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Author SHA1 Message Date
Vivek Goyal
25fb5169d4 blkio: Dynamic cfq group creation based on cgroup tasks belongs to
o Determine the cgroup IO submitting task belongs to and create the cfq
  group if it does not exist already.

o Also link cfqq and associated cfq group.

o Currently all async IO is mapped to root group.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:52 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
dae739ebc4 blkio: Group time used accounting and workload context save restore
o This patch introduces the functionality to do the accounting of group time
  when a queue expires. This time used decides which is the group to go
  next.

o Also introduce the functionlity to save and restore the workload type
  context with-in group. It might happen that once we expire the cfq queue
  and group, a different group will schedule in and we will lose the context
  of the workload type. Hence save and restore it upon queue expiry.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:52 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
58ff82f34c blkio: Implement per cfq group latency target and busy queue avg
o So far we had 300ms soft target latency system wide. Now with the
  introduction of cfq groups, divide that latency by number of groups so
  that one can come up with group target latency which will be helpful
  in determining the workload slice with-in group and also the dynamic
  slice length of the cfq queue.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:52 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
25bc6b0776 blkio: Introduce per cfq group weights and vdisktime calculations
o Bring in the per cfq group weight and how vdisktime is calculated for the
  group. Also bring in the functionality of updating the min_vdisktime of
  the group service tree.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:52 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
31e4c28d95 blkio: Introduce blkio controller cgroup interface
o This is basic implementation of blkio controller cgroup interface. This is
  the common interface visible to user space and should be used by different
  IO control policies as we implement those.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:51 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
1fa8f6d68b blkio: Introduce the root service tree for cfq groups
o So far we just had one cfq_group in cfq_data. To create space for more than
  one cfq_group, we need to have a service tree of groups where all the groups
  can be queued if they have active cfq queues backlogged in these.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:51 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
f04a642463 blkio: Keep queue on service tree until we expire it
o Currently cfqq deletes a queue from service tree if it is empty (even if
  we might idle on the queue). This patch keeps the queue on service tree
  hence associated group remains on the service tree until we decide that
  we are not going to idle on the queue and expire it.

o This just helps in time accounting for queue/group and in implementation
  of rest of the patches.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:51 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
615f0259e6 blkio: Implement macro to traverse each service tree in group
o Implement a macro to traverse each service tree in the group. This avoids
  usage of double for loop and special condition for idle tree 4 times.

o Macro is little twisted because of special handling of idle class service
  tree.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:51 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
cdb16e8f73 blkio: Introduce the notion of cfq groups
o This patch introduce the notion of cfq groups. Soon we will can have multiple
  groups of different weights in the system.

o Various service trees (prioclass and workload type trees), will become per
  cfq group. So hierarchy looks as follows.

			cfq_groups
			   |
			workload type
			   |
		        cfq queue

o When an scheduling decision has to be taken, first we select the cfq group
  then workload with-in the group and then cfq queue with-in the workload
  type.

o This patch just makes various workload service tree per cfq group and
  introduce the function to be able to choose a group for scheduling.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:51 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
bf79193710 blkio: Set must_dispatch only if we decided to not dispatch the request
o must_dispatch flag should be set only if we decided not to run the queue
  and dispatch the request.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:51 +01:00
Shaohua Li
474b18ccc2 cfq-iosched: no dispatch limit for single queue
Since commit 2f5cb7381b, each queue can send
up to 4 * 4 requests if only one queue exists. I wonder why we have such limit.
Device supports tag can send more requests. For example, AHCI can send 31
requests. Test (direct aio randread) shows the limits reduce about 4% disk
thoughput.
On the other hand, since we send one request one time, if other queue
pop when current is sending more than cfq_quantum requests, current queue will
stop send requests soon after one request, so sounds there is no big latency.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 12:58:05 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
98262f2762 block: Allow devices to indicate whether discarded blocks are zeroed
The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device
prior to putting metadata down.  However, not all devices return zeroed
blocks after a discard.  Some drives return stale data, potentially
containing old superblocks.  It is therefore important to know whether
discarded blocks are properly zeroed.

Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether
zeroes are returned after a discard operation.  Implement a block level
interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and
queried via a new block device ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 09:24:48 +01:00
Jens Axboe
464191c65b Revert "cfq: Make use of service count to estimate the rb_key offset"
This reverts commit 3586e917f2.

Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> correctly points out, that we need
consistency of rb_key offset across groups. This means we cannot properly
use the per-service_tree service count. Revert this change.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-30 09:38:13 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
8e550632cc cfq-iosched: fix corner cases in idling logic
Idling logic was disabled in some corner cases, leading to unfair share
 for noidle queues.
 * the idle timer was not armed if there were other requests in the
   driver. unfortunately, those requests could come from other workloads,
   or queues for which we don't enable idling. So we will check only
   pending requests from the active queue
 * rq_noidle check on no-idle queue could disable the end of tree idle if
   the last completed request was rq_noidle. Now, we will disable that
   idle only if all the queues served in the no-idle tree had rq_noidle
   requests.

Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-26 10:39:31 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
76280aff1c cfq-iosched: idling on deep seeky sync queues
Seeky sync queues with large depth can gain unfairly big share of disk
 time, at the expense of other seeky queues. This patch ensures that
 idling will be enabled for queues with I/O depth at least 4, and small
 think time. The decision to enable idling is sticky, until an idle
 window times out without seeing a new request.

The reasoning behind the decision is that, if an application is using
large I/O depth, it is already optimized to make full utilization of
the hardware, and therefore we reserve a slice of exclusive use for it.

Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-26 10:39:31 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
e4a229196a cfq-iosched: fix no-idle preemption logic
An incoming no-idle queue should preempt the active no-idle queue
 only if the active queue is idling due to service tree empty.
 Previous code was buggy in two ways:
 * it relied on service_tree field to be set on the active queue, while
   it is not set when the code is idling for a new request
 * it didn't check for the service tree empty condition, so could lead to
   LIFO behaviour if multiple queues with depth > 1 were preempting each
   other on an non-NCQ device.

Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-26 10:39:31 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
e459dd08f4 cfq-iosched: fix ncq detection code
CFQ's detection of queueing devices initially assumes a queuing device
and detects if the queue depth reaches a certain threshold.
However, it will reconsider this choice periodically.

Unfortunately, if device is considered not queuing, CFQ will force a
unit queue depth for some workloads, thus defeating the detection logic.
This leads to poor performance on queuing hardware,
since the idle window remains enabled.

Given this premise, switching to hw_tag = 0 after we have proved at
least once that the device is NCQ capable is not a good choice.

The new detection code starts in an indeterminate state, in which CFQ behaves
as if hw_tag = 1, and then, if for a long observation period we never saw
large depth, we switch to hw_tag = 0, otherwise we stick to hw_tag = 1,
without reconsidering it again.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-26 10:02:57 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
c16632bab1 cfq-iosched: cleanup unreachable code
cfq_should_idle returns false for no-idle queues that are not the last,
so the control flow will never reach the removed code in a state that
satisfies the if condition.
The unreachable code was added to emulate previous cfq behaviour for
non-NCQ rotational devices. My tests show that even without it, the
performances and fairness are comparable with previous cfq, thanks to
the fact that all seeky queues are grouped together, and that we idle at
the end of the tree.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-26 09:46:46 +01:00
Ilya Loginov
2d4dc890b5 block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages
Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.

The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.

See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-26 09:16:19 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng
3586e917f2 cfq: Make use of service count to estimate the rb_key offset
For the moment, different workload cfq queues are put into different
service trees. But CFQ still uses "busy_queues" to estimate rb_key
offset when inserting a cfq queue into a service tree. I think this
isn't appropriate, and it should make use of service tree count to do
this estimation. This patch is for for-2.6.33 branch.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-26 09:14:11 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
ad5ebd2fa2 block: jiffies fixes
Use HZ-independent calculation of milliseconds.
Add jiffies.h where it was missing since functions or macros
from it are used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-11 13:47:45 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
86b3728141 block: Expose discard granularity
While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often
have allocation blocks that are bigger.  Allow the discard granularity
and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to
handle them.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-10 11:50:21 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
cf7c25cf91 cfq-iosched: fix next_rq computation
Cfq has a bug in computation of next_rq, that affects transition
between multiple sequential request streams in a single queue
(e.g.: two sequential buffered writers of the same priority),
causing the alternation between the two streams for a transient period.

  8,0    1    18737     0.260400660  5312  D   W 141653311 + 256
  8,0    1    20839     0.273239461  5400  D   W 141653567 + 256
  8,0    1    20841     0.276343885  5394  D   W 142803919 + 256
  8,0    1    20843     0.279490878  5394  D   W 141668927 + 256
  8,0    1    20845     0.292459993  5400  D   W 142804175 + 256
  8,0    1    20847     0.295537247  5400  D   W 141668671 + 256
  8,0    1    20849     0.298656337  5400  D   W 142804431 + 256
  8,0    1    20851     0.311481148  5394  D   W 141668415 + 256
  8,0    1    20853     0.314421305  5394  D   W 142804687 + 256
  8,0    1    20855     0.318960112  5400  D   W 142804943 + 256

The fix makes sure that the next_rq is computed from the last
dispatched request, and not affected by merging.

  8,0    1    37776     4.305161306     0  D   W 141738087 + 256
  8,0    1    37778     4.308298091     0  D   W 141738343 + 256
  8,0    1    37780     4.312885190     0  D   W 141738599 + 256
  8,0    1    37782     4.315933291     0  D   W 141738855 + 256
  8,0    1    37784     4.319064459     0  D   W 141739111 + 256
  8,0    1    37786     4.331918431  5672  D   W 142803007 + 256
  8,0    1    37788     4.334930332  5672  D   W 142803263 + 256
  8,0    1    37790     4.337902723  5672  D   W 142803519 + 256
  8,0    1    37792     4.342359774  5672  D   W 142803775 + 256
  8,0    1    37794     4.345318286     0  D   W 142804031 + 256

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-08 17:16:46 +01:00
H Hartley Sweeten
476d42f138 block/scsi_ioctl.c: quiet sparse noise
Quiet sparse noise about symbol's not being declared.

