From aa387cc895672b00f807ad7c734a2defaf677712 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Christie Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:05:09 +0200 Subject: block: add bsg helper library This moves the FC classes bsg code to the block layer and makes it a lib so that other classes like iscsi and SAS can use it. It is helpful because working with the request queue, bios, creating scatterlists, etc are a pain that the LLD does not have to worry about with normal IOs and should not have to worry about for bsg requests. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 0e67c45b3bc9..847928546076 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct request_pm_state; struct blk_trace; struct request; struct sg_io_hdr; +struct bsg_job; #define BLKDEV_MIN_RQ 4 #define BLKDEV_MAX_RQ 128 /* Default maximum */ @@ -209,6 +210,7 @@ typedef int (merge_bvec_fn) (struct request_queue *, struct bvec_merge_data *, typedef void (softirq_done_fn)(struct request *); typedef int (dma_drain_needed_fn)(struct request *); typedef int (lld_busy_fn) (struct request_queue *q); +typedef int (bsg_job_fn) (struct bsg_job *); enum blk_eh_timer_return { BLK_EH_NOT_HANDLED, @@ -375,6 +377,8 @@ struct request_queue { struct mutex sysfs_lock; #if defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG) + bsg_job_fn *bsg_job_fn; + int bsg_job_size; struct bsg_class_device bsg_dev; #endif -- cgit v1.2.3 From 4853abaae7e4a2af938115ce9071ef8684fb7af4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Moyer Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:37:25 +0200 Subject: block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags Commit ae1b1539622fb46e51b4d13b3f9e5f4c713f86ae, block: reimplement FLUSH/FUA to support merge, introduced a performance regression when running any sort of fsyncing workload using dm-multipath and certain storage (in our case, an HP EVA). The test I ran was fs_mark, and it dropped from ~800 files/sec on ext4 to ~100 files/sec. It turns out that dm-multipath always advertised flush+fua support, and passed commands on down the stack, where those flags used to get stripped off. The above commit changed that behavior: static inline struct request *__elv_next_request(struct request_queue *q) { struct request *rq; while (1) { - while (!list_empty(&q->queue_head)) { + if (!list_empty(&q->queue_head)) { rq = list_entry_rq(q->queue_head.next); - if (!(rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)) || - (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH_SEQ)) - return rq; - rq = blk_do_flush(q, rq); - if (rq) - return rq; + return rq; } Note that previously, a command would come in here, have REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA set, and then get handed off to blk_do_flush: struct request *blk_do_flush(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq) { unsigned int fflags = q->flush_flags; /* may change, cache it */ bool has_flush = fflags & REQ_FLUSH, has_fua = fflags & REQ_FUA; bool do_preflush = has_flush && (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH); bool do_postflush = has_flush && !has_fua && (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FUA); unsigned skip = 0; ... if (blk_rq_sectors(rq) && !do_preflush && !do_postflush) { rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FLUSH; if (!has_fua) rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FUA; return rq; } So, the flush machinery was bypassed in such cases (q->flush_flags == 0 && rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA)). Now, however, we don't get into the flush machinery at all. Instead, __elv_next_request just hands a request with flush and fua bits set to the scsi_request_fn, even if the underlying request_queue does not support flush or fua. The agreed upon approach is to fix the flush machinery to allow stacking. While this isn't used in practice (since there is only one request-based dm target, and that target will now reflect the flush flags of the underlying device), it does future-proof the solution, and make it function as designed. In order to make this work, I had to add a field to the struct request, inside the flush structure (to store the original req->end_io). Shaohua had suggested overloading the union with rb_node and completion_data, but the completion data is used by device mapper and can also be used by other drivers. So, I didn't see a way around the additional field. I tested this patch on an HP EVA with both ext4 and xfs, and it recovers the lost performance. Comments and other testers, as always, are appreciated. Cheers, Jeff Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/blk-core.c | 8 ++++++-- block/blk-flush.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- block/blk.h | 2 ++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h') diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index b850bedad229..7c59b0f5eae8 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -1700,6 +1700,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_rq_check_limits); int blk_insert_cloned_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq) { unsigned long flags; + int where = ELEVATOR_INSERT_BACK; if (blk_rq_check_limits(q, rq)) return -EIO; @@ -1716,7 +1717,10 @@ int blk_insert_cloned_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq) */ BUG_ON(blk_queued_rq(rq)); - add_acct_request(q, rq, ELEVATOR_INSERT_BACK); + if (rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA)) + where = ELEVATOR_INSERT_FLUSH; + + add_acct_request(q, rq, where); spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags); return 0; @@ -2273,7 +2277,7 @@ static bool blk_end_bidi_request(struct request *rq, int error, * %false - we are done with this request * %true - still buffers pending for this request **/ -static bool __blk_end_bidi_request(struct request *rq, int error, +bool __blk_end_bidi_request(struct request *rq, int error, unsigned int nr_bytes, unsigned int bidi_bytes) { if (blk_update_bidi_request(rq, error, nr_bytes, bidi_bytes)) diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c index 2d162bd840d3..491eb30a242d 100644 --- a/block/blk-flush.c +++ b/block/blk-flush.c @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static void blk_flush_restore_request(struct request *rq) /* make @rq a normal request */ rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FLUSH_SEQ; - rq->end_io = NULL; + rq->end_io = rq->flush.saved_end_io; } /** @@ -301,9 +301,6 @@ void blk_insert_flush(struct request *rq) unsigned int fflags = q->flush_flags; /* may change, cache */ unsigned int policy = blk_flush_policy(fflags, rq); - BUG_ON(rq->end_io); - BUG_ON(!rq->bio || rq->bio != rq->biotail); - /* * @policy now records what operations need to be done. Adjust * REQ_FLUSH and FUA for the driver. @@ -312,6 +309,19 @@ void blk_insert_flush(struct request *rq) if (!