Unused now that NVMe sets up irq affinity before calling into blk-mq.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This allows drivers specify their own queue mapping by overriding the
setup-time function that builds the mq_map. This can be used for
example to build the map based on the MSI-X vector mapping provided
by the core interrupt layer for PCI devices.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
All drivers use the default, so provide an inline version of it. If we
ever need other queue mapping we can add an optional method back,
although supporting will also require major changes to the queue setup
code.
This provides better code generation, and better debugability as well.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The mapping is identical for all queues in a tag_set, so stop wasting
memory for building multiple. Note that for now I've kept the mq_map
pointer in the request_queue, but we'll need to investigate if we can
remove it without suffering too much from the additional pointer chasing.
The same would apply to the mq_ops pointer as well.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_mq_delay_kick_requeue_list() provides the ability to kick the
q->requeue_list after a specified time. To do this the request_queue's
'requeue_work' member was changed to a delayed_work.
blk_mq_delay_kick_requeue_list() allows DM to defer processing requeued
requests while it doesn't make sense to immediately requeue them
(e.g. when all paths in a DM multipath have failed).
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The blk_mq_alloc_single_hw_queue() is a prototype artifact that
should have been removed with
commit cdef54dd85
"blk-mq: remove alloc_hctx and free_hctx methods" where the last
users of it were deleted.
Fixes: cdef54dd85 ("blk-mq: remove alloc_hctx and free_hctx methods")
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
In order to help determine the effectiveness of polling in a running
system it is usful to determine the ratio of how often the poll
function is called vs how often the completion is checked. For this
reason we add a poll_considered variable and add it to the sysfs entry
for io_poll.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Various cache line optimizations:
- Move delay_work towards the end. It's huge, and we don't use it
a lot (only SCSI).
- Move the atomic state into the same cacheline as the the dispatch
list and lock.
- Rearrange a few members to pack it better.
- Shrink the max-order for dispatch accounting from 10 to 7. This
means that ->dispatched[] and ->run now take up their own
cacheline.
This shrinks struct blk_mq_hw_ctx down to 8 cachelines.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The new nvme-rdma driver will need to reinitialize all the tags as part of
the error recovery procedure (realloc the tag memory region). Add a helper
in blk-mq for it that can iterate over all requests in a tagset to make
this easier.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Tested-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Bates <Stephen.Bates@pmcs.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Tested-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For some protocols like NVMe over Fabrics we need to be able to send
initialization commands to a specific queue.
Based on an earlier patch from Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
[hch: disallow sleeping allocation, req_op fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
No caller outside the blk-mq code so we can settle
with it static.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Its useful to iterate on all the active tags in cases
where we will need to fail all the queues IO.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
[hch: carefully check for valid tagsets]
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
queue_for_each_ctx() iterates over per_cpu variables under the assumption that
the possible cpu mask cannot have holes. That's wrong as all cpumasks can have
holes. In case there are holes the iteration ends up accessing uninitialized
memory and crashing as a result.
Replace the macro by a proper for_each_possible_cpu() loop and drop the unused
macro blk_ctx_sum() which references queue_for_each_ctx().
Reported-by: Xiong Zhou <jencce.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The hardware's provided queue count may change at runtime with resource
provisioning. This patch allows a block driver to alter the number of
h/w queues available when its resource count changes.
The main part is a new blk-mq API to request a new number of h/w queues
for a given live tag set. The new API freezes all queues using that set,
then adjusts the allocated count prior to remapping these to CPUs.
The bulk of the rest just shifts where h/w contexts and all their
artifacts are allocated and freed.
The number of max h/w contexts is capped to the number of possible cpus
since there is no use for more than that. As such, all pre-allocated
memory for pointers need to account for the max possible rather than
the initial number of queues.
A side effect of this is that the blk-mq will proceed successfully as
long as it can allocate at least one h/w context. Previously it would
fail request queue initialization if less than the requested number
was allocated.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We already have the reserved flag, and a nowait flag awkwardly encoded as
a gfp_t. Add a real flags argument to make the scheme more extensible and
allow for a nicer calling convention.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add basic support for polling for specific IO to complete. This uses
the cookie that blk-mq passes back, which enables the block layer
to pass this cookie to the driver to spin for a specific request.
This will be combined with request latency tracking, so we can make
qualified decisions about when to poll and when not to. For now, for
benchmark purposes, we add a sysfs file that controls whether polling
is enabled or not.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Allow pmem, and other synchronous/bio-based block drivers, to fallback
on a per-cpu reference count managed by the core for tracking queue
live/dead state.
