blk-mq users are allowed to free the memory request_queue.tag_set
points at after blk_cleanup_queue() has finished but before
blk_release_queue() has started. This can happen e.g. in the SCSI
core. The SCSI core namely embeds the tag_set structure in a SCSI
host structure. The SCSI host structure is freed by
scsi_host_dev_release(). This function is called after
blk_cleanup_queue() finished but can be called before
blk_release_queue().
This means that it is not safe to access request_queue.tag_set from
inside blk_release_queue(). Hence remove the blk_sync_queue() call
from blk_release_queue(). This call is not necessary - outstanding
requests must have finished before blk_release_queue() is
called. Additionally, move the blk_mq_free_queue() call from
blk_release_queue() to blk_cleanup_queue() to avoid that struct
request_queue.tag_set gets accessed after it has been freed.
This patch avoids that the following kernel oops can be triggered
when deleting a SCSI host for which scsi-mq was enabled:
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8109a7c4>] lock_acquire+0xc4/0x270
[<ffffffff814ce111>] mutex_lock_nested+0x61/0x380
[<ffffffff812575f0>] blk_mq_free_queue+0x30/0x180
[<ffffffff8124d654>] blk_release_queue+0x84/0xd0
[<ffffffff8126c29b>] kobject_cleanup+0x7b/0x1a0
[<ffffffff8126c140>] kobject_put+0x30/0x70
[<ffffffff81245895>] blk_put_queue+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffff8125c409>] disk_release+0x99/0xd0
[<ffffffff8133d056>] device_release+0x36/0xb0
[<ffffffff8126c29b>] kobject_cleanup+0x7b/0x1a0
[<ffffffff8126c140>] kobject_put+0x30/0x70
[<ffffffff8125a78a>] put_disk+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff811d4cb5>] __blkdev_put+0x135/0x1b0
[<ffffffff811d56a0>] blkdev_put+0x50/0x160
[<ffffffff81199eb4>] kill_block_super+0x44/0x70
[<ffffffff8119a2a4>] deactivate_locked_super+0x44/0x60
[<ffffffff8119a87e>] deactivate_super+0x4e/0x70
[<ffffffff811b9833>] cleanup_mnt+0x43/0x90
[<ffffffff811b98d2>] __cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20
[<ffffffff8107252c>] task_work_run+0xac/0xe0
[<ffffffff81002c01>] do_notify_resume+0x61/0xa0
[<ffffffff814d2c58>] int_signal+0x12/0x17
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.13+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
When one hardware queue has no mapped software queues, it
shouldn't have been scheduled. Otherwise WARNING or OOPS
can triggered.
blk_mq_hw_queue_mapped() helper is introduce for fixing
the problem.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If we run out of tags and have to sleep, we run the hardware queue
to kick pending IO into gear. During that run, we may have completed
requests, so re-check if we have free tags before going to sleep.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Avoid that if there are fewer hardware queues than CPU threads that
bt_get() can hang. The symptoms of the hang were as follows:
* All tags allocated for a particular hardware queue.
* (nr_tags) pending commands for that hardware queue.
* No pending commands for the software queues associated with that
hardware queue.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We call blk_mq_alloc_tag_set() first then blk_mq_init_queue(). The requests are
allocated in the former function. So the kdump check should be moved to there
to really save memory.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We only call __blk_mq_put_tag() and __blk_mq_put_reserved_tag()
from blk_mq_put_tag(), so just inline the two calls instead of
having them as separate functions.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We currently use num_possible_cpus(), but that breaks on sparc64 where
the CPU ID space is discontig. Use nr_cpu_ids as the highest CPU ID
instead, so we don't end up reading from invalid memory.
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Many block drivers accounting io stat based on bio (e.g. NVMe...),
the blk_account_io_start/end() which is based on request
does not make sense to them, so here we introduce the similar help
function named generic_start/end_io_acct base on raw sectors, and it can
simplify some driver's open io accounting code.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Don't duplicate the code to handle the not cpu bounce case in the
caller, do it inside blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu instead.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We can get here from blkdev_ioctl() -> blkpg_ioctl() -> add_partition()
with a user passed in partno value. If we pass in 0x7fffffff, the
new target in disk_expand_part_tbl() overflows the 'int' and we
access beyond the end of ptbl->part[] and even write to it when we
do the rcu_assign_pointer() to assign the new partition.
Reported-by: David Ramos <daramos@stanford.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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>
blk-mq is using preempt_disable/enable in order to ensure that the
queue runners are placed on the right CPU. This does not work with
the RT patches, because __blk_mq_run_hw_queue takes a non-raw
spinlock with the preemption-disabled region. If there is contention
on the lock, this violates the rules for preemption-disabled regions.