Symbol blk_default_cmd_filter is only used locally and should be static.

The function blk_scsi_ioctl_init() is a fs_initcall and should also be
static.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-04 09:10:33 +01:00
Jens Axboe
e00ef79971 cfq-iosched: get rid of the coop_preempt flag
We need to rework this logic post the cooperating cfq_queue merging,
for now just get rid of it and Jeff Moyer will fix the fall out.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-04 08:54:55 +01:00
Jens Axboe
125c4f221a cfq-iosched: fix merge error
We ended up with testing the same condition twice, pretty
pointless. Remove that first if.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-03 21:25:45 +01:00
Jens Axboe
2058297d2d Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-2.6.33
Conflicts:
	block/cfq-iosched.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-03 21:14:39 +01:00
Jens Axboe
150e6c67f4 Merge branch 'cfq-2.6.33' into for-2.6.33 2009-11-03 21:12:10 +01:00
Shaohua Li
4b27e1bb44 cfq-iosched: limit coop preemption
CFQ has an optimization for cooperated applications. if several
io-context have close requests, they will get boost. But the
optimization get abused. Considering thread a, b, which work on one
file. a reads sectors s, s+2, s+4, ...; b reads sectors s+1, s+3, s
+5, ... Both a and b are sequential read, so they can open idle window.
a reads a sector s and goes to idle window and wakeup b. b reads sector
s+1, since in current implementation, cfq_should_preempt() thinks a and
b are cooperators, b will preempt a. b then reads sector s+1 and goes to
idle window and wakeup a. for the same reason, a will preempt b and
reads s+2. a and b will continue the circle. The circle will be very
long, and a and b will occupy whole disk queue. Other applications will
nearly have no chance to run.

Fix this limiting coop preempt until a queue is scheduled normally
again.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-03 20:25:02 +01:00
Jens Axboe
e6ec4fe245 cfq-iosched: fix bad return value cfq_should_preempt()
Commit a6151c3a5c inadvertently reversed
a preempt condition check, potentially causing a performance regression.
Make the meta check correct again.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-03 20:21:35 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
dddb74519a cfq-iosched: simplify prio-unboost code
Eliminate redundant checks.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-02 10:40:37 +01:00
Jens Axboe
5869619cb5 cfq-iosched: fix style issue in cfq_get_avg_queues()
Line breaks and bad brace placement.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-28 09:27:07 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
718eee0579 cfq-iosched: fairness for sync no-idle queues
Currently no-idle queues in cfq are not serviced fairly:
even if they can only dispatch a small number of requests at a time,
they have to compete with idling queues to be serviced, experiencing
large latencies.

We should notice, instead, that no-idle queues are the ones that would
benefit most from having low latency, in fact they are any of:
* processes with large think times (e.g. interactive ones like file
  managers)
* seeky (e.g. programs faulting in their code at startup)
* or marked as no-idle from upper levels, to improve latencies of those
  requests.

This patch improves the fairness and latency for those queues, by:
* separating sync idle, sync no-idle and async queues in separate
  service_trees, for each priority
* service all no-idle queues together
* and idling when the last no-idle queue has been serviced, to
  anticipate for more no-idle work
* the timeslices allotted for idle and no-idle service_trees are
  computed proportionally to the number of processes in each set.

Servicing all no-idle queues together should have a performance boost
for NCQ-capable drives, without compromising fairness.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-28 09:23:26 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
a6d44e982d cfq-iosched: enable idling for last queue on priority class
cfq can disable idling for queues in various circumstances.
When workloads of different priorities are competing, if the higher
priority queue has idling disabled, lower priority queues may steal
its disk share. For example, in a scenario with an RT process
performing seeky reads vs a BE process performing sequential reads,
on an NCQ enabled hardware, with low_latency unset,
the RT process will dispatch only the few pending requests every full
slice of service for the BE process.

The patch solves this issue by always performing idle on the last
queue at a given priority class > idle. If the same process, or one
that can pre-empt it (so at the same priority or higher), submits a
new request within the idle window, the lower priority queue won't
dispatch, saving the disk bandwidth for higher priority ones.

Note: this doesn't touch the non_rotational + NCQ case (no hardware
to test if this is a benefit in that case).

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-28 09:23:26 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
c0324a020e cfq-iosched: reimplement priorities using different service trees
We use different service trees for different priority classes.
This allows a simplification in the service tree insertion code, that no
longer has to consider priority while walking the tree.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-28 09:23:26 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
aa6f6a3de1 cfq-iosched: preparation to handle multiple service trees
We embed a pointer to the service tree in each queue, to handle multiple
service trees easily.
Service trees are enriched with a counter.
cfq_add_rq_rb is invoked after putting the rq in the fifo, to ensure
that all fields in rq are properly initialized.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-28 09:23:26 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
5db5d64277 cfq-iosched: adapt slice to number of processes doing I/O
When the number of processes performing I/O concurrently increases,
a fixed time slice per process will cause large latencies.

