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>
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>
elv_abort_queue has no callers, and blk_abort_flushes is only called by
elv_abort_queue.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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>
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>
If a requeue event races with a timeout, we can get into the
situation where we attempt to complete a request from the
timeout handler when it's not start anymore. This causes a crash.
So have the timeout handler check that REQ_ATOM_STARTED is still
set on the request - if not, we ignore the event. If this happens,
the request has now been marked as complete. As a consequence, we
need to ensure to clear REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE in blk_mq_start_request(),
as to maintain proper request state.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Martin reported that his test system would not boot with
current git, it oopsed with this:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88046c6c9e80
IP: [<ffffffff812971e0>] blk_queue_start_tag+0x90/0x150
PGD 1ddf067 PUD 1de2067 PMD 47fc7d067 PTE 800000046c6c9060
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in: sd_mod lpfc(+) scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt oracleasm
rpcsec_gss_krb5 ipv6 igb dca i2c_algo_bit i2c_core hwmon
CPU: 3 PID: 87 Comm: kworker/u17:1 Not tainted 3.14.0+ #246
Hardware name: Supermicro X9DRX+-F/X9DRX+-F, BIOS 3.00 07/09/2013
Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
task: ffff8802743c2150 ti: ffff880273d02000 task.ti: ffff880273d02000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812971e0>] [<ffffffff812971e0>]
blk_queue_start_tag+0x90/0x150
RSP: 0018:ffff880273d03a58 EFLAGS: 00010092
RAX: ffff88046c6c9e78 RBX: ffff880077208e78 RCX: 00000000fffc8da6
RDX: 00000000fffc186d RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: 00000000fffc8d9d
RBP: ffff880273d03a88 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8800021c2410
R10: 0000000000000005 R11: 0000000000015b30 R12: ffff88046c5bb8a0
R13: ffff88046c5c0890 R14: 000000000000001e R15: 000000000000001e
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880277b00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff88046c6c9e80 CR3: 00000000018f6000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
Stack:
ffff880273d03a98 ffff880474b18800 0000000000000000 ffff880474157000
ffff88046c5c0890 ffff880077208e78 ffff880273d03ae8 ffffffff813b9e62
ffff880200000010 ffff880474b18968 ffff880474b18848 ffff88046c5c0cd8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff813b9e62>] scsi_request_fn+0xf2/0x510
[<ffffffff81293167>] __blk_run_queue+0x37/0x50
[<ffffffff8129ac43>] blk_execute_rq_nowait+0xb3/0x130
[<ffffffff8129ad24>] blk_execute_rq+0x64/0xf0
[<ffffffff8108d2b0>] ? bit_waitqueue+0xd0/0xd0
[<ffffffff813bba35>] scsi_execute+0xe5/0x180
[<ffffffff813bbe4a>] scsi_execute_req_flags+0x9a/0x110
[<ffffffffa01b1304>] sd_spinup_disk+0x94/0x460 [sd_mod]
[<ffffffff81160000>] ? __unmap_hugepage_range+0x200/0x2f0
[<ffffffffa01b2b9a>] sd_revalidate_disk+0xaa/0x3f0 [sd_mod]
[<ffffffffa01b2fb8>] sd_probe_async+0xd8/0x200 [sd_mod]
[<ffffffff8107703f>] async_run_entry_fn+0x3f/0x140
[<ffffffff8106a1c5>] process_one_work+0x175/0x410
[<ffffffff8106b373>] worker_thread+0x123/0x400
[<ffffffff8106b250>] ? manage_workers+0x160/0x160
[<ffffffff8107104e>] kthread+0xce/0xf0
[<ffffffff81070f80>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70
[<ffffffff815f0bac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffff81070f80>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70
Code: 48 0f ab 11 72 db 48 81 4b 40 00 00 10 00 89 83 08 01 00 00 48 89
df 49 8b 04 24 48 89 1c d0 e8 f7 a8 ff ff 49 8b 85 28 05 00 00 <48> 89
58 08 48 89 03 49 8d 85 28 05 00 00 48 89 43 08 49 89 9d
RIP [<ffffffff812971e0>] blk_queue_start_tag+0x90/0x150
RSP <ffff880273d03a58>
CR2: ffff88046c6c9e80
Martin bisected and found this to be the problem patch;
commit 6d113398dc
Author: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Mon Feb 24 16:39:54 2014 +0100
block: Stop abusing rq->csd.list in blk-softirq
and the problem was immediately apparent. The patch states that
it is safe to reuse queuelist at completion time, since it is
no longer used. However, that is not true if a device is using
block enabled tagging. If that is the case, then the queuelist
is reused to keep track of busy tags. If a device also ended
up using softirq completions, we'd reuse ->queuelist for the
IPI handling while block tagging was still using it. Boom.