The existing per-cpu reference count for the blk_mq case is promoted to
be used in all block i/o scenarios. This involves initializing it by
default, waiting for it to drop to zero at exit, and holding a live
reference over the invocation of q->make_request_fn() in
generic_make_request(). The blk_mq code continues to take its own
reference per blk_mq request and retains the ability to freeze the
queue, but the check that the queue is frozen is moved to
generic_make_request().
This fixes crash signatures like the following:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880140000000
[..]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8145e8bf>] ? copy_user_handle_tail+0x5f/0x70
[<ffffffffa004e1e0>] pmem_do_bvec.isra.11+0x70/0xf0 [nd_pmem]
[<ffffffffa004e331>] pmem_make_request+0xd1/0x200 [nd_pmem]
[<ffffffff811c3162>] ? mempool_alloc+0x72/0x1a0
[<ffffffff8141f8b6>] generic_make_request+0xd6/0x110
[<ffffffff8141f966>] submit_bio+0x76/0x170
[<ffffffff81286dff>] submit_bh_wbc+0x12f/0x160
[<ffffffff81286e62>] submit_bh+0x12/0x20
[<ffffffff813395bd>] jbd2_write_superblock+0x8d/0x170
[<ffffffff8133974d>] jbd2_mark_journal_empty+0x5d/0x90
[<ffffffff813399cb>] jbd2_journal_destroy+0x24b/0x270
[<ffffffff810bc4ca>] ? put_pwq_unlocked+0x2a/0x30
[<ffffffff810bc6f5>] ? destroy_workqueue+0x225/0x250
[<ffffffff81303494>] ext4_put_super+0x64/0x360
[<ffffffff8124ab1a>] generic_shutdown_super+0x6a/0xf0
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
And replace the blk_mq_tag_busy_iter with it - the driver use has been
replaced with a new helper a while ago, and internal to the block we
only need the new version.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_mq_complete_request may be a no-op if the request has already
been completed by others means (e.g. a timeout or cancellation), but
currently drivers have to set rq->errors before calling
blk_mq_complete_request, which might leave us with the wrong error value.
Add an error parameter to blk_mq_complete_request so that we can
defer setting rq->errors until we known we won the race to complete the
request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
There is a race between cpu hotplug handling and adding/deleting
gendisk for blk-mq, where both are trying to register and unregister
the same sysfs entries.
null_add_dev
--> blk_mq_init_queue
--> blk_mq_init_allocated_queue
--> add to 'all_q_list' (*)
--> add_disk
--> blk_register_queue
--> blk_mq_register_disk (++)
null_del_dev
--> del_gendisk
--> blk_unregister_queue
--> blk_mq_unregister_disk (--)
--> blk_cleanup_queue
--> blk_mq_free_queue
--> del from 'all_q_list' (*)
blk_mq_queue_reinit
--> blk_mq_sysfs_unregister (-)
--> blk_mq_sysfs_register (+)
While the request queue is added to 'all_q_list' (*),
blk_mq_queue_reinit() can be called for the queue anytime by CPU
hotplug callback. But blk_mq_sysfs_unregister (-) and
blk_mq_sysfs_register (+) in blk_mq_queue_reinit must not be called
before blk_mq_register_disk (++) and after blk_mq_unregister_disk (--)
is finished. Because '/sys/block/*/mq/' is not exists.
There has already been BLK_MQ_F_SYSFS_UP flag in hctx->flags which can
be used to track these sysfs stuff, but it is only fixing this issue
partially.
In order to fix it completely, we just need per-queue flag instead of
per-hctx flag with appropriate locking. So this introduces
q->mq_sysfs_init_done which is properly protected with all_q_mutex.
Also, we need to ensure that blk_mq_map_swqueue() is called with
all_q_mutex is held. Since hctx->nr_ctx is reset temporarily and
updated in blk_mq_map_swqueue(), so we should avoid
blk_mq_register_hctx() seeing the temporary hctx->nr_ctx value
in CPU hotplug handling or adding/deleting gendisk .
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Storage controllers may expose multiple block devices that share hardware
resources managed by blk-mq. This patch enhances the shared tags so a
low-level driver can access the shared resources not tied to the unshared
h/w contexts. This way the LLD can dynamically add and delete disks and
request queues without having to track all the request_queue hctx's to
iterate outstanding tags.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Commit 889fa31f00 was a bit too eager in reducing the loop count,
so we ended up missing queues in some configurations. Ensure that
our division rounds up, so that's not the case.
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Fixes: 889fa31f00 ("blk-mq: reduce unnecessary software queue looping")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Casting to void and adding the size of the request is "shit code" and
only a "crazy monkey on crack" would write that. So lets clean it up.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Rename blk_mq_run_queues to blk_mq_run_hw_queues, add async argument,
and export it.
DM's suspend support must be able to run the queue without starting
stopped hw queues.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a variant of blk_mq_init_queue that allows a previously allocated
queue to be initialized. blk_mq_init_allocated_queue models
blk_init_allocated_queue -- which was also created for DM's use.
