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Pull block IO fixes from Jens Axboe:
"Second round of updates and fixes for 3.14-rc2. Most of this stuff
has been queued up for a while. The notable exception is the blk-mq
changes, which are naturally a bit more in flux still.
The pull request contains:
- Two bug fixes for the new immutable vecs, causing crashes with raid
or swap. From Kent.
- Various blk-mq tweaks and fixes from Christoph. A fix for
integrity bio's from Nic.
- A few bcache fixes from Kent and Darrick Wong.
- xen-blk{front,back} fixes from David Vrabel, Matt Rushton, Nicolas
Swenson, and Roger Pau Monne.
- Fix for a vec miscount with integrity vectors from Martin.
- Minor annotations or fixes from Masanari Iida and Rashika Kheria.
- Tweak to null_blk to do more normal FIFO processing of requests
from Shlomo Pongratz.
- Elevator switching bypass fix from Tejun.
- Softlockup in blkdev_issue_discard() fix when !CONFIG_PREEMPT from
me"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits)
block: add cond_resched() to potentially long running ioctl discard loop
xen-blkback: init persistent_purge_work work_struct
blk-mq: pair blk_mq_start_request / blk_mq_requeue_request
blk-mq: dont assume rq->errors is set when returning an error from ->queue_rq
block: Fix cloning of discard/write same bios
block: Fix type mismatch in ssize_t_blk_mq_tag_sysfs_show
blk-mq: rework flush sequencing logic
null_blk: use blk_complete_request and blk_mq_complete_request
virtio_blk: use blk_mq_complete_request
blk-mq: rework I/O completions
fs: Add prototype declaration to appropriate header file include/linux/bio.h
fs: Mark function as static in fs/bio-integrity.c
block/null_blk: Fix completion processing from LIFO to FIFO
block: Explicitly handle discard/write same segments
block: Fix nr_vecs for inline integrity vectors
blk-mq: Add bio_integrity setup to blk_mq_make_request
blk-mq: initialize sg_reserved_size
blk-mq: handle dma_drain_size
blk-mq: divert __blk_put_request for MQ ops
blk-mq: support at_head inserations for blk_execute_rq
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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>
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