This patch, if low_latency mode is enabled,  will scale the time slice
assigned to each process according to a 300ms target latency.

In order to keep fairness among processes:
* The number of active processes is computed using a special form of
running average, that quickly follows sudden increases (to keep latency low),
and decrease slowly (to have fairness in spite of rapid decreases of this
value).

To safeguard sequential bandwidth, we impose a minimum time slice
(computed using 2*cfq_slice_idle as base, adjusted according to priority
and async-ness).

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-28 09:23:26 +01:00
Shaohua Li
1a1238a7dd cfq-iosched: improve hw_tag detection
If active queue hasn't enough requests and idle window opens, cfq will not
dispatch sufficient requests to hardware. In such situation, current code
will zero hw_tag. But this is because cfq doesn't dispatch enough requests
instead of hardware queue doesn't work. Don't zero hw_tag in such case.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-27 08:46:23 +01:00
Jeff Moyer
e6c5bc737a cfq: break apart merged cfqqs if they stop cooperating
cfq_queues are merged if they are issuing requests within the mean seek
distance of one another.  This patch detects when the coopearting stops and
breaks the queues back up.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-26 14:34:47 +01:00
Jeff Moyer
b3b6d0408c cfq: change the meaning of the cfqq_coop flag
The flag used to indicate that a cfqq was allowed to jump ahead in the
scheduling order due to submitting a request close to the queue that
just executed.  Since closely cooperating queues are now merged, the flag
holds little meaning.  Change it to indicate that multiple queues were
merged.  This will later be used to allow the breaking up of merged queues
when they are no longer cooperating.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-26 14:34:47 +01:00
Jeff Moyer
df5fe3e8e1 cfq: merge cooperating cfq_queues
When cooperating cfq_queues are detected currently, they are allowed to
skip ahead in the scheduling order.  It is much more efficient to
automatically share the cfq_queue data structure between cooperating processes.
Performance of the read-test2 benchmark (which is written to emulate the
dump(8) utility) went from 12MB/s to 90MB/s on my SATA disk.  NFS servers
with multiple nfsd threads also saw performance increases.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-26 14:34:47 +01:00
Jeff Moyer
b2c18e1e08 cfq: calculate the seek_mean per cfq_queue not per cfq_io_context
async cfq_queue's are already shared between processes within the same
priority, and forthcoming patches will change the mapping of cic to sync
cfq_queue from 1:1 to 1:N.  So, calculate the seekiness of a process
based on the cfq_queue instead of the cfq_io_context.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-26 14:34:46 +01:00
Mark McLoughlin
6cafb12dc8 block: silently error unsupported empty barriers too
With 2.6.32-rc5 in a KVM guest using dm and virtio_blk, we see the
following errors:

  end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0
  end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0

The errors go away if dm stops submitting empty barriers, by reverting:

  commit 52b1fd5a27
  Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    dm: send empty barriers to targets in dm_flush

We should silently error all barriers, even empty barriers, on devices
like virtio_blk which don't support them.

See also:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/514901

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-24 14:14:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe
c30f33437c Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-2.6.33 2009-10-13 12:29:45 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
c7ebf0657b blk-settings: fix function parameter kernel-doc notation
Fix kernel-doc notation in blk-settings.c::blk_queue_max_discard_sectors().

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-12 08:20:47 +02:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
8c27959858 elv_iosched_store(): fix strstrip() misuse
elv_iosched_store() ignore the return value of strstrip().  It makes small
inconsistent behavior.

This patch fixes it.

 <before>
 ====================================
 # cd /sys/block/{blockdev}/queue

 case1:
 # echo "anticipatory" > scheduler
 # cat scheduler
 noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq

 case2:
 # echo "anticipatory " > scheduler
 # cat scheduler
 noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq

 case3:
 # echo " anticipatory" > scheduler
 bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

 <after>
 ====================================
 # cd /sys/block/{blockdev}/queue

 case1:
 # echo "anticipatory" > scheduler
 # cat scheduler
 noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq

 case2:
 # echo "anticipatory " > scheduler
 # cat scheduler
 noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq

 case3:
 # echo " anticipatory" > scheduler
 noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq

Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-09 08:48:08 +02:00
Corrado Zoccolo
355b659c87 cfq-iosched: avoid probable slice overrun when idling
If the average think time is larger than the remaining time slice
for any given queue, don't allow it to idle. A succesful idle also
means that we need to dispatch and complete a request, so if we don't
even have time left for the idle process, we would overrun the slice
in any case.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-08 08:43:32 +02:00
Jens Axboe
a6151c3a5c cfq-iosched: apply bool value where we return 0/1
Saves 16 bytes of text, woohoo. But the more important point is
that it makes the code more readable when returning bool for 0/1
cases.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-07 20:02:57 +02:00
Corrado Zoccolo
ec60e4f674 cfq-iosched: fix think time allowed for seekers
CFQ enables idle only for processes that think less than the allowed
idle time. Since idle time is lower for seeky queues, we should use the
correct value in the comparison.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-07 19:51:54 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b9c8946b19 cfq-iosched: fix the slice residual sign
We should subtract the slice residual from the rb tree key, since
a negative residual count indicates that the cfqq overran its slice
the last time. Hence we want to add the overrun time, to position
it a bit further away in the service tree.

