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2017-04-08rbd: remove the discard_zeroes_data flagChristoph Hellwig
rbd only supports discarding on large alignments, so the zeroing code would always fall back to explicit writings of zeroes. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08brd: remove discard supportChristoph Hellwig
It's just a in-driver reimplementation of writing zeroes to the pages, which fails if the discards aren't page aligned. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08loop: implement REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROESChristoph Hellwig
It's identical to discard as hole punches will always leave us with zeroes on reads. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08zram: implement REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROESChristoph Hellwig
Just the same as discard if the block size equals the system page size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08nvme: implement REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROESChristoph Hellwig
But now for the real NVMe Write Zeroes yet, just to get rid of the discard abuse for zeroing. Also rename the quirk flag to be a bit more self-explanatory. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08sd: implement unmapping Write ZeroesChristoph Hellwig
Try to use a write same with unmap bit variant if the device supports it and the caller allows for it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08block_dev: use blkdev_issue_zerout for hole punchesChristoph Hellwig
This gets us support for non-discard efficient write of zeroes (e.g. NVMe) and prepares for removing the discard_zeroes_data flag. Also remove a pointless discard support check, which is done in blkdev_issue_discard already. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08block: add a new BLKDEV_ZERO_NOFALLBACK flagChristoph Hellwig
This avoids fallbacks to explicit zeroing in (__)blkdev_issue_zeroout if the caller doesn't want them. Also clean up the convoluted check for the return condition that this new flag is added to. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08block: add a REQ_NOUNMAP flag for REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROESChristoph Hellwig
If this flag is set logical provisioning capable device should release space for the zeroed blocks if possible, if it is not set devices should keep the blocks anchored. Also remove an out of sync kerneldoc comment for a static function that would have become even more out of data with this change. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08block: add a flags argument to (__)blkdev_issue_zerooutChristoph Hellwig
Turn the existing discard flag into a new BLKDEV_ZERO_UNMAP flag with similar semantics, but without referring to diѕcard. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08block: stop using blkdev_issue_write_same for zeroingChristoph Hellwig
We'll always use the WRITE ZEROES code for zeroing now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08dm kcopyd: switch to use REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROESChristoph Hellwig
It seems like the code currently passes whatever it was using for writes to WRITE SAME. Just switch it to WRITE ZEROES, although that doesn't need any payload. Untested, and confused by the code, maybe someone who understands it better than me can help.. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08dm: support REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROESChristoph Hellwig
Copy & paste from the REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08dm io: discards don't take a payloadChristoph Hellwig
Fix up do_region to not allocate a bio_vec for discards. We've got rid of the discard payload allocated by the caller years ago. Obviously this wasn't actually harmful given how long it's been there, but it's still good to avoid the pointless allocation. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08md: support REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROESChristoph Hellwig
Copy & paste from the REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08sd: implement REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROESChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08block: implement splitting of REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES biosChristoph Hellwig
Copy and past the REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME code to prepare to implementations that limit the write zeroes size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08block: renumber REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROESChristoph Hellwig
Make life easy for implementations that needs to send a data buffer to the device (e.g. SCSI) by numbering it as a data out command. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08sd: split sd_setup_discard_cmndChristoph Hellwig
Split sd_setup_discard_cmnd into one function per provisioning type. While this creates some very slight duplication of boilerplate code it keeps the code modular for additions of new provisioning types, and for reusing the write same functions for the upcoming scsi implementation of the Write Zeroes operation. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07block: sed-opal: Tone down all the pr_* to debugsScott Bauer
