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Jens Axboe
b374d18a4b block: get rid of elevator_t typedef
Just use struct elevator_queue everywhere instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
Tejun Heo
58eea927d2 block: simplify empty barrier implementation
Empty barrier required special handling in __elv_next_request() to
complete it without letting the low level driver see it.

With previous changes, barrier code is now flexible enough to skip the
BAR step using the same barrier sequence selection mechanism.  Drop
the special handling and mask off q->ordered from start_ordered().

Remove blk_empty_barrier() test which now has no user.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
8f11b3e99a block: make barrier completion more robust
Barrier completion had the following assumptions.

* start_ordered() couldn't finish the whole sequence properly.  If all
  actions are to be skipped, q->ordseq is set correctly but the actual
  completion was never triggered thus hanging the barrier request.

* Drain completion in elv_complete_request() assumed that there's
  always at least one request in the queue when drain completes.

Both assumptions are true but these assumptions need to be removed to
improve empty barrier implementation.  This patch makes the following
changes.

* Make start_ordered() use blk_ordered_complete_seq() to mark skipped
  steps complete and notify __elv_next_request() that it should fetch
  the next request if the whole barrier has completed inside
  start_ordered().

* Make drain completion path in elv_complete_request() check whether
  the queue is empty.  Empty queue also indicates drain completion.

* While at it, convert 0/1 return from blk_do_ordered() to false/true.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
970987beb9 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-12-05 14:45:22 +01:00
Tejun Heo
53a08807c0 block: internal dequeue shouldn't start timer
blkdev_dequeue_request() and elv_dequeue_request() are equivalent and
both start the timeout timer.  Barrier code dequeues the original
barrier request but doesn't passes the request itself to lower level
driver, only broken down proxy requests; however, as the original
barrier code goes through the same dequeue path and timeout timer is
started on it.  If barrier sequence takes long enough, this timer
expires but the low level driver has no idea about this request and
oops follows.

Timeout timer shouldn't have been started on the original barrier
request as it never goes through actual IO.  This patch unexports
elv_dequeue_request(), which has no external user anyway, and makes it
operate on elevator proper w/o adding the timer and make
blkdev_dequeue_request() call elv_dequeue_request() and add timer.
Internal users which don't pass the request to driver - barrier code
and end_that_request_last() - are converted to use
elv_dequeue_request().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-03 12:41:26 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0bfc24559d blktrace: port to tracepoints, update
Port to the new tracepoints API: split DEFINE_TRACE() and DECLARE_TRACE()
sites. Spread them out to the usage sites, as suggested by
Mathieu Desnoyers.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
2008-11-26 13:04:35 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
5f3ea37c77 blktrace: port to tracepoints
This was a forward port of work done by Mathieu Desnoyers, I changed it to
encode the 'what' parameter on the tracepoint name, so that one can register
interest in specific events and not on classes of events to then check the
'what' parameter.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 12:13:34 +01:00
Tejun Heo
2920ebbd65 block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request()
Block queue supports two usage models - one where block driver peeks
at the front of queue using elv_next_request(), processes it and
finishes it and the other where block driver peeks at the front of
queue, dequeue the request using blkdev_dequeue_request() and finishes
it.  The latter is more flexible as it allows the driver to process
multiple commands concurrently.

These two inconsistent usage models affect the block layer
implementation confusing.  For some, elv_next_request() is considered
the issue point while others consider blkdev_dequeue_request() the
issue point.

Till now the inconsistency mostly affect only accounting, so it didn't
really break anything seriously; however, with block layer timeout,
this inconsistency hits hard.  Block layer considers
elv_next_request() the issue point and adds timer but SCSI layer
thinks it was just peeking and when the request can't process the
command right away, it's just left there without further processing.
This makes the request dangling on the timer list and, when the timer
goes off, the request which the SCSI layer and below think is still on
the block queue ends up in the EH queue, causing various problems - EH
hang (failed count goes over busy count and EH never wakes up),
WARN_ON() and oopses as low level driver trying to handle the unknown
command, etc. depending on the timing.

As SCSI midlayer is the only user of block layer timer at the moment,
moving blk_add_timer() to elv_dequeue_request() fixes the problem;
however, this two usage models definitely need to be cleaned up in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 08:41:55 +01:00
Jens Axboe
80a4b58e36 block: only call ->request_fn when the queue is not stopped
Callers should use either blk_run_queue/__blk_run_queue, or
blk_start_queueing() to invoke request handling instead of calling
->request_fn() directly as that does not take the queue stopped
flag into account.

Also add appropriate comments on the above functions to detail
their usage.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-17 08:46:57 +02:00
Li Zefan
ee2e992cc2 block: simplify string handling in elv_iosched_store()
strlcpy() guarantees the dest buffer is NULL teminated.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-17 08:46:57 +02:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
99cd3386f2 block: change elevator to use __blk_end_request()
This patch converts elevator to use __blk_end_request() directly
so that end_{queued|dequeued}_request() can be removed.
Related 'uptodate' arguments is converted to 'error'.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:21 +02:00
Mike Anderson
11914a53d2 block: Add interface to abort queued requests
Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:13 +02:00
Jens Axboe
242f9dcb8b block: unify request timeout handling
Right now SCSI and others do their own command timeout handling.
Move those bits to the block layer.

