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2017-08-29block: Make blk_dequeue_request() staticDamien Le Moal
The only caller of this function is blk_start_request() in the same file. Fix blk_start_request() description accordingly. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-23block: add a __disk_get_part helperChristoph Hellwig
This helper allows looking up a partion under RCU protection without grabbing a reference to it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-07-03bio-integrity: stop abusing bi_end_ioChristoph Hellwig
And instead call directly into the integrity code from bio_end_io. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-27block: move bounce declarations to block/blk.hChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-20block: Document what queue type each function is intended forBart Van Assche
Some functions in block/blk-core.c must only be used on blk-sq queues while others are safe to use against any queue type. Document which functions are intended for blk-sq queues and issue a warning if the blk-sq API is misused. This does not only help block driver authors but will also make it easier to remove the blk-sq code once that code is declared obsolete. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-01block: Avoid that blk_exit_rl() triggers a use-after-freeBart Van Assche
Since the introduction of .init_rq_fn() and .exit_rq_fn() it is essential that the memory allocated for struct request_queue stays around until all blk_exit_rl() calls have finished. Hence make blk_init_rl() take a reference on struct request_queue. This patch fixes the following crash: general protection fault: 0000 [#2] SMP CPU: 3 PID: 28 Comm: ksoftirqd/3 Tainted: G D 4.12.0-rc2-dbg+ #2 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 task: ffff88013a108040 task.stack: ffffc9000071c000 RIP: 0010:free_request_size+0x1a/0x30 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000071fd38 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RBX: ffff880067362a88 RCX: 0000000000000003 RDX: ffff880067464178 RSI: ffff880067362a88 RDI: ffff880135ea4418 RBP: ffffc9000071fd40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000100180009 R10: ffffc9000071fd38 R11: ffffffff81110800 R12: ffff88006752d3d8 R13: ffff88006752d3d8 R14: ffff88013a108040 R15: 000000000000000a FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88013fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fa8ec1edb00 CR3: 0000000138ee8000 CR4: 00000000001406e0 Call Trace: mempool_destroy.part.10+0x21/0x40 mempool_destroy+0xe/0x10 blk_exit_rl+0x12/0x20 blkg_free+0x4d/0xa0 __blkg_release_rcu+0x59/0x170 rcu_process_callbacks+0x260/0x4e0 __do_softirq+0x116/0x250 smpboot_thread_fn+0x123/0x1e0 kthread+0x109/0x140 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40 Fixes: commit e9c787e65c0c ("scsi: allocate scsi_cmnd structures as part of struct request") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.11+ Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-19block: Export blk_init_request_from_bio()Bart Van Assche
Export this function such that it becomes available to block drivers. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Cc: Adam Manzanares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-19block: make __blk_end_bidi_request privateChristoph Hellwig
blk_insert_flush should be using __blk_end_request to start with. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28blk-throttle: add a mechanism to estimate IO latencyShaohua Li
User configures latency target, but the latency threshold for each request size isn't fixed. For a SSD, the IO latency highly depends on request size. To calculate latency threshold, we sample some data, eg, average latency for request size 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k .. 1M. The latency threshold of each request size will be the sample latency (I'll call it base latency) plus latency target. For example, the base latency for request size 4k is 80us and user configures latency target 60us. The 4k latency threshold will be 80 + 60 = 140us. To sample data, we calculate the order base 2 of rounded up IO sectors. If the IO size is bigger than 1M, it will be accounted as 1M. Since the calculation does round up, the base latency will be slightly smaller than actual value. Also if there isn't any IO dispatched for a specific IO size, we will use the base latency of smaller IO size for this IO size. But we shouldn't sample data at any time. The base latency is supposed to be latency where disk isn't congested, because we use latency threshold to schedule IOs between cgroups. If disk is congested, the latency is higher, using it for scheduling is meaningless. Hence we only do the sampling when block throttling is in the LOW limit, with assumption disk isn't congested in such state. If the assumption isn't true, eg, low limit is too high, calculated latency threshold will be higher. Hard disk is completely different. Latency depends on spindle seek instead of request size. Currently this feature is SSD only, we probably can use a fixed threshold like 4ms for hard disk though. