pblk_line_meta_free might sleep (it can end up calling vfree, depending
on how we allocate lba lists), and this can lead to a BUG()
if we wake up on a different cpu and release the lock.
As there is no point of grabbing the free lock when pblk has shut down,
remove the lock.
Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The Notes section of the comment was removed, because now
blk_release_queue can only be executed from blk_cleanup_queue (being
called when the q->kobj reaches zero), and also blk_init_queue was removed
in a1ce35fa49.
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Since 4cf6324b17, a portion of function blk_cleanup_queue was moved to
a newly created function called blk_exit_queue, including the call of
blkcg_exit_queue. So, adjust the documenation according.
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We have QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT defined, but it's not used anymore since
the legacy IO stack is gone. Kill it.
Sanitize the queue flags in general, they use spaces (for some
reason), and the space is pretty sparse. With the flags renumbered,
we can more clearly see how many we have available.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We have various helpers for setting/clearing this flag, and also
a helper to check if the queue supports queueable flushes or not.
But nobody uses them anymore, kill it with fire.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In 'commit 752f66a75a ("bcache: use REQ_PRIO to indicate bio for
metadata")' REQ_META is replaced by REQ_PRIO to indicate metadata bio.
This assumption is not always correct, e.g. XFS uses REQ_META to mark
metadata bio other than REQ_PRIO. This is why Nix noticed that bcache
does not cache metadata for XFS after the above commit.
Thanks to Dave Chinner, he explains the difference between REQ_META and
REQ_PRIO from view of file system developer. Here I quote part of his
explanation from mailing list,
REQ_META is used for metadata. REQ_PRIO is used to communicate to
the lower layers that the submitter considers this IO to be more
important that non REQ_PRIO IO and so dispatch should be expedited.
IOWs, if the filesystem considers metadata IO to be more important
that user data IO, then it will use REQ_PRIO | REQ_META rather than
just REQ_META.
Then it seems bios with REQ_META or REQ_PRIO should both be cached for
performance optimation, because they are all probably low I/O latency
demand by upper layer (e.g. file system).
So in this patch, when we want to decide whether to bypass the cache,
REQ_META and REQ_PRIO are both checked. Then both metadata and
high priority I/O requests will be handled properly.
Reported-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Tested-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cache set sysfs entry io_error_halflife is used to set c->error_decay.
c->error_decay is in type unsigned int, and it is converted by
strtoul_or_return(), therefore overflow to c->error_decay is possible
for a large input value.
This patch fixes the overflow by using strtoul_safe_clamp() to convert
input string to an unsigned long value in range [0, UINT_MAX], then
divides by 88 and set it to c->error_decay.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
c->error_limit is in type unsigned int, it is set via cache set sysfs
file io_error_limit. Inside the bcache code, input string is converted
by strtoul_or_return() and set the converted value to c->error_limit.
Because the converted value is unsigned long, and c->error_limit is
unsigned int, if the input is large enought, overflow will happen to
c->error_limit.
This patch uses sysfs_strtoul_clamp() to convert input string, and set
the range in [0, UINT_MAX] to avoid the potential overflow.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
c->journal_delay_ms is in type unsigned short, it is set via sysfs
interface and converted by sysfs_strtoul() from input string to
unsigned short value. Therefore overflow to unsigned short might be
happen when the converted value exceed USHRT_MAX. e.g. writing
65536 into sysfs file journal_delay_ms, c->journal_delay_ms is set to
0.
This patch uses sysfs_strtoul_clamp() to convert the input string and
limit value range in [0, USHRT_MAX], to avoid the input overflow.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
dc->writeback_rate_minimum is type unsigned integer variable, it is set
via sysfs interface, and converte from input string to unsigned integer
by d_strtoul_nonzero(). When the converted input value is larger than
UINT_MAX, overflow to unsigned integer happens.
