This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).
For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device. But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.
Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The BIO issuing loop in __blkdev_issue_zeroout() is allocating BIOs
with a maximum number of bvec (pages) equal to
min(nr_sects, (sector_t)BIO_MAX_PAGES)
This works since the requested number of bvecs will always be limited
to the absolute maximum number supported (BIO_MAX_PAGES), but this is
ineficient as too many bvec entries may be requested due to the
different units being used in the min() operation (number of sectors vs
number of pages).
To fix this, introduce the helper __blkdev_sectors_to_bio_pages() to
correctly calculate the number of bvecs for zeroout BIOs as the issuing
loop progresses. The calculation is done using consistent units and
makes sure that the number of pages return is at least 1 (for cases
where the number of sectors is less that the number of sectors in
a page).
Also remove a trailing space after the bit shift in the internal loop
min() call.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can
kill this hack.
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>
Now that we have REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES implemented for all devices that
support efficient zeroing, we can remove the call to blkdev_issue_discard.
This means we only have two ways of zeroing left and can simplify the
code.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Write Same can return an error asynchronously if it turns out the
underlying SCSI device does not support Write Same, which makes a
proper fallback to other methods in __blkdev_issue_zeroout impossible.
Thus only issue a Write Same from blkdev_issue_zeroout an don't try it
at all from __blkdev_issue_zeroout as a non-invasive workaround.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Fixes: e73c23ff ("block: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout")
Tested-by: Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Discard can return -EIO asynchronously if the alignment for the request
isn't suitable for the driver, which makes a proper fallback to other
methods in __blkdev_issue_zeroout impossible. Thus only issue a sync
discard from blkdev_issue_zeroout an don't try discard at all from
__blkdev_issue_zeroout as a non-invasive workaround.
One more reason why abusing discard for zeroing must die..
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com>
Fixes: e73c23ff ("block: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of allocating a single unused biovec for discard requests, send
them down without any payload. Instead we allow the driver to add a
"special" payload using a biovec embedded into struct request (unioned
over other fields never used while in the driver), and overloading
the number of segments for this case.
This has a couple of advantages:
- we don't have to allocate the bio_vec
- the amount of special casing for discard requests in the block
layer is significantly reduced
- using this same scheme for other request types is trivial,
which will be important for implementing the new WRITE_ZEROES
op on devices where it actually requires a payload (e.g. SCSI)
- we can get rid of playing games with the request length, as
we'll never touch it and completions will work just fine
- it will allow us to support ranged discard operations in the
future by merging non-contiguous discard bios into a single
request
- last but not least it removes a lot of code
This patch is the common base for my WIP series for ranges discards and to
remove discard_zeroes_data in favor of always using REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES,
so it would be good to get it in quickly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This adds a new block layer operation to zero out a range of
LBAs. This allows to implement zeroing for devices that don't use
either discard with a predictable zero pattern or WRITE SAME of zeroes.
The prominent example of that is NVMe with the Write Zeroes command,
but in the future, this should also help with improving the way
zeroing discards work. For this operation, suitable entry is exported in
sysfs which indicate the number of maximum bytes allowed in one
write zeroes operation by the device.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Similar to __blkdev_issue_discard this variant allows submitting
the final bio asynchronously and chaining multiple ranges
into a single completion.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Now that we don't need the common flags to overflow outside the range
of a 32-bit type we can encode them the same way for both the bio and
request fields. This in addition allows us to place the operation
first (and make some room for more ops while we're at it) and to
stop having to shift around the operation values.
In addition this allows passing around only one value in the block layer
instead of two (and eventuall also in the file systems, but we can do
that later) and thus clean up a lot of code.