DM's approach to device creation requires a placeholder request_queue be
allocated for use with alloc_dev() but the decision about what type of
request_queue will be ultimately created is deferred until all component
devices referenced in the DM table are processed to determine the table
type (request-based, blk-mq request-based, or bio-based).
Also, because of DM's late finalization of the request_queue type
the call to blk_mq_register_disk() doesn't happen during alloc_dev().
Must export blk_mq_register_disk() so that DM can backfill the 'mq' dir
once the blk-mq queue is fully allocated.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
"This contains:
- A series from Christoph that cleans up and refactors various parts
of the REQ_BLOCK_PC handling. Contributions in that series from
Dongsu Park and Kent Overstreet as well.
- CFQ:
- A bug fix for cfq for realtime IO scheduling from Jeff Moyer.
- A stable patch fixing a potential crash in CFQ in OOM
situations. From Konstantin Khlebnikov.
- blk-mq:
- Add support for tag allocation policies, from Shaohua. This is
a prep patch enabling libata (and other SCSI parts) to use the
blk-mq tagging, instead of rolling their own.
- Various little tweaks from Keith and Mike, in preparation for
DM blk-mq support.
- Minor little fixes or tweaks from me.
- A double free error fix from Tony Battersby.
- The partition 4k issue fixes from Matthew and Boaz.
- Add support for zero+unprovision for blkdev_issue_zeroout() from
Martin"
* 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (27 commits)
block: remove unused function blk_bio_map_sg
block: handle the null_mapped flag correctly in blk_rq_map_user_iov
blk-mq: fix double-free in error path
block: prevent request-to-request merging with gaps if not allowed
blk-mq: make blk_mq_run_queues() static
dm: fix multipath regression due to initializing wrong request
cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation
block: Quiesce zeroout wrapper
block: rewrite and split __bio_copy_iov()
block: merge __bio_map_user_iov into bio_map_user_iov
block: merge __bio_map_kern into bio_map_kern
block: pass iov_iter to the BLOCK_PC mapping functions
block: add a helper to free bio bounce buffer pages
block: use blk_rq_map_user_iov to implement blk_rq_map_user
block: simplify bio_map_kern
block: mark blk-mq devices as stackable
block: keep established cmd_flags when cloning into a blk-mq request
block: add blk-mq support to blk_insert_cloned_request()
block: require blk_rq_prep_clone() be given an initialized clone request
blk-mq: add tag allocation policy
...
We no longer use it outside of blk-mq.c, so we can make it static
and stop exporting it. Additionally, kill the 'async' argument, as
there's only one used of it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This is the blk-mq part to support tag allocation policy. The default
allocation policy isn't changed (though it's not a strict FIFO). The new
policy is round-robin for libata. But it's a try-best implementation. If
multiple tasks are competing, the tags returned will be mixed (which is
unavoidable even with !mq, as requests from different tasks can be
mixed in queue)
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Adds a helper function a driver can use to abort requeued requests in
case any are pending when h/w queues are being removed.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Kicking requeued requests will start h/w queues in a work_queue, which
may alter the driver's requested state to temporarily stop them. This
patch exports a method to cancel the q->requeue_work so a driver can be
assured stopped h/w queues won't be started up before it is ready.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Drivers can iterate over all allocated request tags, but their callback
needs a way to know if the driver started the request in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We store it in the tag set, we don't need it in the hardware queue.
While removing cmd_size, place ->queue_num further down to avoid
a hole on 64-bit archs. It's not used in any fast paths, so we
can safely move it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Commit b4c6a02877 exported the start and unfreeze, but we need
the regular blk_mq_freeze_queue() for the loop conversion.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull block driver core update from Jens Axboe:
"This is the pull request for the core block IO changes for 3.19. Not
a huge round this time, mostly lots of little good fixes:
- Fix a bug in sysfs blktrace interface causing a NULL pointer
dereference, when enabled/disabled through that API. From Arianna
Avanzini.
- Various updates/fixes/improvements for blk-mq:
- A set of updates from Bart, mostly fixing buts in the tag
handling.
- Cleanup/code consolidation from Christoph.
- Extend queue_rq API to be able to handle batching issues of IO
requests. NVMe will utilize this shortly. From me.
- A few tag and request handling updates from me.
- Cleanup of the preempt handling for running queues from Paolo.
- Prevent running of unmapped hardware queues from Ming Lei.
- Move the kdump memory limiting check to be in the correct
location, from Shaohua.
- Initialize all software queues at init time from Takashi. This
prevents a kobject warning when CPUs are brought online that
weren't online when a queue was registered.
