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>
Both nr_cache and nr_tags arn't needed for bitmap tag anymore.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The selected tag should be selected at random between 0 and
(depth - 1) with probability 1/depth, instead between 0 and
(depth - 2) with probability 1/(depth - 1).
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The barrier isn't necessary because both atomic_dec_and_test()
and wake_up() implicate one barrier.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The unlock memory barrier need to order access to req in free
path and clearing tag bit, otherwise either request free path
may see a allocated request, or initialized request in allocate
path might be modified by the ongoing free path.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For best performance, spreading tags over multiple cachelines
makes the tagging more efficient on multicore systems. But since
we have 8 * sizeof(unsigned long) tags per cacheline, we don't
always get a nice spread.
Attempt to spread the tags over at least 4 cachelines, using fewer
number of bits per unsigned long if we have to. This improves
tagging performance in setups with 32-128 tags. For higher depths,
the spread is the same as before (BITS_PER_LONG tags per cacheline).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk-mq currently uses percpu_ida for tag allocation. But that only
works well if the ratio between tag space and number of CPUs is
sufficiently high. For most devices and systems, that is not the
case. The end result if that we either only utilize the tag space
partially, or we end up attempting to fully exhaust it and run
into lots of lock contention with stealing between CPUs. This is
not optimal.
This new tagging scheme is a hybrid bitmap allocator. It uses
two tricks to both be SMP friendly and allow full exhaustion
of the space:
1) We cache the last allocated (or freed) tag on a per blk-mq
software context basis. This allows us to limit the space
we have to search. The key element here is not caching it
in the shared tag structure, otherwise we end up dirtying
more shared cache lines on each allocate/free operation.
2) The tag space is split into cache line sized groups, and
each context will start off randomly in that space. Even up
to full utilization of the space, this divides the tag users
efficiently into cache line groups, avoiding dirtying the same
one both between allocators and between allocator and freeer.
This scheme shows drastically better behaviour, both on small
tag spaces but on large ones as well. It has been tested extensively
to show better performance for all the cases blk-mq cares about.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_mq_wait_for_tags() is only able to wait for "normal" tags,
not reserved tags. Pass in which one we should attempt to get
a tag for, so that waiting for reserved tags will work.
Reserved tags are used for internal commands, which are usually
serialized. Hence no waiting generally takes place, but we should
ensure that it actually works if users need that functionality.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a new blk_mq_tag_set structure that gets set up before we initialize
the queue. A single blk_mq_tag_set structure can be shared by multiple
queues.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Modular export of blk_mq_{alloc,free}_tagset added by me.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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
...
cppcheck detected following format string mismatch.
[blk-mq-tag.c:201]: (warning) %u in format string (no. 1) requires
'unsigned int' but the argument type is 'int'.
Change "cpu" from int to unsigned int, because the cpu
never become minus value.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch changes percpu_ida_alloc() + callers to accept task state
bitmask for prepare_to_wait() for code like target/iscsi that needs
it for interruptible sleep, that is provided in a subsequent patch.
It now expects TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE when the caller is able to sleep
waiting for a new tag, or TASK_RUNNING when the caller cannot sleep,
and is forced to return a negative value when no tags are available.
v2 changes:
- Include blk-mq + tcm_fc + vhost/scsi + target/iscsi changes
- Drop signal_pending_state() call
v3 changes:
- Only call prepare_to_wait() + finish_wait() when != TASK_RUNNING
(PeterZ)
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #3.12+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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>
Jens Axboe