Last but not least this allows decreasing the size of the cmd_flags
field in struct request to 32-bits. Various functions passing this
value could also be updated, but I'd like to avoid the churn for now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Make sure that the offset and length arguments that we're using to
construct WRITE SAME and DISCARD requests are actually aligned to the
logical block size. Failure to do this causes other errors in other parts
of the block layer or the SCSI layer because disks don't support partial
logical block writes.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147518379026.22791.4437508871355153928.stgit@birch.djwong.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> # tweaked header
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
"This branch also contains core changes. I've come to the conclusion
that from 4.9 and forward, I'll be doing just a single branch. We
often have dependencies between core and drivers, and it's hard to
always split them up appropriately without pulling core into drivers
when that happens.
That said, this contains:
- separate secure erase type for the core block layer, from
Christoph.
- set of discard fixes, from Christoph.
- bio shrinking fixes from Christoph, as a followup up to the
op/flags change in the core branch.
- map and append request fixes from Christoph.
- NVMeF (NVMe over Fabrics) code from Christoph. This is pretty
exciting!
- nvme-loop fixes from Arnd.
- removal of ->driverfs_dev from Dan, after providing a
device_add_disk() helper.
- bcache fixes from Bhaktipriya and Yijing.
- cdrom subchannel read fix from Vchannaiah.
- set of lightnvm updates from Wenwei, Matias, Johannes, and Javier.
- set of drbd updates and fixes from Fabian, Lars, and Philipp.
- mg_disk error path fix from Bart.
- user notification for failed device add for loop, from Minfei.
- NVMe in general:
+ NVMe delay quirk from Guilherme.
+ SR-IOV support and command retry limits from Keith.
+ fix for memory-less NUMA node from Masayoshi.
+ use UINT_MAX for discard sectors, from Minfei.
+ cancel IO fixes from Ming.
+ don't allocate unused major, from Neil.
+ error code fixup from Dan.
+ use constants for PSDT/FUSE from James.
+ variable init fix from Jay.
+ fabrics fixes from Ming, Sagi, and Wei.
+ various fixes"
* 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (115 commits)
nvme/pci: Provide SR-IOV support
nvme: initialize variable before logical OR'ing it
block: unexport various bio mapping helpers
scsi/osd: open code blk_make_request
target: stop using blk_make_request
block: simplify and export blk_rq_append_bio
block: ensure bios return from blk_get_request are properly initialized
virtio_blk: use blk_rq_map_kern
memstick: don't allow REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests
block: shrink bio size again
block: simplify and cleanup bvec pool handling
block: get rid of bio_rw and READA
block: don't ignore -EOPNOTSUPP blkdev_issue_write_same
block: introduce BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO to fix zeroout
NVMe: don't allocate unused nvme_major
nvme: avoid crashes when node 0 is memoryless node.
nvme: Limit command retries
loop: Make user notify for adding loop device failed
nvme-loop: fix nvme-loop Kconfig dependencies
nvmet: fix return value check in nvmet_subsys_alloc()
...
Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
- the big change is the cleanup from Mike Christie, cleaning up our
uses of command types and modified flags. This is what will throw
some merge conflicts
- regression fix for the above for btrfs, from Vincent
- following up to the above, better packing of struct request from
Christoph
- a 2038 fix for blktrace from Arnd
- a few trivial/spelling fixes from Bart Van Assche
- a front merge check fix from Damien, which could cause issues on
SMR drives
- Atari partition fix from Gabriel
- convert cfq to highres timers, since jiffies isn't granular enough
for some devices these days. From Jan and Jeff
- CFQ priority boost fix idle classes, from me
- cleanup series from Ming, improving our bio/bvec iteration
- a direct issue fix for blk-mq from Omar
- fix for plug merging not involving the IO scheduler, like we do for
other types of merges. From Tahsin
- expose DAX type internally and through sysfs. From Toshi and Yigal
* 'for-4.8/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (76 commits)
block: Fix front merge check
block: do not merge requests without consulting with io scheduler
block: Fix spelling in a source code comment
block: expose QUEUE_FLAG_DAX in sysfs
block: add QUEUE_FLAG_DAX for devices to advertise their DAX support
Btrfs: fix comparison in __btrfs_map_block()
block: atari: Return early for unsupported sector size
Doc: block: Fix a typo in queue-sysfs.txt
cfq-iosched: Charge at least 1 jiffie instead of 1 ns
cfq-iosched: Fix regression in bonnie++ rewrite performance
cfq-iosched: Convert slice_resid from u64 to s64
block: Convert fifo_time from ulong to u64
blktrace: avoid using timespec
block/blk-cgroup.c: Declare local symbols static
block/bio-integrity.c: Add #include "blk.h"
block/partition-generic.c: Remove a set-but-not-used variable
block: bio: kill BIO_MAX_SIZE
cfq-iosched: temporarily boost queue priority for idle classes
block: drbd: avoid to use BIO_MAX_SIZE
block: bio: remove BIO_MAX_SECTORS
...
