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Shaohua Li
1b2e19f17e block: make auto block plug flush threshold per-disk based
We do auto block plug flush to reduce latency, the threshold is 16
requests. This works well if the task is accessing one or two drives.
The problem is if the task is accessing a raid 0 device and the raid
disk number is big, say 8 or 16, 16/8 = 2 or 16/16=1, we will have
heavy lock contention.

This patch makes the threshold per-disk based. The latency should be
still ok accessing one or two drives. The setup with application
accessing a lot of drives in the meantime uaually is big machine,
avoiding lock contention is more important, because any contention
will actually increase latency.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-04-06 11:37:47 -06:00
Dan Carpenter
00380a404f block: blk_alloc_queue_node(): use caller's GFP flags instead of GFP_KERNEL
We should use the GFP flags that the caller specified instead of picking
our own.  All the callers specify GFP_KERNEL so this doesn't make a
difference to how the kernel runs, it's just a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-23 09:58:54 +01:00
Tejun Heo
07c2bd3735 block: don't call elevator callbacks for plug merges
Plug merge calls two elevator callbacks outside queue lock -
elevator_allow_merge_fn() and elevator_bio_merged_fn().  Although
attempt_plug_merge() suggests that elevator is guaranteed to be there
through the existing request on the plug list, nothing prevents plug
merge from calling into dying or initializing elevator.

For regular merges, bypass ensures elvpriv count to reach zero, which
in turn prevents merges as all !ELVPRIV requests get REQ_SOFTBARRIER
from forced back insertion.  Plug merge doesn't check ELVPRIV, and, as
the requests haven't gone through elevator insertion yet, it doesn't
have SOFTBARRIER set allowing merges on a bypassed queue.

This, for example, leads to the following crash during elevator
switch.

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
 IP: [<ffffffff813b34e9>] cfq_allow_merge+0x49/0xa0
 PGD 112cbc067 PUD 115d5c067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU 1
 Modules linked in: deadline_iosched

 Pid: 819, comm: dd Not tainted 3.3.0-rc2-work+ #76 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff813b34e9>]  [<ffffffff813b34e9>] cfq_allow_merge+0x49/0xa0
 RSP: 0018:ffff8801143a38f8  EFLAGS: 00010297
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88011817ce28 RCX: ffff880116eb6cc0
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880118056e20 RDI: ffff8801199512f8
 RBP: ffff8801143a3908 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880118195708
 R13: ffff880118052aa0 R14: ffff8801143a3d50 R15: ffff880118195708
 FS:  00007f19f82cb700(0000) GS:ffff88011fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
 CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000000112c6a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Process dd (pid: 819, threadinfo ffff8801143a2000, task ffff880116eb6cc0)
 Stack:
  ffff88011817ce28 ffff880118195708 ffff8801143a3928 ffffffff81391bba
  ffff88011817ce28 ffff880118195708 ffff8801143a3948 ffffffff81391bf1
  ffff88011817ce28 0000000000000000 ffff8801143a39a8 ffffffff81398e3e
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81391bba>] elv_rq_merge_ok+0x4a/0x60
  [<ffffffff81391bf1>] elv_try_merge+0x21/0x40
  [<ffffffff81398e3e>] blk_queue_bio+0x8e/0x390
  [<ffffffff81396a5a>] generic_make_request+0xca/0x100
  [<ffffffff81396b04>] submit_bio+0x74/0x100
  [<ffffffff811d45c2>] __blockdev_direct_IO+0x1ce2/0x3450
  [<ffffffff811d0dc7>] blkdev_direct_IO+0x57/0x60
  [<ffffffff811460b5>] generic_file_aio_read+0x6d5/0x760
  [<ffffffff811986b2>] do_sync_read+0xe2/0x120
  [<ffffffff81199345>] vfs_read+0xc5/0x180
  [<ffffffff81199501>] sys_read+0x51/0x90
  [<ffffffff81aeac12>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

There are multiple ways to fix this including making plug merge check
ELVPRIV; however,

* Calling into elevator outside queue lock is confusing and
  error-prone.

* Requests on plug list aren't known to the elevator.  They aren't on
  the elevator yet, so there's no elevator specific state to update.

* Given the nature of plug merges - collecting bio's for the same
  purpose from the same issuer - elevator specific restrictions aren't
  applicable.

So, simply don't call into elevator methods from plug merge by moving
elv_bio_merged() from bio_attempt_*_merge() to blk_queue_bio(), and
using blk_try_merge() in attempt_plug_merge().

This is based on Jens' patch to skip elevator_allow_merge_fn() from
plug merge.

Note that this makes per-cgroup merged stats skip plug merging.