While this should be easily fixable within the RT patches just by doing
migrate_disable/enable, we can do better and document _why_ this
particular region runs with disabled preemption. After the previous
patch, it is trivial to switch it to get/put_cpu; the RT patches then
can change it to get_cpu_light, which lets virtio-blk run under RT
kernels.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
preempt_disable/enable surrounds every call to blk_mq_run_hw_queue,
except the one in blk-flush.c. In fact that one is always asynchronous,
and it does not need smp_processor_id().
We can do the same for all other calls, avoiding preempt_disable when
async is true. This avoids peppering blk-mq.c with preemption-disabled
regions.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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>
Set max_sectors to the value the drivers provides as hardware limit by
default. Linux had proper I/O throttling for a long time and doesn't
rely on a artifically small maximum I/O size anymore. By not limiting
the I/O size by default we remove an annoying tuning step required for
most Linux installation.
Note that both the user, and if absolutely required the driver can still
impose a limit for FS requests below max_hw_sectors_kb.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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
...
All other allocs are done on the specific node, somehow the
cpumask for hw queue runs was missed. Fix that by using
zalloc_cpumask_var_node() in blk_mq_init_queue().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
bip_slab is created with SLAB_PANIC, so the fail handler is unneeded.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
In __get_request calls to printk_ratelimited, include the function name so
the callbacks suppressed message matches the messages that are printed,
and add "dev" before the device name so it matches other block layer
messages.
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Webb Scales <webbnh@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull percpu updates from Tejun Heo:
"A lot of activities on percpu front. Notable changes are...
- percpu allocator now can take @gfp. If @gfp doesn't contain
GFP_KERNEL, it tries to allocate from what's already available to
the allocator and a work item tries to keep the reserve around
certain level so that these atomic allocations usually succeed.
This will replace the ad-hoc percpu memory pool used by
blk-throttle and also be used by the planned blkcg support for
writeback IOs.
Please note that I noticed a bug in how @gfp is interpreted while
preparing this pull request and applied the fix 6ae833c7fe
("percpu: fix how @gfp is interpreted by the percpu allocator")
just now.
- percpu_ref now uses longs for percpu and global counters instead of
ints. It leads to more sparse packing of the percpu counters on
64bit machines but the overhead should be negligible and this
allows using percpu_ref for refcnting pages and in-memory objects
directly.
- The switching between percpu and single counter modes of a
percpu_ref is made independent of putting the base ref and a
percpu_ref can now optionally be initialized in single or killed
mode. This allows avoiding percpu shutdown latency for cases where
the refcounted objects may be synchronously created and destroyed
in rapid succession with only a fraction of them reaching fully
operational status (SCSI probing does this when combined with
blk-mq support). It's also planned to be used to implement forced
single mode to detect underflow more timely for debugging.
There's a separate branch percpu/for-3.18-consistent-ops which cleans
up the duplicate percpu accessors. That branch causes a number of
conflicts with s390 and other trees. I'll send a separate pull
request w/ resolutions once other branches are merged"
* 'for-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (33 commits)
percpu: fix how @gfp is interpreted by the percpu allocator
blk-mq, percpu_ref: start q->mq_usage_counter in atomic mode
percpu_ref: make INIT_ATOMIC and switch_to_atomic() sticky
percpu_ref: add PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags
percpu_ref: decouple switching to percpu mode and reinit
percpu_ref: decouple switching to atomic mode and killing
percpu_ref: add PCPU_REF_DEAD
percpu_ref: rename things to prepare for decoupling percpu/atomic mode switch
percpu_ref: replace pcpu_ prefix with percpu_
percpu_ref: minor code and comment updates
percpu_ref: relocate percpu_ref_reinit()
Revert "blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe"
Revert "percpu: free percpu allocation info for uniprocessor system"
percpu-refcount: make percpu_ref based on longs instead of ints
percpu-refcount: improve WARN messages
percpu: fix locking regression in the failure path of pcpu_alloc()
percpu-refcount: add @gfp to percpu_ref_init()
proportions: add @gfp to init functions
percpu_counter: add @gfp to percpu_counter_init()
percpu_counter: make percpu_counters_lock irq-safe
...
It isn't correct to figure out req->bi_phys_segments from bio->bi_vcnt
if the bio is cloned.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The math in both blk_stack_limits() and queue_limit_alignment_offset()
assume that a block device's io_min (aka minimum_io_size) is always a
power-of-2. Fix the math such that it works for non-power-of-2 io_min.
This issue (of alignment_offset != 0) became apparent when testing
dm-thinp with a thinp blocksize that matches a RAID6 stripesize of
1280K. Commit fdfb4c8c1 ("dm thin: set minimum_io_size to pool's data
block size") unlocked the potential for alignment_offset != 0 due to
the dm-thin-pool's io_min possibly being a non-power-of-2.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We currently divide the queue depth by 4 as our batch wakeup
count, but we split the wakeups over BT_WAIT_QUEUES number of
wait queues. This defaults to 8. If the product of the resulting
batch wake count and BT_WAIT_QUEUES is higher than the device
queue depth, we can get into a situation where a task goes to
sleep waiting for a request, but never gets woken up.