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28blk-throttle: add a simple idle detectionShaohua Li
A cgroup gets assigned a low limit, but the cgroup could never dispatch enough IO to cross the low limit. In such case, the queue state machine will remain in LIMIT_LOW state and all other cgroups will be throttled according to low limit. This is unfair for other cgroups. We should treat the cgroup idle and upgrade the state machine to lower state. We also have a downgrade logic. If the state machine upgrades because of cgroup idle (real idle), the state machine will downgrade soon as the cgroup is below its low limit. This isn't what we want. A more complicated case is cgroup isn't idle when queue is in LIMIT_LOW. But when queue gets upgraded to lower state, other cgroups could dispatch more IO and this cgroup can't dispatch enough IO, so the cgroup is below its low limit and looks like idle (fake idle). In this case, the queue should downgrade soon. The key to determine if we should do downgrade is to detect if cgroup is truely idle. Unfortunately it's very hard to determine if a cgroup is real idle. This patch uses the 'think time check' idea from CFQ for the purpose. Please note, the idea doesn't work for all workloads. For example, a workload with io depth 8 has disk utilization 100%, hence think time is 0, eg, not idle. But the workload can run higher bandwidth with io depth 16. Compared to io depth 16, the io depth 8 workload is idle. We use the idea to roughly determine if a cgroup is idle. We treat a cgroup idle if its think time is above a threshold (by default 1ms for SSD and 100ms for HD). The idea is think time above the threshold will start to harm performance. HD is much slower so a longer think time is ok. The patch (and the latter patches) uses 'unsigned long' to track time. We convert 'ns' to 'us' with 'ns >> 10'. This is fast but loses precision, should not a big deal. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28blk-throttle: choose a small throtl_slice for SSDShaohua Li
The throtl_slice is 100ms by default. This is a long time for SSD, a lot of IO can run. To make cgroups have smoother throughput, we choose a small value (20ms) for SSD. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28blk-throttle: make throtl_slice tunableShaohua Li
throtl_slice is important for blk-throttling. It's called slice internally but it really is a time window blk-throttling samples data. blk-throttling will make decision based on the samplings. An example is bandwidth measurement. A cgroup's bandwidth is measured in the time interval of throtl_slice. A small throtl_slice meanse cgroups have smoother throughput but burn more CPUs. It has 100ms default value, which is not appropriate for all disks. A fast SSD can dispatch a lot of IOs in 100ms. This patch makes it tunable. Since throtl_slice isn't a time slice, the sysfs name 'throttle_sample_time' reflects its character better. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-08block: optionally merge discontiguous discard bios into a single requestChristoph Hellwig
Add a new merge strategy that merges discard bios into a request until the maximum number of discard ranges (or the maximum discard size) is reached from the plug merging code. I/O scheduler merging is not wired up yet but might also be useful, although not for fast devices like NVMe which are the only user for now. Note that for now we don't support limiting the size of each discard range, but if needed that can be added later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-08block: enumify ELEVATOR_*_MERGEChristoph Hellwig
Switch these constants to an enum, and make let the compiler ensure that all callers of blk_try_merge and elv_merge handle all potential values. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-08block: move req_set_nomerge to blk.hChristoph Hellwig
