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>
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>
These two temporary functions are introduced for holding flush
initialization and de-initialization, so that we can
introduce 'flush queue' easier in the following patch. And
once 'flush queue' and its allocation/free functions are ready,
they will be removed for sake of code readability.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
It is reasonable to allocate flush req in blk_mq_init_flush().
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Failure of initializing one hctx isn't handled, so this patch
introduces blk_mq_init_hctx() and its pair to handle it explicitly.
Also this patch makes code cleaner.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Moved blk_mq_rq_timed_out() definition to the private blk-mq.h header.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
It's not uncommon for crash dump kernels to be limited to 128MB or
something low in that area. This is normally not a problem for
devices as we don't use that much memory, but for some shared SCSI
setups with huge queue depths, it can potentially fill most of
memory with tons of request allocations. blk-mq does scale back
when it fails to allocate memory, but it scales back just enough
so that blk-mq succeeds. This could still leave the system with
not enough memory to make any real progress.
Check if we are in a kdump environment and limit the hardware
queues and tag depth.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch removes two unnecessary blk_clear_rq_complete(),
the REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE flag is cleared inside blk_mq_start_request(),
so:
- The blk_clear_rq_complete() in blk_flush_restore_request()
needn't because the request will be freed later, and clearing
it here may open a small race window with timeout.
- The blk_clear_rq_complete() in blk_mq_requeue_request() isn't
necessary too, even though REQ_ATOM_STARTED is cleared in
__blk_mq_requeue_request(), in theory it still may cause a small
race window with timeout since the two clear_bit() may be
reordered.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canoical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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>
Duplicate the (small) timeout handler in blk-mq so that we can pass
arguments more easily to the driver timeout handler. This enables
the next patch.
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>
When requests are retried due to hw or sw resource shortages,
we often stop the associated hardware queue. So ensure that we
restart the queues when running the requeue work, otherwise the
queue run will be a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
__blk_mq_alloc_rq_maps() can be invoked multiple times, if we scale
back the queue depth if we are low on memory. So don't clear
set->tags when we fail, this is handled directly in
the parent function, blk_mq_alloc_tag_set().
Reported-by: Robert Elliott <Elliott@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We should not insert requests into the flush state machine from
blk_mq_insert_request. All incoming flush requests come through
blk_{m,s}q_make_request and are handled there, while blk_execute_rq_nowait
should only be called for BLOCK_PC requests. All other callers
deal with requests that already went through the flush statemchine
and shouldn't be reinserted into it.
Reported-by: Robert Elliott <Elliott@hp.com>
Debugged-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch should fix the bug reported in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/11/249.
We have to initialize at least the atomic_flags and the cmd_flags when
allocating storage for the requests.
Otherwise blk_mq_timeout_check() might dereference uninitialized
pointers when racing with the creation of a request.
Also move the reset of cmd_flags for the initializing code to the point
where a request is freed. So we will never end up with pending flush
request indicators that might trigger dereferences of invalid pointers
in blk_mq_timeout_check().
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Paulo De Rezende Pinatti <ppinatti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paulo De Rezende Pinatti <ppinatti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
When we start the request, we set the deadline and flip the bits
marking the request as started and non-complete. However, it's
important that the deadline store is ordered before flipping the
bits, otherwise we could have a small window where the request is
marked started but with an invalid deadline. This can confuse the
timeout handling.
Suggested-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
A bit of churn on the for-linus side that would be nice to have
in the core bits for 3.18, so pull it in to catch us up and make
forward progress easier.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Conflicts:
block/scsi_ioctl.c
If we are running in a kdump environment, resources are scarce.
For some SCSI setups with a huge set of shared tags, we run out
of memory allocating what the drivers is asking for. So implement
a scale back logic to reduce the tag depth for those cases, allowing
the driver to successfully load.
We should extend this to detect low memory situations, and implement
a sane fallback for those (1 queue, 64 tags, or something like that).
Tested-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
In blk-mq.c blk_mq_alloc_tag_set, if:
set->tags = kmalloc_node()
succeeds, but one of the blk_mq_init_rq_map() calls fails,
goto out_unwind;
needs to free set->tags so the caller is not obligated
to do so. None of the current callers (null_blk,
virtio_blk, virtio_blk, or the forthcoming scsi-mq)
do so.
set->tags needs to be set to NULL after doing so,
so other tag cleanup logic doesn't try to free
a stale pointer later. Also set it to NULL
in blk_mq_free_tag_set.
Tested with error injection on the forthcoming
scsi-mq + hpsa combination.
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Ming Lei
Christoph Hellwig
Jens Axboe
Ming Lei
David Hildenbrand
Robert Elliott