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>
2012-02-08 09:19:42 +01:00
Tejun Heo
050c8ea80e block: separate out blk_rq_merge_ok() and blk_try_merge() from elevator functions
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>
2012-02-08 09:19:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo
11a3122f6c block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context()
put_io_context() performed a complex trylock dancing to avoid
deferring ioc release to workqueue.  It was also broken on UP because
trylock was always assumed to succeed which resulted in unbalanced
preemption count.

While there are ways to fix the UP breakage, even the most
pathological microbench (forced ioc allocation and tight fork/exit
loop) fails to show any appreciable performance benefit of the
optimization.  Strip it out.  If there turns out to be workloads which
are affected by this change, simpler optimization from the discussion
thread can be applied later.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1328514611.21268.66.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-07 07:51:30 +01:00
Shaohua Li
05c30b9551 block: fix NULL icq_cache reference
Vivek reported a kernel crash:
[   94.217015] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000001c
[   94.218004] IP: [<ffffffff81142fae>] kmem_cache_free+0x5e/0x200
[   94.218004] PGD 13abda067 PUD 137d52067 PMD 0
[   94.218004] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[   94.218004] CPU 0
[   94.218004] Modules linked in: [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[   94.218004]
[   94.218004] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.2.0+ #16 Hewlett-Packard HP xw6600 Workstation/0A9Ch
[   94.218004] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81142fae>]  [<ffffffff81142fae>] kmem_cache_free+0x5e/0x200
[   94.218004] RSP: 0018:ffff88013fc03de0  EFLAGS: 00010006
[   94.218004] RAX: ffffffff81e0d020 RBX: ffff880138b3c680 RCX: 00000001801c001b
[   94.218004] RDX: 00000000003aac1d RSI: ffff880138b3c680 RDI: ffffffff81142fae
[   94.218004] RBP: ffff88013fc03e10 R08: ffff880137830238 R09: 0000000000000001
[   94.218004] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[   94.218004] R13: ffffea0004e2cf00 R14: ffffffff812f6eb6 R15: 0000000000000246
[   94.218004] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88013fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   94.218004] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[   94.218004] CR2: 000000000000001c CR3: 00000001395ab000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[   94.218004] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   94.218004] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   94.218004] Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81e00000, task ffffffff81e0d020)
[   94.218004] Stack:
[   94.218004]  0000000000000102 ffff88013fc0db20 ffffffff81e22700 ffff880139500f00
[   94.218004]  0000000000000001 000000000000000a ffff88013fc03e20 ffffffff812f6eb6
[   94.218004]  ffff88013fc03e90 ffffffff810c8da2 ffffffff81e01fd8 ffff880137830240
[   94.218004] Call Trace:
[   94.218004]  <IRQ>
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff812f6eb6>] icq_free_icq_rcu+0x16/0x20
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff810c8da2>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1c2/0x420
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff810c9038>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x38/0x250
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff810405ee>] __do_softirq+0xce/0x3e0
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff8108ed04>] ? clockevents_program_event+0x74/0x100
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff81090104>] ? tick_program_event+0x24/0x30
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff8183ed1c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff8100422d>] do_softirq+0x8d/0xc0
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff81040c3e>] irq_exit+0xae/0xe0
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff8183f4be>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x99
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff8183e330>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x70/0x80

Once a queue is quiesced, it's not supposed to have any elvpriv data or
icq's, and elevator switching depends on that.  Request alloc path
followed the rule for elvpriv data but forgot apply it to icq's
leading to the following crash during elevator switch. Fix it by not
allocating icq's if ELVPRIV is not set for the request.

Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-01-19 09:20:10 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b3c9dd182e Merge branch 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (37 commits)
  Revert "block: recursive merge requests"
  block: Stop using macro stubs for the bio data integrity calls
  blockdev: convert some macros to static inlines
  fs: remove unneeded plug in mpage_readpages()
  block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl
  block: Introduce blk_set_stacking_limits function
  block: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in exit_io_context()
  block: an exiting task should be allowed to create io_context
  block: ioc_cgroup_changed() needs to be exported
  block: recursive merge requests
  block, cfq: fix empty queue crash caused by request merge
  block, cfq: move icq creation and rq->elv.icq association to block core
  block, cfq: restructure io_cq creation path for io_context interface cleanup
  block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.c
  block, cfq: move icq cache management to block core
  block, cfq: move io_cq lookup to blk-ioc.c
  block, cfq: move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue and add request->elv.icq
  block, cfq: reorganize cfq_io_context into generic and cfq specific parts
  block: remove elevator_queue->ops
  block: reorder elevator switch sequence
  ...