Fix this by adding a new ipi_list list head, and share the
memory used with the request hash table. The hash table is
never used after the request is moved to the dispatch list,
which happens long before any potential completion of the
request. Add a new request bit for this, so we don't have
cases that check rq->hash while it could potentially have
been reused for the IPI completion.
Reported-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
request_queue bypassing is used to suppress higher-level function of a
request_queue so that they can be switched, reconfigured and shut
down. A request_queue does the followings while bypassing.
* bypasses elevator and io_cq association and queues requests directly
to the FIFO dispatch queue.
* bypasses block cgroup request_list lookup and always uses the root
request_list.
Once confirmed to be bypassing, specific elevator and block cgroup
policy implementations can assume that nothing is in flight for them
and perform various operations which would be dangerous otherwise.
Such confirmation is acheived by short-circuiting all new requests
directly to the dispatch queue and waiting for all the requests which
were issued before to finish. Unfortunately, while the request
allocating and draining sides were properly handled, we forgot to
actually plug the request dispatch path. Even after bypassing mode is
confirmed, if the attached driver tries to fetch a request and the
dispatch queue is empty, __elv_next_request() would invoke the current
elevator's elevator_dispatch_fn() callback. As all in-flight requests
were drained, the elevator wouldn't contain any request but once
bypass is confirmed we don't even know whether the elevator is even
there. It might be in the process of being switched and half torn
down.
Frank Mayhar reports that this actually happened while switching
elevators, leading to an oops.
Let's fix it by making __elv_next_request() avoid invoking the
elevator_dispatch_fn() callback if the queue is bypassing. It already
avoids invoking the callback if the queue is dying. As a dying queue
is guaranteed to be bypassing, we can simply replace blk_queue_dying()
check with blk_queue_bypass().
Reported-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
References: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1390319905.20232.38.camel@bobble.lax.corp.google.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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>
Switch elevator to use the new hashtable implementation. This reduces the
amount of generic unrelated code in the elevator.
This also removes the dymanic allocation of the hash table. The size of the table is
constant so there's no point in paying the price of an extra dereference when accessing
it.
This patch depends on d9b482c ("hashtable: introduce a small and naive
hashtable") which was merged in v3.6.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
A block driver may start cleaning up resources needed by its
request_fn as soon as blk_cleanup_queue() finished, so request_fn
must not be invoked after draining finished. This is important
when blk_run_queue() is invoked without any requests in progress.
As an example, if blk_drain_queue() and scsi_run_queue() run in
parallel, blk_drain_queue() may have finished all requests after
scsi_run_queue() has taken a SCSI device off the starved list but
before that last function has had a chance to run the queue.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD is used to indicate that queuing new requests must
stop. After this flag has been set queue draining starts. However,
during the queue draining phase it is still safe to invoke the
queue's request_fn, so QUEUE_FLAG_DYING is a better name for this
flag.
This patch has been generated by running the following command
over the kernel source tree:
git grep -lEw 'blk_queue_dead|QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD' |
xargs sed -i.tmp -e 's/blk_queue_dead/blk_queue_dying/g' \
-e 's/QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING/g'; \
sed -i.tmp -e "s/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING$(printf \\t)*5/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING$(printf \\t)5/g" \
include/linux/blkdev.h; \
sed -i.tmp -e 's/ DEAD/ DYING/g' -e 's/dead queue/a dying queue/' \
-e 's/Dead queue/A dying queue/' block/blk-core.c
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Remove special-casing of non-rw fs style requests (discard). The nomerge
flags are consolidated in blk_types.h, and rq_mergeable() and
bio_mergeable() have been modified to use them.
bio_is_rw() is used in place of bio_has_data() a few places. This is
done to to distinguish true reads and writes from other fs type requests
that carry a payload (e.g. write same).