This patch fixes the overflow by using sysfs_strotoul_clamp() to
convert input string and limit the value in range [1, UINT_MAX], then
the overflow can be avoided.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Current code already uses d_strtoul_nonzero() to convert input string
to an unsigned integer, to make sure writeback_rate_p_term_inverse
won't be zero value. But overflow may happen when converting input
string to an unsigned integer value by d_strtoul_nonzero(), then
dc->writeback_rate_p_term_inverse can still be set to 0 even if the
sysfs file input value is not zero, e.g. 4294967296 (a.k.a UINT_MAX+1).
If dc->writeback_rate_p_term_inverse is set to 0, it might cause a
dev-zero error in following code from __update_writeback_rate(),
int64_t proportional_scaled =
div_s64(error, dc->writeback_rate_p_term_inverse);
This patch replaces d_strtoul_nonzero() by sysfs_strtoul_clamp() and
limit the value range in [1, UINT_MAX]. Then the unsigned integer
overflow and dev-zero error can be avoided.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
dc->writeback_rate_i_term_inverse can be set via sysfs interface. It is
in type unsigned int, and convert from input string by d_strtoul(). The
problem is d_strtoul() does not check valid range of the input, if
4294967296 is written into sysfs file writeback_rate_i_term_inverse,
an overflow of unsigned integer will happen and value 0 is set to
dc->writeback_rate_i_term_inverse.
In writeback.c:__update_writeback_rate(), there are following lines of
code,
integral_scaled = div_s64(dc->writeback_rate_integral,
dc->writeback_rate_i_term_inverse);
If dc->writeback_rate_i_term_inverse is set to 0 via sysfs interface,
a div-zero error might be triggered in the above code.
Therefore we need to add a range limitation in the sysfs interface,
this is what this patch does, use sysfs_stroul_clamp() to replace
d_strtoul() and restrict the input range in [1, UINT_MAX].
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Sysfs file writeback_delay is used to configure dc->writeback_delay
which is type unsigned int. But bcache code uses sysfs_strtoul() to
convert the input string, therefore it might be overflowed if the input
value is too large. E.g. input value is 4294967296 but indeed 0 is
set to dc->writeback_delay.
This patch uses sysfs_strtoul_clamp() to convert the input string and
set the result value range in [0, UINT_MAX] to avoid such unsigned
integer overflow.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When setting bcache parameters via sysfs, there are some variables are
defined as bit-field value. Current bcache code in sysfs.c uses either
d_strtoul() or sysfs_strtoul() to convert the input string to unsigned
integer value and set it to the corresponded bit-field value.
The problem is, the bit-field value only takes the lowest bit of the
converted value. If input is 2, the expected value (like bool value)
of the bit-field value should be 1, but indeed it is 0.
The following sysfs files for bit-field variables have such problem,
bypass_torture_test, for dc->bypass_torture_test
writeback_metadata, for dc->writeback_metadata
writeback_running, for dc->writeback_running
verify, for c->verify
key_merging_disabled, for c->key_merging_disabled
gc_always_rewrite, for c->gc_always_rewrite
btree_shrinker_disabled,for c->shrinker_disabled
copy_gc_enabled, for c->copy_gc_enabled
This patch uses sysfs_strtoul_bool() to set such bit-field variables,
then if the converted value is non-zero, the bit-field variables will
be set to 1, like setting a bool value like expensive_debug_checks.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When setting bool values via sysfs interface, e.g. writeback_metadata,
if writing 1 into writeback_metadata file, dc->writeback_metadata is
set to 1, but if writing 2 into the file, dc->writeback_metadata is
0. This is misleading, a better result should be 1 for all non-zero
input value.
It is because dc->writeback_metadata is a bit-field variable, and
current code simply use d_strtoul() to convert a string into integer
and takes the lowest bit value. To fix such error, we need a routine
to convert the input string into unsigned integer, and set target
variable to 1 if the converted integer is non-zero.
This patch introduces a new macro called sysfs_strtoul_bool(), it can
be used to convert input string into bool value, we can use it to set
bool value for bit-field vairables.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
People may set sequential_cutoff of a cached device via sysfs file,
but current code does not check input value overflow. E.g. if value
4294967295 (UINT_MAX) is written to file sequential_cutoff, its value
is 4GB, but if 4294967296 (UINT_MAX + 1) is written into, its value
will be 0. This is an unexpected behavior.
