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Tejun Heo e8989fae38 blkcg: unify blkg's for blkcg policies
Currently, blkg is per cgroup-queue-policy combination.  This is
unnatural and leads to various convolutions in partially used
duplicate fields in blkg, config / stat access, and general management
of blkgs.

This patch make blkg's per cgroup-queue and let them serve all
policies.  blkgs are now created and destroyed by blkcg core proper.
This will allow further consolidation of common management logic into
blkcg core and API with better defined semantics and layering.

As a transitional step to untangle blkg management, elvswitch and
policy [de]registration, all blkgs except the root blkg are being shot
down during elvswitch and bypass.  This patch adds blkg_root_update()
to update root blkg in place on policy change.  This is hacky and racy
but should be good enough as interim step until we get locking
simplified and switch over to proper in-place update for all blkgs.

-v2: Root blkgs need to be updated on elvswitch too and blkg_alloc()
     comment wasn't updated according to the function change.  Fixed.
     Both pointed out by Vivek.

-v3: v2 updated blkg_destroy_all() to invoke update_root_blkg_pd() for
     all policies.  This freed root pd during elvswitch before the
     last queue finished exiting and led to oops.  Directly invoke
     update_root_blkg_pd() only on BLKIO_POLICY_PROP from
     cfq_exit_queue().  This also is closer to what will be done with
     proper in-place blkg update.  Reported by Vivek.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:23 +01:00
Tejun Heo 03aa264ac1 blkcg: let blkcg core manage per-queue blkg list and counter
With the previous patch to move blkg list heads and counters to
request_queue and blkg, logic to manage them in both policies are
almost identical and can be moved to blkcg core.

This patch moves blkg link logic into blkg_lookup_create(), implements
common blkg unlink code in blkg_destroy(), and updates
blkg_destory_all() so that it's policy specific and can skip root
group.  The updated blkg_destroy_all() is now used to both clear queue
for bypassing and elv switching, and release all blkgs on q exit.

This patch introduces a race window where policy [de]registration may
race against queue blkg clearing.  This can only be a problem on cfq
unload and shouldn't be a real problem in practice (and we have many
other places where this race already exists).  Future patches will
remove these unlikely races.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:23 +01:00
Tejun Heo 72e06c2551 blkcg: shoot down blkio_groups on elevator switch
Elevator switch may involve changes to blkcg policies.  Implement
shoot down of blkio_groups.

Combined with the previous bypass updates, the end goal is updating
blkcg core such that it can ensure that blkcg's being affected become
quiescent and don't have any per-blkg data hanging around before
commencing any policy updates.  Until queues are made aware of the
policies that applies to them, as an interim step, all per-policy blkg
data will be shot down.

* blk-throtl doesn't need this change as it can't be disabled for a
  live queue; however, update it anyway as the scheduled blkg
  unification requires this behavior change.  This means that
  blk-throtl configuration will be unnecessarily lost over elevator
  switch.  This oddity will be removed after blkcg learns to associate
  individual policies with request_queues.

* blk-throtl dosen't shoot down root_tg.  This is to ease transition.
  Unified blkg will always have persistent root group and not shooting
  down root_tg for now eases transition to that point by avoiding
  having to update td->root_tg and is safe as blk-throtl can never be
  disabled

-v2: Vivek pointed out that group list is not guaranteed to be empty
     on return from clear function if it raced cgroup removal and
     lost.  Fix it by waiting a bit and retrying.  This kludge will
     soon be removed once locking is updated such that blkg is never
     in limbo state between blkcg and request_queue locks.

     blk-throtl no longer shoots down root_tg to avoid breaking
     td->root_tg.

     Also, Nest queue_lock inside blkio_list_lock not the other way
     around to avoid introduce possible deadlock via blkcg lock.

-v3: blkcg_clear_queue() repositioned and renamed to
     blkg_destroy_all() to increase consistency with later changes.
     cfq_clear_queue() updated to check q->elevator before
     dereferencing it to avoid NULL dereference on not fully
     initialized queues (used by later change).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:22 +01:00
Tejun Heo d732580b4e block: implement blk_queue_bypass_start/end()
Rename and extend elv_queisce_start/end() to
blk_queue_bypass_start/end() which are exported and supports nesting
via @q->bypass_depth.  Also add blk_queue_bypass() to test bypass
state.

This will be further extended and used for blkio_group management.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
Tejun Heo b2fab5acd2 elevator: make elevator_init_fn() return 0/-errno
elevator_ops->elevator_init_fn() has a weird return value.  It returns
a void * which the caller should assign to q->elevator->elevator_data
and %NULL return denotes init failure.

Update such that it returns integer 0/-errno and sets elevator_data
directly as necessary.

This makes the interface more conventional and eases further cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
Tejun Heo 5a5bafdc39 elevator: clear auxiliary data earlier during elevator switch
Elevator switch tries hard to keep as much as context until new
elevator is ready so that it can revert to the original state if
initializing the new elevator fails for some reason.  Unfortunately,
with more auxiliary contexts to manage, this makes elevator init and
exit paths too complex and fragile.

This patch makes elevator_switch() unregister the current elevator and
flush icq's before start initializing the new one.  As we still keep
the old elevator itself, the only difference is that we lose icq's on
rare occassions of switching failure, which isn't critical at all.

Note that this makes explicit elevator parameter to
elevator_init_queue() and __elv_register_queue() unnecessary as they
always can use the current elevator.

This patch enables block cgroup cleanups.

-v2: blk_add_trace_msg() prints elevator name from @new_e instead of
     @e->type as the local variable no longer exists.  This caused
     build failure on CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
Tejun Heo 050c8ea80e block: separate out blk_rq_merge_ok() and blk_try_merge() from elevator functions
blk_rq_merge_ok() is the elevator-neutral part of merge eligibility
test.  blk_try_merge() determines merge direction and expects the
caller to have tested elv_rq_merge_ok() previously.

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

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

This is based on Jens' patch to skip elevator_allow_merge_fn() from
plug merge.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4F16F3CA.90904@kernel.dk>
Original-patch-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-08 09:19:38 +01:00
Jens Axboe 5d381efb3d Revert "block: recursive merge requests"
This reverts commit 274193224c.

We have some problems related to selection of empty queues
that need to be resolved, evidence so far points to the
recursive merge logic making either being the cause or at
least the accelerator for this. So revert it for now, until
we figure this out.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-01-15 10:29:48 +01:00
Shaohua Li 274193224c block: recursive merge requests
In my workload, thread 1 accesses a, a+2, ..., thread 2 accesses a+1,
a+3,.... When the requests are flushed to queue, a and a+1 are merged
to (a, a+1), a+2 and a+3 too to (a+2, a+3), but (a, a+1) and (a+2, a+3)
aren't merged.
With recursive merge below, the workload throughput gets improved 20%
and context switch drops 60%.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-16 14:00:31 +01:00
Tejun Heo 7e5a879449 block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.c
With kmem_cache managed by blk-ioc, io_cq exit/release can be moved to
blk-ioc too.  The odd ->io_cq->exit/release() callbacks are replaced
with elevator_ops->elevator_exit_icq_fn() with unlinking from both ioc
and q, and freeing automatically handled by blk-ioc.  The elevator
operation only need to perform exit operation specific to the elevator
- in cfq's case, exiting the cfqq's.

Also, clearing of io_cq's on q detach is moved to block core and
automatically performed on elevator switch and q release.

