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Ming Lei 1f9f07e917 blk-mq: fix leak of hctx->ctx_map
hctx->ctx_map should have been freed inside blk_mq_free_queue().

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-27 08:34:45 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 19c5d84f14 blk-mq: idle all hardware contexts before freeing a queue
Without this we can leak the active_queues reference if a command is
freed while it is considered active.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-26 17:21:51 -06:00
Jens Axboe c22d9d8a60 blk-mq: allow setting of per-request timeouts
Currently blk-mq uses the queue timeout for all requests. But
for some commands, drivers may want to set a specific timeout
for special requests. Allow this to be passed in through
request->timeout, and use it if set.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-23 14:14:57 -06:00
Jens Axboe 07068d5b8e blk-mq: split make request handler for multi and single queue
We want slightly different behavior from them:

- On single queue devices, we currently use the per-process plug
  for deferred IO and for merging.

- On multi queue devices, we don't use the per-process plug, but
  we want to go straight to hardware for SYNC IO.

Split blk_mq_make_request() into a blk_sq_make_request() for single
queue devices, and retain blk_mq_make_request() for multi queue
devices. Then we don't need multiple checks for q->nr_hw_queues
in the request mapping.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-22 10:43:07 -06:00
Jens Axboe 484b4061e6 blk-mq: save memory by freeing requests on unused hardware queues
Depending on the topology of the machine and the number of queues
exposed by a device, we can end up in a situation where some of
the hardware queues are unused (as in, they don't map to any
software queues). For this case, free up the memory used by the
request map, as we will not use it. This can be a substantial
amount of memory, depending on the number of queues vs CPUs and
the queue depth of the device.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-21 14:01:15 -06:00
Jens Axboe e814e71ba4 blk-mq: allow the hctx cpu hotplug notifier to return errors
Prepare this for the next patch which adds more smarts in the
plugging logic, so that we can save some memory.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-21 13:59:08 -06:00
Robert Elliott da41a589f5 blk-mq: Micro-optimize blk_queue_nomerges() check
In blk_mq_make_request(), do the blk_queue_nomerges() check
outside the call to blk_attempt_plug_merge() to eliminate
function call overhead when nomerges=2 (disabled)

Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-20 15:49:03 -06:00
Jens Axboe eba7176826 blk-mq: initialize q->nr_requests after calling blk_queue_make_request()
blk_queue_make_requests() overwrites our set value for q->nr_requests,
turning it into the default of 128. Set this appropriately after
initializing queue values in blk_queue_make_request().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-20 15:17:27 -06:00
Jens Axboe e3a2b3f931 blk-mq: allow changing of queue depth through sysfs
For request_fn based devices, the block layer exports a 'nr_requests'
file through sysfs to allow adjusting of queue depth on the fly.
Currently this returns -EINVAL for blk-mq, since it's not wired up.
Wire this up for blk-mq, so that it now also always dynamic
adjustments of the allowed queue depth for any given block device
managed by blk-mq.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-20 11:49:02 -06:00
Jens Axboe 39a9f97e5e Merge branch 'for-3.16/blk-mq-tagging' into for-3.16/core
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

Conflicts:
	block/blk-mq-tag.c
2014-05-19 11:52:35 -06:00
Jens Axboe 1429d7c946 blk-mq: switch ctx pending map to the sparser blk_align_bitmap
Each hardware queue has a bitmap of software queues with pending
requests. When new IO is queued on a software queue, the bit is
set, and when IO is pruned on a hardware queue run, the bit is
cleared. This causes a lot of traffic. Switch this from the regular
BITS_PER_LONG bitmap to a sparser layout, similarly to what was
done for blk-mq tagging.

20% performance increase was observed for single threaded IO, and
about 15% performanc increase on multiple threads driving the
same device.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-19 11:02:47 -06:00
Jens Axboe 0d2602ca30 blk-mq: improve support for shared tags maps
This adds support for active queue tracking, meaning that the
blk-mq tagging maintains a count of active users of a tag set.
This allows us to maintain a notion of fairness between users,
so that we can distribute the tag depth evenly without starving
some users while allowing others to try unfair deep queues.