Fix up conflicts in:
 - block/blk-cgroup.c
	Switch from can_attach_task to can_attach
 - block/cfq-iosched.c
	conflict with now removed cic index changes (we now use q->id instead)
2012-01-15 12:24:45 -08:00
Tejun Heo
4eabc94125 block: don't kick empty queue in blk_drain_queue()
While probing, fd sets up queue, probes hardware and tears down the
queue if probing fails.  In the process, blk_drain_queue() kicks the
queue which failed to finish initialization and fd is unhappy about
that.

  floppy0: no floppy controllers found
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: at drivers/block/floppy.c:2929 do_fd_request+0xbf/0xd0()
  Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  VFS: do_fd_request called on non-open device
  Modules linked in:
  Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.2.0-rc4-00077-g5983fe2 #2
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff81039a6a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
   [<ffffffff81039b41>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x50
   [<ffffffff813d657f>] do_fd_request+0xbf/0xd0
   [<ffffffff81322b95>] blk_drain_queue+0x65/0x80
   [<ffffffff81322c93>] blk_cleanup_queue+0xe3/0x1a0
   [<ffffffff818a809d>] floppy_init+0xdeb/0xe28
   [<ffffffff818a72b2>] ? daring+0x6b/0x6b
   [<ffffffff810002af>] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x170
   [<ffffffff81884b34>] kernel_init+0x9d/0x11e
   [<ffffffff810317c2>] ? schedule_tail+0x22/0xa0
   [<ffffffff815dbb14>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
   [<ffffffff81884a97>] ? start_kernel+0x2be/0x2be
   [<ffffffff815dbb10>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb

Avoid it by making blk_drain_queue() kick queue iff dispatch queue has
something on it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-15 20:03:04 +01:00
Tejun Heo
f1f8cc9465 block, cfq: move icq creation and rq->elv.icq association to block core
Now block layer knows everything necessary to create and associate
icq's with requests.  Move ioc_create_icq() to blk-ioc.c and update
get_request() such that, if elevator_type->icq_size is set, requests
are automatically associated with their matching icq's before
elv_set_request().  io_context reference is also managed by block core
on request alloc/free.

* Only ioprio/cgroup changed handling remains from cfq_get_cic().
  Collapsed into cfq_set_request().

* This removes queue kicking on icq allocation failure (for now).  As
  icq allocation failure is rare and the only effect of queue kicking
  achieved was possibily accelerating queue processing, this change
  shouldn't be noticeable.

  There is a larger underlying problem.  Unlike request allocation,
  icq allocation is not guaranteed to succeed eventually after
  retries.  The number of icq is unbound and thus mempool can't be the
  solution either.  This effectively adds allocation dependency on
  memory free path and thus possibility of deadlock.

  This usually wouldn't happen because icq allocation is not a hot
  path and, even when the condition triggers, it's highly unlikely
  that none of the writeback workers already has icq.

  However, this is still possible especially if elevator is being
  switched under high memory pressure, so we better get it fixed.
  Probably the only solution is just bypassing elevator and appending
  to dispatch queue on any elevator allocation failure.

* Comment added to explain how icq's are managed and synchronized.

This completes cleanup of io_context interface.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:42 +01:00
Tejun Heo
a612fddf0d block, cfq: move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue and add request->elv.icq
Most of icq management is about to be moved out of cfq into blk-ioc.
This patch prepares for it.

* Move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue->icq_list

* Make request explicitly point to icq instead of through elevator
  private data.  ->elevator_private[3] is replaced with sub struct elv
  which contains icq pointer and priv[2].  cfq is updated accordingly.

* Meaningless clearing of ->elevator_private[0] removed from
  elv_set_request().  At that point in code, the field was guaranteed
  to be %NULL anyway.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:41 +01:00
Tejun Heo
f2dbd76a0a block, cfq: replace current_io_context() with create_io_context()
When called under queue_lock, current_io_context() triggers lockdep
warning if it hits allocation path.  This is because io_context
installation is protected by task_lock which is not IRQ safe, so it
triggers irq-unsafe-lock -> irq -> irq-safe-lock -> irq-unsafe-lock
deadlock warning.

Given the restriction, accessor + creator rolled into one doesn't work
too well.  Drop current_io_context() and let the users access
task->io_context directly inside queue_lock combined with explicit
creation using create_io_context().

Future ioc updates will further consolidate ioc access and the create
interface will be unexported.

While at it, relocate ioc internal interface declarations in blk.h and
add section comments before and after.

This patch does not introduce functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:40 +01:00
Tejun Heo
09ac46c429 block: misc updates to blk_get_queue()
* blk_get_queue() is peculiar in that it returns 0 on success and 1 on
  failure instead of 0 / -errno or boolean.  Update it such that it
  returns %true on success and %false on failure.

* Make sure the caller checks for the return value.

* Separate out __blk_get_queue() which doesn't check whether @q is
  dead and put it in blk.h.  This will be used later.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo
a73f730d01 block, cfq: move cfqd->cic_index to q->id
cfq allocates per-queue id using ida and uses it to index cic radix
tree from io_context.  Move it to q->id and allocate on queue init and
free on queue release.  This simplifies cfq a bit and will allow for
further improvements of io context life-cycle management.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo
8ba61435d7 block: add missing blk_queue_dead() checks
blk_insert_cloned_request(), blk_execute_rq_nowait() and
blk_flush_plug_list() either didn't check whether the queue was dead
or did it without holding queue_lock.  Update them so that dead state
is checked while holding queue_lock.

