The previous code artificially limited writeback rate to 1000000
blocks/second (NSEC_PER_MSEC), which is a rate that can be met on fast
hardware. The rate limiting code works fine (though with decreased
precision) up to 3 orders of magnitude faster, so use NSEC_PER_SEC.
Additionally, ensure that uint32_t is used as a type for rate throughout
the rate management so that type checking/clamp_t can work properly.
bch_next_delay should be rewritten for increased precision and better
handling of high rates and long sleep periods, but this is adequate for
now.
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Reported-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This works in conjunction with the new PI controller. Currently, in
real-world workloads, the rate controller attempts to write back 1
sector per second. In practice, these minimum-rate writebacks are
between 4k and 60k in test scenarios, since bcache aggregates and
attempts to do contiguous writes and because filesystems on top of
bcachefs typically write 4k or more.
Previously, bcache used to guarantee to write at least once per second.
This means that the actual writeback rate would exceed the configured
amount by a factor of 8-120 or more.
This patch adjusts to be willing to sleep up to 2.5 seconds, and to
target writing 4k/second. On the smallest writes, it will sleep 1
second like before, but many times it will sleep longer and load the
backing device less. This keeps the loading on the cache and backing
device related to writeback more consistent when writing back at low
rates.
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
bcache uses a control system to attempt to keep the amount of dirty data
in cache at a user-configured level, while not responding excessively to
transients and variations in write rate. Previously, the system was a
PD controller; but the output from it was integrated, turning the
Proportional term into an Integral term, and turning the Derivative term
into a crude Proportional term. Performance of the controller has been
uneven in production, and it has tended to respond slowly, oscillate,
and overshoot.
This patch set replaces the current control system with an explicit PI
controller and tuning that should be correct for most hardware. By
default, it attempts to write at a rate that would retire 1/40th of the
current excess blocks per second. An integral term in turn works to
remove steady state errors.
IMO, this yields benefits in simplicity (removing weighted average
filtering, etc) and system performance.
Another small change is a tunable parameter is introduced to allow the
user to specify a minimum rate at which dirty blocks are retired.
There is a slight difference from earlier versions of the patch in
integral handling to prevent excessive negative integral windup.
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If an IO operation fails, and we didn't successfully read data from the
cache, don't writeback invalid/partial data to the backing disk.
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
bcache uses a Proportion-Differentiation Controller algorithm to control
writeback rate to cached devices. In the PD controller algorithm, dirty
stripes of thin flash device should not be counted in, because flash only
volumes never write back dirty data.
Currently dirty stripe counter for thin flash device is not initialized
when the thin flash device starts. Which means the following calculation
in PD controller will reference an undefined dirty stripes number, and
all cached devices attached to the same cache set where the thin flash
device lies on may have an inaccurate writeback rate.
This patch calles bch_sectors_dirty_init() in flash_dev_run(), to
correctly initialize dirty stripe counter when the thin flash device
starts to run. This patch also does following parameter data type change,
-void bch_sectors_dirty_init(struct cached_dev *dc);
+void bch_sectors_dirty_init(struct bcache_device *);
to call this function conveniently in flash_dev_run().
(Commit log is composed by Coly Li)
Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui <tang.junhui@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
__update_write_rate() uses a Proportion-Differentiation Controller
algorithm to control writeback rate. A dirty target number is used in
this PD controller to control writeback rate. A larger target number
will make the writeback rate smaller, on the versus, a smaller target
number will make the writeback rate larger.
bcache uses the following steps to calculate the target number,
1) cache_sectors = all-buckets-of-cache-set * buckets-size
2) cache_dirty_target = cache_sectors * cached-device-writeback_percent
3) target = cache_dirty_target *
(sectors-of-cached-device/sectors-of-all-cached-devices-of-this-cache-set)
The calculation at step 1) for cache_sectors is incorrect, which does
not consider dirty blocks occupied by flash only volume.
A flash only volume can be took as a bcache device without cached
device. All data sectors allocated for it are persistent on cache device
and marked dirty, they are not touched by bcache writeback and garbage
collection code. So data blocks of flash only volume should be ignore
when calculating cache_sectors of cache set.
Current code does not subtract dirty sectors of flash only volume, which
results a larger target number from the above 3 steps. And in sequence
the cache device's writeback rate is smaller then a correct value,
writeback speed is slower on all cached devices.
This patch fixes the incorrect slower writeback rate by subtracting
dirty sectors of flash only volumes in __update_writeback_rate().
(Commit log composed by Coly Li to pass checkpatch.pl checking)
Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui <tang.junhui@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).
For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device. But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.
Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We are going to split <linux/sched/clock.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/clock.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Some drivers often use external bvec table, so introduce
this helper for this case. It is always safe to access the
bio->bi_io_vec in this way for this case.
After converting to this usage, it will becomes a bit easier
to evaluate the remaining direct access to bio->bi_io_vec,
so it can help to prepare for the following multipage bvec
support.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fixed up the new O_DIRECT cases.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
bio_free_pages is introduced in commit 1dfa0f68c0
("block: add a helper to free bio bounce buffer pages"),
we can reuse the func in other modules after it was
imported.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have bcache
set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
bch_writeback_thread() is calling try_to_freeze(), but that's just an
expensive no-op given the fact that the thread is not marked freezable.