Lets not flood the kernel log with messages unless the user requests so. Signed-off-by: Scott Bauer <scott.bauer@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq: Clarify comments in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list()Bart Van Assche
The blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() implementation got modified several times but the comments in that function were not updated every time. Since it is nontrivial what is going on, update the comments in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(). Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq: Make it safe to use RCU to iterate over blk_mq_tag_set.tag_listBart Van Assche
Since the next patch in this series will use RCU to iterate over tag_list, make this safe. Add lockdep_assert_held() statements in functions that iterate over tag_list to make clear that using list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each_entry_rcu() is fine in these functions. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq: use true instead of 1 for blk_mq_queue_data.lastOmar Sandoval
Trivial cleanup. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq: make driver tag failure path easier to followOmar Sandoval
Minor cleanup that makes it easier to figure out what's going on in the driver tag allocation failure path of blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(). Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq-sched: provide hooks for initializing hardware queue dataOmar Sandoval
Schedulers need to be informed when a hardware queue is added or removed at runtime so they can allocate/free per-hardware queue data. So, replace the blk_mq_sched_init_hctx_data() helper, which only makes sense at init time, with .init_hctx() and .exit_hctx() hooks. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-4.12/blockJens Axboe
We've added a considerable amount of fixes for stalls and issues with the blk-mq scheduling in the 4.11 series since forking off the for-4.12/block branch. We need to do improvements on top of that for 4.12, so pull in the previous fixes to make our lives easier going forward. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq: Restart a single queue if tag sets are sharedBart Van Assche
To improve scalability, if hardware queues are shared, restart a single hardware queue in round-robin fashion. Rename blk_mq_sched_restart_queues() to reflect the new semantics. Remove blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_queue() because this function has no callers. Remove flag QUEUE_FLAG_RESTART because this patch removes the code that uses this flag. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07dm rq: Avoid that request processing stalls sporadicallyBart Van Assche
While running the srp-test software I noticed that request processing stalls sporadically at the beginning of a test, namely when mkfs is run against a dm-mpath device. Every time when that happened the following command was sufficient to resume request processing: echo run >/sys/kernel/debug/block/dm-0/state This patch avoids that such request processing stalls occur. The test I ran is as follows: while srp-test/run_tests -d -r 30 -t 02-mq; do :; done Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07scsi: Avoid that SCSI queues get stuckBart Van Assche
If a .queue_rq() function returns BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_BUSY then the block driver that implements that function is responsible for rerunning the hardware queue once requests can be queued again successfully. commit 52d7f1b5c2f3 ("blk-mq: Avoid that requeueing starts stopped queues") removed the blk_mq_stop_hw_queue() call from scsi_queue_rq() for the BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_BUSY case. Hence change all calls to functions that are intended to rerun a busy queue such that these examine all hardware queues instead of only stopped queues. Since no other functions than scsi_internal_device_block() and scsi_internal_device_unblock() should ever stop or restart a SCSI queue, change the blk_mq_delay_queue() call into a blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() call. Fixes: commit 52d7f1b5c2f3 ("blk-mq: Avoid that requeueing starts stopped queues") Fixes: commit 7e79dadce222 ("blk-mq: stop hardware queue in blk_mq_delay_queue()") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Cc: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq: Introduce blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue()Bart Van Assche
Introduce a function that runs a hardware queue unconditionally after a delay. Note: there is already a function that stops and restarts a hardware queue after a delay, namely blk_mq_delay_queue(). This function will be used in the next patch in this series. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Cc: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07block: trace completion of all bios.NeilBrown
