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* block, bfq: add full hierarchical scheduling and cgroups supportArianna Avanzini2017-04-191-6/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add complete support for full hierarchical scheduling, with a cgroups interface. Full hierarchical scheduling is implemented through the 'entity' abstraction: both bfq_queues, i.e., the internal BFQ queues associated with processes, and groups are represented in general by entities. Given the bfq_queues associated with the processes belonging to a given group, the entities representing these queues are sons of the entity representing the group. At higher levels, if a group, say G, contains other groups, then the entity representing G is the parent entity of the entities representing the groups in G. Hierarchical scheduling is performed as follows: if the timestamps of a leaf entity (i.e., of a bfq_queue) change, and such a change lets the entity become the next-to-serve entity for its parent entity, then the timestamps of the parent entity are recomputed as a function of the budget of its new next-to-serve leaf entity. If the parent entity belongs, in its turn, to a group, and its new timestamps let it become the next-to-serve for its parent entity, then the timestamps of the latter parent entity are recomputed as well, and so on. When a new bfq_queue must be set in service, the reverse path is followed: the next-to-serve highest-level entity is chosen, then its next-to-serve child entity, and so on, until the next-to-serve leaf entity is reached, and the bfq_queue that this entity represents is set in service. Writeback is accounted for on a per-group basis, i.e., for each group, the async I/O requests of the processes of the group are enqueued in a distinct bfq_queue, and the entity associated with this queue is a child of the entity associated with the group. Weights can be assigned explicitly to groups and processes through the cgroups interface, differently from what happens, for single processes, if the cgroups interface is not used (as explained in the description of the previous patch). In particular, since each node has a full scheduler, each group can be assigned its own weight. Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block, bfq: introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra schedulerPaolo Valente2017-04-192-0/+519
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We tag as v0 the version of BFQ containing only BFQ's engine plus hierarchical support. BFQ's engine is introduced by this commit, while hierarchical support is added by next commit. We use the v0 tag to distinguish this minimal version of BFQ from the versions containing also the features and the improvements added by next commits. BFQ-v0 coincides with the version of BFQ submitted a few years ago [1], apart from the introduction of preemption, described below. BFQ is a proportional-share I/O scheduler, whose general structure, plus a lot of code, are borrowed from CFQ. - Each process doing I/O on a device is associated with a weight and a (bfq_)queue. - BFQ grants exclusive access to the device, for a while, to one queue (process) at a time, and implements this service model by associating every queue with a budget, measured in number of sectors. - After a queue is granted access to the device, the budget of the queue is decremented, on each request dispatch, by the size of the request. - The in-service queue is expired, i.e., its service is suspended, only if one of the following events occurs: 1) the queue finishes its budget, 2) the queue empties, 3) a "budget timeout" fires. - The budget timeout prevents processes doing random I/O from holding the device for too long and dramatically reducing throughput. - Actually, as in CFQ, a queue associated with a process issuing sync requests may not be expired immediately when it empties. In contrast, BFQ may idle the device for a short time interval, giving the process the chance to go on being served if it issues a new request in time. Device idling typically boosts the throughput on rotational devices, if processes do synchronous and sequential I/O. In addition, under BFQ, device idling is also instrumental in guaranteeing the desired throughput fraction to processes issuing sync requests (see [2] for details). - With respect to idling for service guarantees, if several processes are competing for the device at the same time, but all processes (and groups, after the following commit) have the same weight, then BFQ guarantees the expected throughput distribution without ever idling the device. Throughput is thus as high as possible in this common scenario. - Queues are scheduled according to a variant of WF2Q+, named B-WF2Q+, and implemented using an augmented rb-tree to preserve an O(log N) overall complexity. See [2] for more details. B-WF2Q+ is also ready for hierarchical scheduling. However, for a cleaner logical breakdown, the code that enables and completes hierarchical support is provided in the next commit, which focuses exactly on this feature. - B-WF2Q+ guarantees a tight deviation with respect to an ideal, perfectly fair, and smooth service. In particular, B-WF2Q+ guarantees that each queue receives a fraction of the device throughput proportional to its weight, even if the throughput fluctuates, and regardless of: the device parameters, the current workload and the budgets assigned to the queue. - The last, budget-independence, property (although probably counterintuitive in the first place) is definitely beneficial, for the following reasons: - First, with any proportional-share scheduler, the maximum deviation with respect to an ideal service is proportional to the maximum budget (slice) assigned to queues. As a consequence, BFQ can keep this deviation tight not only because of the accurate service of B-WF2Q+, but also because BFQ *does not* need to assign a larger budget to a queue to let the queue receive a higher fraction of the device throughput. - Second, BFQ is free to choose, for every process (queue), the budget that best fits the needs of the process, or best leverages the I/O pattern of the process. In particular, BFQ updates queue budgets with a simple feedback-loop algorithm that allows a high throughput to be achieved, while still providing tight latency guarantees to time-sensitive applications. When the in-service queue expires, this algorithm computes the next