This patch replaces d_strtoi_h() by sysfs_strtoul_clamp() to convert
input string to unsigned integer value, and limit its range in
[0, UINT_MAX]. Then the input overflow can be fixed.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cache set congested threshold values congested_read_threshold_us and
congested_write_threshold_us can be set via sysfs interface. These
two values are 'unsigned int' type, but sysfs interface uses strtoul
to convert input string. So if people input a large number like
9999999999, the value indeed set is 1410065407, which is not expected
behavior.
This patch replaces sysfs_strtoul() by sysfs_strtoul_clamp() when
convert input string to unsigned int value, and set value range in
[0, UINT_MAX], to avoid the above integer overflow errors.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently sysfs_strtoul_clamp() is defined as,
82 #define sysfs_strtoul_clamp(file, var, min, max) \
83 do { \
84 if (attr == &sysfs_ ## file) \
85 return strtoul_safe_clamp(buf, var, min, max) \
86 ?: (ssize_t) size; \
87 } while (0)
The problem is, if bit width of var is less then unsigned long, min and
max may not protect var from integer overflow, because overflow happens
in strtoul_safe_clamp() before checking min and max.
To fix such overflow in sysfs_strtoul_clamp(), to make min and max take
effect, this patch adds an unsigned long variable, and uses it to macro
strtoul_safe_clamp() to convert an unsigned long value in range defined
by [min, max]. Then assign this value to var. By this method, if bit
width of var is less than unsigned long, integer overflow won't happen
before min and max are checking.
Now sysfs_strtoul_clamp() can properly handle smaller data type like
unsigned int, of cause min and max should be defined in range of
unsigned int too.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Stale && dirty keys can be produced in the follow way:
After writeback in write_dirty_finish(), dirty keys k1 will
replace by clean keys k2
==>ret = bch_btree_insert(dc->disk.c, &keys, NULL, &w->key);
==>btree_insert_fn(struct btree_op *b_op, struct btree *b)
==>static int bch_btree_insert_node(struct btree *b,
struct btree_op *op,
struct keylist *insert_keys,
atomic_t *journal_ref,
Then two steps:
A) update k1 to k2 in btree node memory;
bch_btree_insert_keys(b, op, insert_keys, replace_key)
B) Write the bset(contains k2) to cache disk by a 30s delay work
bch_btree_leaf_dirty(b, journal_ref).
But before the 30s delay work write the bset to cache device,
these things happened:
A) GC works, and reclaim the bucket k2 point to;
B) Allocator works, and invalidate the bucket k2 point to,
and increase the gen of the bucket, and place it into free_inc
fifo;
C) Until now, the 30s delay work still does not finish work,
so in the disk, the key still is k1, it is dirty and stale
(its gen is smaller than the gen of the bucket). and then the
machine power off suddenly happens;
D) When the machine power on again, after the btree reconstruction,
the stale dirty key appear.
In bch_extent_bad(), when expensive_debug_checks is off, it would
treat the dirty key as good even it is stale keys, and it would
cause bellow probelms:
A) In read_dirty() it would cause machine crash:
BUG_ON(ptr_stale(dc->disk.c, &w->key, 0));
B) It could be worse when reads hits stale dirty keys, it would
read old incorrect data.
This patch tolerate the existence of these stale && dirty keys,
and treat them as bad key in bch_extent_bad().
(Coly Li: fix indent which was modified by sender's email client)
Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui <tang.junhui.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
There is a hunk of code that is indented one level too deep, fix this
by removing the extra tabs.
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When there are multiple bcache devices, after a reboot the name of
bcache devices may change (e.g. current /dev/bcache1 was /dev/bcache0
before reboot). Therefore we need the backing device UUID (sb.uuid) to
identify each bcache device.
Backing device uuid can be found by program bcache-super-show, but
directly exporting backing_dev_uuid by sysfs file
/sys/block/bcache<?>/bcache/backing_dev_uuid is a much simpler method.