This makes it available outside of blk-merge.c, and inlining such a trivial helper seems pretty useful to start with. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-03blk-merge: return the merged requestJens Axboe
When we attempt to merge request-to-request, we return a 0/1 if we ended up merging or not. Change that to return the pointer to the request that we freed. We will use this to move the freeing of that request out of the merge logic, so that callers can drop locks before freeing the request. There should be no functional changes in this patch. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
2017-02-02block: use same block debugfs directory for blk-mq and blktraceOmar Sandoval
When I added the blk-mq debugging information to debugfs, I didn't notice that blktrace also creates a "block" directory in debugfs. Make them use the same dentry, now created in the core block code. Based on a patch from Jens. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31block: introduce blk_rq_is_passthroughChristoph Hellwig
This can be used to check for fs vs non-fs requests and basically removes all knowledge of BLOCK_PC specific from the block layer, as well as preparing for removing the cmd_type field in struct request. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-17block: move rq_ioc() to blk.hJens Axboe
We want to use it outside of blk-core.c. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
2017-01-17block: move existing elevator ops to unionJens Axboe
Prep patch for adding MQ ops as well, since doing anon unions with named initializers doesn't work on older compilers. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
2016-11-17blk-mq: implement hybrid poll mode for sync O_DIRECTJens Axboe
This patch enables a hybrid polling mode. Instead of polling after IO submission, we can induce an artificial delay, and then poll after that. For example, if the IO is presumed to complete in 8 usecs from now, we can sleep for 4 usecs, wake up, and then do our polling. This still puts a sleep/wakeup cycle in the IO path, but instead of the wakeup happening after the IO has completed, it'll happen before. With this hybrid scheme, we can achieve big latency reductions while still using the same (or less) amount of CPU. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Tested-By: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com> Reviewed-By: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
2016-10-28block: split out request-only flags into a new namespaceChristoph Hellwig
A lot of the REQ_* flags are only used on struct requests, and only of use to the block layer and a few drivers that dig into struct request internals. This patch adds a new req_flags_t rq_flags field to struct request for them, and thus dramatically shrinks the number of common requests. It also removes the unfortunate situation where we have to fit the fields from the same enum into 32 bits for struct bio and 64 bits for struct request. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-09-15blk-mq: remove ->map_queueChristoph Hellwig
All drivers use the default, so provide an inline version of it. If we ever need other queue mapping we can add an optional method back, although supporting will also require major changes to the queue setup code. This provides better code generation, and better debugability as well. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-07-20block: simplify and export blk_rq_append_bioChristoph Hellwig
The target SCSI passthrough backend is much better served with the low-level blk_rq_append_bio construct then the helpers built on top of it, so export it. Also use the opportunity to remove the pointless request_queue argument and make the code flow a little more readable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-12-22block: defer timeouts to a workqueueChristoph Hellwig
Timer context is not very useful for drivers to perform any meaningful abort action from. So instead of calling the driver from this useless context defer it to a workqueue as soon as possible. Note that while a delayed_work item would seem the right thing here I didn't dare to use it due to the magic in blk_add_timer that pokes deep into timer internals. But maybe this encourages Tejun to add a sensible API for that to the workqueue API and we'll all be fine in the end :) Contains a major update from Keith Bush: "This patch removes synchronizing the timeout work so that the timer can start a freeze on its own queue. The timer enters the queue, so timer context can only start a freeze, but not wait for frozen." Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-11-19block: protect rw_page against device teardownDan Williams