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
__generic_unplug_device() function is removed with commit
7eaceaccab, which forgot to
remove the declaration at meantime. Here remove it.
Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Request allocation is about to be made per-blkg meaning that there'll
be multiple request lists.
* Make queue full state per request_list. blk_*queue_full() functions
are renamed to blk_*rl_full() and takes @rl instead of @q.
* Rename blk_init_free_list() to blk_init_rl() and make it take @rl
instead of @q. Also add @gfp_mask parameter.
* Add blk_exit_rl() instead of destroying rl directly from
blk_release_queue().
* Add request_list->q and make request alloc/free functions -
blk_free_request(), [__]freed_request(), __get_request() - take @rl
instead of @q.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cgroup/for-3.5 contains the following changes which blk-cgroup needs
to proceed with the on-going cleanup.
* Dynamic addition and removal of cftypes to make config/stat file
handling modular for policies.
* cgroup removal update to not wait for css references to drain to fix
blkcg removal hang caused by cfq caching cfqgs.
Pull in cgroup/for-3.5 into block/for-3.5/core. This causes the
following conflicts in block/blk-cgroup.c.
* 761b3ef50e "cgroup: remove cgroup_subsys argument from callbacks"
conflicts with blkiocg_pre_destroy() addition and blkiocg_attach()
removal. Resolved by removing @subsys from all subsys methods.
* 676f7c8f84 "cgroup: relocate cftype and cgroup_subsys definitions in
controllers" conflicts with ->pre_destroy() and ->attach() updates
and removal of modular config. Resolved by dropping forward
declarations of the methods and applying updates to the relocated
blkio_subsys.
* 4baf6e3325 "cgroup: convert all non-memcg controllers to the new
cftype interface" builds upon the previous item. Resolved by adding
->base_cftypes to the relocated blkio_subsys.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Make the following interface updates to prepare for future ioc related
changes.
* create_io_context() returning ioc only works for %current because it
doesn't increment ref on the ioc. Drop @task parameter from it and
always assume %current.
* Make create_io_context_slowpath() return 0 or -errno and rename it
to create_task_io_context().
* Make ioc_create_icq() take @ioc as parameter instead of assuming
that of %current. The caller, get_request(), is updated to create
ioc explicitly and then pass it into ioc_create_icq().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently block core calls directly into blk-throttle for init, drain
and exit. This patch adds blkcg_{init|drain|exit}_queue() which wraps
the blk-throttle functions. This is to give more control and
visiblity to blkcg core layer for proper layering. Further patches
will add logic common to blkcg policies to the functions.
While at it, collapse blk_throtl_release() into blk_throtl_exit().
There's no reason to keep them separate.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Rename and extend elv_queisce_start/end() to
blk_queue_bypass_start/end() which are exported and supports nesting
via @q->bypass_depth. Also add blk_queue_bypass() to test bypass
state.
This will be further extended and used for blkio_group management.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_rq_merge_ok() is the elevator-neutral part of merge eligibility
test. blk_try_merge() determines merge direction and expects the
caller to have tested elv_rq_merge_ok() previously.
elv_rq_merge_ok() now wraps blk_rq_merge_ok() and then calls
elv_iosched_allow_merge(). elv_try_merge() is removed and the two
callers are updated to call elv_rq_merge_ok() explicitly followed by
blk_try_merge(). While at it, make rq_merge_ok() functions return
bool.
This is to prepare for plug merge update and doesn't introduce any
behavior change.
This is based on Jens' patch to skip elevator_allow_merge_fn() from
plug merge.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4F16F3CA.90904@kernel.dk>
Original-patch-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