If sharing of a tag set is detected, each hardware queue will
track the depth of its own queue. And if this exceeds the total
depth divided by the number of active queues, the user is actively
throttled down.

The active queue count is done lazily to avoid bouncing that data
between submitter and completer. Each hardware queue gets marked
active when it allocates its first tag, and gets marked inactive
when 1) the last tag is cleared, and 2) the queue timeout grace
period has passed.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-13 15:10:52 -06:00
Jens Axboe cf4b50afc2 blk-mq: fix race in IO start accounting
Commit c6d600c6 opened up a small race where we could attempt to
account IO completion on a request, racing with IO start accounting.
Fix this up by ensuring that we've accounted for IO start before
inserting the request.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-09 14:54:08 -06:00
Jens Axboe 4bb659b156 blk-mq: implement new and more efficient tagging scheme
blk-mq currently uses percpu_ida for tag allocation. But that only
works well if the ratio between tag space and number of CPUs is
sufficiently high. For most devices and systems, that is not the
case. The end result if that we either only utilize the tag space
partially, or we end up attempting to fully exhaust it and run
into lots of lock contention with stealing between CPUs. This is
not optimal.

This new tagging scheme is a hybrid bitmap allocator. It uses
two tricks to both be SMP friendly and allow full exhaustion
of the space:

1) We cache the last allocated (or freed) tag on a per blk-mq
   software context basis. This allows us to limit the space
   we have to search. The key element here is not caching it
   in the shared tag structure, otherwise we end up dirtying
   more shared cache lines on each allocate/free operation.

2) The tag space is split into cache line sized groups, and
   each context will start off randomly in that space. Even up
   to full utilization of the space, this divides the tag users
   efficiently into cache line groups, avoiding dirtying the same
   one both between allocators and between allocator and freeer.

This scheme shows drastically better behaviour, both on small
tag spaces but on large ones as well. It has been tested extensively
to show better performance for all the cases blk-mq cares about.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-09 09:36:49 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig af76e555e5 blk-mq: initialize struct request fields individually
This allows us to avoid a non-atomic memset over ->atomic_flags as well
as killing lots of duplicate initializations.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-09 08:43:49 -06:00
Jens Axboe 9fccfed8f0 blk-mq: update a hotplug comment for grammar
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-09 08:43:49 -06:00
Jens Axboe 506e931f92 blk-mq: add basic round-robin of what CPU to queue workqueue work on
Right now we just pick the first CPU in the mask, but that can
easily overload that one. Add some basic batching and round-robin
all the entries in the mask instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-07 10:26:44 -06:00
Jens Axboe 74814b1c55 blk-mq: remove extra requeue trace
We already issue a blktrace requeue event in
__blk_mq_requeue_request(), don't do it from the original caller
as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-02 11:24:48 -06:00
Jens Axboe c6d600c65e blk-mq: refactor request insertion/merging
Refactor the logic around adding a new bio to a software queue,
so we nest the ctx->lock where we really need it (merge and
insertion) and don't hold it when we don't (init and IO start
accounting).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-30 13:43:56 -06:00
Jens Axboe 98bc1f272a blk-mq remove debug BUG_ON() when draining software queues
It's never been of any use, lets get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-30 13:43:08 -06:00
Jens Axboe 5810d903fa blk-mq: fix waiting for reserved tags
blk_mq_wait_for_tags() is only able to wait for "normal" tags,
not reserved tags. Pass in which one we should attempt to get
a tag for, so that waiting for reserved tags will work.