Reported-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-06 21:09:32 +02:00
Jens Axboe
0b182d617e cfq-iosched: abstract out the 'may this cfqq dispatch' logic
Makes the whole thing easier to read, cfq_dispatch_requests() was
a bit messy before.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-06 20:49:37 +02:00
Jens Axboe
1b59dd511b block: use proper BLK_RW_ASYNC in blk_queue_start_tag()
Makes it easier to read than the 0.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-06 20:19:02 +02:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
316d315bff block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2
Commit a9327cac44 added seperate read
and write statistics of in_flight requests. And exported the number
of read and write requests in progress seperately through sysfs.

But  Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> reported getting strange
output from "iostat -kx 2". Global values for service time and
utilization were garbage. For interval values, utilization was always
100%, and service time is higher than normal.

So this was reverted by commit 0f78ab9899

The problem was in part_round_stats_single(), I missed the following:
        if (now == part->stamp)
                return;

-       if (part->in_flight) {
+       if (part_in_flight(part)) {
                __part_stat_add(cpu, part, time_in_queue,
                                part_in_flight(part) * (now - part->stamp));
                __part_stat_add(cpu, part, io_ticks, (now - part->stamp));

With this chunk included, the reported regression gets fixed.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>

--
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-06 20:16:55 +02:00
Jens Axboe
23e018a1b0 block: get rid of kblock_schedule_delayed_work()
It was briefly introduced to allow CFQ to to delayed scheduling,
but we ended up removing that feature again. So lets kill the
function and export, and just switch CFQ back to the normal work
schedule since it is now passing in a '0' delay from all call
sites.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-05 11:03:58 +02:00
Corrado Zoccolo
48e025e63a cfq-iosched: fix possible problem with jiffies wraparound
The RR service tree is indexed by a key that is relative to current jiffies.
This can cause problems on jiffies wraparound.

The patch fixes it using time_before comparison, and changing
the add_front path to use a relative number, too.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-05 11:03:55 +02:00
Jens Axboe
30996f40bf cfq-iosched: fix issue with rq-rq merging and fifo list ordering
cfq uses rq->start_time as the fifo indicator, but that field may
get modified prior to cfq doing it's fifo list adjustment when
a request gets merged with another request. This can cause the
fifo list to become unordered.

Reported-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-05 11:03:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe
5d13379a4d Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.33 2009-10-05 09:30:10 +02:00
Jens Axboe
0f78ab9899 Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests"
This reverts commit a9327cac44.

Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> reports:

"with 2.6.32-rc1 I started getting the following strange output from
"iostat -kx 2":
Linux 2.6.31bisect (et2) 	04/10/2009 	_i686_	(2 CPU)

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
          10,70    0,00    3,16   15,75    0,00   70,38

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda              18,22     0,00    0,67    0,01    14,77     0,02
43,94     0,01   10,53 39043915,03 2629219,87
sdb              60,89     9,68   50,79    3,04  1724,43    50,52
65,95     0,70   13,06 488437,47 2629219,87

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           2,72    0,00    0,74    0,00    0,00   96,53

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           6,68    0,00    0,99    0,00    0,00   92,33

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           4,40    0,00    0,73    1,47    0,00   93,40

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     4,00    0,00    3,00     0,00    28,00
18,67     0,06   19,50 333,33 100,00

Global values for service time and utilization are garbage. For
interval values, utilization is always 100%, and service time is
higher than normal.

I bisected it down to:
[a9327cac44] Seperate read and write
statistics of in_flight requests
and verified that reverting just that commit indeed solves the issue
on 2.6.32-rc1."

So until this is debugged, revert the bad commit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-04 21:04:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe
e00c54c36a cfq-iosched: don't delay async queue if it hasn't dispatched at all
We cannot delay for the first dispatch of the async queue if it
hasn't dispatched at all, since that could present a local user
DoS attack vector using an app that just did slow timed sync reads
while filling memory.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-04 20:36:19 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
ac481c20ef block: Topology ioctls
Not all users of the topology information want to use libblkid.  Provide
the topology information through bdev ioctls.