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Fixes: 4bb659b156
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Users of bio_clone_fast() do not want bios with their own bvecs.
Allocating a bvec mempool as part of the bioset intended for such users
is a waste of memory.
bioset_create_nobvec() creates a bioset that doesn't have the bvec
mempool.
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Request cloning clones bios in the request to track the completion
of each bio.
For that purpose, we can use bio_clone_fast() instead of bio_clone()
to avoid unnecessary allocation and copy of bvecs.
This patch reduces memory footprint of request-based device-mapper
(about 1-4KB for each request) and is a preparation for further
reduction of memory usage by removing unused bvec mempool.
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The rq_complete tracepoint was never issued for empty requests,
causing the resulting blktrace information to never show any
completion for those request.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The kernel used to contain two functions for length-delimited,
case-insensitive string comparison, strnicmp with correct semantics
and a slightly buggy strncasecmp. The latter is the POSIX name, so
strnicmp was renamed to strncasecmp, and strnicmp made into a wrapper
for the new strncasecmp to avoid breaking existing users.
To allow the compat wrapper strnicmp to be removed at some point in
the future, and to avoid the extra indirection cost, do
s/strnicmp/strncasecmp/g.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The T10 Protection Information format is also used by some devices that
do not go through the SCSI layer (virtual block devices, NVMe). Relocate
the relevant functions to a block layer library that can be used without
involving SCSI.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We'd occasionally merge requests with conflicting integrity flags.
Introduce a merge helper which checks that the requests have compatible
integrity payloads.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Make the choice of checksum a per-I/O property by introducing a flag
that can be inspected by the SCSI layer. There are several reasons for
this:
1. It allows us to switch choice of checksum without unloading and
reloading the HBA driver.
2. During error recovery we need to be able to tell the HBA that
checksums read from disk should not be verified and converted to IP
checksums.
3. For error injection purposes we need to be able to write a bad guard
tag to storage. Since the storage device only supports T10 CRC we
need to be able to disable IP checksum conversion on the HBA.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Move flags affecting the integrity code out of the bio bi_flags and into
the block integrity payload.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
So far we have relied on the app tag size to determine whether a disk
has been formatted with T10 protection information or not. However, not
all target devices provide application tag storage.
Add a flag to the block integrity profile that indicates whether the
disk has been formatted with protection information.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a BLK_ prefix to the integrity profile flags. Also rename the flags
to be more consistent with the generate/verify terminology in the rest
of the integrity code.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of the "operate" parameter we pass in a seed value and a pointer
to a function that can be used to process the integrity metadata. The
generation function is changed to have a return value to fit into this
scheme.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Now that the protection interval has been detached from the sector size
we need to be able to handle sizes that are different from 4K and
512. Make the interval calculation generic.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The protection interval is not necessarily tied to the logical block
size of a block device. Stop using the terms "sector" and "sectors".
Going forward we will use the term "seed" to describe the initial
reference tag value for a given I/O. "Interval" will be used to describe
the portion of the data buffer that a given piece of protection
information is associated with.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
bip_buf is not really needed so we can remove it.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
None of the filesystems appear interested in using the integrity tagging
feature. Potentially because very few storage devices actually permit
using the application tag space.
Remove the tagging functions.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For commands like REQ_COPY we need a way to pass extra information along
with each bio. Like integrity metadata this information must be
available at the bottom of the stack so bi_private does not suffice.
Rename the existing bi_integrity field to bi_special and make it a union
so we can have different bio extensions for each class of command.
We previously used bi_integrity != NULL as a way to identify whether a
bio had integrity metadata or not. Introduce a REQ_INTEGRITY to be the
indicator now that bi_special can contain different things.
In addition, bio_integrity(bio) will now return a pointer to the
integrity payload (when applicable).
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
bdev_integrity_enabled() is only used by bio_integrity_enabled().
Combine these two functions.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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>
This patch adds 'blk_mq_ctx' parameter to blk_get_flush_queue(),
so that this function can find the corresponding blk_flush_queue
bound with current mq context since the flush queue will become
per hw-queue.
For legacy queue, the parameter can be simply 'NULL'.
For multiqueue case, the parameter should be set as the context
from which the related request is originated. With this context
info, the hw queue and related flush queue can be found easily.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Just figuring out flush queue at the entry of kicking off flush
machinery and request's completion handler, then pass it through.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Now mission of the two helpers is over, and just call
blk_alloc_flush_queue() and blk_free_flush_queue() directly.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch introduces 'struct blk_flush_queue' and puts all
flush machinery related fields into this structure, so that
- flush implementation details aren't exposed to driver
- it is easy to convert to per dispatch-queue flush machinery
This patch is basically a mechanical replacement.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