Reserved tags are used for internal commands, which are usually
serialized. Hence no waiting generally takes place, but we should
ensure that it actually works if users need that functionality.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-29 20:49:48 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 3853520163 blk-mq: respect rq_affinity
The blk-mq code is using it's own version of the I/O completion affinity
tunables, which causes a few issues:

 - the rq_affinity sysfs file doesn't work for blk-mq devices, even if it
   still is present, thus breaking existing tuning setups.
 - the rq_affinity = 1 mode, which is the defauly for legacy request based
   drivers isn't implemented at all.
 - blk-mq drivers don't implement any completion affinity with the default
   flag settings.

This patches removes the blk-mq ipi_redirect flag and sysfs file, as well
as the internal BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_IPI flag and replaces it with code that
respects the queue-wide rq_affinity flags and also implements the
rq_affinity = 1 mode.

This means I/O completion affinity can now only be tuned block-queue wide
instead of per context, which seems more sensible to me anyway.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-25 08:24:07 -06:00
Jens Axboe 87ee7b1121 blk-mq: fix race with timeouts and requeue events
If a requeue event races with a timeout, we can get into the
situation where we attempt to complete a request from the
timeout handler when it's not start anymore. This causes a crash.
So have the timeout handler check that REQ_ATOM_STARTED is still
set on the request - if not, we ignore the event. If this happens,
the request has now been marked as complete. As a consequence, we
need to ensure to clear REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE in blk_mq_start_request(),
as to maintain proper request state.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-24 08:51:47 -06:00
Jens Axboe 70ab0b2d51 Revert "blk-mq: initialize req->q in allocation"
This reverts commit 6a3c8a3ac0.

We need selective clearing of the request to make the init-at-free
time completely safe. Otherwise we end up stomping on
rq->atomic_flags, which we don't want to do.
2014-04-24 08:50:38 -06:00
Ming Lei 981bd189f8 blk-mq: fix leak of set->tags
set->tags should be freed in blk_mq_free_tag_set().

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-23 10:08:22 -06:00
Ming Lei 6a3c8a3ac0 blk-mq: initialize req->q in allocation
The patch basically reverts the patch of(blk-mq:
initialize request on allocation) in Jens's tree(already
in -next), and only initialize req->q in allocation
for two reasons:

	- presumed cache hotness on completion
	- blk_rq_tagged(rq) depends on reset of req->mq_ctx

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-21 10:38:39 -06:00
Ming Lei 4ca085009f blk-mq: user (1 << order) to implement order_to_size()
Cc: Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-21 10:38:38 -06:00
Ming Lei 4847900532 blk-mq: fix allocation of set->tags
type of set->tags is struct blk_mq_tags **.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-21 10:38:36 -06:00
Ming Lei 11471e0d04 blk-mq: free hctx->ctx_map when init failed
Avoid memory leak in the failure path.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-21 10:38:34 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig ed0791b2f8 blk-mq: add blk_mq_requeue_request
This allows to requeue a request that has been accepted by ->queue_rq
earlier.  This is needed by the SCSI layer in various error conditions.