- Single writeback fix for I_DIRTY clearing from Tejun. Queued with
the core IO changes, since it's just a single fix.
- Version X of the __bio_add_page() segment addition retry from
Maurizio. Hope the Xth time is the charm.
- Documentation fixup for IO scheduler merging from Jan.
- Introduce (and use) generic IO stat accounting helpers for non-rq
drivers, from Gu Zheng.
- Kill off artificial limiting of max sectors in a request from
Christoph"
* 'for-3.19/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
bio: modify __bio_add_page() to accept pages that don't start a new segment
blk-mq: Fix uninitialized kobject at CPU hotplugging
blktrace: don't let the sysfs interface remove trace from running list
blk-mq: Use all available hardware queues
blk-mq: Micro-optimize bt_get()
blk-mq: Fix a race between bt_clear_tag() and bt_get()
blk-mq: Avoid that __bt_get_word() wraps multiple times
blk-mq: Fix a use-after-free
blk-mq: prevent unmapped hw queue from being scheduled
blk-mq: re-check for available tags after running the hardware queue
blk-mq: fix hang in bt_get()
blk-mq: move the kdump check to blk_mq_alloc_tag_set
blk-mq: cleanup tag free handling
blk-mq: use 'nr_cpu_ids' as highest CPU ID count for hwq <-> cpu map
blk: introduce generic io stat accounting help function
blk-mq: handle the single queue case in blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu
genhd: check for int overflow in disk_expand_part_tbl()
blk-mq: add blk_mq_free_hctx_request()
blk-mq: export blk_mq_free_request()
blk-mq: use get_cpu/put_cpu instead of preempt_disable/preempt_enable
...
It's silly to use blk_mq_free_request() which in turn maps the
request to the hardware queue, for places where we already know
what the hardware queue is. This saves us an extra mapping of a
hardware queue on request completion, if the caller knows this
information already.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The queuecommand() callback functions in SCSI low-level drivers
need to know which hardware context has been selected by the
block layer. Since this information is not available in the
request structure, and since passing the hctx pointer directly to
the queuecommand callback function would require modification of
all SCSI LLDs, add a function to the block layer that allows to
query the hardware context index.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Drivers can now tell blk-mq if they take advantage of the deferred
issue through 'last' or not. If they do, don't do queue-direct
for sync IO. This is a preparation patch for the nvme conversion.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Since we have the notion of a 'last' request in a chain, we can use
this to have the hardware optimize the issuing of requests. Add
a list_head parameter to queue_rq that the driver can use to
temporarily store hw commands for issue when 'last' is true. If we
are doing a chain of requests, pass in a NULL list for the first
request to force issue of that immediately, then batch the remainder
for deferred issue until the last request has been sent.
Instead of adding yet another argument to the hot ->queue_rq path,
encapsulate the passed arguments in a blk_mq_queue_data structure.
This is passed as a constant, and has been tested as faster than
passing 4 (or even 3) args through ->queue_rq. Update drivers for
the new ->queue_rq() prototype. There are no functional changes
in this patch for drivers - if they don't use the passed in list,
then they will just queue requests individually like before.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull core block layer changes from Jens Axboe:
"This is the core block IO pull request for 3.18. Apart from the new
and improved flush machinery for blk-mq, this is all mostly bug fixes
and cleanups.
- blk-mq timeout updates and fixes from Christoph.
- Removal of REQ_END, also from Christoph. We pass it through the
->queue_rq() hook for blk-mq instead, freeing up one of the request
bits. The space was overly tight on 32-bit, so Martin also killed
REQ_KERNEL since it's no longer used.
- blk integrity updates and fixes from Martin and Gu Zheng.
- Update to the flush machinery for blk-mq from Ming Lei. Now we
have a per hardware context flush request, which both cleans up the
code should scale better for flush intensive workloads on blk-mq.
- Improve the error printing, from Rob Elliott.
- Backing device improvements and cleanups from Tejun.
- Fixup of a misplaced rq_complete() tracepoint from Hannes.
- Make blk_get_request() return error pointers, fixing up issues
where we NULL deref when a device goes bad or missing. From Joe
Lawrence.
- Prep work for drastically reducing the memory consumption of dm
devices from Junichi Nomura. This allows creating clone bio sets
without preallocating a lot of memory.
- Fix a blk-mq hang on certain combinations of queue depths and
hardware queues from me.