Also clarify sector size comments for existing BLK ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-03 20:52:01 +02:00
Jens Axboe
61f0c1dcaa cfq-iosched: use assigned slice sync value, not default
We should use the sysfs modified slice sync value, in case it differs
from the default.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-03 19:46:03 +02:00
Jens Axboe
963b72fc66 cfq-iosched: rename 'desktop' sysfs entry to 'low_latency'
Don't think that's necessarily a perfect description of what this
option fiddles with, but it's probably better than 'desktop'.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-03 19:42:18 +02:00
Jens Axboe
8e29675555 cfq-iosched: implement slower async initiate and queue ramp up
This slowly ramps up the async queue depth based on the time
passed since the sync IO, and doesn't allow async at all until
a sync slice period has passed.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-03 16:27:13 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
365722bb91 cfq-iosched: delay async IO dispatch, if sync IO was just done
o Do not allow more than max_dispatch requests from an async queue, if some
  sync request has finished recently. This is in the hope that sync activity
  is still going on in the system and we might receive a sync request soon.
  Most likely from a sync queue which finished a request and we did not enable
  idling on it.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-03 15:21:27 +02:00
Jens Axboe
08dc8726d4 block: CFQ is more than a desktop scheduler
Update Kconfig.iosched entry.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-03 09:40:47 +02:00
Jens Axboe
492af6350a block: remove the anticipatory IO scheduler
AS is mostly a subset of CFQ, so there's little point in still
providing this separate IO scheduler. Hopefully at some point we
can get down to one single IO scheduler again, at least this brings
us closer by having only one intelligent IO scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-03 09:37:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe
1d2235152d cfq-iosched: add a knob for desktop interactiveness
This is basically identical to what Vivek Goyal posted, but combined
into one and labelled 'desktop' instead of 'fairness'. The goal
is to continue to improve on the latency side of things as it relates
to interactiveness, keeping the questionable bits under this sysfs
tunable so it would be easy for throughput-only people to turn off.

Apart from adding the interactive sysfs knob, it also adds the
behavioural change of allowing slice idling even if the hardware
does tagged command queuing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-02 20:06:02 +02:00
Jun'ichi Nomura
b0da3f0dad Add a tracepoint for block request remapping
Since 2.6.31 now has request-based device-mapper, it's useful to have
a tracepoint for request-remapping as well as bio-remapping.
This patch adds a tracepoint for request-remapping, trace_block_rq_remap().

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:19:34 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
67efc92580 block: allow large discard requests
Currently we set the bio size to the byte equivalent of the blocks to
be trimmed when submitting the initial DISCARD ioctl.  That means it
is subject to the max_hw_sectors limitation of the HBA which is
much lower than the size of a DISCARD request we can support.
Add a separate max_discard_sectors tunable to limit the size for discard
requests.

We limit the max discard request size in bytes to 32bit as that is the
limit for bio->bi_size.  This could be much larger if we had a way to pass
that information through the block layer.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:19:34 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
c15227de13 block: use normal I/O path for discard requests
prepare_discard_fn() was being called in a place where memory allocation
was effectively impossible.  This makes it inappropriate for all but
the most trivial translations of Linux's DISCARD operation to the block
command set.  Additionally adding a payload there makes the ownership
of the bio backing unclear as it's now allocated by the device driver
and not the submitter as usual.

It is replaced with QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD which is used to indicate whether
the queue supports discard operations or not.  blkdev_issue_discard now
allocates a one-page, sector-length payload which is the right thing
for the common ATA and SCSI implementations.

The mtd implementation of prepare_discard_fn() is replaced with simply
checking for the request being a discard.

Largely based on a previous patch from Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
which did the prepare_discard_fn but not the different payload allocation
yet.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:19:30 +02:00
Jun'ichi Nomura
1a35e0f644 Add a tracepoint for block request remapping
Since 2.6.31 now has request-based device-mapper, it's useful to have
a tracepoint for request-remapping as well as bio-remapping.
This patch adds a tracepoint for request-remapping, trace_block_rq_remap().

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:16:13 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
ca80650cfb block: allow large discard requests
Currently we set the bio size to the byte equivalent of the blocks to
be trimmed when submitting the initial DISCARD ioctl.  That means it
is subject to the max_hw_sectors limitation of the HBA which is
much lower than the size of a DISCARD request we can support.
Add a separate max_discard_sectors tunable to limit the size for discard
requests.

We limit the max discard request size in bytes to 32bit as that is the
limit for bio->bi_size.  This could be much larger if we had a way to pass
that information through the block layer.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:15:46 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
1122a26f2a block: use normal I/O path for discard requests
prepare_discard_fn() was being called in a place where memory allocation
was effectively impossible.  This makes it inappropriate for all but
the most trivial translations of Linux's DISCARD operation to the block
command set.  Additionally adding a payload there makes the ownership
of the bio backing unclear as it's now allocated by the device driver
and not the submitter as usual.

It is replaced with QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD which is used to indicate whether
the queue supports discard operations or not.  blkdev_issue_discard now
allocates a one-page, sector-length payload which is the right thing
for the common ATA and SCSI implementations.

The mtd implementation of prepare_discard_fn() is replaced with simply
checking for the request being a discard.