budget of the queue so as to: - Let large budgets be eventually assigned to the queues associated with I/O-bound applications performing sequential I/O: in fact, the longer these applications are served once got access to the device, the higher the throughput is. - Let small budgets be eventually assigned to the queues associated with time-sensitive applications (which typically perform sporadic and short I/O), because, the smaller the budget assigned to a queue waiting for service is, the sooner B-WF2Q+ will serve that queue (Subsec 3.3 in [2]). - Weights can be assigned to processes only indirectly, through I/O priorities, and according to the relation: weight = 10 * (IOPRIO_BE_NR - ioprio). The next patch provides, instead, a cgroups interface through which weights can be assigned explicitly. - If several processes are competing for the device at the same time, but all processes and groups have the same weight, then BFQ guarantees the expected throughput distribution without ever idling the device. It uses preemption instead. Throughput is then much higher in this common scenario. - ioprio classes are served in strict priority order, i.e., lower-priority queues are not served as long as there are higher-priority queues. Among queues in the same class, the bandwidth is distributed in proportion to the weight of each queue. A very thin extra bandwidth is however guaranteed to the Idle class, to prevent it from starving. - If the strict_guarantees parameter is set (default: unset), then BFQ - always performs idling when the in-service queue becomes empty; - forces the device to serve one I/O request at a time, by dispatching a new request only if there is no outstanding request. In the presence of differentiated weights or I/O-request sizes, both the above conditions are needed to guarantee that every queue receives its allotted share of the bandwidth (see Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt for more details). Setting strict_guarantees may evidently affect throughput. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/1/234 https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/11/148 [2] P. Valente and M. Andreolini, "Improving Application Responsiveness with the BFQ Disk I/O Scheduler", Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR '12), June 2012. Slightly extended version: http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/bfq-v1-suite- results.pdf Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* blk-mq: introduce Kyber multiqueue I/O schedulerOmar Sandoval2017-04-141-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Kyber I/O scheduler is an I/O scheduler for fast devices designed to scale to multiple queues. Users configure only two knobs, the target read and synchronous write latencies, and the scheduler tunes itself to achieve that latency goal. The implementation is based on "tokens", built on top of the scalable bitmap library. Tokens serve as a mechanism for limiting requests. There are two tiers of tokens: queueing tokens and dispatch tokens. A queueing token is required to allocate a request. In fact, these tokens are actually the blk-mq internal scheduler tags, but the scheduler manages the allocation directly in order to implement its policy. Dispatch tokens are device-wide and split up into two scheduling domains: reads vs. writes. Each hardware queue dispatches batches round-robin between the scheduling domains as long as tokens are available for that domain. These tokens can be used as the mechanism to enable various policies. The policy Kyber uses is inspired by active queue management techniques for network routing, similar to blk-wbt. The scheduler monitors latencies and scales the number of dispatch tokens accordingly. Queueing tokens are used to prevent starvation of synchronous requests by asynchronous requests. Various extensions are possible, including better heuristics and ionice support. The new scheduler isn't set as the default yet. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flagChristoph Hellwig2017-04-081-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* blk-throttle: make throtl_slice tunableShaohua Li2017-03-281-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | throtl_slice is important for blk-throttling. It's called slice internally but it really is a time window blk-throttling samples data. blk-throttling will make decision based on the samplings. An example is bandwidth measurement. A cgroup's bandwidth is measured in the time interval of throtl_slice. A small throtl_slice meanse cgroups have smoother throughput but burn more CPUs. It has 100ms default value, which is not appropriate for all disks. A fast SSD can dispatch a lot of IOs in 100ms. This patch makes it tunable. Since throtl_slice isn't a time slice, the sysfs name 'throttle_sample_time' reflects its character better. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* Merge tag 'docs-4.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2017-02-221-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A slightly quieter cycle for documentation this time around. Three more DocBook template files have been converted to RST; only 21 to go. There are various build improvements and the usual array of documentation improvements and fixes" * tag 'docs-4.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (44 commits) docs / driver-api: Fix structure references in device_link.rst PM / docs: Fix structure references in device.rst Add a target to check broken external links in the Documentation Documentation: Fix linux-api list typo Documentation: DocBook/Makefile comment typo Improve sparse documentation Documentation: make Makefile.sphinx no-ops quieter Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt Documentation: input: fix path to input code definitions docs: Remove the copyright year from conf.py docs: Fix a warning in the Korean HOWTO.rst translation PM / sleep / docs: Convert PM notifiers document to reST PM / core / docs: Convert sleep states API document to reST PM / core: Update kerneldoc comments in pm.h doc-rst: Fix recursive make invocation from macros doc-rst: Delete output of failed dot-SVG conversion doc-rst: Break shell command sequences on failure Documentation/sphinx: make targets independent of Sphinx work for HAVE_SPHINX=0 doc-rst: fixed cleandoc target when used with O=dir Documentation/sphinx: prevent generation of .pyc files in the source tree ...