I/O helper kthreads, exactly such as the bcache writeback thread, actually
shouldn't be freezable, because they are potentially necessary for
finalizing the image write-out.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Previously, it would only scan the entire disk if it was starting from
the very start of the disk - i.e. if the previous scan got to the end.
This was broken by refill_full_stripes(), which updates last_scanned so
that refill_dirty was never triggering the searched_from_start path.
But if we change refill_dirty() to always scan the entire disk if
necessary, regardless of what last_scanned was, the code gets cleaner
and we fix that bug too.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The bcache driver has always accepted arbitrarily large bios and split
them internally. Now that every driver must accept arbitrarily large
bios this code isn't nessecary anymore.
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
[dpark: add more description in commit message]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:
(1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
(2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback
The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.
So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
There were two issues here:
- writeback thread did not start until the device first became dirty
- writeback thread used uninterruptible sleep once running
Without this patch I see kernel warnings printed and a load average of
1.52 after booting my test VM. With this patch the warnings are gone and
the load average is near 0.00 as expected.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
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Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into for-3.14/core
Needed to bring blk-mq uptodate, since changes have been going in
since for-3.14/core was established.
Fixup merge issues related to the immutable biovec changes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Conflicts:
block/blk-flush.c
fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
fs/btrfs/scrub.c
fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
The old writeback PD controller could get into states where it had throttled all
the way down and take way too long to recover - it was too complicated to really
understand what it was doing.
This rewrites a good chunk of it to hopefully be simpler and make more sense,
and it also pays more attention to units which should make the behaviour a bit
easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
at the beginning (schedule_timout_interuptible) and others
do his on their own
This prevents wrong load average calculation (load of 1 per thread)
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Last of the btree_map() conversions. Main visible effect is
bch_btree_insert() is no longer taking a struct btree_op as an argument
anymore - there's no fancy state machine stuff going on, it's just a
normal function.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
When we convert bch_btree_insert() to bch_btree_map_leaf_nodes(), we
won't be passing struct btree_op to bch_btree_insert() anymore - so we
need a different way of returning whether there was a collision (really,
a replace collision).
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
This is prep work for converting bch_btree_insert to
bch_btree_map_leaf_nodes() - we have to convert all its arguments to
actual arguments. Bunch of churn, but should be straightforward.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Lots of stuff has been open coding its own btree traversal - which is
generally pretty simple code, but there are a few subtleties.
This adds new new functions, bch_btree_map_nodes() and
bch_btree_map_keys(), which do the traversal for you. Everything that's
open coding btree traversal now (with the exception of garbage
collection) is slowly going to be converted to these two functions;
being able to write other code at a higher level of abstraction is a
big improvement w.r.t. overall code quality.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
This simplifies the writeback flow control quite a bit - previously, it
was conceptually two coroutines, refill_dirty() and read_dirty(). This
makes the code quite a bit more straightforward.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Slowly working on pruning struct btree_op - the aim is for it to only
contain things that are actually necessary for traversing the btree.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Some refactoring - better to explicitly pass stuff around instead of
having it all in the "big bag of state", struct btree_op. Going to prune
struct btree_op quite a bit over time.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Originally I got this right... except that the divides didn't use
do_div(), which broke 32 bit kernels. When I went to fix that, I forgot
that the raid stripe size usually isn't a power of two... doh
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Background writeback works by scanning the btree for dirty data and
adding those keys into a fixed size buffer, then for each dirty key in
the keybuf writing it to the backing device.
When read_dirty() finishes and it's time to scan for more dirty data, we
need to wait for the outstanding writeback IO to finish - they still
take up slots in the keybuf (so that foreground writes can check for
them to avoid races) - without that wait, we'll continually rescan when
we'll be able to add at most a key or two to the keybuf, and that takes
locks that starves foreground IO. Doh.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= v3.10
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some of bcache's utility code has made it into the rest of the kernel,
so drop the bcache versions.
Bcache used to have a workaround for allocating from a bio set under
generic_make_request() (if you allocated more than once, the bios you
already allocated would get stuck on current->bio_list when you
submitted, and you'd risk deadlock) - bcache would mask out __GFP_WAIT
when allocating bios under generic_make_request() so that allocation
could fail and it could retry from workqueue. But bio_alloc_bioset() has
a workaround now, so we can drop this hack and the associated error
handling.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Now that we're tracking dirty data per stripe, we can add two
optimizations for raid5/6:
* If a stripe is already dirty, force writes to that stripe to
writeback mode - to help build up full stripes of dirty data
* When flushing dirty data, preferentially write out full stripes first
if there are any.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
To make background writeback aware of raid5/6 stripes, we first need to
track the amount of dirty data within each stripe - we do this by
breaking up the existing sectors_dirty into per stripe atomic_ts
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Previously, dirty_data wouldn't get initialized until the first garbage
collection... which was a bit of a problem for background writeback (as
the PD controller keys off of it) and also confusing for users.
This is also prep work for making background writeback aware of raid5/6
stripes.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
The tracepoints were reworked to be more sensible, and fixed a null
pointer deref in one of the tracepoints.
Converted some of the pr_debug()s to tracepoints - this is partly a
performance optimization; it used to be that with DEBUG or
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG pr_debug() was an empty macro; but at some point it
was changed to an empty inline function.
Some of the pr_debug() statements had rather expensive function calls as
part of the arguments, so this code was getting run unnecessarily even
on non debug kernels - in some fast paths, too.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and
has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage.
See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