- Limit memory consumption for blk-mq devices for crash dump
scenarios and drivers that use crazy high depths (certain SCSI
shared tag setups). We now just use a single queue and limited
depth for that"
* 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (58 commits)
block: Remove REQ_KERNEL
blk-mq: allocate cpumask on the home node
bio-integrity: remove the needless fail handle of bip_slab creating
block: include func name in __get_request prints
block: make blk_update_request print prefix match ratelimited prefix
blk-merge: don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for cloned bio
block: fix alignment_offset math that assumes io_min is a power-of-2
blk-mq: Make bt_clear_tag() easier to read
blk-mq: fix potential hang if rolling wakeup depth is too high
block: add bioset_create_nobvec()
block: use bio_clone_fast() in blk_rq_prep_clone()
block: misplaced rq_complete tracepoint
sd: Honor block layer integrity handling flags
block: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp
block: Add T10 Protection Information functions
block: Don't merge requests if integrity flags differ
block: Integrity checksum flag
block: Relocate bio integrity flags
block: Add a disk flag to block integrity profile
block: Add prefix to block integrity profile flags
...
This patch supports to run one single flush machinery for
each blk-mq dispatch queue, so that:
- current init_request and exit_request callbacks can
cover flush request too, then the buggy copying way of
initializing flush request's pdu can be fixed
- flushing performance gets improved in case of multi hw-queue
In fio sync write test over virtio-blk(4 hw queues, ioengine=sync,
iodepth=64, numjobs=4, bs=4K), it is observed that througput gets
increased a lot over my test environment:
- throughput: +70% in case of virtio-blk over null_blk
- throughput: +30% in case of virtio-blk over SSD image
The multi virtqueue feature isn't merged to QEMU yet, and patches for
the feature can be found in below tree:
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ming/qemu.git v2.1.0-mq.4
And simply passing 'num_queues=4 vectors=5' should be enough to
enable multi queue(quad queue) feature for QEMU virtio-blk.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk-mq uses percpu_ref for its usage counter which tracks the number
of in-flight commands and used to synchronously drain the queue on
freeze. percpu_ref shutdown takes measureable wallclock time as it
involves a sched RCU grace period. This means that draining a blk-mq
takes measureable wallclock time. One would think that this shouldn't
matter as queue shutdown should be a rare event which takes place
asynchronously w.r.t. userland.
Unfortunately, SCSI probing involves synchronously setting up and then
tearing down a lot of request_queues back-to-back for non-existent
LUNs. This means that SCSI probing may take above ten seconds when
scsi-mq is used.
[ 0.949892] scsi host0: Virtio SCSI HBA
[ 1.007864] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 1.1. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.021299] scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 1.1. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.520356] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2491.910 MHz
<stall>
[ 16.186549] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 16.190478] sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 16.194099] osd: LOADED open-osd 0.2.1
[ 16.203202] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 31457280 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1 GB/15.0 GiB)
[ 16.208478] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 16.211439] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 16.218771] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 31457280 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1 GB/15.0 GiB)
[ 16.223264] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 16.225682] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
This is also the reason why request_queues start in bypass mode which
is ended on blk_register_queue() as shutting down a fully functional
queue also involves a RCU grace period and the queues for non-existent
SCSI devices never reach registration.
blk-mq basically needs to do the same thing - start the mq in a
degraded mode which is faster to shut down and then make it fully
functional only after the queue reaches registration. percpu_ref
recently grew facilities to force atomic operation until explicitly
switched to percpu mode, which can be used for this purpose. This
patch makes blk-mq initialize q->mq_usage_counter in atomic mode and
switch it to percpu mode only once blk_register_queue() is reached.
Note that this issue was previously worked around by 0a30288da1
("blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during
probe") for v3.17. The temp fix was reverted in preparation of adding
persistent atomic mode to percpu_ref by 9eca80461a ("Revert "blk-mq,
percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe"").
This patch and the prerequisite percpu_ref changes will be merged
during v3.18 devel cycle.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20140919113815.GA10791@lst.de
Fixes: add703fda9 ("blk-mq: use percpu_ref for mq usage count")
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Allow blk-mq to pass an argument to the timeout handler to indicate
if we're timing out a reserved or regular command. For many drivers
those need to be handled different.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Don't do a kmalloc from timer to handle timeouts, chances are we could be
under heavy load or similar and thus just miss out on the timeouts.
Fortunately it is very easy to just iterate over all in use tags, and doing
this properly actually cleans up the blk_mq_busy_iter API as well, and
prepares us for the next patch by passing a reserved argument to the
iterator.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Now that we've changed the driver API on the submission side use the
opportunity to fix up the name on the completion side to fit into the
general scheme.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
When we call blk_mq_start_request from the core blk-mq code before calling into
->queue_rq there is a racy window where the timeout handler can hit before we've
fully set up the driver specific part of the command.
Move the call to blk_mq_start_request into the driver so the driver can start
the request only once it is fully set up.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pass an explicit parameter for the last request in a batch to ->queue_rq
instead of using a request flag. Besides being a cleaner and non-stateful
interface this is also required for the next patch, which fixes the blk-mq
I/O submission code to not start a time too early.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Fix racy updates of shared blk_mq_bitmap_tags::wake_index
and blk_mq_hw_ctx::wake_index fields.