Because the q io_cq points to might be freed before RCU callback for
the io_cq runs, blk-ioc code should remember to which cache the io_cq
needs to be freed when the io_cq is released.  New field
io_cq->__rcu_icq_cache is added for this purpose.  As both the new
field and rcu_head are used only after io_cq is released and the
q/ioc_node fields aren't, they are put into unions.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:42 +01:00
Tejun Heo 3d3c2379fe block, cfq: move icq cache management to block core
Let elevators set ->icq_size and ->icq_align in elevator_type and
elv_register() and elv_unregister() respectively create and destroy
kmem_cache for icq.

* elv_register() now can return failure.  All callers updated.

* icq caches are automatically named "ELVNAME_io_cq".

* cfq_slab_setup/kill() are collapsed into cfq_init/exit().

* While at it, minor indentation change for iosched_cfq.elevator_name
  for consistency.

This will help moving icq management to block core.  This doesn't
introduce any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:42 +01:00
Tejun Heo a612fddf0d block, cfq: move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue and add request->elv.icq
Most of icq management is about to be moved out of cfq into blk-ioc.
This patch prepares for it.

* Move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue->icq_list

* Make request explicitly point to icq instead of through elevator
  private data.  ->elevator_private[3] is replaced with sub struct elv
  which contains icq pointer and priv[2].  cfq is updated accordingly.

* Meaningless clearing of ->elevator_private[0] removed from
  elv_set_request().  At that point in code, the field was guaranteed
  to be %NULL anyway.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:41 +01:00
Tejun Heo 22f746e235 block: remove elevator_queue->ops
elevator_queue->ops points to the same ops struct ->elevator_type.ops
is pointing to.  The only effect of caching it in elevator_queue is
shorter notation - it doesn't save any indirect derefence.

Relocate elevator_type->list which used only during module init/exit
to the end of the structure, rename elevator_queue->elevator_type to
->type, and replace elevator_queue->ops with elevator_queue->type.ops.

This doesn't introduce any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:41 +01:00
Tejun Heo f8fc877d3c block: reorder elevator switch sequence
Elevator switch sequence first attached the new elevator, then tried
registering it (sysfs) and if that failed attached back the old
elevator.  However, sysfs registration doesn't require the elevator to
be attached, so there is no reason to do the "detach, attach new,
register, maybe re-attach old" sequence.  It can just do "register,
detach, attach".

* elevator_init_queue() is updated to set ->elevator_data directly and
  return 0 / -errno.  This allows elevator_exit() on an unattached
  elevator.

* __elv_unregister_queue() which was necessary to unregister
  unattached q is removed in favor of __elv_register_queue() which can
  register unattached q.

* elevator_attach() becomes a single assignment and obscures more then
  it helps.  Dropped.

This will help cleaning up io_context handling across elevator switch.

This patch doesn't introduce visible behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:40 +01:00
Tejun Heo b9a1920837 block, cfq: remove delayed unlink
Now that all cic's are immediately unlinked from both ioc and queue,
lazy dropping from lookup path and trimming on elevator unregister are
unnecessary.  Kill them and remove now unused elevator_ops->trim().

This also leaves call_for_each_cic() without any user.  Removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:39 +01:00
Tejun Heo c9a929dde3 block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup() properly shutdown
request_queue is refcounted but actually depdends on lifetime
management from the queue owner - on blk_cleanup_queue(), block layer
expects that there's no request passing through request_queue and no
new one will.

This is fundamentally broken.  The queue owner (e.g. SCSI layer)
doesn't have a way to know whether there are other active users before
calling blk_cleanup_queue() and other users (e.g. bsg) don't have any
guarantee that the queue is and would stay valid while it's holding a
reference.

With delay added in blk_queue_bio() before queue_lock is grabbed, the
following oops can be easily triggered when a device is removed with
in-flight IOs.

 sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Stopping disk
 ata1.01: disabled
 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU 2
 Modules linked in:

 Pid: 648, comm: test_rawio Not tainted 3.1.0-rc3-work+ #56 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8137d651>]  [<ffffffff8137d651>] elv_rqhash_find+0x61/0x100
 ...
 Process test_rawio (pid: 648, threadinfo ffff880019efa000, task ffff880019ef8a80)
 ...
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8137d774>] elv_merge+0x84/0xe0
  [<ffffffff81385b54>] blk_queue_bio+0xf4/0x400
  [<ffffffff813838ea>] generic_make_request+0xca/0x100
  [<ffffffff81383994>] submit_bio+0x74/0x100
  [<ffffffff811c53ec>] dio_bio_submit+0xbc/0xc0
  [<ffffffff811c610e>] __blockdev_direct_IO+0x92e/0xb40
  [<ffffffff811c39f7>] blkdev_direct_IO+0x57/0x60
  [<ffffffff8113b1c5>] generic_file_aio_read+0x6d5/0x760
  [<ffffffff8118c1ca>] do_sync_read+0xda/0x120
  [<ffffffff8118ce55>] vfs_read+0xc5/0x180
  [<ffffffff8118cfaa>] sys_pread64+0x9a/0xb0
  [<ffffffff81afaf6b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This happens because blk_queue_cleanup() destroys the queue and
elevator whether IOs are in progress or not and DEAD tests are
sprinkled in the request processing path without proper
synchronization.

Similar problem exists for blk-throtl.  On queue cleanup, blk-throtl
is shutdown whether it has requests in it or not.  Depending on
timing, it either oopses or throttled bios are lost putting tasks
which are waiting for bio completion into eternal D state.

The way it should work is having the usual clear distinction between
shutdown and release.  Shutdown drains all currently pending requests,
marks the queue dead, and performs partial teardown of the now
unnecessary part of the queue.  Even after shutdown is complete,
reference holders are still allowed to issue requests to the queue
although they will be immmediately failed.  The rest of teardown
happens on release.

This patch makes the following changes to make blk_queue_cleanup()
behave as proper shutdown.

* QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD is now set while holding both q->exit_mutex and
  queue_lock.

* Unsynchronized DEAD check in generic_make_request_checks() removed.
  This couldn't make any meaningful difference as the queue could die
  after the check.

* blk_drain_queue() updated such that it can drain all requests and is
  now called during cleanup.

* blk_throtl updated such that it checks DEAD on grabbing queue_lock,
  drains all throttled bios during cleanup and free td when queue is
  released.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:42:16 +02:00
Tejun Heo e3c78ca524 block: reorganize queue draining
Reorganize queue draining related code in preparation of queue exit
changes.

* Factor out actual draining from elv_quiesce_start() to
  blk_drain_queue().

* Make elv_quiesce_start/end() responsible for their own locking.

* Replace open-coded ELVSWITCH clearing in elevator_switch() with
  elv_quiesce_end().

This patch doesn't cause any visible functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:32:38 +02:00
Wang Sheng-Hui 484fc254b8 elevator: use ELV_NAME_MAX instead of magic number 16 for chosen_elevator
We have ELV_NAME_MAX defined to 16, and hence we should use it
instead of the magic nubmer 16 for elevator's name string.

Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-09-12 08:59:20 +02:00
Jeff Moyer 796d5116c4 iosched: prevent aliased requests from starving other I/O
Hi, Jens,

If you recall, I posted an RFC patch for this back in July of last year:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/13/279

The basic problem is that a process can issue a never-ending stream of
async direct I/Os to the same sector on a device, thus starving out
other I/O in the system (due to the way the alias handling works in both
cfq and deadline).  The solution I proposed back then was to start
dispatching from the fifo after a certain number of aliases had been
dispatched.  Vivek asked why we had to treat aliases differently at all,
and I never had a good answer.  So, I put together a simple patch which
allows aliases to be added to the rb tree (it adds them to the right,
though that doesn't matter as the order isn't guaranteed anyway).  I
think this is the preferred solution, as it doesn't break up time slices
in CFQ or batches in deadline.  I've tested it, and it does solve the
starvation issue.  Let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Jeff

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-02 21:19:05 +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 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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Christoph Hellwig 02e031cbc8 block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER
REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers.  What's left
at this point is:

 - various checks inside the block layer.
 - sanity checks in bio based drivers.
 - now unused bio_empty_barrier helper.
 - Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while,
   but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton.
 - setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi
   drivers.
 - scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been
   removed when flushes were converted to FS requests.
 - blktrace handling of barriers - removed.  Someone who knows blktrace
   better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-10 14:54:09 +01:00
Jens Axboe fa251f8990 Merge branch 'v2.6.36-rc8' into for-2.6.37/barrier
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	drivers/block/loop.c
	mm/swapfile.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-19 09:13:04 +02:00
Jens Axboe 430c62fb29 elevator: fix oops on early call to elevator_change()
2.6.36 introduces an API for drivers to switch the IO scheduler
instead of manually calling the elevator exit and init functions.
This API was added since q->elevator must be cleared in between
those two calls. And since we already have this functionality
directly from use by the sysfs interface to switch schedulers
online, it was prudent to reuse it internally too.

But this API needs the queue to be in a fully initialized state
before it is called, or it will attempt to unregister elevator
kobjects before they have been added. This results in an oops
like this:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000051
IP: [<ffffffff8116f15e>] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
PGD 47ddfc067 PUD 47c6a1067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:04:00.1/irq
CPU 2
Modules linked in: t(+) loop hid_apple usbhid ahci ehci_hcd uhci_hcd libahci usbcore nls_base igb

Pid: 7319, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.36-rc6+ #132 QSSC-S4R/QSSC-S4R
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8116f15e>]  [<ffffffff8116f15e>] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
RSP: 0018:ffff88027da25d08  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff88047c68c528 RBX: 00000000fffffffe RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000000002f RSI: 000000000000002f RDI: ffff88047e196c88
RBP: ffff88027da25d38 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: d84156c5635688c0
R10: d84156c5635688c0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88047e196c88
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88047c68c528
FS:  00007fcb0b26f6e0(0000) GS:ffff880287400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000051 CR3: 000000047e76e000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process modprobe (pid: 7319, threadinfo ffff88027da24000, task ffff88027d377090)
Stack:
 ffff88027da25d58 ffff88047c68c528 00000000fffffffe ffff88047e196c88
<0> ffff88047c68c528 ffff88047e05bd90 ffff88027da25d78 ffffffff8123fb77
<0> ffff88047e05bd90 0000000000000000 ffff88047e196c88 ffff88047c68c528
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8123fb77>] kobject_add_internal+0xe7/0x1f0
 [<ffffffff8123fd98>] kobject_add_varg+0x38/0x60
 [<ffffffff8123feb9>] kobject_add+0x69/0x90
 [<ffffffff8116efe0>] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x20/0xa0
 [<ffffffff8103d48d>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xe0
 [<ffffffff8143de20>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x30/0x50
 [<ffffffff8116efe0>] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x20/0xa0
 [<ffffffff8116eff4>] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x34/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81224204>] elv_register_queue+0x34/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81224aad>] elevator_change+0xfd/0x250
 [<ffffffffa007e000>] ? t_init+0x0/0x361 [t]
 [<ffffffffa007e000>] ? t_init+0x0/0x361 [t]
 [<ffffffffa007e0a8>] t_init+0xa8/0x361 [t]
 [<ffffffff810001de>] do_one_initcall+0x3e/0x170
 [<ffffffff8108c3fd>] sys_init_module+0xbd/0x220
 [<ffffffff81002f2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: e5 41 56 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 53 48 83 ec 10 48 85 ff 74 52 48 8b 47 18 49 c7 c5 00 46 61 81 48 85 c0 74 04 4c 8b 68 30 45 31 f6 <41> 80 7d 51 00 74 0e 49 8b 44 24 28 4c 89 e7 ff 50 20 49 89 c6
RIP  [<ffffffff8116f15e>] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
 RSP <ffff88027da25d08>
CR2: 0000000000000051
---[ end trace a6541d3bf07945df ]---

Fix this by adding a registered bit to the elevator queue, which is
set when the sysfs kobjects have been registered.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-07 09:35:16 +02:00
Tejun Heo 28e7d18452 block: drop barrier ordering by queue draining
Filesystems will take all the responsibilities for ordering requests
around commit writes and will only indicate how the commit writes
themselves should be handled by block layers.  This patch drops
barrier ordering by queue draining from block layer.  Ordering by
draining implementation was somewhat invasive to request handling.
List of notable changes follow.

* Each queue has 1 bit color which is flipped on each barrier issue.
  This is used to track whether a given request is issued before the
  current barrier or not.  REQ_ORDERED_COLOR flag and coloring
  implementation in __elv_add_request() are removed.

* Requests which shouldn't be processed yet for draining were stalled
  by returning -EAGAIN from blk_do_ordered() according to the test
  result between blk_ordered_req_seq() and blk_blk_ordered_cur_seq().
  This logic is removed.

* Draining completion logic in elv_completed_request() removed.

* All barrier sequence requests were queued to request queue and then
  trckled to lower layer according to progress and thus maintaining
  request orders during requeue was necessary.  This is replaced by
  queueing the next request in the barrier sequence only after the
  current one is complete from blk_ordered_complete_seq(), which
  removes the need for multiple proxy requests in struct request_queue
  and the request sorting logic in the ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE path of
  elv_insert().

* As barriers no longer have ordering constraints, there's no need to
  dump the whole elevator onto the dispatch queue on each barrier.
  Insert barriers at the front instead.

* If other barrier requests come to the front of the dispatch queue
  while one is already in progress, they are stored in
  q->pending_barriers and restored to dispatch queue one-by-one after
  each barrier completion from blk_ordered_complete_seq().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:36 +02:00
Jens Axboe 5dd531a03a block: add function call to switch the IO scheduler from a driver
Currently drivers must do an elevator_exit() + elevator_init()
to switch IO schedulers. There are a few problems with this:

- Since commit 1abec4fdbb,
  elevator_init() requires a zeroed out q->elevator
  pointer. The two existing in-kernel users don't do that.

- It will only work at initialization time, since using the
  above two-staged construct does not properly quisce the queue.

So add elevator_change() which takes care of this, and convert
the elv_iosched_store() sysfs interface to use this helper as well.

Reported-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Kevin Vigor <kevin@vigor.nu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 13:52:19 +02:00
Adrian Hunter 8d57a98ccd block: add secure discard
Secure discard is the same as discard except that all copies of the
discarded sectors (perhaps created by garbage collection) must also be
erased.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12 08:43:30 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 7b6d91daee block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 33659ebbae block: remove wrappers for request type/flags
Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in
struct requests.  This allows much easier grepping for different request
types instead of unwinding through macros.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:17:56 +02:00
Mike Snitzer 1abec4fdbb block: make blk_init_free_list and elevator_init idempotent
blk_init_allocated_queue_node may fail and the caller _could_ retry.
Accommodate the unlikely event that blk_init_allocated_queue_node is
called on an already initialized (possibly partially) request_queue.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-04 13:47:06 +02:00
Mike Snitzer e36f724b4a block: Adjust elv_iosched_show to return "none" for bio-based DM
Bio-based DM doesn't use an elevator (queue is !blk_queue_stackable()).