(fflags & REQ_FUA)) rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FUA; + /* + * An empty flush handed down from a stacking driver may + * translate into nothing if the underlying device does not + * advertise a write-back cache. In this case, simply + * complete the request. + */ + if (!policy) { + __blk_end_bidi_request(rq, 0, 0, 0); + return; + } + + BUG_ON(!rq->bio || rq->bio != rq->biotail); + /* * If there's data but flush is not necessary, the request can be * processed directly without going through flush machinery. Queue @@ -320,6 +330,7 @@ void blk_insert_flush(struct request *rq) if ((policy & REQ_FSEQ_DATA) && !(policy & (REQ_FSEQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH))) { list_add_tail(&rq->queuelist, &q->queue_head); + blk_run_queue_async(q); return; } @@ -330,6 +341,7 @@ void blk_insert_flush(struct request *rq) memset(&rq->flush, 0, sizeof(rq->flush)); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->flush.list); rq->cmd_flags |= REQ_FLUSH_SEQ; + rq->flush.saved_end_io = rq->end_io; /* Usually NULL */ rq->end_io = flush_data_end_io; blk_flush_complete_seq(rq, REQ_FSEQ_ACTIONS & ~policy, 0); diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h index d6586287adc9..20b900a377c9 100644 --- a/block/blk.h +++ b/block/blk.h @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ int blk_rq_append_bio(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq, struct bio *bio); void blk_dequeue_request(struct request *rq); void __blk_queue_free_tags(struct request_queue *q); +bool __blk_end_bidi_request(struct request *rq, int error, + unsigned int nr_bytes, unsigned int bidi_bytes); void blk_rq_timed_out_timer(unsigned long data); void blk_delete_timer(struct request *); diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 847928546076..84b15d54f8c2 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ struct request { struct { unsigned int seq; struct list_head list; + rq_end_io_fn *saved_end_io; } flush; }; -- cgit v1.2.3 From 56ebdaf2fa3c5276be201c5d1aff1490b682ecf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shaohua Li Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:04:34 +0200 Subject: block: simplify force plug flush code a little bit Cleaning up the code a little bit. attempt_plug_merge() traverses the plug list anyway, we can do the request counting there, so stack size is reduced a little bit. The motivation here is I suspect if we should count the requests for each queue (task could handle multiple disks in the meantime), but my test doesn't show it's worthy doing. If somebody proves we should do it, below change will make that more easier. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/blk-core.c | 13 +++++++------ include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h') diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index 67dba6941194..b2ed78afd9f0 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ static bool bio_attempt_front_merge(struct request_queue *q, * true if merge was successful, otherwise false. */ static bool attempt_plug_merge(struct task_struct *tsk, struct request_queue *q, - struct bio *bio) + struct bio *bio, unsigned int *request_count) { struct blk_plug *plug; struct request *rq; @@ -1176,10 +1176,13 @@ static bool attempt_plug_merge(struct task_struct *tsk, struct request_queue *q, plug = tsk->plug; if (!plug) goto out; + *request_count = 0; list_for_each_entry_reverse(rq, &plug->list, queuelist) { int el_ret; + (*request_count)++; + if (rq->q != q) continue; @@ -1219,6 +1222,7 @@ static int __make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio) struct blk_plug *plug; int el_ret, rw_flags, where = ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT; struct request *req; + unsigned int request_count = 0; /* * low level driver can indicate that it wants pages above a @@ -1237,7 +1241,7 @@ static int __make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio) * Check if we can merge with the plugged list before grabbing * any locks. */ - if (attempt_plug_merge(current, q, bio)) + if (attempt_plug_merge(current, q, bio, &request_count)) goto out; spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock); @@ -1302,9 +1306,8 @@ get_rq: if (__rq->q != q) plug->should_sort = 1; } - if (plug->count >= BLK_MAX_REQUEST_COUNT) + if (request_count >= BLK_MAX_REQUEST_COUNT) blk_flush_plug_list(plug, false); - plug->count++; list_add_tail(&req->queuelist, &plug->list); drive_stat_acct(req, 1); } else { @@ -2634,7 +2637,6 @@ void blk_start_plug(struct blk_plug *plug) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&plug->list); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&plug->cb_list); plug->should_sort = 0; - plug->count = 0; /* * If this is a nested plug, don't actually assign it. It will be @@ -2718,7 +2720,6 @@ void blk_flush_plug_list(struct blk_plug *plug, bool from_schedule) return; list_splice_init(&plug->list, &list); - plug->count = 0; if (plug->should_sort) { list_sort(NULL, &list, plug_rq_cmp); diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 84b15d54f8c2..7fbaa9103344 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -873,7 +873,6 @@ struct blk_plug { struct list_head list; struct list_head cb_list; unsigned int should_sort; - unsigned int count; }; #define BLK_MAX_REQUEST_COUNT 16 -- cgit v1.2.3