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For some scsi-mq cases, the tag map can be huge. So increase the
max number of tags we support.
Additionally, don't fail with EINVAL if a user requests too many
tags. Warn that the tag depth has been adjusted down, and store
the new value inside the tag_set passed in.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We currently pass in the hardware queue, and get the tags from there.
But from scsi-mq, with a shared tag space, it's a lot more convenient
to pass in the blk_mq_tags instead as the hardware queue isn't always
directly available. So instead of having to re-map to a given
hardware queue from rq->mq_ctx, just pass in the tags structure.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently blk-mq registers all the hardware queues in sysfs,
regardless of whether it uses them (e.g. they have CPU mappings)
or not. The unused hardware queues lack the cpux/ directories,
and the other sysfs entries (like active, pending, etc) are all
zeroes.
Change this so that sysfs correctly reflects the current mappings
of the hardware queues.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
flush request is special, which borrows the tag from the parent
request. Hence blk_mq_tag_to_rq needs special handling to return
the flush request from the tag.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If devices are not SG starved, we waste a lot of time potentially
collapsing SG segments. Enough that 1.5% of the CPU time goes
to this, at only 400K IOPS. Add a queue flag, QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE,
which just returns the number of vectors in a bio instead of looping
over all segments and checking for collapsible ones.
Add a BLK_MQ_F_SG_MERGE flag so that drivers can opt-in on the sg
merging, if they so desire.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
There is no need for drivers to control hardware context allocation
now that we do the context to node mapping in common code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of having two almost identical copies of the same code just let
the callers pass in the reserved flag directly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Both the cache flush state machine and the SCSI midlayer want to submit
requests from irq context, and the current per-request requeue_work
unfortunately causes corruption due to sharing with the csd field for
flushes. Replace them with a per-request_queue list of requests to
be requeued.
Based on an earlier test by Ming Lei.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Right now we export two ways of completing a request:
1) blk_mq_complete_request(). This uses an IPI (if needed) and
completes through q->softirq_done_fn(). It also works with
timeouts.
2) blk_mq_end_io(). This completes inline, and ignores any timeout
state of the request.
Let blk_mq_complete_request() handle non-softirq_done_fn completions
as well, by just completing inline. If a driver has enough completion
ports to place completions correctly, it need not define a
mq_ops->complete() and we can avoid an indirect function call by
doing the completion inline.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Drivers currently have to figure this out on their own, and they
are missing information to do it properly. The ones that did
attempt to do it, do it wrong.
So just pass in the suggested node directly to the alloc
function.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Export the blk-mq in-flight tag iterator for driver consumption.
This is particularly useful in exception paths or SRSI where
in-flight IOs need to be cancelled and/or reissued. The NVMe driver
conversion will use this.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Prepare this for the next patch which adds more smarts in the
plugging logic, so that we can save some memory.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For request_fn based devices, the block layer exports a 'nr_requests'
file through sysfs to allow adjusting of queue depth on the fly.
Currently this returns -EINVAL for blk-mq, since it's not wired up.
Wire this up for blk-mq, so that it now also always dynamic
adjustments of the allowed queue depth for any given block device
managed by blk-mq.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Each hardware queue has a bitmap of software queues with pending
requests. When new IO is queued on a software queue, the bit is
set, and when IO is pruned on a hardware queue run, the bit is
cleared. This causes a lot of traffic. Switch this from the regular
BITS_PER_LONG bitmap to a sparser layout, similarly to what was
done for blk-mq tagging.
20% performance increase was observed for single threaded IO, and
about 15% performanc increase on multiple threads driving the
same device.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This adds support for active queue tracking, meaning that the
blk-mq tagging maintains a count of active users of a tag set.
This allows us to maintain a notion of fairness between users,
so that we can distribute the tag depth evenly without starving
some users while allowing others to try unfair deep queues.
If sharing of a tag set is detected, each hardware queue will
track the depth of its own queue. And if this exceeds the total
depth divided by the number of active queues, the user is actively
throttled down.
The active queue count is done lazily to avoid bouncing that data
between submitter and completer. Each hardware queue gets marked
active when it allocates its first tag, and gets marked inactive
when 1) the last tag is cleared, and 2) the queue timeout grace
period has passed.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk-mq currently uses percpu_ida for tag allocation. But that only
works well if the ratio between tag space and number of CPUs is
sufficiently high. For most devices and systems, that is not the
case. The end result if that we either only utilize the tag space
partially, or we end up attempting to fully exhaust it and run
into lots of lock contention with stealing between CPUs. This is
not optimal.