With backing_dev_uuid, and partition uuids from /dev/disk/by-partuuid/,
now we can identify each bcache device and its partitions conveniently.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This patch export dc->backing_dev_name to sysfs file
/sys/block/bcache<?>/bcache/backing_dev_name, then people or user space
tools may know the backing device name of this bcache device.
Of cause it can be done by parsing sysfs links, but this method can be
much simpler to find the link between bcache device and backing device.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In stats.c:bch_cache_accounting_clear(), a hard coded number '7' is
used in memset(). It is because in struct cache_stats, there are 7
atomic_t type members. This is not good when new members added into
struct stats, the hard coded number will only clear part of memory.
This patch replaces 'sizeof(unsigned long) * 7' by more generic
'sizeof(struct cache_stats))', to avoid potential error if new
member added into struct cache_stats.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
There's no reason to freeze queue and set nr_requests value
if current value is the same.
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Zakharov <zakharov.a.g@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull MD changes for 5.1 from Song.
* 'md-next' of https://github.com/liu-song-6/linux:
raid1: simplify raid1_error function
md-linear: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding the
size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along with memory
for some number of elements for that array. For example:
struct foo {
int stuff;
void *entry[];
};
instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now
use the new struct_size() helper:
instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Pull 5.1 NVMe material from Christoph:
"Below is our current (small) queue of NVMe patches for Linux 5.1. We
want the re-addition of the Write Zeroes support to be in linu-next for
a few weeks as it caused some problems last time. The only other patch
is a cleanup from Sagi."
* 'nvme-5.1' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme:
nvme: remove the .stop_ctrl callout
nvme: add support for the Write Zeroes command
It is used now just to flush error recovery and reconnect work items in
the RDMA and TCP transports, which can simply be moved to the
corresponding teardown routines.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Allow write zeroes operations (REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES) on the block
device, if the device supports an optional command bit set for write
zeroes. Add support to setup write zeroes command. Set maximum possible
write zeroes sectors in one write zeroes command according to
nvme write zeroes command definition.
This patch was posted as a part of block-write-zeroes support
implementation (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9454859/),
but did not make into mainline kernel as it got reverted due to
failure on the Linus's machine.
In this patch in order to be more cautious, we use NVMe controller's
maximum hardware sector size which is calculated based on the
controller's MDTS (Maximum Data Transfer Size) field to calculate
the maximum sectors for the write zeroes request.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
[folded a fix from Keith Busch to properly respect
NVME_QUIRK_DEALLOCATE_ZEROES]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Currently, we check whether the hctx type is supported every time
in hot path. Actually, this is not necessary, we could save the
default hctx into ctx->hctxs if the type is not supported when
map swqueues and use it directly with ctx->hctxs[type].
We also needn't check whether the poll is enabled or not, because
the caller would clear the REQ_HIPRI in that case.
Signed-off-by: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently, the queue mapping result is saved in a two-dimensional
array. In the hot path, to get a hctx, we need do following:
q->queue_hw_ctx[q->tag_set->map[type].mq_map[cpu]]
This isn't very efficient. We could save the queue mapping result into
ctx directly with different hctx type, like,
ctx->hctxs[type]
Signed-off-by: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When a new I/O request arrives for a bfq_queue, say Q, bfq checks
whether that request is close to
(a) the head request of some other queue waiting to be served, or
(b) the last request dispatched for the in-service queue (in case Q
itself is not the in-service queue)
If a queue, say Q2, is found for which the above condition holds, then
bfq merges Q and Q2, to hopefully get a more sequential I/O in the
resulting merged queue, and thus a possibly higher throughput.
Case (b) is checked by comparing the new request for Q with the last
request dispatched, assuming that the latter necessarily belonged to the
in-service queue. Unfortunately, this assumption is no longer always
correct, since commit d0edc2473b ("block, bfq: inject other-queue I/O
into seeky idle queues on NCQ flash").