| * Doc: Fix double words in DocumentationMasanari Iida2017-01-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fix some double words found in Documentation. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | block: fix up io_poll documentationJeff Moyer2017-01-031-3/+3
|/ | | | | | | /sys/block/<dev>/queue/io_poll is a boolean. Fix the docs. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* blk-wbt: allow reset of default latency through sysfsJens Axboe2016-11-281-1/+3
| | | | | | | | Allow a write of '-1' to reset the default latency target for a given device. This removes knowledge of the different default settings for rotational vs non-rotational from user space. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: document the 'io_poll_delay' queue sysfs fileJens Axboe2016-11-171-0/+14
| | | | | | | This was documented in the original commit, 64f1c21e86f7, but it never made it into the proper location for queue sysfs files. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* null_blk: add usage hints for NVMYasuaki Ishimatsu2016-11-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | If CONFIG_NVM is disabled, loading null_block module with use_lightnvm=1 fails. But there are no messages and documents related to the failure. Add the appropriate error message. Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Massaged the text a bit. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: hook up writeback throttlingJens Axboe2016-11-101-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enable throttling of buffered writeback to make it a lot more smooth, and has way less impact on other system activity. Background writeback should be, by definition, background activity. The fact that we flush huge bundles of it at the time means that it potentially has heavy impacts on foreground workloads, which isn't ideal. We can't easily limit the sizes of writes that we do, since that would impact file system layout in the presence of delayed allocation. So just throttle back buffered writeback, unless someone is waiting for it. The algorithm for when to throttle takes its inspiration in the CoDel networking scheduling algorithm. Like CoDel, blk-wb monitors the minimum latencies of requests over a window of time. In that window of time, if the minimum latency of any request exceeds a given target, then a scale count is incremented and the queue depth is shrunk. The next monitoring window is shrunk accordingly. Unlike CoDel, if we hit a window that exhibits good behavior, then we simply increment the scale count and re-calculate the limits for that scale value. This prevents us from oscillating between a close-to-ideal value and max all the time, instead remaining in the windows where we get good behavior. Unlike CoDel, blk-wb allows the scale count to to negative. This happens if we primarily have writes going on. Unlike positive scale counts, this doesn't change the size of the monitoring window. When the heavy writers finish, blk-bw quickly snaps back to it's stable state of a zero scale count. The patch registers a sysfs entry, 'wb_lat_usec'. This sets the latency target to me met. It defaults to 2 msec for non-rotational storage, and 75 msec for rotational storage. Setting this value to '0' disables blk-wb. Generally, a user would not have to touch this setting. We don't enable WBT on devices that are managed with CFQ, and have a non-root block cgroup attached. If we have a proportional share setup on this particular disk, then the wbt throttling will interfere with that. We don't have a strong need for wbt for that case, since we will rely on CFQ doing that for us. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: replace REQ_NOIDLE with REQ_IDLEChristoph Hellwig2016-11-011-16/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Noidle should be the default for writes as seen by all the compounds definitions in fs.h using it. In fact only direct I/O really should be using NODILE, so turn the whole flag around to get the defaults right, which will make our life much easier especially onces the WRITE_* defines go away. This assumes all the existing "raw" users of REQ_SYNC for writes want noidle behavior, which seems to be spot on from a quick audit. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: better op and flags encodingChristoph Hellwig2016-10-281-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* block: split out request-only flags into a new namespaceChristoph Hellwig2016-10-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A lot of the REQ_* flags are only used on struct requests, and only of use to the block layer and a few drivers that dig into struct request internals. This patch adds a new req_flags_t rq_flags field to struct request for them, and thus dramatically shrinks the number of common requests. It also removes the unfortunate situation where we have to fit the fields from the same enum into 32 bits for struct bio and 64 bits for struct request. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: remove remnant refs to hardsectLinus Walleij2016-09-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit e1defc4ff0cf57aca6c5e3ff99fa503f5943c1f1 "block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size" removed the notion of "hardware sector size" from the kernel in favor of logical block size, but references remain in comments and documentation. Update the remaining sites mentioning hardsect. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* doc: update block/queue-sysfs.txt entriesJoe Lawrence2016-08-111-0/+18