Fix use after free crashes like the following: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP Call Trace: [<ffffffffa0050216>] ? pmem_do_bvec.isra.12+0xa6/0xf0 [nd_pmem] [<ffffffffa0050ba2>] pmem_rw_page+0x42/0x80 [nd_pmem] [<ffffffff8128fd90>] bdev_read_page+0x50/0x60 [<ffffffff812972f0>] do_mpage_readpage+0x510/0x770 [<ffffffff8128fd20>] ? I_BDEV+0x20/0x20 [<ffffffff811d86dc>] ? lru_cache_add+0x1c/0x50 [<ffffffff81297657>] mpage_readpages+0x107/0x170 [<ffffffff8128fd20>] ? I_BDEV+0x20/0x20 [<ffffffff8128fd20>] ? I_BDEV+0x20/0x20 [<ffffffff8129058d>] blkdev_readpages+0x1d/0x20 [<ffffffff811d615f>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x28f/0x310 [<ffffffff811d6039>] ? __do_page_cache_readahead+0x169/0x310 [<ffffffff811c5abd>] ? pagecache_get_page+0x2d/0x1d0 [<ffffffff811c76f6>] filemap_fault+0x396/0x530 [<ffffffff811f816e>] __do_fault+0x4e/0xf0 [<ffffffff811fce7d>] handle_mm_fault+0x11bd/0x1b50 Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> [willy: symmetry fixups] Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-11-04Merge branch 'for-4.4/integrity' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block integrity updates from Jens Axboe: ""This is the joint work of Dan and Martin, cleaning up and improving the support for block data integrity" * 'for-4.4/integrity' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block, libnvdimm, nvme: provide a built-in blk_integrity nop profile block: blk_flush_integrity() for bio-based drivers block: move blk_integrity to request_queue block: generic request_queue reference counting nvme: suspend i/o during runtime blk_integrity_unregister md: suspend i/o during runtime blk_integrity_unregister md, dm, scsi, nvme, libnvdimm: drop blk_integrity_unregister() at shutdown block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk block: Export integrity data interval size in sysfs block: Reduce the size of struct blk_integrity block: Consolidate static integrity profile properties block: Move integrity kobject to struct gendisk
2015-10-21block: fix plug list flushing for nomerge queuesJeff Moyer
Request queues with merging disabled will not flush the plug list after BLK_MAX_REQUEST_COUNT requests have been queued, since the code relies on blk_attempt_plug_merge to compute the request_count. Fix this by computing the number of queued requests even for nomerge queues. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-21block: blk_flush_integrity() for bio-based driversDan Williams
Since they lack requests to pin the request_queue active, synchronous bio-based drivers may have in-flight integrity work from bio_integrity_endio() that is not flushed by blk_freeze_queue(). Flush that work to prevent races to free the queue and the final usage of the blk_integrity profile. This is temporary unless/until bio-based drivers start to generically take a q_usage_counter reference while a bio is in-flight. Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> [martin: fix the CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY=n case] Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-21block: generic request_queue reference countingDan Williams
Allow pmem, and other synchronous/bio-based block drivers, to fallback on a per-cpu reference count managed by the core for tracking queue live/dead state. The existing per-cpu reference count for the blk_mq case is promoted to be used in all block i/o scenarios. This involves initializing it by default, waiting for it to drop to zero at exit, and holding a live reference over the invocation of q->make_request_fn() in generic_make_request(). The blk_mq code continues to take its own reference per blk_mq request and retains the ability to freeze the queue, but the check that the queue is frozen is moved to generic_make_request(). This fixes crash signatures like the following: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880140000000 [..] Call Trace: [<ffffffff8145e8bf>] ? copy_user_handle_tail+0x5f/0x70 [<ffffffffa004e1e0>] pmem_do_bvec.isra.11+0x70/0xf0 [nd_pmem] [<ffffffffa004e331>] pmem_make_request+0xd1/0x200 [nd_pmem] [<ffffffff811c3162>] ? mempool_alloc+0x72/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8141f8b6>] generic_make_request+0xd6/0x110 [<ffffffff8141f966>] submit_bio+0x76/0x170 [<ffffffff81286dff>] submit_bh_wbc+0x12f/0x160 [<ffffffff81286e62>] submit_bh+0x12/0x20 [<ffffffff813395bd>] jbd2_write_superblock+0x8d/0x170 [<ffffffff8133974d>] jbd2_mark_journal_empty+0x5d/0x90 [<ffffffff813399cb>] jbd2_journal_destroy+0x24b/0x270 [<ffffffff810bc4ca>] ? put_pwq_unlocked+0x2a/0x30 [<ffffffff810bc6f5>] ? destroy_workqueue+0x225/0x250 [<ffffffff81303494>] ext4_put_super+0x64/0x360 [<ffffffff8124ab1a>] generic_shutdown_super+0x6a/0xf0 Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-09-10Merge branch 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull blk-cg updates from Jens Axboe: "A bit later in the cycle, but this has been in the block tree for a a while. This is basically four patchsets from Tejun, that improve our buffered cgroup writeback. It was dependent on the other cgroup changes, but they went in earlier in this cycle. Series 1 is set of 5 patches that has cgroup writeback updates: - bdi_writeback iteration fix which could lead to some wb's being skipped or repeated during e.g. sync under memory pressure. - Simplification of wb work wait mechanism. - Writeback tracepoints updated to report cgroup. Series 2 is is a set of updates for the CFQ cgroup writeback handling: cfq has always charged all async IOs to the root cgroup. It didn't have much choice as writeback didn't know about cgroups and there was no way to tell who to blame for a given writeback IO. writeback finally grew support for cgroups and now tags each writeback IO with the appropriate cgroup to charge it against. This patchset updates cfq so that it follows the blkcg each bio is tagged with. Async cfq_queues are now shared across cfq_group, which is per-cgroup, instead of per-request_queue cfq_data. This makes all IOs follow the weight based IO resource distribution implemented by cfq. - Switched from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOWAIT as suggested by Jeff. - Other misc review points addressed, acks added and rebased. Series 3 is the blkcg policy cleanup patches: This patchset contains assorted cleanups for blkcg_policy methods and blk[c]g_policy_data handling. - alloc/free added for blkg_policy_data. exit dropped. - alloc/free added for blkcg_policy_data. - blk-throttle's async percpu allocation is replaced with direct allocation. - all methods now take blk[c]g_policy_data instead of blkcg_gq or blkcg. And finally, series 4 is a set of patches cleaning up the blkcg stats handling: blkcg's stats have always been somwhat of a mess. This patchset tries to improve the situation a bit. - The following patches added to consolidate blkcg entry point and blkg creation. This is in itself is an improvement and helps colllecting common stats on bio issue. - per-blkg stats now accounted on bio issue rather than request completion so that bio based and request based drivers can behave the same way. The issue was spotted by Vivek. - cfq-iosched implements custom recursive stats and blk-throttle implements custom per-cpu stats. This patchset make blkcg core support both by default. - cfq-iosched and blk-throttle keep track of the same stats multiple times. Unify them" * 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (45 commits) blkcg: use CGROUP_WEIGHT_* scale for io.weight on the unified hierarchy blkcg: s/CFQ_WEIGHT_*/CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*/ blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy blkcg: misc preparations for unified hierarchy interface blkcg: separate out tg_conf_updated() from tg_set_conf() blkcg: move body parsing from blkg_conf_prep() to its callers blkcg: mark existing cftypes as legacy blkcg: rename subsystem name from blkio to io blkcg: refine error codes returned during blkcg configuration blkcg: remove unnecessary NULL checks from __cfqg_set_weight_device() blkcg: reduce stack usage of blkg_rwstat_recursive_sum() blkcg: remove cfqg_stats->sectors blkcg: move io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats into blkcg_gq blkcg: make blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() to be able to index into blkcg_gq blkcg: make blkcg_[rw]stat per-cpu blkcg: add blkg_[rw]stat->aux_cnt and replace cfq_group->dead_stats with it blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check() blk-throttle: improve queue bypass handling blkcg: move root blkg lookup optimization from throtl_lookup_tg() to __blkg_lookup() blkcg: inline [__]blkg_lookup() ...