The existing internal blk_mq_requeue_request is renamed to
__blk_mq_requeue_request as it is a lower level building block for this
funtionality.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-16 14:15:25 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 2f26855656 blk-mq: add blk_mq_start_hw_queues
Add a helper to unconditionally kick contexts of a queue.  This will
be needed by the SCSI layer to provide fair queueing between multiple
devices on a single host.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-16 14:15:25 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 70f4db639c blk-mq: add blk_mq_delay_queue
Add a blk-mq equivalent to blk_delay_queue so that the scsi layer can ask
to be kicked again after a delay.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Modified by me to kill the unnecessary preempt disable/enable
in the delayed workqueue handler.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-16 14:15:25 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 1b4a325858 blk-mq: add async parameter to blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queues
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-16 14:15:25 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 91b63639c7 blk-mq: bidi support
Add two unlinkely branches to make sure the resid is initialized correctly
for bidi request pairs, and the second request gets properly freed.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-16 14:15:25 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 63151a449e blk-mq: allow drivers to hook into I/O completion
Split out the bottom half of blk_mq_end_io so that drivers can perform
work when they know a request has been completed, but before it has been
freed.  This also obsoletes blk_mq_end_io_partial as drivers can now
pass any value to blk_update_request directly.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-16 14:15:25 -06:00
Jens Axboe 6700a678c0 blk-mq: kill preempt disable/enable in blk_mq_work_fn()
blk_mq_work_fn() is always invoked off the bounded workqueues,
so it can happily preempt among the queues in that set without
causing any issues for blk-mq.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-16 14:15:24 -06:00
Jens Axboe fd1270d5df blk-mq: don't use preempt_count() to check for right CPU
UP or CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE will return 0, and what we really
want to check is whether or not we are on the right CPU.
So don't make PREEMPT part of this, just test the CPU in
the mask directly.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-16 14:15:24 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 24d2f90309 blk-mq: split out tag initialization, support shared tags
Add a new blk_mq_tag_set structure that gets set up before we initialize
the queue.  A single blk_mq_tag_set structure can be shared by multiple
queues.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Modular export of blk_mq_{alloc,free}_tagset added by me.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-15 14:18:02 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig ed44832dea blk-mq: initialize request on allocation
If we want to share tag and request allocation between queues we cannot
initialize the request at init/free time, but need to initialize it
at allocation time as it might get used for different queues over its
lifetime.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-15 14:03:03 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig e9b267d91f blk-mq: add ->init_request and ->exit_request methods
The current blk_mq_init_commands/blk_mq_free_commands interface has a
two problems:

 1) Because only the constructor is passed to blk_mq_init_commands there
    is no easy way to clean up when a comman initialization failed.  The
    current code simply leaks the allocations done in the constructor.

 2) There is no good place to call blk_mq_free_commands: before
    blk_cleanup_queue there is no guarantee that all outstanding
    commands have completed, so we can't free them yet.  After
    blk_cleanup_queue the queue has usually been freed.  This can be
    worked around by grabbing an unconditional reference before calling
    blk_cleanup_queue and dropping it after blk_mq_free_commands is
    done, although that's not exatly pretty and driver writers are
    guaranteed to get it wrong sooner or later.

Both issues are easily fixed by making the request constructor and
destructor normal blk_mq_ops methods.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-15 14:03:03 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 8727af4b9d blk-mq: make ->flush_rq fully transparent to drivers
Drivers shouldn't have to care about the block layer setting aside a
request to implement the flush state machine.  We already override the
mq context and tag to make it more transparent, but so far haven't deal
with the driver private data in the request.  Make sure to override this
as well, and while we're at it add a proper helper sitting in blk-mq.c
that implements the full impersonation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-15 14:03:02 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 9d74e25737 blk-mq: do not initialize req->special
Drivers can reach their private data easily using the blk_mq_rq_to_pdu
helper and don't need req->special.  By not initializing it code can
be simplified nicely, and we also shave off a few more instructions from
the I/O path.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-15 14:03:02 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 742ee69b92 blk-mq: initialize resid_len
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-15 14:03:02 -06:00
Jens Axboe e4043dcf30 blk-mq: ensure that hardware queues are always run on the mapped CPUs
Instead of providing soft mappings with no guarantees on hardware
queues always being run on the right CPU, switch to a hard mapping
guarantee that ensure that we always run the hardware queue on
(one of, if more) the mapped CPU.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-09 10:18:23 -06:00
Jens Axboe 59c3d45e48 block: remove 'q' parameter from kblockd_schedule_*_work()
The queue parameter is never used, just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-09 10:17:00 -06:00
Jens Axboe bccb5f7c8b blk-mq: fix potential stall during CPU unplug with IO pending
When a CPU is unplugged, we move the blk_mq_ctx request entries
to the current queue. The current code forgets to remap the
blk_mq_hw_ctx before marking the software context pending,
which breaks if old-cpu and new-cpu don't map to the same
hardware queue.