AFAICS, this plugs all holes (requeue doesn't matter as the request is
transitioning atomically from in_flight to queued).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo
481a7d6479 block: fix drain_all condition in blk_drain_queue()
When trying to drain all requests, blk_drain_queue() checked only
q->rq.count[]; however, this only tracks REQ_ALLOCED requests.  This
patch updates blk_drain_queue() such that it looks at all the counters
and queues so that request_queue is actually empty on completion.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo
34f6055c80 block: add blk_queue_dead()
There are a number of QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD tests.  Add blk_queue_dead()
macro and use it.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo
1ba64edef6 block, sx8: kill blk_insert_request()
The only user left for blk_insert_request() is sx8 and it can be
trivially switched to use blk_execute_rq_nowait() - special requests
aren't included in io stat and sx8 doesn't use block layer tagging.
Switch sx8 and kill blk_insert_requeset().

This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.

Only compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Mike Snitzer
5151412dd4 block: initialize request_queue's numa node during
struct request_queue is allocated with __GFP_ZERO so its "node" field is
zero before initialization.  This causes an oops if node 0 is offline in
the page allocator because its zonelists are not initialized.  From Dave
Young's dmesg:

	SRAT: Node 1 PXM 2 0-d0000000
	SRAT: Node 1 PXM 2 100000000-330000000
	SRAT: Node 0 PXM 1 330000000-630000000
	Initmem setup node 1 0000000000000000-000000000affb000
	...
	Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.
	...
	BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001c08
	IP: [<ffffffff8111c355>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xb5/0x870

and __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xb5 translates to a NULL pointer on
zonelist->_zonerefs.

The fix is to initialize q->node at the time of allocation so the correct
node is passed to the slab allocator later.

Since blk_init_allocated_queue_node() is no longer needed, merge it with
blk_init_allocated_queue().

[rientjes@google.com: changelog, initializing q->node]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [2.6.37+]
Reported-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-11-23 10:59:13 +01:00
Shaohua Li
019ceb7d5d block: add missed trace_block_plug
After flush plug list, the list has no request, so we need to add a
trace_block_plug().

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-11-16 09:21:50 +01:00
Shaohua Li
3540d5e89b block: avoid unnecessary plug list flush
get_request_wait() could sleep and flush the plug list.  If the list is
already flushed, don't flush again.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-11-16 09:21:50 +01:00
Tejun Heo
6dd9ad7df2 block: don't call blk_drain_queue() if elevator is not up
blk_cleanup_queue() may be called before elevator is set up on a
queue which triggers the following oops.

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
 IP: [<ffffffff8125a69c>] elv_drain_elevator+0x1c/0x70
 ...
 Pid: 830, comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 3.1.0-next-20111025_64+ #1590
 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8125a69c>]  [<ffffffff8125a69c>] elv_drain_elevator+0x1c/0x70
 ...
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8125da92>] blk_drain_queue+0x42/0x70
  [<ffffffff8125db90>] blk_cleanup_queue+0xd0/0x1c0
  [<ffffffff81469640>] md_free+0x50/0x70
  [<ffffffff8126f43b>] kobject_release+0x8b/0x1d0
  [<ffffffff81270d56>] kref_put+0x36/0xa0
  [<ffffffff8126f2b7>] kobject_put+0x27/0x60
  [<ffffffff814693af>] mddev_delayed_delete+0x2f/0x40
  [<ffffffff81083450>] process_one_work+0x100/0x3b0
  [<ffffffff8108527f>] worker_thread+0x15f/0x3a0
  [<ffffffff81089937>] kthread+0x87/0x90
  [<ffffffff81621834>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10

Fix it by making blk_cleanup_queue() check whether q->elevator is set
up before invoking blk_drain_queue.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-11-03 18:52:11 +01:00
Jens Axboe
83157223de Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-3.2/core 2011-10-24 16:24:38 +02:00
Jeff Moyer
e67b77c791 blk-flush: move the queue kick into
A dm-multipath user reported[1] a problem when trying to boot
a kernel with commit 4853abaae7
(block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring
flush flags) applied.  It turns out that an empty flush request
can be sent into blk_insert_flush.  When the BUG_ON was fixed
to allow for this, I/O on the underlying device would stall.  The
reason is that blk_insert_cloned_request does not kick the queue.
In the aforementioned commit, I had added a special case to
kick the queue if data was sent down but the queue flags did
not require a flush.  A better solution is to push the queue
kick up into blk_insert_cloned_request.

