Currently blk-mq uses the queue timeout for all requests. But
for some commands, drivers may want to set a specific timeout
for special requests. Allow this to be passed in through
request->timeout, and use it if set.
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>
We want slightly different behavior from them:
- On single queue devices, we currently use the per-process plug
for deferred IO and for merging.
- On multi queue devices, we don't use the per-process plug, but
we want to go straight to hardware for SYNC IO.
Split blk_mq_make_request() into a blk_sq_make_request() for single
queue devices, and retain blk_mq_make_request() for multi queue
devices. Then we don't need multiple checks for q->nr_hw_queues
in the request mapping.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Depending on the topology of the machine and the number of queues
exposed by a device, we can end up in a situation where some of
the hardware queues are unused (as in, they don't map to any
software queues). For this case, free up the memory used by the
request map, as we will not use it. This can be a substantial
amount of memory, depending on the number of queues vs CPUs and
the queue depth of the device.
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>
In blk_mq_make_request(), do the blk_queue_nomerges() check
outside the call to blk_attempt_plug_merge() to eliminate
function call overhead when nomerges=2 (disabled)
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_queue_make_requests() overwrites our set value for q->nr_requests,
turning it into the default of 128. Set this appropriately after
initializing queue values in blk_queue_make_request().
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>
Continue moving some of the block files that are scattered around.
bounce.c contains only code for bouncing the contents of a bio.
It's block proper code, not mm code.
Suggested-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
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>
They really belong in block/, especially now since it's not in
drivers/block/ anymore. Additionally, the get_maintainer script
gets it wrong when in fs/.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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>
Both nr_cache and nr_tags arn't needed for bitmap tag anymore.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The selected tag should be selected at random between 0 and
(depth - 1) with probability 1/depth, instead between 0 and
(depth - 2) with probability 1/(depth - 1).
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The barrier isn't necessary because both atomic_dec_and_test()
and wake_up() implicate one barrier.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The unlock memory barrier need to order access to req in free
path and clearing tag bit, otherwise either request free path
may see a allocated request, or initialized request in allocate
path might be modified by the ongoing free path.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We first check if we have inflight IO, then retrieve that
same number again. Usually this isn't that costly since the
chance of having the data dirtied in between is small, but
there's no reason for calling part_in_flight() twice.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Commit c6d600c6 opened up a small race where we could attempt to
account IO completion on a request, racing with IO start accounting.
Fix this up by ensuring that we've accounted for IO start before
inserting the request.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For best performance, spreading tags over multiple cachelines
makes the tagging more efficient on multicore systems. But since
we have 8 * sizeof(unsigned long) tags per cacheline, we don't
always get a nice spread.
Attempt to spread the tags over at least 4 cachelines, using fewer
number of bits per unsigned long if we have to. This improves
tagging performance in setups with 32-128 tags. For higher depths,
the spread is the same as before (BITS_PER_LONG tags per cacheline).
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>
Jens Axboe
Sam Bradshaw
Robert Elliott
Ming Lei