| | | | | | | Add descriptions for dax, io_poll, and write_same_max_bytes files. Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opfJens Axboe2016-08-071-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Since commit 63a4cc24867d, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger, rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break at compile time instead of at runtime. No intended functional changes in this commit. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* Merge branch 'work.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds2016-07-281-2/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted cleanups and fixes. Probably the most interesting part long-term is ->d_init() - that will have a bunch of followups in (at least) ceph and lustre, but we'll need to sort the barrier-related rules before it can get used for really non-trivial stuff. Another fun thing is the merge of ->d_iput() callers (dentry_iput() and dentry_unlink_inode()) and a bunch of ->d_compare() ones (all except the one in __d_lookup_lru())" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (26 commits) fs/dcache.c: avoid soft-lockup in dput() vfs: new d_init method vfs: Update lookup_dcache() comment bdev: get rid of ->bd_inodes Remove last traces of ->sync_page new helper: d_same_name() dentry_cmp(): use lockless_dereference() instead of smp_read_barrier_depends() vfs: clean up documentation vfs: document ->d_real() vfs: merge .d_select_inode() into .d_real() unify dentry_iput() and dentry_unlink_inode() binfmt_misc: ->s_root is not going anywhere drop redundant ->owner initializations ufs: get rid of redundant checks orangefs: constify inode_operations missed comment updates from ->direct_IO() prototype change file_inode(f)->i_mapping is f->f_mapping trim fsnotify hooks a bit 9p: new helper - v9fs_parent_fid() debugfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative ...
| * Remove last traces of ->sync_pageMatthew Wilcox2016-06-301-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 7eaceaccab5f removed ->sync_page, but a few mentions of it still existed in documentation and comments, Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | Doc: block: Fix a typo in queue-sysfs.txtMasanari Iida2016-06-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fix a spelling typo found in queue-sysfs.txt. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* | block, drivers, fs: rename REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSHMike Christie2016-06-071-11/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To avoid confusion between REQ_OP_FLUSH, which is handled by request_fn drivers, and upper layers requesting the block layer perform a flush sequence along with possibly a WRITE, this patch renames REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* | block, drivers: add REQ_OP_FLUSH operationMike Christie2016-06-071-3/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | This adds a REQ_OP_FLUSH operation that is sent to request_fn based drivers by the block layer's flush code, instead of sending requests with the request->cmd_flags REQ_FLUSH bit set. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2016-05-191-0/+4
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull Documentation updates from Jon Corbet: "A bit busier this time around. The most interesting thing (IMO) this time around is some beginning infrastructural work to allow documents to be written using restructured text. Maybe someday, in a galaxy far far away, we'll be able to eliminate the DocBook dependency and have a much better integrated set of kernel docs. Someday. Beyond that, there's a new document on security hardening from Kees, the movement of some sample code over to samples/, a number of improvements to the serial docs from Geert, and the usual collection of corrections, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (55 commits) doc: self-protection: provide initial details serial: doc: Use port->state instead of info serial: doc: Always refer to tty_port->mutex Documentation: vm: Spelling s/paltform/platform/g Documentation/memcg: update kmem limit doc as codes behavior docproc: print a comment about autogeneration for rst output docproc: add support for reStructuredText format via --rst option docproc: abstract terminating lines at first space docproc: abstract docproc directive detection docproc: reduce unnecessary indentation docproc: add variables for subcommand and filename kernel-doc: use rst C domain directives and references for types kernel-doc: produce RestructuredText output kernel-doc: rewrite usage description, remove duplicated comments Doc: correct the location of sysrq.c Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes samples: v4l: from Documentation to samples directory samples: connector: from Documentation to samples directory Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes ...