Longer-term DM will not allocate an elevator for bio-based DM.  But even
then there will be small potential for an elevator to be allocated for
a request-based DM table only to have a bio-based table be loaded in the
end.

Displaying "none" for bio-based DM will help avoid user confusion.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-24 09:07:32 +02:00
Mike Snitzer 01effb0dc1 block: allow initialization of previously allocated request_queue
blk_init_queue() allocates the request_queue structure and then
initializes it as needed (request_fn, elevator, etc).

Split initialization out to blk_init_allocated_queue_node.
Introduce blk_init_allocated_queue wrapper function to model existing
blk_init_queue and blk_init_queue_node interfaces.

Export elv_register_queue to allow a newly added elevator to be
registered with sysfs.  Export elv_unregister_queue for symmetry.

These changes allow DM to initialize a device's request_queue with more
precision.  In particular, DM no longer unconditionally initializes a
full request_queue (elevator et al).  It only does so for a
request-based DM device.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-11 08:57:42 +02:00
Divyesh Shah 812d402648 blkio: Add io_merged stat
This includes both the number of bios merged into requests belonging to this
cgroup as well as the number of requests merged together.
In the past, we've observed different merging behavior across upstream kernels,
some by design some actual bugs. This stat helps a lot in debugging such
problems when applications report decreased throughput with a new kernel
version.

This needed adding an extra elevator function to capture bios being merged as I
did not want to pollute elevator code with blkiocg knowledge and hence needed
the accounting invocation to come from CFQ.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-09 08:36:07 +02:00
wzt.wzt@gmail.com a506aedc51 Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
elevator_get() not check the name length, if the name length > sizeof(elv),
elv will miss the '\0'. And elv buffer will be replace "-iosched" as something
like aaaaaaaaa, then call request_module() can load an not trust module.

Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-02 08:41:14 +02:00
Emese Revfy 52cf25d0ab Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type
Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
Alan D. Brunelle 488991e28e block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O
Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_
merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache).

The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of
a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system.

nomerges        Throughput      %System         Improvement (tput / %sys)
--------        ------------    -----------     -------------------------
0               12.45 MB/sec    0.669365609
1               12.50 MB/sec    0.641519199     0.40% / 2.71%
2               12.52 MB/sec    0.639849750     0.56% / 2.96%

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-29 09:04:08 +01:00
Jens Axboe c30f33437c Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-2.6.33 2009-10-13 12:29:45 +02:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 8c27959858 elv_iosched_store(): fix strstrip() misuse
elv_iosched_store() ignore the return value of strstrip().  It makes small
inconsistent behavior.

This patch fixes it.

 <before>
 ====================================
 # cd /sys/block/{blockdev}/queue

 case1:
 # echo "anticipatory" > scheduler
 # cat scheduler
 noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq

 case2:
 # echo "anticipatory " > scheduler
 # cat scheduler
 noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq

 case3:
 # echo " anticipatory" > scheduler
 bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

 <after>
 ====================================
 # cd /sys/block/{blockdev}/queue

 case1:
 # echo "anticipatory" > scheduler
 # cat scheduler
 noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq

 case2:
 # echo "anticipatory " > scheduler
 # cat scheduler
 noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq

 case3:
 # echo " anticipatory" > scheduler
 noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq

Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-09 08:48:08 +02:00
Jens Axboe 492af6350a block: remove the anticipatory IO scheduler
AS is mostly a subset of CFQ, so there's little point in still
providing this separate IO scheduler. Hopefully at some point we
can get down to one single IO scheduler again, at least this brings
us closer by having only one intelligent IO scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-03 09:37:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe 1f98a13f62 bio: first step in sanitizing the bio->bi_rw flag testing
Get rid of any functions that test for these bits and make callers
use bio_rw_flagged() directly. Then it is at least directly apparent
what variable and flag they check.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Tejun Heo da6c5c720c scsi,block: update SCSI to handle mixed merge failures
Update scsi_io_completion() such that it only fails requests till the
next error boundary and retry the leftover.  This enables block layer
to merge requests with different failfast settings and still behave
correctly on errors.  Allow merge of requests of different failfast
settings.

As SCSI is currently the only subsystem which follows failfast status,
there's no need to worry about other block drivers for now.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:30 +02:00
Tejun Heo 0a09f4319c block: fix failfast merge testing in elv_rq_merge_ok()
Commit ab0fd1debe tries to prevent merge
of requests with different failfast settings.  In elv_rq_merge_ok(),
it compares new bio's failfast flags against the merge target
request's.  However, the flag testing accessors for bio and blk don't
return boolean but the tested bit value directly and FAILFAST on bio
and blk don't match, so directly comparing them with == results in
false negative unnecessary preventing merge of readahead requests.

This patch convert the results to boolean by negating them before
comparison.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2009-07-17 14:50:43 +09:00
Tejun Heo ab0fd1debe block: don't merge requests of different failfast settings
Block layer used to merge requests and bios with different failfast
settings.  This caused regular IOs to fail prematurely when they were
merged into failfast requests for readahead.

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

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

This patch makes block layer reject merging if the failfast settings
don't match.  This is correct but likely to lower IO performance by
preventing regular IOs from mingling into surrounding readahead
requests.  Changes to allow such mixed merges and handle errors
correctly will be added later.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>
2009-07-03 21:06:45 +02:00
Linus Torvalds c9059598ea Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-06-11 11:10:35 -07:00
Li Zefan 55782138e4 tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints. Doing so adds
these new capabilities to this tracepoint:

  - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
  - binary tracing without printf overhead
  - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
  - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
  - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
  ...

Cons:

  - no dev_t info for the output of plug, unplug_timer and unplug_io events.
    no dev_t info for getrq and sleeprq events if bio == NULL.
    no dev_t info for rq_abort,...,rq_requeue events if rq->rq_disk == NULL.

    This is mainly because we can't get the deivce from a request queue.
    But this may change in the future.

  - A packet command is converted to a string in TP_assign, not TP_print.
    While blktrace do the convertion just before output.

    Since pc requests should be rather rare, this is not a big issue.

  - In blktrace, an event can have 2 different print formats, but a TRACE_EVENT
    has a unique format, which means we have some unused data in a trace entry.

    The overhead is minimized by using __dynamic_array() instead of __array().

I've benchmarked the ioctl blktrace vs the splice based TRACE_EVENT tracing:

      dd                   dd + ioctl blktrace       dd + TRACE_EVENT (splice)
1     7.36s, 42.7 MB/s     7.50s, 42.0 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s
2     7.43s, 42.3 MB/s     7.48s, 42.1 MB/s          7.43s, 42.4 MB/s
3     7.38s, 42.6 MB/s     7.45s, 42.2 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s

So the overhead of tracing is very small, and no regression when using
those trace events vs blktrace.

And the binary output of TRACE_EVENT is much smaller than blktrace:

 # ls -l -h
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.8M 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.0
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195K 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.1
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7M 06-09 13:25 trace_splice.out

Following are some comparisons between TRACE_EVENT and blktrace:

plug:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981: block_plug: [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981:   8,0    P   N [kjournald]

unplug_io:
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052973: block_unplug_io: [kblockd/0] 1
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052974:   8,0    U   N [kblockd/0] 1

remap:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085042: block_remap: 8,0 W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085043:   8,0    A   W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384

bio_backmerge:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086: block_bio_backmerge: 8,0 W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086:   8,0    M   W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]

getrq:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084974: block_getrq: 8,0 W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084975:   8,0    G   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953770:   8,0    G   N [bash]
  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953773: block_getrq: 0,0 N 0 + 0 [bash]

rq_complete:
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053184: block_rq_complete: 8,0 W () 103669040 + 16 [0]
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053191:   8,0    C   W 103669040 + 16 [0]

  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953811:   8,0    C   N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) [0]
  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953813: block_rq_complete: 0,0 N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) 0 + 0 [0]

rq_insert:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084985: block_rq_insert: 8,0 W 0 () 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084986:   8,0    I   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

Changelog from v2 -> v3:

- use the newly introduced __dynamic_array().

