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Jens Axboe
a4391c6465 blk-mq: bump max tag depth to 10K tags
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>
2014-06-06 08:04:46 -06:00
Jens Axboe
0e62f51f87 blk-mq: let blk_mq_tag_to_rq() take blk_mq_tags as the main parameter
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>
2014-06-04 10:23:49 -06:00
Jens Axboe
67aec14ce8 blk-mq: make the sysfs mq/ layout reflect current mappings
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>
2014-05-30 08:25:36 -06:00
Shaohua Li
2230237500 blk-mq: blk_mq_tag_to_rq should handle flush request
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>
2014-05-30 08:06:42 -06:00
Jens Axboe
05f1dd5315 block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging
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>
2014-05-29 09:53:32 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
cdef54dd85 blk-mq: remove alloc_hctx and free_hctx methods
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>
2014-05-28 10:18:31 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
4ce01dd1a0 blk-mq: merge blk_mq_alloc_reserved_request into blk_mq_alloc_request
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>
2014-05-28 09:49:19 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
6fca6a611c blk-mq: add helper to insert requests from irq context
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>
2014-05-28 08:08:02 -06:00
Jens Axboe
7738dac4f6 blk-mq: remove stale comment for blk_mq_complete_request()
It works for both IPI and local completions as of commit
95f0968499.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-28 08:06:34 -06:00
Jens Axboe
95f0968499 blk-mq: allow non-softirq completions
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>
2014-05-27 17:46:48 -06:00
Jens Axboe
f14bbe77a9 blk-mq: pass in suggested NUMA node to ->alloc_hctx()
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>
2014-05-27 12:06:53 -06:00
Sam Bradshaw
edf866b380 blk-mq: export blk_mq_tag_busy_iter
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>
2014-05-23 13:30:16 -06:00
Jens Axboe
e814e71ba4 blk-mq: allow the hctx cpu hotplug notifier to return errors
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>
2014-05-21 13:59:08 -06:00
Jens Axboe
e3a2b3f931 blk-mq: allow changing of queue depth through sysfs
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>
2014-05-20 11:49:02 -06:00
Jens Axboe
39a9f97e5e Merge branch 'for-3.16/blk-mq-tagging' into for-3.16/core
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

Conflicts:
	block/blk-mq-tag.c
2014-05-19 11:52:35 -06:00
Jens Axboe
1429d7c946 blk-mq: switch ctx pending map to the sparser blk_align_bitmap
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>
2014-05-19 11:02:47 -06:00
Jens Axboe
0d2602ca30 blk-mq: improve support for shared tags maps
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>
2014-05-13 15:10:52 -06:00
Jens Axboe
4bb659b156 blk-mq: implement new and more efficient tagging scheme
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>
2014-05-09 09:36:49 -06:00
Jens Axboe
506e931f92 blk-mq: add basic round-robin of what CPU to queue workqueue work on
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>
2014-05-07 10:26:44 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
3853520163 blk-mq: respect rq_affinity
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>
2014-04-25 08:24:07 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
ed0791b2f8 blk-mq: add blk_mq_requeue_request
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>
2014-04-16 14:15:25 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
2f26855656 blk-mq: add blk_mq_start_hw_queues
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>
2014-04-16 14:15:25 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
70f4db639c blk-mq: add blk_mq_delay_queue
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>
2014-04-16 14:15:25 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
1b4a325858 blk-mq: add async parameter to blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queues
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-16 14:15:25 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
63151a449e blk-mq: allow drivers to hook into I/O completion
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>
2014-04-16 14:15:25 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
24d2f90309 blk-mq: split out tag initialization, support shared tags
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>
2014-04-15 14:18:02 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
e9b267d91f blk-mq: add ->init_request and ->exit_request methods
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>
2014-04-15 14:03:03 -06:00
Jens Axboe
e4043dcf30 blk-mq: ensure that hardware queues are always run on the mapped CPUs
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>
2014-04-09 10:18:23 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
7a48837732 Merge branch 'for-3.15/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
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
  ...
2014-04-01 19:19:15 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
eeabc850b7 blk-mq: merge blk_mq_insert_request and blk_mq_run_request
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>
2014-03-21 08:57:37 -06:00
Jens Axboe
5d12f905cc blk-mq: fix wrong usage of hctx->state vs hctx->flags
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>
2014-03-19 15:25:02 -06:00
Jens Axboe
95363efde1 blk-mq: allow blk_mq_init_commands() to return failure
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>
2014-03-14 10:43:15 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
d6a25b3131 blk-mq: support partial I/O completions
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>
2014-02-21 08:58:49 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
feb71dae1f blk-mq: merge blk_mq_insert_request and blk_mq_run_request
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>
2014-02-21 08:58:48 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
18741986a4 blk-mq: rework flush sequencing logic
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>
2014-02-10 09:29:00 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
30a91cb4ef blk-mq: rework I/O completions
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>
2014-02-10 09:27:31 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
72a0a36e28 blk-mq: support at_head inserations for blk_execute_rq
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>
2014-02-07 11:58:54 -07:00
Shaohua Li
f0276924fa blk-mq: Don't reserve a tag for flush request
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>
2014-01-30 12:57:25 -07:00
Jose Alonso
0d0b7d4279 blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
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>
2014-01-28 08:09:46 -07:00
Ming Lei
3edcc0ce85 block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
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>
2013-12-31 09:53:05 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
3228f48be2 blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock
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>
2013-10-28 13:33:58 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
280d45f6c3 blk-mq: add blk_mq_stop_hw_queues
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>
2013-10-25 14:45:58 +01:00
Jens Axboe
320ae51fee blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism
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>
2013-10-25 11:56:00 +01:00