Currently only dm and md/raid5 bios trigger trace_block_bio_complete(). Now that we have bio_chain() and bio_inc_remaining(), it is not possible, in general, for a driver to know when the bio is really complete. Only bio_endio() knows that. So move the trace_block_bio_complete() call to bio_endio(). Now trace_block_bio_complete() pairs with trace_block_bio_queue(). Any bio for which a 'queue' event is traced, will subsequently generate a 'complete' event. There are a few cases where completion tracing is not wanted. 1/ If blk_update_request() has already generated a completion trace event at the 'request' level, there is no point generating one at the bio level too. In this case the bi_sector and bi_size will have changed, so the bio level event would be wrong 2/ If the bio hasn't actually been queued yet, but is being aborted early, then a trace event could be confusing. Some filesystems call bio_endio() but do not want tracing. 3/ The bio_integrity code interposes itself by replacing bi_end_io, then restoring it and calling bio_endio() again. This would produce two identical trace events if left like that. To handle these, we introduce a flag BIO_TRACE_COMPLETION and only produce the trace event when this is set. We address point 1 above by clearing the flag in blk_update_request(). We address point 2 above by only setting the flag when generic_make_request() is called. We address point 3 above by clearing the flag after generating a completion event. When bio_split() is used on a bio, particularly in blk_queue_split(), there is an extra complication. A new bio is split off the front, and may be handle directly without going through generic_make_request(). The old bio, which has been advanced, is passed to generic_make_request(), so it will trigger a trace event a second time. Probably the best result when a split happens is to see a single 'queue' event for the whole bio, then multiple 'complete' events - one for each component. To achieve this was can: - copy the BIO_TRACE_COMPLETION flag to the new bio in bio_split() - avoid generating a 'queue' event if BIO_TRACE_COMPLETION is already set. This way, the split-off bio won't create a queue event, the original won't either even if it re-submitted to generic_make_request(), but both will produce completion events, each for their own range. So if generic_make_request() is called (which generates a QUEUED event), then bi_endio() will create a single COMPLETE event for each range that the bio is split into, unless the driver has explicitly requested it not to. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07block: simple improvements for bio->flagsNeilBrown
The comment for the 'flags' field of 'bio' mentions "command" which is no longer stored there, and doesn't mention the bvec pool number, which is. BIO_RESET_BITS is set in such a way that it would need to be updated if new bits were added, which is easy to miss. BVEC_POOL_BITS is larger than needed. The BVEC_POOL_IDX() ranges from 0 to 6, so 3 bits are sufficient. This patch make improvements in each of these areas. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq: remap queues when adding/removing hardware queuesOmar Sandoval
blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() used to remap hardware queues, which is the behavior that drivers expect. However, commit 4e68a011428a changed blk_mq_queue_reinit() to not remap queues for the case of CPU hotplugging, inadvertently making blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() not remap queues as well. This breaks, for example, NBD's multi-connection mode, leaving the added hardware queues unused. Fix it by making blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() explicitly remap the queues. Fixes: 4e68a011428a ("blk-mq: don't redistribute hardware queues on a CPU hotplug event") Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq-sched: fix crash in switch error pathOmar Sandoval
In elevator_switch(), if blk_mq_init_sched() fails, we attempt to fall back to the original scheduler. However, at this point, we've already torn down the original scheduler's tags, so this causes a crash. Doing the fallback like the legacy elevator path is much harder for mq, so fix it by just falling back to none, instead. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq-sched: set up scheduler tags when bringing up new queuesOmar Sandoval
If a new hardware queue is added at runtime, we don't allocate scheduler tags for it, leading to a crash. This hooks up the scheduler framework to blk_mq_{init,exit}_hctx() to make sure everything gets properly initialized/freed. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq-sched: refactor scheduler initializationOmar Sandoval
Preparation cleanup for the next couple of fixes, push blk_mq_sched_setup() and e->ops.mq.init_sched() into a helper. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-07blk-mq: use the right hctx when getting a driver tag failsOmar Sandoval