Changelog from v1 -> v2:

- use __string() instead of __array() to minimize the memory required
  to store hex dump of rq->cmd().

- support large pc requests.

- add missing blk_fill_rwbs_rq() in block_rq_requeue TRACE_EVENT.

- some cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A2DF669.5070905@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-09 12:34:23 -04:00
Kiyoshi Ueda 53c663ce0f block: fix a possible oops on elv_abort_queue()
I found one more mis-conversion to the 'request is always dequeued
when completing' model in elv_abort_queue() during code inspection.
Although I haven't hit any problem caused by this mis-conversion yet
and just done compile/boot test, please apply if you have no problem.

Request must be dequeued when it completes.
However, elv_abort_queue() completes requests without dequeueing.
This will cause oops in the __blk_end_request_all().
This patch fixes the oops.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-02 08:44:01 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen cd43e26f07 block: Expose stacked device queues in sysfs
Currently stacking devices do not have a queue directory in sysfs.
However, many of the I/O characteristics like sector size, maximum
request size, etc. are queue properties.

This patch enables the queue directory for MD/DM devices.  The elevator
code has been modified to deal with queues that do not have an I/O
scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:55 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0a7ae2ff0d block: change the tag sync vs async restriction logic
Make them fully share the tag space, but disallow async requests using
the last any two slots.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-20 08:54:31 +02:00
Tejun Heo 83096ebf12 block: convert to pos and nr_sectors accessors
With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver
directly manipulates request fields.  This means that the 'hard'
request fields always equal the !hard fields.  Convert all
rq->sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to
accessors.

While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() < 0 test in swim.c.

[ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Tested-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsi.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dario Ballabio <ballabio_dario@emc.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:50:54 +02:00
Tejun Heo 40cbbb781d block: implement and use [__]blk_end_request_all()
There are many [__]blk_end_request() call sites which call it with
full request length and expect full completion.  Many of them ensure
that the request actually completes by doing BUG_ON() the return
value, which is awkward and error-prone.

This patch adds [__]blk_end_request_all() which takes @rq and @error
and fully completes the request.  BUG_ON() is added to to ensure that
this actually happens.

Most conversions are simple but there are a few noteworthy ones.

* cdrom/viocd: viocd_end_request() replaced with direct calls to
  __blk_end_request_all().

* s390/block/dasd: dasd_end_request() replaced with direct calls to
  __blk_end_request_all().

* s390/char/tape_block: tapeblock_end_request() replaced with direct
  calls to blk_end_request_all().

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-04-28 07:37:35 +02:00
Tejun Heo 158dbda006 block: reorganize request fetching functions
Impact: code reorganization

elv_next_request() and elv_dequeue_request() are public block layer
interface than actual elevator implementation.  They mostly deal with
how requests interact with block layer and low level drivers at the
beginning of rqeuest processing whereas __elv_next_request() is the
actual eleveator request fetching interface.

Move the two functions to blk-core.c.  This prepares for further
interface cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-04-28 07:37:34 +02:00
Tejun Heo a7f5579234 block: kill blk_start_queueing()
blk_start_queueing() is identical to __blk_run_queue() except that it
doesn't check for recursion.  None of the current users depends on
blk_start_queueing() running request_fn directly.  Replace usages of
blk_start_queueing() with [__]blk_run_queue() and kill it.

[ Impact: removal of mostly duplicate interface function ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-04-28 07:37:33 +02:00
Jens Axboe f600abe2de block: fix bad spelling of quiesce
Credit goes to Andrew Morton for spotting this one.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 08:28:09 +02:00
Jerome Marchand 26308eab69 block: fix inconsistency in I/O stat accounting code
This forces in_flight to be zero when turning off or on the I/O stat
accounting and stops updating I/O stats in attempt_merge() when
accounting is turned off.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-07 08:12:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe 6c7e8cee6a block: elevator quiescing helpers
Simple helper functions to quiesce the request queue. These are
currently only used for switching IO schedulers on-the-fly, but
we can use them to properly switch IO accounting on and off as well.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-07 08:12:37 +02:00
Jens Axboe 1faa16d228 block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async based
This makes sure that we never wait on async IO for sync requests, instead
of doing the split on writes vs reads.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 08:04:53 -07:00
Jens Axboe b374d18a4b block: get rid of elevator_t typedef
Just use struct elevator_queue everywhere instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
Tejun Heo 58eea927d2 block: simplify empty barrier implementation
Empty barrier required special handling in __elv_next_request() to
complete it without letting the low level driver see it.

With previous changes, barrier code is now flexible enough to skip the
BAR step using the same barrier sequence selection mechanism.  Drop
the special handling and mask off q->ordered from start_ordered().

Remove blk_empty_barrier() test which now has no user.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo 8f11b3e99a block: make barrier completion more robust
Barrier completion had the following assumptions.

* start_ordered() couldn't finish the whole sequence properly.  If all
  actions are to be skipped, q->ordseq is set correctly but the actual
  completion was never triggered thus hanging the barrier request.

* Drain completion in elv_complete_request() assumed that there's
  always at least one request in the queue when drain completes.

Both assumptions are true but these assumptions need to be removed to
improve empty barrier implementation.  This patch makes the following
changes.

* Make start_ordered() use blk_ordered_complete_seq() to mark skipped
  steps complete and notify __elv_next_request() that it should fetch
  the next request if the whole barrier has completed inside
  start_ordered().

* Make drain completion path in elv_complete_request() check whether
  the queue is empty.  Empty queue also indicates drain completion.

* While at it, convert 0/1 return from blk_do_ordered() to false/true.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 970987beb9 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-12-05 14:45:22 +01:00
Tejun Heo 53a08807c0 block: internal dequeue shouldn't start timer
blkdev_dequeue_request() and elv_dequeue_request() are equivalent and
both start the timeout timer.  Barrier code dequeues the original
barrier request but doesn't passes the request itself to lower level
driver, only broken down proxy requests; however, as the original
barrier code goes through the same dequeue path and timeout timer is
started on it.  If barrier sequence takes long enough, this timer
expires but the low level driver has no idea about this request and
oops follows.

Timeout timer shouldn't have been started on the original barrier
request as it never goes through actual IO.  This patch unexports
elv_dequeue_request(), which has no external user anyway, and makes it
operate on elevator proper w/o adding the timer and make
blkdev_dequeue_request() call elv_dequeue_request() and add timer.
Internal users which don't pass the request to driver - barrier code
and end_that_request_last() - are converted to use
elv_dequeue_request().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-03 12:41:26 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 0bfc24559d blktrace: port to tracepoints, update
Port to the new tracepoints API: split DEFINE_TRACE() and DECLARE_TRACE()
sites. Spread them out to the usage sites, as suggested by
Mathieu Desnoyers.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
2008-11-26 13:04:35 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 5f3ea37c77 blktrace: port to tracepoints
This was a forward port of work done by Mathieu Desnoyers, I changed it to
encode the 'what' parameter on the tracepoint name, so that one can register
interest in specific events and not on classes of events to then check the
'what' parameter.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 12:13:34 +01:00
Tejun Heo 2920ebbd65 block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request()
Block queue supports two usage models - one where block driver peeks
at the front of queue using elv_next_request(), processes it and
finishes it and the other where block driver peeks at the front of
queue, dequeue the request using blkdev_dequeue_request() and finishes
it.  The latter is more flexible as it allows the driver to process
multiple commands concurrently.