WRITE SAME is a data integrity operation and we can't simply ignore
errors.
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>
Currently blkdev_issue_zeroout cascades down from discards (if the driver
guarantees that discards zero data), to WRITE SAME and then to a loop
writing zeroes. Unfortunately we ignore run-time EOPNOTSUPP errors in the
block layer blkdev_issue_discard helper to work around DM volumes that
may have mixed discard support underneath.
This patch intoroduces a new BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO flag to
blkdev_issue_discard that indicates we are called for zeroing operation.
This allows both to ignore the EOPNOTSUPP hack and actually consolidating
the discard_zeroes_data check into the function.
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>
Instead of overloading the discard support with the REQ_SECURE flag.
Use the opportunity to rename the queue flag as well, and remove the
dead checks for this flag in the RAID 1 and RAID 10 drivers that don't
claim support for secure erase.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This converts the block issue discard helper and users to use
the bio_set_op_attrs accessor and only pass in the operation flags
like REQ_SEQURE.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch converts the simple bi_rw use cases in the block,
drivers, mm and fs code to set/get the bio operation using
bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op
These should be simple one or two liner cases, so I just did them
in one patch. The next patches handle the more complicated
cases in a module per patch.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This has callers of submit_bio/submit_bio_wait set the bio->bi_rw
instead of passing it in. This makes that use the same as
generic_make_request and how we set the other bio fields.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Fixed up fs/ext4/crypto.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
submit_bio_wait() gives the caller an opportunity to examine
struct bio and so expects the caller to issue the put_bio()
This fixes a memory leak reported by a few people in 4.7-rc2
kmemleak report after 9082e87bfb ("block: remove struct bio_batch")
Signed-off-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Larry Finger@lwfinger.net
Tested-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Commit 38f2525533 ("block: add __blkdev_issue_discard") incorrectly
disallowed the early return of -EOPNOTSUPP if the device doesn't support
discard (or secure discard). This early return of -EOPNOTSUPP has
always been part of blkdev_issue_discard() interface so there isn't a
good reason to break that behaviour -- especially when it can be easily
reinstated.
The nuance of allowing early return of -EOPNOTSUPP vs disallowing late
return of -EOPNOTSUPP is: if the overall device never advertised support
for discards and one is issued to the device it is beneficial to inform
the caller that discards are not supported via -EOPNOTSUPP. But if a
device advertises discard support it means that at least a subset of the
device does have discard support -- but it could be that discards issued
to some regions of a stacked device will not be supported. In that case
the late return of -EOPNOTSUPP must be disallowed.
Fixes: 38f2525533 ("block: add __blkdev_issue_discard")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This is a version of blkdev_issue_discard which doesn't wait for
the I/O to complete, but instead allows the caller to submit
the final bio and/or chain it to others.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
It can be replaced with a combination of bio_chain and submit_bio_wait.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
In commit b49a087("block: remove split code in
blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}"), discard_granularity and alignment
checks were removed. Ideally, with bio late splitting, the upper layers
shouldn't need to depend on device's limits.
Christoph reported a discard regression on the HGST Ultrastar SN100 NVMe
device when mkfs.xfs. We have not found the root cause yet.