| * Documentation: update missing index files in block/00-INDEXWei Fang2016-03-311-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update missing index files in block/00-INDEX. Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | block: kill blk_queue_flush()Jens Axboe2016-04-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We don't have any drivers left using it, so kill it off. Update documentation to use the newer blk_queue_write_cache(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* | block: add ability to flag write back caching on a deviceJens Axboe2016-04-121-0/+9
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Add an internal helper and flag for setting whether a queue has write back caching, or write through (or none). Add a sysfs file to show this as well, and make it changeable from user space. This will replace the (awkward) blk_queue_flush() interface that drivers currently use to inform the block layer of write cache state and capabilities. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* Merge tag 'docs-4.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2016-01-171-8/+7
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull documentation updates from Jon Corbet: "A relatively boring cycle in the docs tree. There's a few kernel-doc fixes and various document tweaks. One patch reaches out of the documentation subtree to fix a comment in init/do_mounts_rd.c. There didn't seem to be anybody more appropriate to take that one, so I accepted it" * tag 'docs-4.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (29 commits) thermal: add description for integral_cutoff unit Documentation: update libhugetlbfs site url Documentation: Explain pci=conf1,conf2 more verbosely DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt Documentation: translations: update linux cross reference link Documentation: fix typo in CodingStyle init, Documentation: Remove ramdisk_blocksize mentions Documentation-getdelays: Apply a recommendation from "checkpatch.pl" in main() Documentation: HOWTO: update versions from 3.x to 4.x Documentation: remove outdated references from translations Doc: treewide: Fix grammar "a" to "an" Documentation: cpu-hotplug: Fix sysfs mount instructions can-doc: Add hint about getting timestamps Fix CFQ I/O scheduler parameter name in documentation Documentation: arm: remove dead links from Marvell Berlin docs Documentation: HOWTO: update code cross reference link Doc: Docbook/iio: Fix typo in iio.tmpl DocBook: make index.html generation less verbose by default DocBook: Cleanup: remove an unused $(call) line DocBook: Add a help message for DOCBOOKS env var ...
| * Fix CFQ I/O scheduler parameter name in documentationLibor Pechacek2015-12-101-8/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | As seen in block/cfq-iosched.c, the parameter name is low_latency. Signed-off-by: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | null_blk: register as a LightNVM deviceMatias Bjørling2015-11-161-0/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for registering as a LightNVM device. This allows us to evaluate the performance of the LightNVM subsystem. In /drivers/Makefile, LightNVM is moved above block device drivers to make sure that the LightNVM media managers have been initialized before drivers under /drivers/block are initialized. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Fix by Jens Axboe to remove unneeded slab cache and the following memory leak. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: add an API for Persistent ReservationsChristoph Hellwig2015-10-211-0/+119
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commits adds a driver API and ioctls for controlling Persistent Reservations s/genericly/generically/ at the block layer. Persistent Reservations are supported by SCSI and NVMe and allow controlling who gets access to a device in a shared storage setup. Note that we add a pr_ops structure to struct block_device_operations instead of adding the members directly to avoid bloating all instances of devices that will never support Persistent Reservations. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized biosDongsu Park2015-08-131-1/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update block/biovecs.txt so that it includes a note on what kind of effects arbitrarily sized bios would bring to the block layer. Also fix a trivial typo, bio_iter_iovec. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net> Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: add a bi_error field to struct bioChristoph Hellwig2015-07-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* block: make /sys/block/<dev>/queue/discard_max_bytes writeableJens Axboe2015-07-171-1/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lots of devices support huge discard sizes these days. Depending on how the device handles them internally, huge discards can introduce massive latencies (hundreds of msec) on the device side. We have a sysfs file, discard_max_bytes, that advertises the max hardware supported discard size. Make this writeable, and split the settings into a soft and hard limit. This can be set from 'discard_granularity' and up to the hardware limit. Add a new sysfs file, 'discard_max_hw_bytes', that shows the hw set limit. Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* Documentation: Remove mentioning of block barriersLeonid V. Fedorenchik2015-03-201-27/+9
| | | | | | | | Remove mentioning of block barriers since they were removed. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Leonid V. Fedorenchik <leonidsbox@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Merge branch 'for-3.19/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds2014-12-131-1/+5