Instead of having a timer per command, we try to be a bit more clever
and simply have one per-queue. This avoids the overhead of having to
tear down and setup a timer for each command, so it will result in a lot
less timer fiddling.

Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:13 +02:00
Jens Axboe
0835da67c1 block: use linux/uaccess.h in elevator.c instead of asm variant
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:09 +02:00
Mikulas Patocka
5df97b91b5 drop vmerge accounting
Remove hw_segments field from struct bio and struct request. Without virtual
merge accounting they have no purpose.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:03 +02:00
David Woodhouse
e17fc0a1cc Allow elevators to sort/merge discard requests
But blkdev_issue_discard() still emits requests which are interpreted as
soft barriers, because naïve callers might otherwise issue subsequent
writes to those same sectors, which might cross on the queue (if they're
reallocated quickly enough).

Callers still _can_ issue non-barrier discard requests, but they have to
take care of queue ordering for themselves.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:02 +02:00
maximilian attems
e180f59493 block: request_module(): use format string
Avoid bad things happening if the module has a printk control string in
its name.

Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:15 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
7ba1ba12ee block: Block layer data integrity support
Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way
of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along
with the I/O.

This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity
metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and
requests that have this extra information attached.

See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:13 +02:00
Alan D. Brunelle
4722dc52a8 Added in elevator switch message to blktrace stream
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-28 14:49:27 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
24c03d47d0 block: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
Alan D. Brunelle
ac9fafa124 block: Skip I/O merges when disabled
The block I/O + elevator + I/O scheduler code spend a lot of time trying
to merge I/Os -- rightfully so under "normal" circumstances. However,
if one were to know that the incoming I/O stream was /very/ random in
nature, the cycles are wasted.

This patch adds a per-request_queue tunable that (when set) disables
merge attempts (beyond the simple one-hit cache check), thus freeing up
a non-trivial amount of CPU cycles.

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:55 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
72ed0bf60a block/elevator.c:elv_rq_merge_ok() mustn't be inline
This patch fixes the following build error with UML and gcc 4.3:

<--  snip  -->

...
  CC      block/elevator.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/block/elevator.c: In function ‘elv_merge’:
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/block/elevator.c:73: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to ‘elv_rq_merge_ok’: function body not available
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/block/elevator.c:103: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/block/elevator.c:73: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to ‘elv_rq_merge_ok’: function body not available
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/block/elevator.c:495: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[2]: *** [block/elevator.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [block] Error 2

<--  snip  -->

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:54 +02:00
Nick Piggin
75ad23bc0f block: make queue flags non-atomic
We can save some atomic ops in the IO path, if we clearly define
the rules of how to modify the queue flags.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:33 +02:00
Jens Axboe
e164094964 elevator: make elevator_get() attempt to load the appropriate module
Currently we fail if someone requests a valid io scheduler, but it's
modular and not currently loaded. That can happen from a driver init
asking for a different scheduler, or online switching through sysfs
as requested by a user.

This patch makes elevator_get() request_module() to attempt to load
the appropriate module, instead of requiring that done manually.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-19 10:20:37 +01:00
Jens Axboe
4eb166d987 block: make elevator lib checkpatch compliant
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-01 09:26:33 +01:00
James Bottomley
fa0ccd837e block: implement drain buffers
These DMA drain buffer implementations in drivers are pretty horrible
to do in terms of manipulating the scatterlist.  Plus they're being
done at least in drivers/ide and drivers/ata, so we now have code
duplication.

The one use case for this, as I understand it is AHCI controllers doing
PIO mode to mmc devices but translating this to DMA at the controller
level.

So, what about adding a callback to the block layer that permits the
adding of the drain buffer for the problem devices.  The idea is that
you'd do this in slave_configure after you find one of these devices.