Additionally, if we mark entries as pending in the new
hardware queue, then make sure we schedule it for running.
Otherwise request could be sitting there until someone else
queues IO for that hardware queue.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-07 08:17:18 -06:00
Shaohua Li 27fbf4e87c blk-mq: add REQ_SYNC early
Add REQ_SYNC early, so rq_dispatched[] in blk_mq_rq_ctx_init
is set correctly.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-03-21 08:57:58 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 7237c740b0 blk-mq: support partial I/O completions
Add a new blk_mq_end_io_partial function to partially complete requests
as needed by the SCSI layer.  We do this by reusing blk_update_request
to advance the bio instead of having a simplified version of it in
the blk-mq code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-03-21 08:57:55 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig eeabc850b7 blk-mq: merge blk_mq_insert_request and blk_mq_run_request
It's almost identical to blk_mq_insert_request, so fold the two into one
slightly more generic function by making the flush special case a bit
smarted.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-03-21 08:57:37 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 081241e592 blk-mq: remove blk_mq_alloc_rq
There's only one caller, which is a straight wrapper and fits the naming
scheme of the related functions a lot better.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-03-21 08:41:45 -06:00
Jens Axboe 676141e48a blk-mq: don't dump CPU -> hw queue map on driver load
Now that we are out of initial debug/bringup mode, remove
the verbose dump of the mapping table.

Provide the mapping table in sysfs, under the hardware queue
directory, in the cpu_list file.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-03-20 13:31:44 -06:00
Jens Axboe 5d12f905cc blk-mq: fix wrong usage of hctx->state vs hctx->flags
BLK_MQ_F_* flags are for hctx->flags, and are non-atomic and
set at registration time. BLK_MQ_S_* flags are dynamic and
atomic, and are accessed through hctx->state.

Some of the BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED uses were wrong. Additionally,
the header file should not use a bit shift for the _S_ flags,
as they are done through the set/test_bit functions.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-03-19 15:25:02 -06:00
Jens Axboe 95363efde1 blk-mq: allow blk_mq_init_commands() to return failure
If drivers do dynamic allocation in the hardware command init
path, then we need to be able to handle and return failures.

And if they do allocations or mappings in the init command path,
then we need a cleanup function to free up that space at exit
time. So add blk_mq_free_commands() as the cleanup function.

This is required for the mtip32xx driver conversion to blk-mq.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-03-14 10:43:15 -06:00
Roman Pen af5040da01 blktrace: fix accounting of partially completed requests
trace_block_rq_complete does not take into account that request can
be partially completed, so we can get the following incorrect output
of blkparser:

  C   R 232 + 240 [0]
  C   R 240 + 232 [0]
  C   R 248 + 224 [0]
  C   R 256 + 216 [0]

but should be:

  C   R 232 + 8 [0]
  C   R 240 + 8 [0]
  C   R 248 + 8 [0]
  C   R 256 + 8 [0]

Also, the whole output summary statistics of completed requests and
final throughput will be incorrect.

This patch takes into account real completion size of the request and
fixes wrong completion accounting.

Signed-off-by: Roman Pen <r.peniaev@gmail.com>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-03-05 16:11:21 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker c46fff2a3b smp: Rename __smp_call_function_single() to smp_call_function_single_async()
The name __smp_call_function_single() doesn't tell much about the
properties of this function, especially when compared to
smp_call_function_single().

The comments above the implementation are also misleading. The main
point of this function is actually not to be able to embed the csd
in an object. This is actually a requirement that result from the
purpose of this function which is to raise an IPI asynchronously.

As such it can be called with interrupts disabled. And this feature
comes at the cost of the caller who then needs to serialize the
IPIs on this csd.

Lets rename the function and enhance the comments so that they reflect
these properties.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-24 14:47:15 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker fce8ad1568 smp: Remove wait argument from __smp_call_function_single()
The main point of calling __smp_call_function_single() is to send
an IPI in a pure asynchronous way. By embedding a csd in an object,
a caller can send the IPI without waiting for a previous one to complete
as is required by smp_call_function_single() for example. As such,
sending this kind of IPI can be safe even when irqs are disabled.