2015-08-18blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()Tejun Heo
blkg (blkcg_gq) currently is created by blkcg policies invoking blkg_lookup_create() which ends up repeating about the same code in different policies. Theoretically, this can avoid the overhead of looking and/or creating blkg's if blkcg is enabled but no policy is in use; however, the cost of blkg lookup / creation is very low especially if only the root blkcg is in use which is highly likely if no blkcg policy is in active use - it boils down to a single very predictable conditional and surrounding RCU protection. This patch consolidates blkg creation to a new function blkcg_bio_issue_check() which is called during bio issue from generic_make_request_checks(). blkcg_bio_issue_check() is now the only function which tries to create missing blkg's. The subsequent policy and request_list operations just perform blkg_lookup() and if missing falls back to the root. * blk_get_rl() no longer tries to create blkg. It uses blkg_lookup() instead of blkg_lookup_create(). * blk_throtl_bio() is now called from blkcg_bio_issue_check() with rcu read locked and blkg already looked up. Both throtl_lookup_tg() and throtl_lookup_create_tg() are dropped. * cfq is similarly updated. cfq_lookup_create_cfqg() is replaced with cfq_lookup_cfqg()which uses blkg_lookup(). This consolidates blkg handling and avoids unnecessary blkg creation retries under memory pressure. In addition, this provides a common bio entry point into blkcg where things like common accounting can be performed. v2: Build fixes for !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED and !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-15blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing requestMing Lei
Inside timeout handler, blk_mq_tag_to_rq() is called to retrieve the request from one tag. This way is obviously wrong because the request can be freed any time and some fiedds of the request can't be trusted, then kernel oops might be triggered[1]. Currently wrt. blk_mq_tag_to_rq(), the only special case is that the flush request can share same tag with the request cloned from, and the two requests can't be active at the same time, so this patch fixes the above issue by updating tags->rqs[tag] with the active request(either flush rq or the request cloned from) of the tag. Also blk_mq_tag_to_rq() gets much simplified with this patch. Given blk_mq_tag_to_rq() is mainly for drivers and the caller must make sure the request can't be freed, so in bt_for_each() this helper is replaced with tags->rqs[tag]. [1] kernel oops log [ 439.696220] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000158^M [ 439.697162] IP: [<ffffffff812d89ba>] blk_mq_tag_to_rq+0x21/0x6e^M [ 439.700653] PGD 7ef765067 PUD 7ef764067 PMD 0 ^M [ 439.700653] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ^M [ 439.700653] Dumping ftrace buffer:^M [ 439.700653] (ftrace buffer empty)^M [ 439.700653] Modules linked in: nbd ipv6 kvm_intel kvm serio_raw^M [ 439.700653] CPU: 6 PID: 2779 Comm: stress-ng-sigfd Not tainted 4.2.0-rc5-next-20150805+ #265^M [ 439.730500] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011^M [ 439.730500] task: ffff880605308000 ti: ffff88060530c000 task.ti: ffff88060530c000^M [ 439.730500] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812d89ba>] [<ffffffff812d89ba>] blk_mq_tag_to_rq+0x21/0x6e^M [ 439.730500] RSP: 0018:ffff880819203da0 EFLAGS: 00010283^M [ 439.730500] RAX: ffff880811b0e000 RBX: ffff8800bb465f00 RCX: 0000000000000002^M [ 439.730500] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000202 RDI: 0000000000000000^M [ 439.730500] RBP: ffff880819203db0 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000^M [ 439.730500] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000202^M [ 439.730500] R13: ffff880814104800 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffff880811a2ea00^M [ 439.730500] FS: 00007f165b3f5740(0000) GS:ffff880819200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000^M [ 439.730500] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b^M [ 439.730500] CR2: 0000000000000158 CR3: 00000007ef766000 CR4: 00000000000006e0^M [ 439.730500] Stack:^M [ 439.730500] 0000000000000008 ffff8808114eed90 ffff880819203e00 ffffffff812dc104^M [ 439.755663] ffff880819203e40 ffffffff812d9f5e 0000020000000000 ffff8808114eed80^M [ 439.755663] Call Trace:^M [ 