When the assumption does not hold, queues that must not be merged may be
merged, causing unexpected loss of control on per-queue service
guarantees.
This commit solves this problem by adding an extra field, which stores
the actual last request dispatched for the in-service queue, and by
using this new field to correctly check case (b).
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Writes tend to starve reads. bfq counters this problem by overcharging
writes with an inflated service w.r.t. the actual service (number of
sector written) they receive.
Yet his overcharging is useless, and actually causes unfairness in the
opposite direction, when bfq happens to be enforcing strong I/O control.
bfq does this enforcing when the scenario is asymmetric, i.e., when some
bfq_queue or group of bfq_queues is to be granted a different bandwidth
than some other bfq_queue or group of bfq_queues. So, in such a
scenario, this commit disables write overcharging.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The original commit is commit 1a1238a7dd ("cfq-iosched: improve hw_tag
detection") and has the following commit message:
If active queue hasn't enough requests and idle window opens, cfq will
not dispatch sufficient requests to hardware. In such situation, current
code will zero hw_tag. But this is because cfq doesn't dispatch enough
requests instead of hardware queue doesn't work. Don't zero hw_tag in
such case.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
bfq simple heuristic from cfq for detecting whether the drive performs
command queueing: check whether the average number of in-flight requests
is above a given threshold. Unfortunately this heuristic does fail to
detect queueing (on drives with queueing) if processes doing I/O are few
and issue I/O with a low depth.
To reduce false negatives, this commit lowers the threshold.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
bfq maintains an ordered list, through a red-black tree, of unique
weights of active bfq_queues. This list is used to detect whether there
are active queues with differentiated weights. The weight of a queue is
removed from the list when both the following two conditions become
true:
(1) the bfq_queue is flagged as inactive
(2) the has no in-flight request any longer;
Unfortunately, in the rare cases where condition (2) becomes true before
condition (1), the removal fails, because the function to remove the
weight of the queue (bfq_weights_tree_remove) is rightly invoked in the
path that deactivates the bfq_queue, but mistakenly invoked *before* the
function that actually performs the deactivation (bfq_deactivate_bfqq).
This commits moves the invocation of bfq_weights_tree_remove for
condition (1) to after bfq_deactivate_bfqq. As a consequence of this
move, it is necessary to add a further reference to the queue when the
weight of a queue is added, because the queue might otherwise be freed
before bfq_weights_tree_remove is invoked. This commit adds this
reference and makes all related modifications.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In bfq_update_peak_rate, to check whether an I/O request rq is
sequential, only the seek distance of rq w.r.t. the last request
dispatched is controlled. This is not sufficient for non-rotational
storage, where the size of rq is at least as relevant. This commit adds
the missing control.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
bfq detects the creation of multiple bfq_queues shortly after each
other, namely a burst of queue creations in the terminology used in the
code. If the burst is large, then no queue in the burst is granted
- either I/O-dispatch plugging when the queue remains temporarily idle
while in service;
- or weight raising, because it causes even longer plugging.
In fact, such a plugging tends to lower throughput, while these bursts
are typically due to applications or services that spawn multiple
processes, to reach a common goal as soon as possible. Examples are a
"git grep" or the booting of a system.
Unfortunately, disabling plugging may cause a loss of service guarantees
in asymmetric scenarios, i.e., if queue weights are differentiated or if
more than one group is active.
This commit addresses this issue by no longer disabling I/O-dispatch
plugging for queues in large bursts.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If the in-service bfq_queue is sync and remains temporarily idle, then
I/O dispatching (from other queues) may be plugged. It may be dome for
two reasons: either to boost throughput, or to preserve the bandwidth
share of the in-service queue. In the first case, if the I/O of the
in-service queue, when it finally arrives, consists only of one small
I/O request, then it makes sense to plug even the I/O of the in-service
queue. In fact, serving such a small request immediately is likely to
lower throughput instead of boosting it, whereas waiting a little bit is
likely to let that request grow, thanks to request merging, and become
more profitable in terms of throughput (this is likely to happen exactly
because the I/O of the queue has been detected to boost throughput).