This patch, along with a follow-on which fixes the BUG_ON, fixes
the issue reported.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2011-September/msg00154.html

Reported-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Stable note: 3.1
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-24 16:24:31 +02:00
Tao Ma
9562ad9ab3 block: Remove the control of complete cpu from bio.
bio originally has the functionality to set the complete cpu, but
it is broken.

Chirstoph said that "This code is unused, and from the all the
discussions lately pretty obviously broken.  The only thing keeping
it serves is creating more confusion and possibly more bugs."

And Jens replied with "We can kill bio_set_completion_cpu(). I'm fine
with leaving cpu control to the request based drivers, they are the
only ones that can toggle the setting anyway".

So this patch tries to remove all the work of controling complete cpu
from a bio.

Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-24 16:11:30 +02:00
Tejun Heo
c9a929dde3 block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup() properly shutdown
request_queue is refcounted but actually depdends on lifetime
management from the queue owner - on blk_cleanup_queue(), block layer
expects that there's no request passing through request_queue and no
new one will.

This is fundamentally broken.  The queue owner (e.g. SCSI layer)
doesn't have a way to know whether there are other active users before
calling blk_cleanup_queue() and other users (e.g. bsg) don't have any
guarantee that the queue is and would stay valid while it's holding a
reference.

With delay added in blk_queue_bio() before queue_lock is grabbed, the
following oops can be easily triggered when a device is removed with
in-flight IOs.

 sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Stopping disk
 ata1.01: disabled
 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU 2
 Modules linked in:

 Pid: 648, comm: test_rawio Not tainted 3.1.0-rc3-work+ #56 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8137d651>]  [<ffffffff8137d651>] elv_rqhash_find+0x61/0x100
 ...
 Process test_rawio (pid: 648, threadinfo ffff880019efa000, task ffff880019ef8a80)
 ...
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8137d774>] elv_merge+0x84/0xe0
  [<ffffffff81385b54>] blk_queue_bio+0xf4/0x400
  [<ffffffff813838ea>] generic_make_request+0xca/0x100
  [<ffffffff81383994>] submit_bio+0x74/0x100
  [<ffffffff811c53ec>] dio_bio_submit+0xbc/0xc0
  [<ffffffff811c610e>] __blockdev_direct_IO+0x92e/0xb40
  [<ffffffff811c39f7>] blkdev_direct_IO+0x57/0x60
  [<ffffffff8113b1c5>] generic_file_aio_read+0x6d5/0x760
  [<ffffffff8118c1ca>] do_sync_read+0xda/0x120
  [<ffffffff8118ce55>] vfs_read+0xc5/0x180
  [<ffffffff8118cfaa>] sys_pread64+0x9a/0xb0
  [<ffffffff81afaf6b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This happens because blk_queue_cleanup() destroys the queue and
elevator whether IOs are in progress or not and DEAD tests are
sprinkled in the request processing path without proper
synchronization.

Similar problem exists for blk-throtl.  On queue cleanup, blk-throtl
is shutdown whether it has requests in it or not.  Depending on
timing, it either oopses or throttled bios are lost putting tasks
which are waiting for bio completion into eternal D state.

The way it should work is having the usual clear distinction between
shutdown and release.  Shutdown drains all currently pending requests,
marks the queue dead, and performs partial teardown of the now
unnecessary part of the queue.  Even after shutdown is complete,
reference holders are still allowed to issue requests to the queue
although they will be immmediately failed.  The rest of teardown
happens on release.

This patch makes the following changes to make blk_queue_cleanup()
behave as proper shutdown.

* QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD is now set while holding both q->exit_mutex and
  queue_lock.

* Unsynchronized DEAD check in generic_make_request_checks() removed.
  This couldn't make any meaningful difference as the queue could die
  after the check.

* blk_drain_queue() updated such that it can drain all requests and is
  now called during cleanup.

* blk_throtl updated such that it checks DEAD on grabbing queue_lock,
  drains all throttled bios during cleanup and free td when queue is
  released.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:42:16 +02:00
Tejun Heo
bd87b5898a block: drop @tsk from attempt_plug_merge() and explain sync rules
attempt_plug_merge() accesses elevator without holding queue_lock and
may call into ->elevator_bio_merge_fn().  The elvator is guaranteed to
be valid because it's accessed iff the plugged list has requests and
elevator is never exited with live requests, so as long as the
elevator method can deal with unlocked access, this is safe.

Explain the sync rules around attempt_plug_merge() and drop the
unnecessary @tsk parameter.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:33:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo
da8303c63b block: make get_request[_wait]() fail if queue is dead
Currently get_request[_wait]() allocates request whether queue is dead
or not.  This patch makes get_request[_wait]() return NULL if @q is
dead.  blk_queue_bio() is updated to fail the submitted bio if request
allocation fails.  While at it, add docbook comments for
get_request[_wait]().