439.755663] <IRQ> ^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff812dc104>] bt_for_each+0x6e/0xc8^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff812d9f5e>] ? blk_mq_rq_timed_out+0x6a/0x6a^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff812d9f5e>] ? blk_mq_rq_timed_out+0x6a/0x6a^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff812dc1b3>] blk_mq_tag_busy_iter+0x55/0x5e^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff812d88b4>] ? blk_mq_bio_to_request+0x38/0x38^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff812d8911>] blk_mq_rq_timer+0x5d/0xd4^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff810a3e10>] call_timer_fn+0xf7/0x284^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff810a3d1e>] ? call_timer_fn+0x5/0x284^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff812d88b4>] ? blk_mq_bio_to_request+0x38/0x38^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff810a46d6>] run_timer_softirq+0x1ce/0x1f8^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff8104c367>] __do_softirq+0x181/0x3a4^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff8104c76e>] irq_exit+0x40/0x94^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff81031482>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x3e^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff815559a4>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x84/0x90^M [ 439.755663] <EOI> ^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff81554350>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x32/0x4a^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff8106a98b>] finish_task_switch+0xe0/0x163^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff8106a94d>] ? finish_task_switch+0xa2/0x163^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff81550066>] __schedule+0x469/0x6cd^M [ 439.755663] [<ffffffff8155039b>] schedule+0x82/0x9a^M [ 439.789267] [<ffffffff8119b28b>] signalfd_read+0x186/0x49a^M [ 439.790911] [<ffffffff8106d86a>] ? wake_up_q+0x47/0x47^M [ 439.790911] [<ffffffff811618c2>] __vfs_read+0x28/0x9f^M [ 439.790911] [<ffffffff8117a289>] ? __fget_light+0x4d/0x74^M [ 439.790911] [<ffffffff811620a7>] vfs_read+0x7a/0xc6^M [ 439.790911] [<ffffffff8116292b>] SyS_read+0x49/0x7f^M [ 439.790911] [<ffffffff81554c17>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6f^M [ 439.790911] Code: 48 89 e5 e8 a9 b8 e7 ff 5d c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 89 f2 48 89 e5 41 54 41 89 f4 53 48 8b 47 60 48 8b 1c d0 48 8b 7b 30 48 8b 53 38 <48> 8b 87 58 01 00 00 48 85 c0 75 09 48 8b 97 88 0c 00 00 eb 10 ^M [ 439.790911] RIP [<ffffffff812d89ba>] blk_mq_tag_to_rq+0x21/0x6e^M [ 439.790911] RSP <ffff880819203da0>^M [ 439.790911] CR2: 0000000000000158^M [ 439.790911] ---[ end trace d40af58949325661 ]---^M Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-05-08blk-mq: make plug work for mutiple disks and queuesShaohua Li
Last patch makes plug work for multiple queue case. However it only works for single disk case, because it assumes only one request in the plug list. If a task is accessing multiple disks, eg MD/DM, the assumption is wrong. Let blk_attempt_plug_merge() record request from the same queue. V2: use NULL parameter in !mq case. Fix a bug. Add comments in blk_attempt_plug_merge to make it less (hopefully) confusion. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-05-05block: move PM request support to IDEChristoph Hellwig
This removes the request types and hacks from the block code and into the old IDE driver. There is a small amunt of code duplication due to this, but it's not too bad. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-09-25blk-mq: support per-distpatch_queue flush machineryMing Lei
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>
2014-09-25block: introduce 'blk_mq_ctx' parameter to blk_get_flush_queueMing Lei
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>
2014-09-25block: remove blk_init_flush() and its pairMing Lei
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>
2014-09-25block: introduce blk_flush_queue to drive flush machineryMing Lei
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>
2014-09-25block: introduce blk_init_flush and its pairMing Lei
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>
2014-09-22blk-mq: unshared timeout handlerChristoph Hellwig
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>
2014-06-11block: remove elv_abort_queue and blk_abort_flushesChristoph Hellwig
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>
2014-05-20blk-mq: allow changing of queue depth through sysfsJens Axboe
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>
2014-05-13blk-mq: improve support for shared tags mapsJens Axboe
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>
2014-04-24blk-mq: fix race with timeouts and requeue eventsJens Axboe
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>
2014-04-09block: fix regression with block enabled taggingJens Axboe
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 6d113398dcf4dfcd9787a4ead738b186f7b7ff0f 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>
2014-01-30block: __elv_next_request() shouldn't call into the elevator if bypassingTejun Heo
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>
2013-10-25blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanismJens Axboe
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>
2013-01-11block,elevator: use new hashtable implementationSasha Levin
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>
2012-12-06block: Avoid that request_fn is invoked on a dead queueBart Van Assche
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>