While dispatching requests, if we fail to get a driver tag, we mark the hardware queue as waiting for a tag and put the requests on a hctx->dispatch list to be run later when a driver tag is freed. However, blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() may dispatch requests from multiple hardware queues if using a single-queue scheduler with a multiqueue device. If blk_mq_get_driver_tag() fails, it doesn't update the hardware queue we are processing. This means we end up using the hardware queue of the previous request, which may or may not be the same as that of the current request. If it isn't, the wrong hardware queue will end up waiting for a tag, and the requests will be on the wrong dispatch list, leading to a hang. The fix is twofold: 1. Make sure we save which hardware queue we were trying to get a request for in blk_mq_get_driver_tag() regardless of whether it succeeds or not. 2. Make blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() take a request_queue instead of a blk_mq_hw_queue to make it clear that it must handle multiple hardware queues, since I've already messed this up on a couple of occasions. This didn't appear in testing with nvme and mq-deadline because nvme has more driver tags than the default number of scheduler tags. However, with the blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() fix, it showed up with nbd. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-05block: move timeout field in struct request to pack betterJens Axboe
After commit 64c7f1d1572c, we went from 1 to 2 holes in my test setup. If we move the timeout field a bit, we remove both of those holes and shrink struct request by 8 bytes. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-05block, scsi: move the retries field to struct scsi_requestChristoph Hellwig
Instead of bloating the generic struct request with it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-05nvme: move the retries count to struct nvme_requestChristoph Hellwig
The way NVMe uses this field is entirely different from the older SCSI/BLOCK_PC usage, so move it into struct nvme_request. Also reduce the size of the file to a unsigned char so that we leave space for additional smaller fields that will appear soon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-05nvme: mark nvme_max_retries staticChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-05nvme: cleanup nvme_req_needs_retryChristoph Hellwig
Don't pass the status explicitly but derive it from the requeust, and unwind the complex condition to be more readable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-05nvme: move ->retries setup to nvme_setup_cmdChristoph Hellwig
->retries is counting the number of times a command is resubmitted, and be cleared on the first time we see the command. We currently don't do that for non-PCIe command, which is easily fixed by moving the setup to common code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-05remove the obsolete hd driverChristoph Hellwig
This driver is for pre-IDE hardisk that are only found in PC from the stoneage of personal computing, and which we don't support elsewhere in the kernel these days. It's also been marked broken forever. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-05blk-mq: Remove blk_mq_queue_data.listBart Van Assche
The block layer core sets blk_mq_queue_data.list but no block drivers read that member. Hence remove it and also the code that is used to set this member. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-05cfq: Disable writeback throttling by defaultJan Kara
Writeback throttling does not play well with CFQ since that also tries to throttle async writes. As a result async writeback can get starved in presence of readers. As an example take a benchmark simulating postgreSQL database running over a standard rotating SATA drive. There are 16 processes doing random reads from a huge file (2*machine memory), 1 process doing random writes to the huge file and calling fsync once per 50000 writes and 1 process doing sequential 8k writes to a relatively small file wrapping around at the end of the file and calling fsync every 5 writes. Under this load read latency easily exceeds the target latency of 75 ms (just because there are so many reads happening against a relatively slow disk) and thus writeback is throttled to a point where only 1 write request is allowed at a time. Blktrace data then looks like: 8,0 1 0 8.347751764 0 m N cfq workload slice:40000000 8,0 1 0 8.347755256 0 m N cfq293A / set_active wl_class: 0 wl_type:0 8,0 1 0 8.347784100 0 m N cfq293A / Not idling. st->count:1 8,0 1 3814 8.347763916 5839 UT N [kworker/u9:2] 1 8,0 0 0 8.347777605 0 m N cfq293A / Not idling. st->count:1 8,0 1 0 8.347784100 0 m N cfq293A / Not idling. st->count:1 8,0 3 1596 8.354364057 0 C R 156109528 + 8 (6906954) [0] 8,0 3 0 8.354383193 0 m N cfq6196SN / complete rqnoidle 0 8,0 3 0 8.354386476 0 m N cfq schedule dispatch 8,0 3 0 8.354399397 0 m N cfq293A / Not idling. st->count:1 8,0 3 0 8.354404705 0 m N cfq293A / dispatch_insert 8,0 3 0 8.354409454 0 m N cfq293A / dispatched a request 8,0 3 0 8.354412527 0 m N cfq293A / activate rq, drv=1 8,0 3 1597 8.354414692 0 D W 145961400 + 24 (6718452) [swapper/0] 8,0 3 0 8.354484184 0 m N cfq293A / Not idling. st->count:1 8,0 3 0 8.354487536 0 m N cfq293A / slice expired t=0 8,0 3 0 8.354498013 0 m N / served: vt=5888102466265088 min_vt=5888074869387264 8,0 3 0 8.354502692 0 m N cfq293A / sl_used=6737519 disp=1 charge=6737519 iops=0 sect=24 8,0 3 0 8.354505695 0 m N cfq293A / del_from_rr ... 