These two inconsistent usage models affect the block layer
implementation confusing.  For some, elv_next_request() is considered
the issue point while others consider blkdev_dequeue_request() the
issue point.

Till now the inconsistency mostly affect only accounting, so it didn't
really break anything seriously; however, with block layer timeout,
this inconsistency hits hard.  Block layer considers
elv_next_request() the issue point and adds timer but SCSI layer
thinks it was just peeking and when the request can't process the
command right away, it's just left there without further processing.
This makes the request dangling on the timer list and, when the timer
goes off, the request which the SCSI layer and below think is still on
the block queue ends up in the EH queue, causing various problems - EH
hang (failed count goes over busy count and EH never wakes up),
WARN_ON() and oopses as low level driver trying to handle the unknown
command, etc. depending on the timing.

As SCSI midlayer is the only user of block layer timer at the moment,
moving blk_add_timer() to elv_dequeue_request() fixes the problem;
however, this two usage models definitely need to be cleaned up in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 08:41:55 +01:00
Jens Axboe 80a4b58e36 block: only call ->request_fn when the queue is not stopped
Callers should use either blk_run_queue/__blk_run_queue, or
blk_start_queueing() to invoke request handling instead of calling
->request_fn() directly as that does not take the queue stopped
flag into account.

Also add appropriate comments on the above functions to detail
their usage.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-17 08:46:57 +02:00
Li Zefan ee2e992cc2 block: simplify string handling in elv_iosched_store()
strlcpy() guarantees the dest buffer is NULL teminated.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-17 08:46:57 +02:00
Kiyoshi Ueda 99cd3386f2 block: change elevator to use __blk_end_request()
This patch converts elevator to use __blk_end_request() directly
so that end_{queued|dequeued}_request() can be removed.
Related 'uptodate' arguments is converted to 'error'.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:21 +02:00
Mike Anderson 11914a53d2 block: Add interface to abort queued requests
Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:13 +02:00
Jens Axboe 242f9dcb8b block: unify request timeout handling
Right now SCSI and others do their own command timeout handling.
Move those bits to the block layer.

Instead of having a timer per command, we try to be a bit more clever
and simply have one per-queue. This avoids the overhead of having to
tear down and setup a timer for each command, so it will result in a lot
less timer fiddling.

Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:13 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0835da67c1 block: use linux/uaccess.h in elevator.c instead of asm variant
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:09 +02:00
Mikulas Patocka 5df97b91b5 drop vmerge accounting
Remove hw_segments field from struct bio and struct request. Without virtual
merge accounting they have no purpose.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:03 +02:00
David Woodhouse e17fc0a1cc Allow elevators to sort/merge discard requests
But blkdev_issue_discard() still emits requests which are interpreted as
soft barriers, because naïve callers might otherwise issue subsequent
writes to those same sectors, which might cross on the queue (if they're
reallocated quickly enough).

Callers still _can_ issue non-barrier discard requests, but they have to
take care of queue ordering for themselves.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:02 +02:00
maximilian attems e180f59493 block: request_module(): use format string
Avoid bad things happening if the module has a printk control string in
its name.

Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:15 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen 7ba1ba12ee block: Block layer data integrity support
Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way
of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along
with the I/O.

This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity
metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and
requests that have this extra information attached.

See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:13 +02:00
Alan D. Brunelle 4722dc52a8 Added in elevator switch message to blktrace stream
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-28 14:49:27 +02:00
Harvey Harrison 24c03d47d0 block: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
Alan D. Brunelle ac9fafa124 block: Skip I/O merges when disabled
The block I/O + elevator + I/O scheduler code spend a lot of time trying
to merge I/Os -- rightfully so under "normal" circumstances. However,
if one were to know that the incoming I/O stream was /very/ random in
nature, the cycles are wasted.

This patch adds a per-request_queue tunable that (when set) disables
merge attempts (beyond the simple one-hit cache check), thus freeing up
a non-trivial amount of CPU cycles.

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:55 +02:00
Adrian Bunk 72ed0bf60a block/elevator.c:elv_rq_merge_ok() mustn't be inline
This patch fixes the following build error with UML and gcc 4.3:

<--  snip  -->

...
  CC      block/elevator.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/block/elevator.c: In function ‘elv_merge’:
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/block/elevator.c:73: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to ‘elv_rq_merge_ok’: function body not available
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/block/elevator.c:103: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/block/elevator.c:73: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to ‘elv_rq_merge_ok’: function body not available
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/block/elevator.c:495: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[2]: *** [block/elevator.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [block] Error 2

<--  snip  -->

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:54 +02:00
Nick Piggin 75ad23bc0f block: make queue flags non-atomic
We can save some atomic ops in the IO path, if we clearly define
the rules of how to modify the queue flags.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:33 +02:00
Jens Axboe e164094964 elevator: make elevator_get() attempt to load the appropriate module
Currently we fail if someone requests a valid io scheduler, but it's
modular and not currently loaded. That can happen from a driver init
asking for a different scheduler, or online switching through sysfs
as requested by a user.

This patch makes elevator_get() request_module() to attempt to load
the appropriate module, instead of requiring that done manually.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-19 10:20:37 +01:00
Jens Axboe 4eb166d987 block: make elevator lib checkpatch compliant
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-01 09:26:33 +01:00
James Bottomley fa0ccd837e block: implement drain buffers
These DMA drain buffer implementations in drivers are pretty horrible
to do in terms of manipulating the scatterlist.  Plus they're being
done at least in drivers/ide and drivers/ata, so we now have code
duplication.

The one use case for this, as I understand it is AHCI controllers doing
PIO mode to mmc devices but translating this to DMA at the controller
level.

So, what about adding a callback to the block layer that permits the
adding of the drain buffer for the problem devices.  The idea is that
you'd do this in slave_configure after you find one of these devices.

The beauty of doing it in the block layer is that it quietly adds the
drain buffer to the end of the sg list, so it automatically gets mapped
(and unmapped) without anything unusual having to be done to the
scatterlist in driver/scsi or drivers/ata and without any alteration to
the transfer length.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-28 10:54:11 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman f9cb074bff Kobject: rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init()
Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename
kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:38 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman b2d6db5878 Kobject: rename kobject_add_ng() to kobject_add()
Now that the old kobject_add() function is gone, rename kobject_add_ng()
to kobject_add() to clean up the namespace.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:38 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 29e3dd0df1 Kobject: convert block/elevator.c to use kobject_init/add_ng()
This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the
logic in doing so.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:36 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 2fdd82bd88 block: let elv_register() return void
elv_register() always returns 0, and there isn't anything it does where
it should return an error (the only error condition is so grave that
it's handled with a BUG_ON).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-12-18 08:29:28 +01:00
Uwe Kleine-König dbe7f76dd6 fix typo "insted" -> "instead"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:55:04 +02:00
Jens Axboe bf2de6f5a4 block: Initial support for data-less (or empty) barrier support
This implements functionality to pass down or insert a barrier
in a queue, without having data attached to it. The ->prepare_flush_fn()
infrastructure from data barriers are reused to provide this
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 11:03:56 +02:00
Jens Axboe a0cd128542 block: add end_queued_request() and end_dequeued_request() helpers
We can use this helper in the elevator core for BLKPREP_KILL, and it'll
also be useful for the empty barrier patch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 11:03:53 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 19c38de88a kobjects: fix up improper use of the kobject name field
A number of different drivers incorrect access the kobject name field
directly.  This is not correct as the name might not be in the array.
Use the proper accessor function instead.
2007-10-12 14:51:02 -07:00
Jens Axboe 165125e1e4 [BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef
Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-24 09:28:11 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 94f6030ca7 Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO
kmalloc_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node() were not available in a zeroing
variant in the past.  But with __GFP_ZERO it is possible now to do zeroing
while allocating.