This flexibility comes at the expense of the caller who then needs to
synchronize the csd lifecycle by himself and make sure that IPIs on a
single csd are serialized.

This is how __smp_call_function_single() works when wait = 0 and this
usecase is relevant.

Now there don't seem to be any usecase with wait = 1 that can't be
covered by smp_call_function_single() instead, which is safer. Lets look
at the two possible scenario:

1) The user calls __smp_call_function_single(wait = 1) on a csd embedded
   in an object. It looks like a nice and convenient pattern at the first
   sight because we can then retrieve the object from the IPI handler easily.

   But actually it is a waste of memory space in the object since the csd
   can be allocated from the stack by smp_call_function_single(wait = 1)
   and the object can be passed an the IPI argument.

   Besides that, embedding the csd in an object is more error prone
   because the caller must take care of the serialization of the IPIs
   for this csd.

2) The user calls __smp_call_function_single(wait = 1) on a csd that
   is allocated on the stack. It's ok but smp_call_function_single()
   can do it as well and it already takes care of the allocation on the
   stack. Again it's more simple and less error prone.

Therefore, using the underscore prepend API version with wait = 1
is a bad pattern and a sign that the caller can do safer and more
simple.

There was a single user of that which has just been converted.
So lets remove this option to discourage further users.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-24 14:47:09 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 49f5baa510 blk-mq: pair blk_mq_start_request / blk_mq_requeue_request
Make sure we have a proper pairing between starting and requeueing
requests.  Move the dma drain and REQ_END setup into blk_mq_start_request,
and make sure blk_mq_requeue_request properly undoes them, giving us
a pair of function to prepare and unprepare a request without leaving
side effects.

Together this ensures we always clean up properly after
BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_BUSY returns from ->queue_rq.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-11 09:34:08 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 1e93b8c274 blk-mq: dont assume rq->errors is set when returning an error from ->queue_rq
rq->errors never has been part of the communication protocol between drivers
and the block stack and most drivers will not have initialized it.

Return -EIO to upper layers when the driver returns BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_ERROR
unconditionally.  If a driver want to return a different error it can easily
do so by returning success after calling blk_mq_end_io itself.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-11 09:34:07 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 18741986a4 blk-mq: rework flush sequencing logic
Witch to using a preallocated flush_rq for blk-mq similar to what's done
with the old request path.  This allows us to set up the request properly
with a tag from the actually allowed range and ->rq_disk as needed by
some drivers.  To make life easier we also switch to dynamic allocation
of ->flush_rq for the old path.

This effectively reverts most of

    "blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock"

and

    "blk-mq: Don't reserve a tag for flush request"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-10 09:29:00 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 30a91cb4ef blk-mq: rework I/O completions
Rework I/O completions to work more like the old code path.  blk_mq_end_io
now stays out of the business of deferring completions to others CPUs
and calling blk_mark_rq_complete.  The latter is very important to allow
completing requests that have timed out and thus are already marked completed,
the former allows using the IPI callout even for driver specific completions
instead of having to reimplement them.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-10 09:27:31 -07:00
Nicholas Bellinger 14ec77f352 blk-mq: Add bio_integrity setup to blk_mq_make_request
This patch adds the missing bio_integrity_enabled() +
bio_integrity_prep() setup into blk_mq_make_request()
in order to use DIF protection with scsi-mq.

Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-07 13:45:39 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 1be036e946 blk-mq: initialize sg_reserved_size
To behave the same way as the old request path.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-07 11:58:54 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 4f7f418c48 blk-mq: handle dma_drain_size
Make blk-mq handle the dma_drain_size field the same way as the old request
path.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-07 11:58:54 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 72a0a36e28 blk-mq: support at_head inserations for blk_execute_rq
This is neede for proper SG_IO operation as well as various uses of
blk_execute_rq from the SCSI midlayer.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-07 11:58:54 -07:00
Shaohua Li f0276924fa blk-mq: Don't reserve a tag for flush request
Reserving a tag (request) for flush to avoid dead lock is a overkill. A
tag is valuable resource. We can track the number of flush requests and
disallow having too many pending flush requests allocated. With this
patch, blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned() could do a busy nop (but not a dead
loop) if too many pending requests are allocated and new flush request
is allocated. But this should not be a problem, too many pending flush
requests are very rare case.