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull block driver core update from Jens Axboe: "This is the pull request for the core block IO changes for 3.19. Not a huge round this time, mostly lots of little good fixes: - Fix a bug in sysfs blktrace interface causing a NULL pointer dereference, when enabled/disabled through that API. From Arianna Avanzini. - Various updates/fixes/improvements for blk-mq: - A set of updates from Bart, mostly fixing buts in the tag handling. - Cleanup/code consolidation from Christoph. - Extend queue_rq API to be able to handle batching issues of IO requests. NVMe will utilize this shortly. From me. - A few tag and request handling updates from me. - Cleanup of the preempt handling for running queues from Paolo. - Prevent running of unmapped hardware queues from Ming Lei. - Move the kdump memory limiting check to be in the correct location, from Shaohua. - Initialize all software queues at init time from Takashi. This prevents a kobject warning when CPUs are brought online that weren't online when a queue was registered. - Single writeback fix for I_DIRTY clearing from Tejun. Queued with the core IO changes, since it's just a single fix. - Version X of the __bio_add_page() segment addition retry from Maurizio. Hope the Xth time is the charm. - Documentation fixup for IO scheduler merging from Jan. - Introduce (and use) generic IO stat accounting helpers for non-rq drivers, from Gu Zheng. - Kill off artificial limiting of max sectors in a request from Christoph" * 'for-3.19/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits) bio: modify __bio_add_page() to accept pages that don't start a new segment blk-mq: Fix uninitialized kobject at CPU hotplugging blktrace: don't let the sysfs interface remove trace from running list blk-mq: Use all available hardware queues blk-mq: Micro-optimize bt_get() blk-mq: Fix a race between bt_clear_tag() and bt_get() blk-mq: Avoid that __bt_get_word() wraps multiple times blk-mq: Fix a use-after-free blk-mq: prevent unmapped hw queue from being scheduled blk-mq: re-check for available tags after running the hardware queue blk-mq: fix hang in bt_get() blk-mq: move the kdump check to blk_mq_alloc_tag_set blk-mq: cleanup tag free handling blk-mq: use 'nr_cpu_ids' as highest CPU ID count for hwq <-> cpu map blk: introduce generic io stat accounting help function blk-mq: handle the single queue case in blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu genhd: check for int overflow in disk_expand_part_tbl() blk-mq: add blk_mq_free_hctx_request() blk-mq: export blk_mq_free_request() blk-mq: use get_cpu/put_cpu instead of preempt_disable/preempt_enable ...
| * block: Expand a bit documentation about elevator_allow_merge_fnJan Kara2014-11-041-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Explain that two requests can be merged without elevator_allow_merge_fn() being called. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* | scsi: add new scsi-command flag for tagged commandsChristoph Hellwig2014-11-121-4/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently scsi piggy backs on the block layer to define the concept of a tagged command. But we want to be able to have block-level host-wide tags assigned even for untagged commands like the initial INQUIRY, so add a new SCSI-level flag for commands that are tagged at the scsi level, so that even commands without that set can have tags assigned to them. Note that this alredy is the case for the blk-mq code path, and this just lets the old path catch up with it. We also set this flag based upon sdev->simple_tags instead of the block queue flag, so that it is entirely independent of the block layer tagging, and thus always correct even if a driver doesn't use block level tagging yet. Also remove the old blk_rq_tagged; it was only used by SCSI drivers, and removing it forces them to look for the proper replacement. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
* Merge branch 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds2014-10-181-49/+5
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull core block layer changes from Jens Axboe: "This is the core block IO pull request for 3.18. Apart from the new and improved flush machinery for blk-mq, this is all mostly bug fixes and cleanups. - blk-mq timeout updates and fixes from Christoph. - Removal of REQ_END, also from Christoph. We pass it through the ->queue_rq() hook for blk-mq instead, freeing up one of the request bits. The space was overly tight on 32-bit, so Martin also killed REQ_KERNEL since it's no longer used. - blk integrity updates and fixes from Martin and Gu Zheng. - Update to the flush machinery for blk-mq from Ming Lei. Now we have a per hardware context flush request, which both cleans up the code should scale better for flush intensive workloads on blk-mq. - Improve the error printing, from Rob Elliott. - Backing device improvements and cleanups from Tejun. - Fixup of a misplaced rq_complete() tracepoint from Hannes. - Make blk_get_request() return error pointers, fixing up issues where we NULL deref when a device goes bad or missing. From Joe Lawrence. - Prep work for drastically reducing the memory consumption of dm devices from Junichi Nomura. This allows creating clone bio sets without preallocating a lot of memory. - Fix a blk-mq hang on certain combinations of queue depths and hardware queues from me. - Limit memory consumption for blk-mq devices for crash dump scenarios and drivers that use crazy high depths (certain SCSI shared tag setups). We now just use a single queue