Micro benchmarks that repeatedly issued IO to a single block were
failing to cause a promotion from the origin device to the cache. Fix
this by not updating the stats during map() if -EWOULDBLOCK will be
returned.
The mq policy will only update stats, consider migration, etc, once per
tick period (a unit of time established between dm-cache core and the
policies).
When the IO thread calls the policy's map method, if it would like to
migrate the associated block it returns -EWOULDBLOCK, the IO then gets
handed over to a worker thread which handles the migration. The worker
thread calls map again, to check the migration is still needed (avoids a
race among other things). *BUT*, before this fix, if we were still in
the same tick period the stats were already updated by the previous map
call -- so the migration would no longer be requested.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Document passthrough mode, cache shrinking, and cache invalidation.
Also, use strcasecmp() and hlist_unhashed().
Reported-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Implement policy_remove_cblock() and add remove_cblock method to the mq
policy. These methods will be used by the following cache block
invalidation patch which adds the 'invalidate_cblocks' message to the
cache core.
Also, update some comments in dm-cache-policy.h
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Rather than storing the cblock in each cache entry, we allocate all
entries in an array and infer the cblock from the entry position.
Saves 4 bytes of memory per cache block. In addition, this gives us an
easy way of looking up cache entries by cblock.
We no longer need to keep an explicit bitset to track which cblocks
have been allocated. And no searching is needed to find free cblocks.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Previously these promotions only got priority if there were unused cache
blocks. Now we give them priority if there are any clean blocks in the
cache.
The fio_soak_test in the device-mapper-test-suite now gives uniform
performance across subvolumes (~16 seconds).
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
There are now two multiqueues for in cache blocks. A clean one and a
dirty one.
writeback_work comes from the dirty one. Demotions come from the clean
one.
There are two benefits:
- Performance improvement, since demoting a clean block is a noop.
- The cache cleans itself when io load is light.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Rename takeout_queue to concat_queue.
Fix a harmless bug in mq policies pop() function. Currently pop()
always succeeds, with up coming changes this wont be the case.
Fix typo in comment above pre_cache_to_cache prototype.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
It is safe to use a mutex in mq_residency() at this point since it is
only called from ioctl context. But future-proof mq_residency() by
using might_sleep() to catch new contexts that cannot sleep.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
On sparc32, which includes <linux/swap.h> from <asm/pgtable_32.h>:
drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-mq.c:962:13: error: conflicting types for 'remove_mapping'
include/linux/swap.h:285:12: note: previous declaration of 'remove_mapping' was here
As mq_remove_mapping() already exists, and the local remove_mapping() is
used only once, inline it manually to avoid the conflict.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Separate dm cache policy version string into 3 unsigned numbers
corresponding to major, minor and patchlevel and store them at the end
of the on-disk metadata so we know which version of the policy generated
the hints in case a future version wants to use them differently.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hit
count to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
reads over writes.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