This patch re-adds discard_granularity and alignment checks by reverting
the related changes in commit b49a087. The good thing is now we can
remove the 2G discard size cap and just use UINT_MAX to avoid bi_size
overflow.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same} can go away
now that any driver that cares does the split. We have to make
sure bio size doesn't overflow.
For discard, we set max discard sectors to (1<<31)>>9 to ensure
it doesn't overflow bi_size and hopefully it is of the proper
granularity as long as the granularity is a power of two.
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:
(1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
(2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback
The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.
So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blkdev_issue_zeroout() printed a warning if a device failed a discard or
write same request despite advertising support for these. That's fine
for SCSI since we'll disable these commands if we get an error back from
the disk saying that they are not supported. And consequently the
warning only gets printed once.
There are other types of block devices that support discard, however,
and these may return -EOPNOTSUPP for each command but leave discard
enabled in the queue limits. This will cause a warning message for every
blkdev_issue_zeroout() invocation.
Remove the offending warning messages.
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blkdev_issue_discard() will zero a given block range. This is done by
way of explicit writing, thus provisioning or allocating the blocks on
disk.
There are use cases where the desired behavior is to zero the blocks but
unprovision them if possible. The blocks must deterministically contain
zeroes when they are subsequently read back.
This patch adds a flag to blkdev_issue_zeroout() that provides this
variant. If the discard flag is set and a block device guarantees
discard_zeroes_data we will use REQ_DISCARD to clear the block range. If
the device does not support discard_zeroes_data or if the discard
request fails we will fall back to first REQ_WRITE_SAME and then a
regular REQ_WRITE.
Also update the callers of blkdev_issue_zero() to reflect the new flag
and make sb_issue_zeroout() prefer the discard approach.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
__blkdev_issue_zeroout is only used in blk-lib.c
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
When mkfs issues a full device discard and the device only
supports discards of a smallish size, we can loop in
blkdev_issue_discard() for a long time. If preempt isn't enabled,
this can turn into a softlock situation and the kernel will
start complaining.
Add an explicit cond_resched() at the end of the loop to avoid
that.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
do_div() (called by sector_div() if CONFIG_LBDAF=y) is meant for divisions
of 64-bit number by 32-bit numbers. Passing 64-bit divisor types caused
issues in the past on 32-bit platforms, cfr. commit
ea077b1b96 ("m68k: Truncate base in
do_div()").
As queue_limits.max_discard_sectors and .discard_granularity are unsigned
int, max_discard_sectors and granularity should be unsigned int.
As bdev_discard_alignment() returns int, alignment should be int.
Now 2 calls to sector_div() can be replaced by 32-bit arithmetic:
- The 64-bit modulo operation can become a 32-bit modulo operation,
- The 64-bit division and multiplication can be replaced by a 32-bit
modulo operation and a subtraction.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Using wait_for_completion() for waiting for a IO request to be executed
results in wrong iowait time accounting. For example, a system having
the only task doing write() and fdatasync() on a block device can be
reported being idle instead of iowaiting as it should because
blkdev_issue_flush() calls wait_for_completion() which in turn calls
schedule() that does not increment the iowait proc counter and thus does
not turn on iowait time accounting.
The patch makes block layer use wait_for_completion_io() instead of
wait_for_completion() where appropriate to account iowait time
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Last post of this patch appears lost, so I resend this.
Now discard merge works, add plug for blkdev_issue_discard. This will help
discard request merge especially for raid0 case. In raid0, a big discard
request is split to small requests, and if correct plug is added, such small
requests can be merged in low layer.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In MD raid case, discard granularity might not be power of 2, for example, a
4-disk raid5 has 3*chunk_size discard granularity. Correct the calculation for
such cases.
Reported-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If the device supports WRITE SAME, use that to optimize zeroing of
blocks. If the device does not support WRITE SAME or if the operation
fails, fall back to writing zeroes the old-fashioned way.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same
block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a
single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device
writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O.