Use __GFP_ZERO to remove the explicit clearing of memory via memset whereever
we can.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Matthias Kaehlcke 70cee26e02 Use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each() in the block device
elevator

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 13:43:32 +02:00
Jens Axboe 2a12dcd71a [PATCH] elevator: elv_list_lock does not need irq disabling
It's never grabbed from irq context, so just make it plain spin_lock().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-04-30 09:08:17 +02:00
Thibaut VARENE 1ffb96c587 make elv_register() output atomic
Booting 2.6.21-rc3-g45592145 I noticed the following on one of my
machines in the bootlog:

io scheduler noop registered<6>Time: jiffies clocksource has been installed.

io scheduler deadline registered (default)

Looking at block/elevator.c, it appears that elv_register() uses two
consecutive printks in a non-atomic way, leading to the above glitch. The
attached trivial patch fixes this issue, by using a single printk.

Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-03-27 08:53:04 +02:00
Jens Axboe 783660b2f6 elevator: don't sort reads between writes
Don't allow elv_dispatch_sort() to mix reads and writes together,
it's rarely a good idea.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-02-11 23:14:44 +01:00
Jens Axboe cad9751642 elevator: abstract out the activate and deactivate functions
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-02-11 23:14:44 +01:00
Linas Vepstas 95543179f1 [PATCH] elevator: move clearing of unplug flag earlier
A flag was recently added to the elevator code to avoid
performing an unplug when reuests are being re-queued.
The goal of this flag was to avoid a deep recursion that
can occur when re-queueing requests after a SCSI device/host
reset.  See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/17/254

However, that fix added the flag near the bottom of a case
statement, where an earlier break (in an if statement) could
transport one out of the case, without setting the flag.
This patch sets the flag earlier in the case statement.

I re-discovered the deep recursion recently during testing;
I was told that it was a known problem, and the fix to it was
in the kernel I was testing. Indeed it was ... but it didn't
fix the bug. With the patch below, I no longer see the bug.

Signed-off by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-23 11:01:17 -08:00
Jens Axboe bb4067e341 [PATCH] elevator: fixup typo in merge logic
The recent io scheduler allow_merge commit left the block layer with
no merging, oops. This patch fixes that up.

That means the CFQ change needs to be verified again, it might not fix
the original bug now.  But that's a seperate thing, I'll double check
that tomorrow.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-21 22:01:04 -08:00
Jens Axboe da77526502 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: don't allow sync merges across queues
Currently we allow any merge, even if the io originates from different
processes. This can cause really bad starvation and unfairness, if those
ios happen to be synchronous (reads or direct writes).

So add a allow_merge hook to the io scheduler ops, so an io scheduler can
help decide whether a bio/process combination may be merged with an
existing request.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-20 11:04:12 +01:00
Jens Axboe bb37b94c68 [BLOCK] Cleanup unused variable passing
- ->init_queue() does not need the elevator passed in
- ->put_request() is a hot path and need not have the queue passed in
- cfq_update_io_seektime() does not need cfqd passed in

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 10:42:33 +01:00
Vasily Tarasov c584164224 [PATCH] block layer: elv_iosched_show should get elv_list_lock
elv_iosched_show function iterates other elv_list, hence
elv_list_lock should be got.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-10-12 15:08:51 +02:00
Vasily Tarasov a22b169df1 [PATCH] block layer: elevator_find function cleanup
We can easily produce search through the elevator list
without introducing additional elevator_type variable.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-10-12 15:08:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0fe2347957 [PATCH] Update axboe@suse.de email address
As people often look for the copyright in files to see who to mail,
update the link to a neutral one.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:34 +02:00
Jens Axboe b5deef9012 [PATCH] Make sure all block/io scheduler setups are node aware
Some were kmalloc_node(), some were still kmalloc(). Change them all to
kmalloc_node().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe cb78b285c8 [PATCH] Drop useless bio passing in may_queue/set_request API
It's not needed for anything, so kill the bio passing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:23 +02:00
Jens Axboe c00895ab2f [PATCH] Remove ->waiting member from struct request
As the comments indicates in blkdev.h, we can fold it into ->end_io_data
usage as that is really what ->waiting is. Fixup the users of
blk_end_sync_rq().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:29:12 +02:00
Jens Axboe 2e662b65f0 [PATCH] elevator: abstract out the rbtree sort handling
The rbtree sort/lookup/reposition logic is mostly duplicated in
cfq/deadline/as, so move it to the elevator core. The io schedulers
still provide the actual rb root, as we don't want to impose any sort
of specific handling on the schedulers.

Introduce the helpers and rb_node in struct request to help migrate the
IO schedulers.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:26:57 +02:00
Jens Axboe 9817064b68 [PATCH] elevator: move the backmerging logic into the elevator core
Right now, every IO scheduler implements its own backmerging (except for
noop, which does no merging). That results in duplicated code for
essentially the same operation, which is never a good thing. This patch
moves the backmerging out of the io schedulers and into the elevator
core. We save 1.6kb of text and as a bonus get backmerging for noop as
well. Win-win!

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:26:56 +02:00
Jens Axboe 4aff5e2333 [PATCH] Split struct request ->flags into two parts
Right now ->flags is a bit of a mess: some are request types, and
others are just modifiers. Clean this up by splitting it into
->cmd_type and ->cmd_flags. This allows introduction of generic
Linux block message types, useful for sending generic Linux commands
to block devices.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:23:37 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 2d8f613160 elv_unregister: fix possible crash on module unload
An exiting task or process which didn't do I/O yet have no io context,
elv_unregister() should check it is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-22 12:52:23 -07:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Dave Jones acf4217555 [PATCH] remove dead code from elevator switching
We already drop the refcount in elevator_exit(), and as
we're setting 'e' to NULL, we'll never take that branch anyway.
Finally, as 'e' is a local var that isn't referenced afterwards,
setting it to NULL is pointless.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe bc1c116974 [PATCH] elevator switching race
There's a race between shutting down one io scheduler and firing up the
next, in which a new io could enter and cause the io scheduler to be
invoked with bad or NULL data.

To fix this, we need to maintain the queue lock for a bit longer.
Unfortunately we cannot do that, since the elevator init requires to be
run without the lock held.  This isn't easily fixable, without also
changing the mempool API.  So split the initialization into two parts,
and alloc-init operation and an attach operation.  Then we can
preallocate the io scheduler and related structures, and run the attach
inside the lock after we detach the old one.

This patch has survived 30 minutes of 1 second io scheduler switching
with a very busy io load.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08 15:14:23 -07:00
Jens Axboe dac07ec121 [BLOCK] limit request_fn recursion
Don't recurse back into the driver even if the unplug threshold is met,
when the driver asks for a requeue. This is both silly from a logical
point of view (requeues typically happen due to driver/hardware
shortage), and also dangerous since we could hit an endless request_fn
-> requeue -> unplug -> request_fn loop and crash on stack overrun.