The beauty of doing it in the block layer is that it quietly adds the
drain buffer to the end of the sg list, so it automatically gets mapped
(and unmapped) without anything unusual having to be done to the
scatterlist in driver/scsi or drivers/ata and without any alteration to
the transfer length.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-28 10:54:11 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f9cb074bff Kobject: rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init()
Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename
kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:38 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b2d6db5878 Kobject: rename kobject_add_ng() to kobject_add()
Now that the old kobject_add() function is gone, rename kobject_add_ng()
to kobject_add() to clean up the namespace.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:38 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
29e3dd0df1 Kobject: convert block/elevator.c to use kobject_init/add_ng()
This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the
logic in doing so.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:36 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
2fdd82bd88 block: let elv_register() return void
elv_register() always returns 0, and there isn't anything it does where
it should return an error (the only error condition is so grave that
it's handled with a BUG_ON).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-12-18 08:29:28 +01:00
Uwe Kleine-König
dbe7f76dd6 fix typo "insted" -> "instead"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:55:04 +02:00
Jens Axboe
bf2de6f5a4 block: Initial support for data-less (or empty) barrier support
This implements functionality to pass down or insert a barrier
in a queue, without having data attached to it. The ->prepare_flush_fn()
infrastructure from data barriers are reused to provide this
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 11:03:56 +02:00
Jens Axboe
a0cd128542 block: add end_queued_request() and end_dequeued_request() helpers
We can use this helper in the elevator core for BLKPREP_KILL, and it'll
also be useful for the empty barrier patch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 11:03:53 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
19c38de88a kobjects: fix up improper use of the kobject name field
A number of different drivers incorrect access the kobject name field
directly.  This is not correct as the name might not be in the array.
Use the proper accessor function instead.
2007-10-12 14:51:02 -07:00
Jens Axboe
165125e1e4 [BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef
Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-24 09:28:11 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
94f6030ca7 Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO
kmalloc_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node() were not available in a zeroing
variant in the past.  But with __GFP_ZERO it is possible now to do zeroing
while allocating.

Use __GFP_ZERO to remove the explicit clearing of memory via memset whereever
we can.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Matthias Kaehlcke
70cee26e02 Use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each() in the block device
elevator

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 13:43:32 +02:00
Jens Axboe
2a12dcd71a [PATCH] elevator: elv_list_lock does not need irq disabling
It's never grabbed from irq context, so just make it plain spin_lock().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-04-30 09:08:17 +02:00
Thibaut VARENE
1ffb96c587 make elv_register() output atomic
Booting 2.6.21-rc3-g45592145 I noticed the following on one of my
machines in the bootlog:

io scheduler noop registered<6>Time: jiffies clocksource has been installed.

io scheduler deadline registered (default)

Looking at block/elevator.c, it appears that elv_register() uses two
consecutive printks in a non-atomic way, leading to the above glitch. The
attached trivial patch fixes this issue, by using a single printk.

Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-03-27 08:53:04 +02:00
Jens Axboe
783660b2f6 elevator: don't sort reads between writes
Don't allow elv_dispatch_sort() to mix reads and writes together,
it's rarely a good idea.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-02-11 23:14:44 +01:00
Jens Axboe
cad9751642 elevator: abstract out the activate and deactivate functions
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-02-11 23:14:44 +01:00
Linas Vepstas
95543179f1 [PATCH] elevator: move clearing of unplug flag earlier
A flag was recently added to the elevator code to avoid
performing an unplug when reuests are being re-queued.
The goal of this flag was to avoid a deep recursion that
can occur when re-queueing requests after a SCSI device/host
reset.  See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/17/254

However, that fix added the flag near the bottom of a case
statement, where an earlier break (in an if statement) could
transport one out of the case, without setting the flag.
This patch sets the flag earlier in the case statement.

I re-discovered the deep recursion recently during testing;
I was told that it was a known problem, and the fix to it was
in the kernel I was testing. Indeed it was ... but it didn't
fix the bug. With the patch below, I no longer see the bug.

Signed-off by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-23 11:01:17 -08:00
Jens Axboe
bb4067e341 [PATCH] elevator: fixup typo in merge logic
The recent io scheduler allow_merge commit left the block layer with
no merging, oops. This patch fixes that up.

That means the CFQ change needs to be verified again, it might not fix
the original bug now.  But that's a seperate thing, I'll double check
that tomorrow.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-21 22:01:04 -08:00
Jens Axboe
da77526502 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: don't allow sync merges across queues
Currently we allow any merge, even if the io originates from different
processes. This can cause really bad starvation and unfairness, if those
ios happen to be synchronous (reads or direct writes).

So add a allow_merge hook to the io scheduler ops, so an io scheduler can
help decide whether a bio/process combination may be merged with an
existing request.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-20 11:04:12 +01:00
Jens Axboe
bb37b94c68 [BLOCK] Cleanup unused variable passing
- ->init_queue() does not need the elevator passed in
- ->put_request() is a hot path and need not have the queue passed in
- cfq_update_io_seektime() does not need cfqd passed in

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 10:42:33 +01:00
Vasily Tarasov
c584164224 [PATCH] block layer: elv_iosched_show should get elv_list_lock
elv_iosched_show function iterates other elv_list, hence
elv_list_lock should be got.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-10-12 15:08:51 +02:00
Vasily Tarasov
a22b169df1 [PATCH] block layer: elevator_find function cleanup
We can easily produce search through the elevator list
without introducing additional elevator_type variable.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-10-12 15:08:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe
0fe2347957 [PATCH] Update axboe@suse.de email address
As people often look for the copyright in files to see who to mail,
update the link to a neutral one.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:34 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b5deef9012 [PATCH] Make sure all block/io scheduler setups are node aware
Some were kmalloc_node(), some were still kmalloc(). Change them all to
kmalloc_node().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe
cb78b285c8 [PATCH] Drop useless bio passing in may_queue/set_request API
It's not needed for anything, so kill the bio passing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:23 +02:00