Note that the current code has rather unclear (there are spurious DEAD
tests scattered around) assumption that the owner of a queue
guarantees that no request travels block layer if the queue is dead
and this patch in itself doesn't change much; however, this will allow
fixing the broken assumption in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:33:05 +02:00
Tejun Heo
bc16a4f933 block: reorganize throtl_get_tg() and blk_throtl_bio()
blk_throtl_bio() and throtl_get_tg() have rather unusual interface.

* throtl_get_tg() returns pointer to a valid tg or ERR_PTR(-ENODEV),
  and drops queue_lock in the latter case.  Different locking context
  depending on return value is error-prone and DEAD state is scheduled
  to be protected by queue_lock anyway.  Move DEAD check inside
  queue_lock and return valid tg or NULL.

* blk_throtl_bio() indicates return status both with its return value
  and in/out param **@bio.  The former is used to indicate whether
  queue is found to be dead during throtl processing.  The latter
  whether the bio is throttled.

  There's no point in returning DEAD check result from
  blk_throtl_bio().  The queue can die after blk_throtl_bio() is
  finished but before make_request_fn() grabs queue lock.

  Make it take *@bio instead and return boolean result indicating
  whether the request is throttled or not.

This patch doesn't cause any visible functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:33:01 +02:00
Tejun Heo
e3c78ca524 block: reorganize queue draining
Reorganize queue draining related code in preparation of queue exit
changes.

* Factor out actual draining from elv_quiesce_start() to
  blk_drain_queue().

* Make elv_quiesce_start/end() responsible for their own locking.

* Replace open-coded ELVSWITCH clearing in elevator_switch() with
  elv_quiesce_end().

This patch doesn't cause any visible functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:32:38 +02:00
Tejun Heo
75eb6c372d block: pass around REQ_* flags instead of broken down booleans during request alloc/free
blk_alloc_request() and freed_request() take different combinations of
REQ_* @flags, @priv and @is_sync when @flags is superset of the latter
two.  Make them take @flags only.  This cleans up the code a bit and
will ease updating allocation related REQ_* flags.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:31:22 +02:00
Jens Axboe
5c04b426f2 Merge branch 'v3.1-rc10' into for-3.2/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	include/linux/blkdev.h

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:30:42 +02:00
Hannes Reinecke
777eb1bf15 block: Free queue resources at blk_release_queue()
A kernel crash is observed when a mounted ext3/ext4 filesystem is
physically removed. The problem is that blk_cleanup_queue() frees up
some resources eg by calling elevator_exit(), which are not checked for
in normal operation. So we should rather move these calls to the
destructor function blk_release_queue() as at that point all remaining
references are gone. However, in doing so we have to ensure that any
externally supplied queue_lock is disconnected as the driver might free
up the lock after the call of blk_cleanup_queue(),

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-09-28 08:07:01 -06:00
Suresh Jayaraman
75df713627 block: document blk-plug
Thus spake Andrew Morton:

"And I have the usual maintainability whine.  If someone comes up to
vmscan.c and sees it calling blk_start_plug(), how are they supposed to
work out why that call is there?  They go look at the blk_start_plug()
definition and it is undocumented.  I think we can do better than this?"

Adapted from the LWN article - http://lwn.net/Articles/438256/ by Jens
Axboe and from an earlier attempt by Shaohua Li to document blk-plug.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: grammatical and spelling tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-09-21 10:00:16 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
27a84d54c0 block: refactor generic_make_request
Move all the checks performed on a bio into a new helper, and call it as
soon as bio is submitted even if it is a re-submission from ->make_request.

We explicitly mark the new helper as beeing non-inlined as the stack
usage for printing the block device name in the failure case is quite
high and this a patch where we have to be extremely conservative about
stack usage.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-09-15 14:01:40 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
5a7bbad27a block: remove support for bio remapping from ->make_request
There is very little benefit in allowing to let a ->make_request
instance update the bios device and sector and loop around it in
__generic_make_request when we can archive the same through calling
generic_make_request from the driver and letting the loop in
generic_make_request handle it.