Also limit blk_run_queue() to one level of recursion, similar to how
blk_start_queue() works.

This patch fixed a real problem with SLES10 and lpfc, and it could hit
any SCSI lld that returns non-zero from it's ->queuecommand() handler.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-11 12:38:59 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 4f73247f0e [PATCH] block/elevator.c: remove unused exports
This patch removes the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
- elv_requeue_request
- elv_completed_request

They are only used by the block core, hence they need not be exported.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-20 15:45:22 +02:00
OGAWA Hirofumi 9b41046cd0 [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[]
The boot cmdline is parsed in parse_early_param() and
parse_args(,unknown_bootoption).

And __setup() is used in obsolete_checksetup().

	start_kernel()
		-> parse_args()
			-> unknown_bootoption()
				-> obsolete_checksetup()

If __setup()'s callback (->setup_func()) returns 1 in
obsolete_checksetup(), obsolete_checksetup() thinks a parameter was
handled.

If ->setup_func() returns 0, obsolete_checksetup() tries other
->setup_func().  If all ->setup_func() that matched a parameter returns 0,
a parameter is seted to argv_init[].

Then, when runing /sbin/init or init=app, argv_init[] is passed to the app.
If the app doesn't ignore those arguments, it will warning and exit.

This patch fixes a wrong usage of it, however fixes obvious one only.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
Eric Sesterhenn ce52449742 BUG_ON() Conversion in block/elevator.c
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner, contains unlikely() and can better optimized away.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24 18:43:26 +01:00
Jens Axboe 2056a782f8 [PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-23 20:00:26 +01:00
Al Viro e572ec7e4e [PATCH] fix rmmod problems with elevator attributes, clean them up 2006-03-18 22:27:18 -05:00
Al Viro 3d1ab40f4c [PATCH] elevator_t lifetime rules and sysfs fixes 2006-03-18 18:35:43 -05:00
Al Viro e17a9489b4 [PATCH] stop elv_unregister() from rogering other iosched's data, fix locking
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-18 18:34:12 -05:00
Tejun Heo 30e9656cc3 [PATCH] block: implement elv_insert and use it (fix ordcolor flipping bug)
q->ordcolor must only be flipped on initial queueing of a hardbarrier
request.

Constructing ordered sequence and requeueing used to pass through
__elv_add_request() which flips q->ordcolor when it sees a barrier
request.

This patch separates out elv_insert() from __elv_add_request() and uses
elv_insert() when constructing ordered sequence and requeueing.
elv_insert() inserts the given request at the specified position and
does nothing else.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-08 07:52:58 -08:00
Tejun Heo 238e7db935 [PATCH] block: request_queue->ordcolor must not be flipped on SOFTBARRIER
q->ordcolor must not be flipped on SOFTBARRIER.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:51 -08:00
Nate Diller 248d5ca5ed [BLOCK] elevator: allow default scheduler to potentially be modular
Jens has decided that allowing the default scheduler to be a module is
a bug, and should not be allowed under kconfig.  However, I find that
scenario useful for debugging, and wish for the kernel to be able to
handle this situation without OOPSing, if I enable such an option in
the .config directly.  This patch dynamically checks for the presence
of the compiled-in default, and falls back to no-op, emitting a
suitable error message, when the default is not available

Tested for a range of boot options on 2.6.16-rc1-mm2.

Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-24 10:09:14 +01:00
Nate Diller 5f00397644 [BLOCK] elevator: default choice selection
My previous default iosched patch did a poor job dealing with the
'elevator=' boot-time option.  The old behavior falls back to the
compiled-in default if the requested one is not registered at boot
time.  This patch dynamically evaluates which default
to use, and emits a suitable error message when the requested scheduler
is not available.  It also does the 'as' -> 'anticipatory' conversion
before elevator registration, which along with a modified registration
function, allows it to correctly indicate which default scheduler is
in use.

Tested for a range of boot options on 2.6.16-rc1-mm2.

Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-24 10:07:58 +01:00
Jens Axboe b7bfcf7cbd [BLOCK] elevator: if specified scheduler is not found, fall back to default
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-16 09:48:58 +01:00
Chuck Ebbert 752a3b7963 [BLOCK] elevator: Make elevator=as work again for anticipatory
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-16 09:47:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo 1bc691d357 [PATCH] fix queue stalling while barrier sequencing
If ordered tag isn't supported, request ordering for barrier
sequencing is performed by queue draining, which basically hangs the
request queue until elv_completed_request() reports completion of all
previous fs requests.

The condition check in elv_completed_request() was only performed for
fs requests.  If a special request is queued between the last
to-be-drained request and the barrier sequence, draining is never
completed and the queue is stalled forever.

This patch moves the end-of-draining condition check such that it's
performed for all requests.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:05:39 -08:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt 769db45b73 make elv_try_merge() static, kill the dead declaration of
elv_try_last_merge().

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 14:44:15 +01:00
Tejun Heo 797e7dbbee [BLOCK] reimplement handling of barrier request
Reimplement handling of barrier requests.

* Flexible handling to deal with various capabilities of
  target devices.
* Retry support for falling back.
* Tagged queues which don't support ordered tag can do ordered.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:51:03 +01:00
Tejun Heo 8ffdc6550c [BLOCK] add @uptodate to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn()
add @uptodate argument to end_that_request_last() and @error
to rq_end_io_fn().  there's no generic way to pass error code
to request completion function, making generic error handling
of non-fs request difficult (rq->errors is driver-specific and
each driver uses it differently).  this patch adds @uptodate
to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn().

for fs requests, this doesn't really matter, so just using the
same uptodate argument used in the last call to
end_that_request_first() should suffice.  imho, this can also
help the generic command-carrying request jens is working on.

Signed-off-by: tejun heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-Off-By: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:49:03 +01:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt eb97b73d75 [BLOCK] new block/ directory comment tidy
Some leftover comments referring to drivers/block that are now block/.
They don't add any information we don't already have, so kill them.

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-18 21:59:31 +01:00
Tejun Heo 3beb207712 [BLOCK] elevator: elv_latter/former_request update
With generic dispatch queue update, implicit former/latter request
handling using rq->queuelist.prev/next doesn't work as expected
anymore.  Also, the only iosched dependent on this feature was
noop-iosched and it has been reimplemented to have its own
latter/former methods.  This patch removes implicit former/latter
handling.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:57:05 +01:00
Tejun Heo be56123568 [BLOCK] fix string handling in elv_iosched_store
elv_iosched_store doesn't terminate string passed from userspace if
it's too long.  Also, if the written length is zero (probably not
possible), it accesses elevator_name[-1].  This patch fixes both bugs.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:56:21 +01:00
Tejun Heo 15853af9f0 [BLOCK] Implement elv_drain_elevator for improved switch error detection
This patch adds request_queue->nr_sorted which keeps the number of
requests in the iosched and implement elv_drain_elevator which
performs forced dispatching.  elv_drain_elevator checks whether
iosched actually dispatches all requests it has and prints error
message if it doesn't.  As buggy forced dispatching can result in
wrong barrier operations, I think this extra check is worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:56:06 +01:00
Tejun Heo 407df2aa29 [BLOCK] elevator: run queue in elevator_switch
elevator_dispatch needs to run queue after forced dispatching;
otherwise, the queue might stall.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:55:37 +01:00
Zachary Amsden cff3ba2204 [BLOCK] elevator init fixes #2
In addition to the first patch, which is probably goodness, I found the
cause of my panic - applying this patch fixes it and now I am booting.
If the chosen_elevator[] is not found, fall back to noop.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:55:05 +01:00