8,0 0 1810 8.354728768 0 C W 145961400 + 24 (314076) [0] 8,0 0 0 8.354746927 0 m N cfq293A / complete rqnoidle 0 ... 8,0 1 3829 8.389886102 5839 G W 145962968 + 24 [kworker/u9:2] 8,0 1 3830 8.389888127 5839 P N [kworker/u9:2] 8,0 1 3831 8.389908102 5839 A W 145978336 + 24 <- (8,4) 44000 8,0 1 3832 8.389910477 5839 Q W 145978336 + 24 [kworker/u9:2] 8,0 1 3833 8.389914248 5839 I W 145962968 + 24 (28146) [kworker/u9:2] 8,0 1 0 8.389919137 0 m N cfq293A / insert_request 8,0 1 0 8.389924305 0 m N cfq293A / add_to_rr 8,0 1 3834 8.389933175 5839 UT N [kworker/u9:2] 1 ... 8,0 0 0 9.455290997 0 m N cfq workload slice:40000000 8,0 0 0 9.455294769 0 m N cfq293A / set_active wl_class:0 wl_type:0 8,0 0 0 9.455303499 0 m N cfq293A / fifo=ffff880003166090 8,0 0 0 9.455306851 0 m N cfq293A / dispatch_insert 8,0 0 0 9.455311251 0 m N cfq293A / dispatched a request 8,0 0 0 9.455314324 0 m N cfq293A / activate rq, drv=1 8,0 0 2043 9.455316210 6204 D W 145962968 + 24 (1065401962) [pgioperf] 8,0 0 0 9.455392407 0 m N cfq293A / Not idling. st->count:1 8,0 0 0 9.455395969 0 m N cfq293A / slice expired t=0 8,0 0 0 9.455404210 0 m N / served: vt=5888958194597888 min_vt=5888941810597888 8,0 0 0 9.455410077 0 m N cfq293A / sl_used=4000000 disp=1 charge=4000000 iops=0 sect=24 8,0 0 0 9.455416851 0 m N cfq293A / del_from_rr ... 8,0 0 2045 9.455648515 0 C W 145962968 + 24 (332305) [0] 8,0 0 0 9.455668350 0 m N cfq293A / complete rqnoidle 0 ... 8,0 1 4371 9.455710115 5839 G W 145978336 + 24 [kworker/u9:2] 8,0 1 4372 9.455712350 5839 P N [kworker/u9:2] 8,0 1 4373 9.455730159 5839 A W 145986616 + 24 <- (8,4) 52280 8,0 1 4374 9.455732674 5839 Q W 145986616 + 24 [kworker/u9:2] 8,0 1 4375 9.455737563 5839 I W 145978336 + 24 (27448) [kworker/u9:2] 8,0 1 0 9.455742871 0 m N cfq293A / insert_request 8,0 1 0 9.455747550 0 m N cfq293A / add_to_rr 8,0 1 4376 9.455756629 5839 UT N [kworker/u9:2] 1 So we can see a Q event for a write request, then IO is blocked by writeback throttling and G and I events for the request happen only once other writeback IO is completed. Thus CFQ always sees only one write request. When it sees it, it queues the async queue behind all the read queues and the async queue gets scheduled after about one second. When it is scheduled, that one request gets dispatched and async queue is expired as it has no more requests to submit. Overall we submit about one write request per second. Although this scheduling is beneficial for read latency, writes are heavily starved and this causes large delays all over the system (due to processes blocking on page lock, transaction starts, etc.). When writeback throttling is disabled, write throughput is about one fifth of a read throughput which roughly matches readers/writers ratio and overall the system stalls are much shorter. Mixing writeback throttling logic with CFQ throttling logic is always a recipe for surprises as CFQ assumes it sees the big part of the picture which is not necessarily true when writeback throttling is blocking requests. So disable writeback throttling logic by default when CFQ is used as an IO scheduler. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-04block: fix inheriting request priority from bioAdam Manzanares
In 4.10 I introduced a patch that associates the ioc priority with each request in the block layer. This work was done in the single queue block layer code. This patch unifies ioc priority to request mapping across the single/multi queue block layers. I have tested this patch with the null block device driver with the following parameters. null_blk queue_mode=2 irqmode=0 use_per_node_hctx=1 nr_devices=1 I have not seen a performance regression with this patch and I would appreciate any feedback or additional testing. I have also verified that io priorities are passed to the device when using the SQ and MQ path to a SATA HDD that supports io priorities. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Adam Manzanares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-04nvme: factor request completion code into a common helperChristoph Hellwig
This avoids duplicating the logic four times, and it also allows to keep some helpers static in core.c or just opencode them. Note that this loses printing the aborted status on completions in the PCI driver as that uses a data structure not available any more. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-04nvme-fc: drop ctrl for all command completionsChristoph Hellwig
A requeue means we go through nvme_fc_start_fcp_op again and get another controller reference. To make sure the refcount doesn't leak we also need to drop it for every completion that came from the LLDD. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-04nvme-fc: increment request retries counter before requeuingSagi Grimberg
This way our max retry limit holds as well. Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>