This new tagging scheme is a hybrid bitmap allocator. It uses
two tricks to both be SMP friendly and allow full exhaustion
of the space:
1) We cache the last allocated (or freed) tag on a per blk-mq
software context basis. This allows us to limit the space
we have to search. The key element here is not caching it
in the shared tag structure, otherwise we end up dirtying
more shared cache lines on each allocate/free operation.
2) The tag space is split into cache line sized groups, and
each context will start off randomly in that space. Even up
to full utilization of the space, this divides the tag users
efficiently into cache line groups, avoiding dirtying the same
one both between allocators and between allocator and freeer.
This scheme shows drastically better behaviour, both on small
tag spaces but on large ones as well. It has been tested extensively
to show better performance for all the cases blk-mq cares about.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Right now we just pick the first CPU in the mask, but that can
easily overload that one. Add some basic batching and round-robin
all the entries in the mask instead.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The blk-mq code is using it's own version of the I/O completion affinity
tunables, which causes a few issues:
- the rq_affinity sysfs file doesn't work for blk-mq devices, even if it
still is present, thus breaking existing tuning setups.
- the rq_affinity = 1 mode, which is the defauly for legacy request based
drivers isn't implemented at all.
- blk-mq drivers don't implement any completion affinity with the default
flag settings.
This patches removes the blk-mq ipi_redirect flag and sysfs file, as well
as the internal BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_IPI flag and replaces it with code that
respects the queue-wide rq_affinity flags and also implements the
rq_affinity = 1 mode.
This means I/O completion affinity can now only be tuned block-queue wide
instead of per context, which seems more sensible to me anyway.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This allows to requeue a request that has been accepted by ->queue_rq
earlier. This is needed by the SCSI layer in various error conditions.
The existing internal blk_mq_requeue_request is renamed to
__blk_mq_requeue_request as it is a lower level building block for this
funtionality.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a helper to unconditionally kick contexts of a queue. This will
be needed by the SCSI layer to provide fair queueing between multiple
devices on a single host.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a blk-mq equivalent to blk_delay_queue so that the scsi layer can ask
to be kicked again after a delay.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Modified by me to kill the unnecessary preempt disable/enable
in the delayed workqueue handler.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Split out the bottom half of blk_mq_end_io so that drivers can perform
work when they know a request has been completed, but before it has been
freed. This also obsoletes blk_mq_end_io_partial as drivers can now
pass any value to blk_update_request directly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a new blk_mq_tag_set structure that gets set up before we initialize
the queue. A single blk_mq_tag_set structure can be shared by multiple
queues.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Modular export of blk_mq_{alloc,free}_tagset added by me.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The current blk_mq_init_commands/blk_mq_free_commands interface has a
two problems:
1) Because only the constructor is passed to blk_mq_init_commands there
is no easy way to clean up when a comman initialization failed. The
current code simply leaks the allocations done in the constructor.
2) There is no good place to call blk_mq_free_commands: before
blk_cleanup_queue there is no guarantee that all outstanding
commands have completed, so we can't free them yet. After
blk_cleanup_queue the queue has usually been freed. This can be
worked around by grabbing an unconditional reference before calling
blk_cleanup_queue and dropping it after blk_mq_free_commands is
done, although that's not exatly pretty and driver writers are
guaranteed to get it wrong sooner or later.
Both issues are easily fixed by making the request constructor and
destructor normal blk_mq_ops methods.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of providing soft mappings with no guarantees on hardware
queues always being run on the right CPU, switch to a hard mapping
guarantee that ensure that we always run the hardware queue on
(one of, if more) the mapped CPU.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the pull request for the core block IO bits for the 3.15
kernel. It's a smaller round this time, it contains:
- Various little blk-mq fixes and additions from Christoph and
myself.
- Cleanup of the IPI usage from the block layer, and associated
helper code. From Frederic Weisbecker and Jan Kara.
- Duplicate code cleanup in bio-integrity from Gu Zheng. This will
give you a merge conflict, but that should be easy to resolve.
- blk-mq notify spinlock fix for RT from Mike Galbraith.
- A blktrace partial accounting bug fix from Roman Pen.
- Missing REQ_SYNC detection fix for blk-mq from Shaohua Li"
* 'for-3.15/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (25 commits)
blk-mq: add REQ_SYNC early
rt,blk,mq: Make blk_mq_cpu_notify_lock a raw spinlock
blk-mq: support partial I/O completions
blk-mq: merge blk_mq_insert_request and blk_mq_run_request
blk-mq: remove blk_mq_alloc_rq
blk-mq: don't dump CPU -> hw queue map on driver load
blk-mq: fix wrong usage of hctx->state vs hctx->flags
blk-mq: allow blk_mq_init_commands() to return failure
block: remove old blk_iopoll_enabled variable
blktrace: fix accounting of partially completed requests
smp: Rename __smp_call_function_single() to smp_call_function_single_async()
smp: Remove wait argument from __smp_call_function_single()
watchdog: Simplify a little the IPI call
smp: Move __smp_call_function_single() below its safe version
smp: Consolidate the various smp_call_function_single() declensions
smp: Teach __smp_call_function_single() to check for offline cpus
smp: Remove unused list_head from csd
smp: Iterate functions through llist_for_each_entry_safe()
block: Stop abusing rq->csd.list in blk-softirq
block: Remove useless IPI struct initialization
...
