 block: kill genhd_media_change_notify()
There's no user of the facility.  Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-16 17:53:38 +01:00
Shaohua Li writes e4ea0c16a8 block cfq: select new workload if priority changed
If priority is changed, continuing to check workload_expires and service tree
count of the previous workload does not make sense. We should always choose
the workload with lowest key of new priority in such case.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-13 14:32:22 +01:00
James Smart c7a841f3ac [SCSI] bsg: correct fault if queue object removed while dev_t open
This patch corrects an issue in bsg that results in a general protection
fault if an LLD is removed while an application is using an open file
handle to a bsg device, and the application issues an ioctl. The fault
occurs because the class_dev is NULL, having been cleared in
bsg_unregister_queue() when the driver was removed.  With this
patch, a check is made for the class_dev, and the application
will receive ENXIO if the related object is gone.

Signed-off-by: Carl Lajeunesse <carl.lajeunesse@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2010-12-09 09:41:14 -06:00
Vivek Goyal 04a6b516cd blk-throttle: Correct the placement of smp_rmb()
o I was discussing what are the variable being updated without spin lock and
  why do we need barriers and Oleg pointed out that location of smp_rmb()
  should be between read of td->limits_changed and tg->limits_changed. This
  patch fixes it.

o Following is one possible sequence of events. Say cpu0 is executing
  throtl_update_blkio_group_read_bps() and cpu1 is executing
  throtl_process_limit_change().

 cpu0                                                cpu1

 tg->limits_changed = true;
 smp_mb__before_atomic_inc();
 atomic_inc(&td->limits_changed);

                                     if (!atomic_read(&td->limits_changed))
                                             return;

                                     if (tg->limits_changed)
                                             do_something;

 If cpu0 has updated tg->limits_changed and td->limits_changed, we want to
 make sure that if update to td->limits_changed is visible on cpu1, then
 update to tg->limits_changed should also be visible.

 Oleg pointed out to ensure that we need to insert an smp_rmb() between
 td->limits_changed read and tg->limits_changed read.

o I had erroneously put smp_rmb() before atomic_read(&td->limits_changed).
  This patch fixes it.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-01 19:34:52 +01:00
Vivek Goyal d1ae8ffdfa blk-throttle: Trim/adjust slice_end once a bio has been dispatched
o During some testing I did following and noticed throttling stops working.

        - Put a very low limit on a cgroup, say 1 byte per second.
        - Start some reads, this will set slice_end to a very high value.
        - Change the limit to higher value say 1MB/s
        - Now IO unthrottles and finishes as expected.
        - Try to do the read again but IO is not limited to 1MB/s as expected.

o What is happening.
        - Initially low value of limit sets slice_end to a very high value.
        - During updation of limit, slice_end is not being truncated.
        - Very high value of slice_end leads to keeping the existing slice
          valid for a very long time and new slice does not start.
        - tg_may_dispatch() is called in blk_throtle_bio(), and trim_slice()
          is not called in this path. So slice_start is some old value and
          practically we are able to do huge amount of IO.

o There are many ways it can be fixed. I have fixed it by trying to
  adjust/cleanup slice_end in trim_slice(). Generally we extend slices if bio
  is big and can't be dispatched in one slice. After dispatch of bio, readjust
  the slice_end to make sure we don't end up with huge values.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-01 19:34:46 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng 760701bfe1 cfq-iosched: Get rid of on_st flag
It's able to check whether a CFQ group on a service tree by
checking "cfqg->rb_node". There's no need to maintain an
extra flag here.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-30 20:52:47 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng b54ce60eb7 cfq-iosched: Get rid of st->active
When a cfq group is running, it won't be dequeued from service tree, so
there's no need to store the active one in st->active. Just gid rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-30 20:52:46 +01:00