On the opposite end, if I/O dispatching is being plugged only to
preserve the bandwidth of the in-service queue, then it would be better
not to plug also the I/O of the in-service queue, because such a
plugging is likely to cause only loss of bandwidth for the queue.
Unfortunately, no distinction is made between the two cases, and the I/O
of the in-service queue is always plugged in case just a small I/O
request arrives. This commit draws this missing distinction and does not
perform harmful plugging.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This is a preparatory commit for commits that need to check only one of
the two main reasons for idling. This change should also improve the
quality of the code a little bit, by splitting a function that contains
very long, non-trivial and little related comments.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In asymmetric scenarios, i.e., when some bfq_queue or bfq_group needs to
be guaranteed a different bandwidth than other bfq_queues or bfq_groups,
these service guaranteed can be provided only by plugging I/O dispatch,
completely or partially, when the queue in service remains temporarily
empty. A case where asymmetry is particularly strong is when some active
bfq_queues belong to a higher-priority class than some other active
bfq_queues. Unfortunately, this important case is not considered at all
in the code for detecting asymmetric scenarios. This commit adds the
missing logic.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Before commit 18e5a57d79 ("block, bfq: postpone rq preparation to
insert or merge"), the destination queue for a request was chosen by a
different hook than the one that then inserted the request. So, between
the execution of the two hooks, the bic of the process generating the
request could happen to be redirected to a different bfq_queue. As a
consequence, the destination bfq_queue stored in the request could be
wrong. Such an event does not need to ba handled any longer.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
With some unlucky sequences of events, the function bfq_updated_next_req
updates the current budget of a bfq_queue to a lower value than the
service received by the queue using such a budget. Unfortunately, if
this happens, then the return value of the function bfq_bfqq_budget_left
becomes inconsistent. This commit solves this problem by lower-bounding
the budget computed in bfq_updated_next_req to the service currently
charged to the queue.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To boost throughput on devices with internal queueing and in scenarios
where device idling is not strictly needed, bfq immediately starts
serving a new bfq_queue if the in-service bfq_queue remains without
pending I/O, even if new I/O may arrive soon for the latter queue. Then,
if such I/O actually arrives soon, bfq preempts the new in-service
bfq_queue so as to give the previous queue a chance to go on being
served (in case the previous queue should actually be the one to be
served, according to its timestamps).
However, the in-service bfq_queue, say Q, may also be without further
budget when it remains also pending I/O. Since bfq changes budgets
dynamically to fit the needs of bfq_queues, this happens more often than
one may expect. If this happens, then there is no point in trying to go
on serving Q when new I/O arrives for it soon: Q would be expired
immediately after being selected for service. This would only cause
useless overhead. This commit avoids such a useless selection.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The speed at which a bfq_queue receives I/O is one of the parameters by
which bfq decides whether the queue is soft real-time (i.e., whether the
queue contains the I/O of a soft real-time application). In particular,
when a bfq_queue remains without outstanding I/O requests, bfq computes
the minimum time instant, named soft_rt_next_start, at which the next
request of the queue may arrive for the queue to be deemed as soft real
time.
Unfortunately this filtering may cause problems with a queue in
interactive weight raising. In fact, such a queue may be conveying the
I/O needed to load a soft real-time application. The latter will
actually exhibit a soft real-time I/O pattern after it finally starts
doing its job. But, if soft_rt_next_start is updated for an interactive
bfq_queue, and the queue has received a lot of service before remaining
with no outstanding request (likely to happen on a fast device), then
soft_rt_next_start is assigned such a high value that, for a very long
time, the queue is prevented from being possibly considered as soft real
time.
This commit removes the updating of soft_rt_next_start for bfq_queues in
interactive weight raising.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The mtip32xx driver uses managed resources for DMA coherent memory
and irqs, but then always pairs them with free calls anyway, making
the resource tracking rather pointless. Given some DMA allocations
are transient anyway, the irq freeing seems to require ordering vs
other hardware access the best solution seems to be to stop using
the managed resource API entirely.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Hans Holmberg