It's almost identical to blk_mq_insert_request, so fold the two into one
slightly more generic function by making the flush special case a bit
smarted.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
BLK_MQ_F_* flags are for hctx->flags, and are non-atomic and
set at registration time. BLK_MQ_S_* flags are dynamic and
atomic, and are accessed through hctx->state.
Some of the BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED uses were wrong. Additionally,
the header file should not use a bit shift for the _S_ flags,
as they are done through the set/test_bit functions.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If drivers do dynamic allocation in the hardware command init
path, then we need to be able to handle and return failures.
And if they do allocations or mappings in the init command path,
then we need a cleanup function to free up that space at exit
time. So add blk_mq_free_commands() as the cleanup function.
This is required for the mtip32xx driver conversion to blk-mq.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a new blk_mq_end_io_partial function to partially complete requests
as needed by the SCSI layer. We do this by reusing blk_update_request
to advance the bio instead of having a simplified version of it in
the blk-mq code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
It's almost identical to blk_mq_insert_request, so fold the two into one
slightly more generic function by making the flush special case a bit
smarted.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Witch to using a preallocated flush_rq for blk-mq similar to what's done
with the old request path. This allows us to set up the request properly
with a tag from the actually allowed range and ->rq_disk as needed by
some drivers. To make life easier we also switch to dynamic allocation
of ->flush_rq for the old path.
This effectively reverts most of
"blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock"
and
"blk-mq: Don't reserve a tag for flush request"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Rework I/O completions to work more like the old code path. blk_mq_end_io
now stays out of the business of deferring completions to others CPUs
and calling blk_mark_rq_complete. The latter is very important to allow
completing requests that have timed out and thus are already marked completed,
the former allows using the IPI callout even for driver specific completions
instead of having to reimplement them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This is neede for proper SG_IO operation as well as various uses of
blk_execute_rq from the SCSI midlayer.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reserving a tag (request) for flush to avoid dead lock is a overkill. A
tag is valuable resource. We can track the number of flush requests and
disallow having too many pending flush requests allocated. With this
patch, blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned() could do a busy nop (but not a dead
loop) if too many pending requests are allocated and new flush request
is allocated. But this should not be a problem, too many pending flush
requests are very rare case.
I verified this can fix the deadlock caused by too many pending flush
requests.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
I observed that there are for_each macros that do an extra memory access
beyond the defined area.
Normally this does not cause problems.
But, this can cause exceptions. For example: if the area is allocated at
the end of a page and the next page is not accessible.
For correctness, I suggest changing the arguments of the 'for loop' like
others 'for_each' do in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Jose Alonso <joalonsof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_mq_free_queue() is called from release handler of
queue kobject, so it needn't be called from drivers.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The flush state machine takes in a struct request, which then is
submitted multiple times to the underling driver. The old block code
requeses the same request for each of those, so it does not have an
issue with tapping into the request pool. The new one on the other hand
allocates a new request for each of the actualy steps of the flush
sequence. If have already allocated all of the tags for IO, we will
fail allocating the flush request.
Set aside a reserved request just for flushes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add a helper to iterate over all hw queues and stop them. This is useful
for driver that implement PM suspend functionality.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Modified to just call blk_mq_stop_hw_queue() by Jens.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux currently has two models for block devices:
- The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct
request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper
functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag
management, timeout handling, queueing, etc.
- The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the
block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack,
driver generally have to manage everything themselves.
With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic
request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates
back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with
scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on
smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands
per device.
The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model
for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent
everything, and along with that we get all the problems again
that the shared approach solved.
This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The
design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which
then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues.
We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be
an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports.
blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include:
- Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to
be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and
to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed
tags, to enable cache hot reuse.
- Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device
basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification,
if a request happens to fail.
- Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and
submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the
desired location.
- Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need
to associate a request structure with some driver private
command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time,
and then any request handed to the driver will have the
required size of memory associated with it.
- Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model
gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging
sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus
increases bandwidth.
For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with
the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic
and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real
model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md
devices (as it was originally intended).
Contributions in this patch from the following people:
Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Christoph Hellwig