This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The
blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block
drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to
efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When a disk has large discard_granularity and small max_discard_sectors,
discards are not split with optimal alignment. In the limit case of
discard_granularity == max_discard_sectors, no request could be aligned
correctly, so in fact you might end up with no discarded logical blocks
at all.
Another example that helps showing the condition in the patch is with
discard_granularity == 64, max_discard_sectors == 128. A request that is
submitted for 256 sectors 2..257 will be split in two: 2..129, 130..257.
However, only 2 aligned blocks out of 3 are included in the request;
128..191 may be left intact and not discarded. With this patch, the
first request will be truncated to ensure good alignment of what's left,
and the split will be 2..127, 128..255, 256..257. The patch will also
take into account the discard_alignment.
At most one extra request will be introduced, because the first request
will be reduced by at most granularity-1 sectors, and granularity
must be less than max_discard_sectors. Subsequent requests will run
on round_down(max_discard_sectors, granularity) sectors, as in the
current code.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mostly a preparation for the next patch.
In principle this fixes an infinite loop if max_discard_sectors < granularity,
but that really shouldn't happen.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
A '!' snuck in before the unlikely, rendering it useless.
Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Due to the recently identified overflow in read_capacity_16() it was
possible for max_discard_sectors to be zero but still have discards
enabled on the associated device's queue.
Eliminate the possibility for blkdev_issue_discard to infinitely loop.
Interestingly this issue wasn't identified until a device, whose
discard_granularity was 0 due to read_capacity_16 overflow, was consumed
by blk_stack_limits() to construct limits for a higher-level DM
multipath device. The multipath device's resulting limits never had the
discard limits stacked because blk_stack_limits() will only do so if
the bottom device's discard_granularity != 0. This resulted in the
multipath device's limits.max_discard_sectors being 0.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Currently we return -EOPNOTSUPP in blkdev_issue_discard() if any of the
bio fails due to underlying device not supporting discard request.
However, if the device is for example dm device composed of devices
which some of them support discard and some of them does not, it is ok
for some bios to fail with EOPNOTSUPP, but it does not mean that discard
is not supported at all.
This commit removes the check for bios failed with EOPNOTSUPP and change
blkdev_issue_discard() to return operation not supported if and only if
the device does not actually supports it, not just part of the device as
some bios might indicate.
This change also fixes problem with BLKDISCARD ioctl() which now works
correctly on such dm devices.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
CC: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
In blkdev_issue_zeroout() we are submitting regular WRITE bios, so we do
not need to check for -EOPNOTSUPP specifically in case of error. Also
there is no need to have label submit: because there is no way to jump
out from the while cycle without an error and we really want to exit,
rather than try again. And also remove the check for (sz == 0) since at
that point sz can never be zero.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Currently we are waiting for every submitted REQ_DISCARD bio separately,
but it can have unwanted consequences of repeatedly flushing the queue,
so we rather submit bios in batches and wait for the entire batch, hence
narrowing the window of other ios going in.
Use bio_batch_end_io() and struct bio_batch for that purpose, the same
is used by blkdev_issue_zeroout(). Also change bio_batch_end_io() so we
always set !BIO_UPTODATE in the case of error and remove the check for
bb, since we are the only user of this function and we always set this.
Remove bio_get()/bio_put() from the blkdev_issue_discard() since
bio_alloc() and bio_batch_end_io() is doing the same thing, hence it is
not needed anymore.
I have done simple dd testing with surprising results. The script I have
used is:
for i in $(seq 10); do
echo $i
dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=4k &
sleep 5
done
/usr/bin/time -f %e ./blkdiscard /dev/sdc1
Running time of BLKDISCARD on the whole device:
with patch without patch
0.95 15.58
So we can see that in this artificial test the kernel with the patch
applied is approx 16x faster in discarding the device.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
CC: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
...
Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
Christoph Hellwig