Largely based on a previous patch from Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
which did the prepare_discard_fn but not the different payload allocation
yet.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-10-01 21:15:46 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
48c0d4d4c0 Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs
Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs
introduced in commit 1d54ad6da9.
Release kobject also in case the request_fn is NULL.

Problem was noticed via kmemleak backtrace when some sysfs entries were
note properly destroyed during  device removal:

unreferenced object 0xffff88001aa76640 (size 80):
  comm "lvcreate", pid 2120, jiffies 4294885144
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 65 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff  .........e......
    90 66 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff 86 1d 53 81 ff ff ff ff  .f........S.....
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff813f9cc6>] kmemleak_alloc+0x26/0x60
    [<ffffffff8111d693>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x133/0x1c0
    [<ffffffff81195891>] sysfs_new_dirent+0x41/0x120
    [<ffffffff81194b0c>] sysfs_add_file_mode+0x3c/0xb0
    [<ffffffff81197c81>] internal_create_group+0xc1/0x1a0
    [<ffffffff81197d93>] sysfs_create_group+0x13/0x20
    [<ffffffff810d8004>] blk_trace_init_sysfs+0x14/0x20
    [<ffffffff8123f45c>] blk_register_queue+0x3c/0xf0
    [<ffffffff812447e4>] add_disk+0x94/0x160
    [<ffffffffa00d8b08>] dm_create+0x598/0x6e0 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffffa00de951>] dev_create+0x51/0x350 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffffa00de823>] ctl_ioctl+0x1a3/0x240 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffffa00de8f2>] dm_compat_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffff81177bfd>] compat_sys_ioctl+0xcd/0x4f0
    [<ffffffff81036ed8>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:15:46 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
5dee2477df block: Do not clamp max_hw_sectors for stacking devices
Stacking devices do not have an inherent max_hw_sector limit.  Set the
default to INT_MAX so we are bounded only by capabilities of the
underlying storage.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:15:45 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
80ddf247c8 block: Set max_sectors correctly for stacking devices
The topology changes unintentionally caused SAFE_MAX_SECTORS to be set
for stacking devices.  Set the default limit to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS and
provide SAFE_MAX_SECTORS in blk_queue_make_request() for legacy hw
drivers that depend on the old behavior.

Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:15:45 +02:00
Kay Sievers
e454cea20b Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions
This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions
for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero,
random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows
non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no
other userspace process applies the expected permissions.

This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19 12:50:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ab86e5765d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
  Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
  debugfs: Modify default debugfs directory for debugging pktcdvd.
  debugfs: Modified default dir of debugfs for debugging UHCI.
  debugfs: Change debugfs directory of IWMC3200
  debugfs: Change debuhgfs directory of trace-events-sample.h
  debugfs: Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt
  hpilo: add poll f_op
  hpilo: add interrupt handler
  hpilo: staging for interrupt handling
  driver core: platform_device_add_data(): use kmemdup()
  Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes
  uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices
  driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/base
  mem_class: fix bug
  mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array
  driver model: constify attribute groups
  UIO: remove 'default n' from Kconfig
  Driver core: Add accessor for device platform data
  Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c
  Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing
2009-09-16 08:27:10 -07:00
David Brownell
a4dbd6740d driver model: constify attribute groups
Let attribute group vectors be declared "const".  We'd
like to let most attribute metadata live in read-only
sections... this is a start.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 09:50:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ada3fa1505 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
355bbd8cb8 Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (29 commits)
  block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard
  Make DISCARD_BARRIER and DISCARD_NOBARRIER writes instead of reads
  block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store
  block: Optimal I/O limit wrapper
  cfq: choose a new next_req when a request is dispatched
  Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
  aoe: end barrier bios with EOPNOTSUPP
  block: trace bio queueing trial only when it occurs
  block: enable rq CPU completion affinity by default
  cfq: fix the log message after dispatched a request
  block: use printk_once
  cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one()
  splice: update mtime and atime on files
  block: make blk_iopoll_prep_sched() follow normal 0/1 return convention
  cfq-iosched: get rid of must_alloc flag
  block: use interrupts disabled version of raise_softirq_irqoff()
  block: fix comment in blk-iopoll.c
  block: adjust default budget for blk-iopoll
  block: fix long lines in block/blk-iopoll.c
  block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
  ...
2009-09-14 17:55:15 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
746cd1e7e4 block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard
blk_ioctl_discard duplicates large amounts of code from blkdev_issue_discard,
the only difference between the two is that blkdev_issue_discard needs to
send a barrier discard request and blk_ioctl_discard a non-barrier one,
and blk_ioctl_discard needs to wait on the request.  To facilitates this
add a flags argument to blkdev_issue_discard to control both aspects of the
behaviour.  This will be very useful later on for using the waiting
funcitonality for other callers.

Based on an earlier patch from Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14 08:24:53 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b8a9ae779f block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store
Stacked devices do not. For now, just error out with -EINVAL. Later
we could make the limit apply on stacked devices too, for throttling
reasons.