Note that various drivers got the return value from ->make_request and
returned non-zero values for errors.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-09-12 12:12:01 +02:00
Jens Axboe
c20e8de27f block: rename __make_request() to blk_queue_bio()
Now that it's exported, lets put it in a more sane namespace.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-09-12 12:08:31 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
166e1f901b block: export __make_request
Avoid the hacks need for request based device mappers currently by simply
exporting the symbol instead of trying to get it through the back door.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-09-12 12:08:27 +02:00
Shaohua Li
56ebdaf2fa block: simplify force plug flush code a little bit
Cleaning up the code a little bit. attempt_plug_merge() traverses the plug
list anyway, we can do the request counting there, so stack size is reduced
a little bit.
The motivation here is I suspect if we should count the requests for each
queue (task could handle multiple disks in the meantime), but my test doesn't
show it's worthy doing. If somebody proves we should do it, below change
will make that more easier.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-24 16:04:34 +02:00
Shaohua Li
a632716275 block: change force plug flush call order
Do blk_flush_plug_list() first and then add new request aDo blk_flush_plug_list() first and then add new request aDo blk_flush_plug_list() first and then add new request at the tail. New
request can't be merged to existing requests, but later new requests might
be merged with this new one. If blk_flush_plug_list() is done later, the
merge doesn't happen.
Believe it or not, this fixes a 10% regression running sysbench workload.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-24 16:04:32 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
5ccc38740a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
  Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
  block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
  block: improve rq_affinity placement
  blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
  Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
  allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
  xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
  cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
  block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
  block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
  block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
  drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
  drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
  bsg-lib: add module.h include
  cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
  blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
  loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
  loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
  loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
  loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
  ...
2011-08-19 10:47:07 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
4853abaae7 block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
Commit ae1b153962, block: reimplement
FLUSH/FUA to support merge, introduced a performance regression when
running any sort of fsyncing workload using dm-multipath and certain
storage (in our case, an HP EVA).  The test I ran was fs_mark, and it
dropped from ~800 files/sec on ext4 to ~100 files/sec.  It turns out
that dm-multipath always advertised flush+fua support, and passed
commands on down the stack, where those flags used to get stripped off.
The above commit changed that behavior:

static inline struct request *__elv_next_request(struct request_queue *q)
{
        struct request *rq;

        while (1) {
-               while (!list_empty(&q->queue_head)) {
+               if (!list_empty(&q->queue_head)) {
                        rq = list_entry_rq(q->queue_head.next);
-                       if (!(rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)) ||
-                           (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH_SEQ))
-                               return rq;
-                       rq = blk_do_flush(q, rq);
-                       if (rq)
-                               return rq;
+                       return rq;
                }

Note that previously, a command would come in here, have
REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA set, and then get handed off to blk_do_flush:

struct request *blk_do_flush(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
{
        unsigned int fflags = q->flush_flags; /* may change, cache it */
        bool has_flush = fflags & REQ_FLUSH, has_fua = fflags & REQ_FUA;
        bool do_preflush = has_flush && (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH);
        bool do_postflush = has_flush && !has_fua && (rq->cmd_flags &
        REQ_FUA);
        unsigned skip = 0;
...
        if (blk_rq_sectors(rq) && !do_preflush && !do_postflush) {
                rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FLUSH;
		if (!has_fua)
			rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FUA;
	        return rq;
	}

So, the flush machinery was bypassed in such cases (q->flush_flags == 0
&& rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA)).

Now, however, we don't get into the flush machinery at all.  Instead,
__elv_next_request just hands a request with flush and fua bits set to
the scsi_request_fn, even if the underlying request_queue does not
support flush or fua.

The agreed upon approach is to fix the flush machinery to allow
stacking.  While this isn't used in practice (since there is only one
request-based dm target, and that target will now reflect the flush
flags of the underlying device), it does future-proof the solution, and
make it function as designed.

In order to make this work, I had to add a field to the struct request,
inside the flush structure (to store the original req->end_io).  Shaohua
had suggested overloading the union with rb_node and completion_data,
but the completion data is used by device mapper and can also be used by
other drivers.  So, I didn't see a way around the additional field.

I tested this patch on an HP EVA with both ext4 and xfs, and it recovers
the lost performance.  Comments and other testers, as always, are
appreciated.

Cheers,
Jeff

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-15 21:37:25 +02:00
Akinobu Mita
dd48c085c1 fault-injection: add ability to export fault_attr in arbitrary directory
init_fault_attr_dentries() is used to export fault_attr via debugfs.
But it can only export it in debugfs root directory.

Per Forlin is working on mmc_fail_request which adds support to inject
data errors after a completed host transfer in MMC subsystem.

The fault_attr for mmc_fail_request should be defined per mmc host and
export it in debugfs directory per mmc host like
/sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/mmc_fail_request.

init_fault_attr_dentries() doesn't help for mmc_fail_request.  So this
introduces fault_create_debugfs_attr() which is able to create a
directory in the arbitrary directory and replace
init_fault_attr_dentries().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: extraneous semicolon, per Randy]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Per Forlin <per.forlin@linaro.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 14:25:20 -10:00
Akinobu Mita
b2c9cd3793 fail_make_request: cleanup should_fail_request
This changes should_fail_request() to more usable wrapper function of
should_fail().  It can avoid putting #ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST in
the middle of a function.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:46 -07:00
Jens Axboe
11ccf116d0 block: fix warning with calling smp_processor_id() in preemptible section
After commit 5757a6d7 introduced an unsafe calling of
smp_processor_id(), with preempt debuggin turned on we spew a lot of:

