We need to convert the dm code to the new bvec_iter primitives which
respect bi_bvec_done; they also allow us to drastically simplify dm's
bio splitting code.
Also, it's no longer necessary to save/restore the bvec array anymore -
driver conversions for immutable bvecs are done, so drivers should never
be modifying it.
Also kill bio_sector_offset(), dm was the only user and it doesn't make
much sense anymore.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
bio_clone() just got more expensive - however, most users of bio_clone()
don't actually need to modify the biovec. If they aren't modifying the
biovec, and they can guarantee that the original bio isn't freed before
the clone (also true in most cases), we can just point the clone at the
original bio's biovec.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
bio_iovec_idx() and __bio_iovec() don't have any valid uses anymore -
previous users have been converted to bio_iovec_iter() or other methods.
__BVEC_END() has to go too - the bvec array can't be used directly for
the last biovec because we might only be using the first portion of it,
we have to iterate over the bvec array with bio_for_each_segment() which
checks against the current value of bi_iter.bi_size.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When we start sharing biovecs, keeping bi_vcnt accurate for splits is
going to be error prone - and unnecessary, if we refactor some code.
So bio_segments() has to go - but most of the existing users just needed
to know if the bio had multiple segments, which is easier - add a
bio_multiple_segments() for them.
(Two of the current uses of bio_segments() are going to go away in a
couple patches, but the current implementation of bio_segments() is
unsafe as soon as we start doing driver conversions for immutable
biovecs - so implement a dumb version for bisectability, it'll go away
in a couple patches)
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com>
Cc: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
The bio integrity is also stored in a bvec array, so if we use the bvec
iter code we just added, the integrity code won't need to implement its
own iteration stuff (bio_integrity_mark_head(), bio_integrity_mark_tail())
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
This adds a mechanism by which we can advance a bio by an arbitrary
number of bytes without modifying the biovec: bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done
indicates the number of bytes completed in the current bvec.
Various driver code still needs to be updated to not refer to the bvec
directly before we can use this for interesting things, like efficient
bio splitting.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
For immutable biovecs, we'll be introducing a new bio_iovec() that uses
our new bvec iterator to construct a biovec, taking into account
bvec_iter->bi_bvec_done - this patch updates existing users for the new
usage.
Some of the existing users really do need a pointer into the bvec array
- those uses are all going to be removed, but we'll need the
functionality from immutable to remove them - so for now rename the
existing bio_iovec() -> __bio_iovec(), and it'll be removed in a couple
patches.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
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>
This was the only real user of BIO_CLONED, which didn't have very clear
semantics. Convert to its own flag so we can get rid of BIO_CLONED.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
This is for the new bio splitting code. When we split a bio, if the
split occured on a bvec boundry we reuse the bvec for the new bio. But
that means bio_free() can't free it, hence the explicit flag.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
__bio_for_each_segment() iterates bvecs from the specified index
instead of bio->bv_idx. Currently, the only usage is to walk all the
bvecs after the bio has been advanced by specifying 0 index.
For immutable bvecs, we need to split these apart;
bio_for_each_segment() is going to have a different implementation.
This will also help document the intent of code that's using it -
bio_for_each_segment_all() is only legal to use for code that owns the
bio.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
CC: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
This gets open coded quite a bit and it's tricky to get right, so make a
generic version and convert some existing users over to it instead.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Random cleanup - this code was duplicated and it's not really specific
to md.
Also added the ability to return the actual error code.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
This is prep work for immutable bio vecs; we first want to centralize
where bvecs are modified.
Next two patches convert some existing code to use this function.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This adds a pointer to the bvec array to struct bio_integrity_payload,
instead of the bvecs always being inline; then the bvecs are allocated
with bvec_alloc_bs().
Changed bvec_alloc_bs() and bvec_free_bs() to take a pointer to a
mempool instead of the bioset, so that bio integrity can use a different
mempool for its bvecs, and thus avoid a potential deadlock.
This is eventually for immutable bio vecs - immutable bvecs aren't
useful if we still have to copy them, hence the need for the pointer.
Less code is always nice too, though.
Also, bio_integrity_alloc() was using fs_bio_set if no bio_set was
specified. This was wrong - using the bio_set doesn't protect us from
memory allocation failures, because we just used kmalloc for the
bio_integrity_payload. But it does introduce the possibility of
deadlock, if for some reason we weren't supposed to be using fs_bio_set.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
bio_integrity_split() seemed to be confusing pointers and arrays -
bip_vec in bio_integrity_payload was an array appended to the end of the
payload, so the bio_vecs in struct bio_pair should have come after the
bio_integrity_payload they're for.
Fix it by making bip_vec a pointer to the inline vecs - a later patch is
going to make more use of this pointer.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Previously, if we ever try to allocate more than once from the same bio
set while running under generic_make_request() (i.e. a stacking block
driver), we risk deadlock.
This is because of the code in generic_make_request() that converts
recursion to iteration; any bios we submit won't actually be submitted
(so they can complete and eventually be freed) until after we return -
this means if we allocate a second bio, we're blocking the first one
from ever being freed.
Thus if enough threads call into a stacking block driver at the same
time with bios that need multiple splits, and the bio_set's reserve gets
used up, we deadlock.
This can be worked around in the driver code - we could check if we're
running under generic_make_request(), then mask out __GFP_WAIT when we
go to allocate a bio, and if the allocation fails punt to workqueue and
retry the allocation.
But this is tricky and not a generic solution. This patch solves it for
all users by inverting the previously described technique. We allocate a
rescuer workqueue for each bio_set, and then in the allocation code if
there are bios on current->bio_list we would be blocking, we punt them
to the rescuer workqueue to be submitted.
This guarantees forward progress for bio allocations under
generic_make_request() provided each bio is submitted before allocating
the next, and provided the bios are freed after they complete.
Note that this doesn't do anything for allocation from other mempools.
Instead of allocating per bio data structures from a mempool, code
should use bio_set's front_pad.
Tested it by forcing the rescue codepath to be taken (by disabling the
first GFP_NOWAIT) attempt, and then ran it with bcache (which does a lot
of arbitrary bio splitting) and verified that the rescuer was being
invoked.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Muthukumar Ratty <muthur@gmail.com>
This is prep work for the next patch, which embeds a struct bio_list in
struct bio_set.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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