This fixes

5a54cd13353bb3b88887604e2c980aa01e314309

and should go into 2.6.31 stable as well.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14 08:24:53 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
3c5820c743 block: Optimal I/O limit wrapper
Implement blk_limits_io_opt() and make blk_queue_io_opt() a wrapper
around it. DM needs this to avoid poking at the queue_limits directly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14 08:24:52 +02:00
Jeff Moyer
06d2188644 cfq: choose a new next_req when a request is dispatched
This patch addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13401, a
regression introduced in 2.6.30.

From the bug report:

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14 08:24:52 +02:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
a9327cac44 Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
Currently, there is a single in_flight counter measuring the number of
requests in the request_queue. But some monitoring tools would like to
know how many read requests and write requests are in progress. Split the
current in_flight counter into two seperate counters for read and write.

This information is exported as a sysfs attribute, as changing the
currently available stat files would break the existing tools.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14 08:24:52 +02:00
Minchan Kim
01edede41e block: trace bio queueing trial only when it occurs
If BIO is discarded or cross over end of device,
BIO queueing trial doesn't occur.

Actually the trace was called just before make_request at first:
[PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23
      2056a782f8e7e65fd4bfd027506b4ce1c5e9ccd4

And then 2 patches added some checks between them:
[PATCH] md: check bio address after mapping through partitions
        5ddfe9691c91a244e8d1be597b6428fcefd58103,
[BLOCK] Don't allow empty barriers to be passed down to
queues that don't grok them
        51fd77bd9f512ab6cc9df0733ba1caaab89eb957

It breaks original goal.
Let's trace it only when it happens.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:34:34 +02:00
Shan Wei
b217a903ab cfq: fix the log message after dispatched a request
The blktrace tools can show process id when cfq dispatched a request,
using cfq_log_cfqq() instead of cfq_log().

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:34:33 +02:00
Jens Axboe
1b379d8daf cfq-iosched: get rid of must_alloc flag
It's not currently used, as pointed out by
Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>. We already check the
wait_request flag to allow an idling queue priority allocation access,
so we don't need this extra flag.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:32 +02:00
Jens Axboe
a33dac26d4 block: use interrupts disabled version of raise_softirq_irqoff()
We already have interrupts disabled at that point, so use the
__raise_softirq_irqoff() variant.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:32 +02:00
Jens Axboe
fca51d64c5 block: fix comment in blk-iopoll.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:32 +02:00
Jens Axboe
37867ae7c5 block: adjust default budget for blk-iopoll
It's not exported, I doubt we'll have a reason to change this...

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe
1badcfbd7f block: fix long lines in block/blk-iopoll.c
Note sure why they happened in the first place, probably some bad
terminal setting.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe
5e605b64a1 block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
This borrows some code from NAPI and implements a polled completion
mode for block devices. The idea is the same as NAPI - instead of
doing the command completion when the irq occurs, schedule a dedicated
softirq in the hopes that we will complete more IO when the iopoll
handler is invoked. Devices have a budget of commands assigned, and will
stay in polled mode as long as they continue to consume their budget
from the iopoll softirq handler. If they do not, the device is set back
to interrupt completion mode.

This patch holds the core bits for blk-iopoll, device driver support
sold separately.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe
fb1e75389b block: improve queue_should_plug() by looking at IO depths
Instead of just checking whether this device uses block layer
tagging, we can improve the detection by looking at the maximum
queue depth it has reached. If that crosses 4, then deem it a
queuing device.

This is important on high IOPS devices, since plugging hurts
the performance there (it can be as much as 10-15% of the sys
time).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe
1f98a13f62 bio: first step in sanitizing the bio->bi_rw flag testing
Get rid of any functions that test for these bits and make callers
use bio_rw_flagged() directly. Then it is at least directly apparent
what variable and flag they check.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Hannes Reinecke
e3264a4d7d Send uevents for write_protect changes
Whenever a block device changes it's read-only attribute
notify the userspace about it.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
d58b85e1e8 cfq-iosched: no need to keep track of busy_rt_queues
o Get rid of busy_rt_queues infrastructure. Looks like it is redundant.

o Once an RT queue gets request it will preempt any of the BE or IDLE queues
  immediately. Otherwise this queue will be put on service tree and scheduler
  will anyway select this queue before any of the BE or IDLE queue. Hence
  looks like there is no need to keep track of how many busy RT queues are
  currently on service tree.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:30 +02:00
Jens Axboe
5ad531db6e cfq-iosched: drain device queue before switching to a sync queue
To lessen the impact of async IO on sync IO, let the device drain of
any async IO in progress when switching to a sync cfqq that has idling
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:30 +02:00
Tejun Heo
da6c5c720c scsi,block: update SCSI to handle mixed merge failures
Update scsi_io_completion() such that it only fails requests till the
next error boundary and retry the leftover.  This enables block layer
to merge requests with different failfast settings and still behave
correctly on errors.  Allow merge of requests of different failfast
settings.

As SCSI is currently the only subsystem which follows failfast status,
there's no need to worry about other block drivers for now.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:30 +02:00