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: kjournald/514
caller is __make_request+0x1b8/0x308
[<c0019f44>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe8) from [<c024b4cc>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xbc/0xf0)
[<c024b4cc>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xbc/0xf0) from [<c0223d14>] (__make_request+0x1b8/0x308)
[<c0223d14>] (__make_request+0x1b8/0x308) from [<c02215ac>] (generic_make_request+0x4dc/0x558)
[<c02215ac>] (generic_make_request+0x4dc/0x558) from [<c022173c>] (submit_bio+0x114/0x138)
[<c022173c>] (submit_bio+0x114/0x138) from [<c011f504>] (submit_bh+0x148/0x16c)
[<c011f504>] (submit_bh+0x148/0x16c) from [<c0121ed8>] (__sync_dirty_buffer+0x88/0xd8)
[<c0121ed8>] (__sync_dirty_buffer+0x88/0xd8) from [<c01aff78>] (journal_commit_transaction+0x1198/0x1688)
[<c01aff78>] (journal_commit_transaction+0x1198/0x1688) from [<c01b4034>] (kjournald+0xb4/0x224)
[<c01b4034>] (kjournald+0xb4/0x224) from [<c0069ea0>] (kthread+0x8c/0x94)
[<c0069ea0>] (kthread+0x8c/0x94) from [<c00137f8>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)

Fix this by just using raw_smp_processor_id(), it's just a hint
after all. There's no pinning of the CPU or accessing per-cpu
structures involved.

Reported-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-26 15:01:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
096a705bbc Merge branch 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
  block: strict rq_affinity
  backing-dev: use synchronize_rcu_expedited instead of synchronize_rcu
  block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check
  block: reorder request_queue to remove 64 bit alignment padding
  CFQ: add think time check for group
  CFQ: add think time check for service tree
  CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate struct
  fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
  cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs.
  block: document blk_plug list access
  block: avoid building too big plug list
  compat_ioctl: fix make headers_check regression
  block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard
  compat_ioctl: fix warning caused by qemu
  block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2)
  blk-throttle: Make total_nr_queued unsigned
  block: Add __attribute__((format(printf...) and fix fallout
  fs/partitions/check.c: make local symbols static
  block:remove some spare spaces in genhd.c
  block:fix the comment error in blkdev.h
  ...
2011-07-25 10:33:36 -07:00
Dan Williams
5757a6d76c block: strict rq_affinity
Some systems benefit from completions always being steered to the strict
requester cpu rather than the looser "per-socket" steering that
blk_cpu_to_group() attempts by default. This is because the first
CPU in the group mask ends up being completely overloaded with work,
while the others (including the original submitter) has power left
to spare.

Allow the strict mode to be set by writing '2' to the sysfs control
file. This is identical to the scheme used for the nomerges file,
where '2' is a more aggressive setting than just being turned on.

echo 2 > /sys/block/<bdev>/queue/rq_affinity

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Tested-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-23 20:44:25 +02:00
James Bottomley
bfe159a512 [SCSI] fix crash in scsi_dispatch_cmd()
USB surprise removal of sr is triggering an oops in
scsi_dispatch_command().  What seems to be happening is that USB is
hanging on to a queue reference until the last close of the upper
device, so the crash is caused by surprise remove of a mounted CD
followed by attempted unmount.

The problem is that USB doesn't issue its final commands as part of
the SCSI teardown path, but on last close when the block queue is long
gone.  The long term fix is probably to make sr do the teardown in the
same way as sd (so remove all the lower bits on ejection, but keep the
upper disk alive until last close of user space).  However, the
current oops can be simply fixed by not allowing any commands to be
sent to a dead queue.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2011-07-21 14:21:18 -07:00
Shaohua Li
55c022bbdd block: avoid building too big plug list
When I test fio script with big I/O depth, I found the total throughput drops
compared to some relative small I/O depth. The reason is the thread accumulates
big requests in its plug list and causes some delays (surely this depends
on CPU speed).
I thought we'd better have a threshold for requests. When a threshold reaches,
this means there is no request merge and queue lock contention isn't severe
when pushing per-task requests to queue, so the main advantages of blk plug
don't exist. We can force a plug list flush in this case.
With this, my test throughput actually increases and almost equals to small
I/O depth. Another side effect is irq off time decreases in blk_flush_plug_list()
for big I/O depth.
The BLK_MAX_REQUEST_COUNT is choosen arbitarily, but 16 is efficiently to
reduce lock contention to me. But I'm open here, 32 is ok in my test too.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-08 08:19:20 +02:00
Jens Axboe
d86e0e83b3 block: export blk_{get,put}_queue()
We need them in SCSI to fix a bug, but currently they are not
exported to modules. Export them.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-27 07:45:45 +02:00
Luca Tettamanti
700c4f3325 block: remove unused variable in bio_attempt_front_merge()
sector is never read inside the function.

Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-26 21:07:26 +02:00