and limited depth for that" * 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (58 commits) block: Remove REQ_KERNEL blk-mq: allocate cpumask on the home node bio-integrity: remove the needless fail handle of bip_slab creating block: include func name in __get_request prints block: make blk_update_request print prefix match ratelimited prefix blk-merge: don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for cloned bio block: fix alignment_offset math that assumes io_min is a power-of-2 blk-mq: Make bt_clear_tag() easier to read blk-mq: fix potential hang if rolling wakeup depth is too high block: add bioset_create_nobvec() block: use bio_clone_fast() in blk_rq_prep_clone() block: misplaced rq_complete tracepoint sd: Honor block layer integrity handling flags block: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp block: Add T10 Protection Information functions block: Don't merge requests if integrity flags differ block: Integrity checksum flag block: Relocate bio integrity flags block: Add a disk flag to block integrity profile block: Add prefix to block integrity profile flags ...
| * block: Remove integrity tagging functionsMartin K. Petersen2014-09-271-34/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | None of the filesystems appear interested in using the integrity tagging feature. Potentially because very few storage devices actually permit using the application tag space. Remove the tagging functions. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
| * block: Replace bi_integrity with bi_specialMartin K. Petersen2014-09-271-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For commands like REQ_COPY we need a way to pass extra information along with each bio. Like integrity metadata this information must be available at the bottom of the stack so bi_private does not suffice. Rename the existing bi_integrity field to bi_special and make it a union so we can have different bio extensions for each class of command. We previously used bi_integrity != NULL as a way to identify whether a bio had integrity metadata or not. Introduce a REQ_INTEGRITY to be the indicator now that bi_special can contain different things. In addition, bio_integrity(bio) will now return a pointer to the integrity payload (when applicable). Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
| * block: Get rid of bdev_integrity_enabled()Martin K. Petersen2014-09-271-10/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | bdev_integrity_enabled() is only used by bio_integrity_enabled(). Combine these two functions. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* | doc: queue-sysfs: minor fixesArnd Hannemann2014-08-281-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patches fixes a typo, and for consistency use "IO" in upper case in the block/queue-sysfs.txt documentation. Signed-off-by: Arnd Hannemann <arnd@arndnet.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | Documentation: Fix null_blk parameter irq_mode to irqmodeFam Zheng2014-08-261-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | To match the real module parameter name we implemented. Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* Documentation/: update 00-INDEX filesHenrik Austad2014-02-101-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does not contain 00-INDEX at all. Only outdated (with the notably exception of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has not been touched. 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Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [rcu bits] Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into for-3.14/coreJens Axboe2013-12-311-0/+72
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Needed to bring blk-mq uptodate, since changes have been going in since for-3.14/core was established. Fixup merge issues related to the immutable biovec changes. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Conflicts: block/blk-flush.c fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c fs/btrfs/extent_io.c fs/btrfs/scrub.c fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
| * null_blk: set use_per_node_hctx param to falseMatias Bjørling2013-12-211-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The defaults for the module is to instantiate itself with blk-mq and a submit queue for each CPU node in the system. To save resources, initialize instead with a single submit queue. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
| * null_blk: corrections to documentationMatias Bjørling2013-12-211-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Randy Dunlap reported a couple of grammar errors and unfortunate usages of socket/node/core. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
| * null_blk: documentationMatias Bjorling2013-12-191-0/+71
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add description of module and its parameters. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* | block: Immutable bio vecsKent Overstreet2013-11-231-0/+111
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a mechanism by which we can advance a bio by an arbitrary number of bytes without modifying the biovec: bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done indicates the number of bytes completed in the current bvec. Various driver code still needs to be updated to not refer to the bvec directly before we can use this for interesting things, like efficient bio splitting. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com> Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com> Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
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