I verified this can fix the deadlock caused by too many pending flush
requests.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2014-01-30 12:57:25 -07:00
Dave Hansen 6753471c0c blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly
'struct page' has two list_head fields: 'lru' and 'list'.  Conveniently,
they are unioned together.  This means that code can use them
interchangably, which gets horribly confusing.

The blk-mq made the logical decision to try to use page->list.  But, that
field was actually introduced just for the slub code.  ->lru is the right
field to use outside of slab/slub.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2014-01-08 20:17:46 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 3d6efbf62c blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
__smp_call_function_single already avoids multiple IPIs by internally
queing up the items, and now also is available for non-SMP builds as
a trivially correct stub, so there is no need to wrap it.  If the
additional lock roundtrip cause problems my patch to convert the
generic IPI code to llists is waiting to get merged will fix it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2014-01-08 14:31:27 -07:00
Ming Lei 0fec08b4ec blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
blk_rq_init() is called in req's complete handler to initialize
the request, so the members of start_time and start_time_ns might
become inaccurate when it is allocated in future.

The patch initializes the two members in blk_mq_rq_ctx_init() to
fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2014-01-03 10:00:08 -07:00
Ming Lei 3edcc0ce85 block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
blk_mq_free_queue() is called from release handler of
queue kobject, so it needn't be called from drivers.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-12-31 09:53:05 -07:00
Ming Lei f04c1fe761 block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
This patch moves synchronization on mq->delay_work
from blk_mq_free_queue() to blk_sync_queue(), so that
blk_sync_queue can work on mq.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-12-31 09:53:05 -07:00
Ming Lei 43a5e4e219 block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
blk_mq_drain_queue() is introduced so that we can drain
mq queue inside blk_cleanup_queue().

Also don't accept new requests any more if queue is marked
as dying.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-12-31 09:53:05 -07:00
Jens Axboe b28bc9b38c Linux 3.13-rc6
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Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into for-3.14/core

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
2013-12-31 09:51:02 -07:00
Ming Lei 0d11e6aca3 blk-mq: fix use-after-free of request
If accounting is on, we will do the IO completion accounting after
we have freed the request. Fix that by moving it sooner instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-12-05 10:50:39 -07:00
Jeff Moyer 959a35f13e blk-mq: fix dereference of rq->mq_ctx if allocation fails
If __GFP_WAIT isn't set and we fail allocating, when we go
to drop the reference on the ctx, we will attempt to dereference
the NULL rq. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-12-03 14:24:28 -07:00
Kent Overstreet 4f024f3797 block: Abstract out bvec iterator
Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Cc: fanchaoting <fanchaoting@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Cc: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>6
2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
Jens Axboe 01b983c9fc blk-mq: add blktrace insert event trace
We need it to make 'btt' from blktrace happy, otherwise
we are missing one state transition.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-19 19:00:45 -07:00
Jens Axboe 94eddfbeaa blk-mq: ensure that we set REQ_IO_STAT so diskstats work
If disk stats are enabled on the queue, a request needs to
be marked with REQ_IO_STAT for accounting to be active on
that request. This fixes an issue with virtio-blk not
showing up in /proc/diskstats after the conversion to
blk-mq.

Add QUEUE_FLAG_MQ_DEFAULT, setting stats and same cpu-group
completion on by default.

Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-19 09:25:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f412f2c60b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull second round of block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "As mentioned in the original pull request, the bcache bits were pulled
  because of their dependency on the immutable bio vecs.  Kent re-did
  this part and resubmitted it, so here's the 2nd round of (mostly)
  driver updates for 3.13.  It contains:

 - The bcache work from Kent.

 - Conversion of virtio-blk to blk-mq.  This removes the bio and request
   path, and substitutes with the blk-mq path instead.  The end result
   almost 200 deleted lines.  Patch is acked by Asias and Christoph, who
   both did a bunch of testing.

 - A removal of bootmem.h include from Grygorii Strashko, part of a
   larger series of his killing the dependency on that header file.

 - Removal of __cpuinit from blk-mq from Paul Gortmaker"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (56 commits)
  virtio_blk: blk-mq support
  blk-mq: remove newly added instances of __cpuinit
  bcache: defensively handle format strings
  bcache: Bypass torture test
  bcache: Delete some slower inline asm
  bcache: Use ida for bcache block dev minor
  bcache: Fix sysfs splat on shutdown with flash only devs
  bcache: Better full stripe scanning
  bcache: Have btree_split() insert into parent directly
  bcache: Move spinlock into struct time_stats
  bcache: Kill sequential_merge option
  bcache: Kill bch_next_recurse_key()
  bcache: Avoid deadlocking in garbage collection
  bcache: Incremental gc
  bcache: Add make_btree_freeing_key()
  bcache: Add btree_node_write_sync()
  bcache: PRECEDING_KEY()
  bcache: bch_(btree|extent)_ptr_invalid()
  bcache: Don't bother with bucket refcount for btree node allocations
  bcache: Debug code improvements
  ...
2013-11-15 16:33:41 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 0a06ff068f kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
We've switched over every architecture that supports SMP to it, so
remove the new useless config variable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
Paul Gortmaker f618ef7c47 blk-mq: remove newly added instances of __cpuinit
The new blk-mq code added new instances of __cpuinit usage.
We removed this a couple versions ago; we now want to remove
the compat no-op stubs.  Introducing new users is not what
we want to see at this point in time, as it will break once
the stubs are gone.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-14 08:26:02 -07:00
Shaohua Li 92f399c72a blk-mq: mq plug list breakage
We switched to plug mq_list for mq, but some code are still using old list.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-10-29 12:01:03 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 3228f48be2 blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock
The flush state machine takes in a struct request, which then is
submitted multiple times to the underling driver.  The old block code
requeses the same request for each of those, so it does not have an
issue with tapping into the request pool.  The new one on the other hand
allocates a new request for each of the actualy steps of the flush
sequence. If have already allocated all of the tags for IO, we will
fail allocating the flush request.

Set aside a reserved request just for flushes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-10-28 13:33:58 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 280d45f6c3 blk-mq: add blk_mq_stop_hw_queues
Add a helper to iterate over all hw queues and stop them.  This is useful
for driver that implement PM suspend functionality.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Modified to just call blk_mq_stop_hw_queue() by Jens.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-10-25 14:45:58 +01:00
Jens Axboe 320ae51fee blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism
Linux currently has two models for block devices:

- The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct
  request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper
  functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag
  management, timeout handling, queueing, etc.

- The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the
  block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack,
  driver generally have to manage everything themselves.

With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic
request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates
back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with
scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on
smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands
per device.

The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model
for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent
everything, and along with that we get all the problems again
that the shared approach solved.

This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The
design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which
then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues.
We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be
an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports.

blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include:

- Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to
  be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and
  to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed
  tags, to enable cache hot reuse.

- Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device
  basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification,
  if a request happens to fail.

- Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and
  submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the
  desired location.

- Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need
  to associate a request structure with some driver private
  command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time,
  and then any request handed to the driver will have the
  required size of memory associated with it.

- Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model
  gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging
  sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus
  increases bandwidth.

For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with
the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic
and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real
model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md
devices (as it was originally intended).

Contributions in this patch from the following people:

Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-10-25 11:56:00 +01:00