Otherwise operations may be attempted that will only ever go on to crash
(since the metadata device is either missing or unreliable if 'fail_io'
is set).
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Device mapper used the field bi_private to point to dm_target_io. However,
since kernel 3.15, the bi_private field is unused, and so the targets do
not need to save and restore this field.
This patch removes code that saves and restores bi_private from dm-cache,
dm-snapshot and dm-verity.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Remove DM's unneeded NULL tests before calling these destroy functions,
now that they check for NULL, thanks to these v4.3 commits:
3942d2991 ("mm/slab_common: allow NULL cache pointer in kmem_cache_destroy()")
4e3ca3e03 ("mm/mempool: allow NULL `pool' pointer in mempool_destroy()")
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@ expression x; @@
-if (x != NULL)
\(kmem_cache_destroy\|mempool_destroy\|dma_pool_destroy\)(x);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Pull device mapper update from Mike Snitzer:
- a couple small cleanups in dm-cache, dm-verity, persistent-data's
dm-btree, and DM core.
- a 4.1-stable fix for dm-cache that fixes the leaking of deferred bio
prison cells
- a 4.2-stable fix that adds feature reporting for the dm-stats
features added in 4.2
- improve DM-snapshot to not invalidate the on-disk snapshot if
snapshot device write overflow occurs; but a write overflow triggered
through the origin device will still invalidate the snapshot.
- optimize DM-thinp's async discard submission a bit now that late bio
splitting has been included in block core.
- switch DM-cache's SMQ policy lock from using a mutex to a spinlock;
improves performance on very low latency devices (eg. NVMe SSD).
- document DM RAID 4/5/6's discard support
[ I did not pull the slab changes, which weren't appropriate for this
tree, and weren't obviously the right thing to do anyway. At the very
least they need some discussion and explanation before getting merged.
Because not pulling the actual tagged commit but doing a partial pull
instead, this merge commit thus also obviously is missing the git
signature from the original tag ]
* tag 'dm-4.3-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
dm cache: fix use after freeing migrations
dm cache: small cleanups related to deferred prison cell cleanup
dm cache: fix leaking of deferred bio prison cells
dm raid: document RAID 4/5/6 discard support
dm stats: report precise_timestamps and histogram in @stats_list output
dm thin: optimize async discard submission
dm snapshot: don't invalidate on-disk image on snapshot write overflow
dm: remove unlikely() before IS_ERR()
dm: do not override error code returned from dm_get_device()
dm: test return value for DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED
dm verity: remove unused mempool
dm cache: move wake_waker() from free_migrations() to where it is needed
dm btree remove: remove unused function get_nr_entries()
dm btree: remove unused "dm_block_t root" parameter in btree_split_sibling()
dm cache policy smq: change the mutex to a spinlock
Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
"This first core part of the block IO changes contains:
- Cleanup of the bio IO error signaling from Christoph. We used to
rely on the uptodate bit and passing around of an error, now we
store the error in the bio itself.
- Improvement of the above from myself, by shrinking the bio size
down again to fit in two cachelines on x86-64.
- Revert of the max_hw_sectors cap removal from a revision again,
from Jeff Moyer. This caused performance regressions in various
tests. Reinstate the limit, bump it to a more reasonable size
instead.
- Make /sys/block/<dev>/queue/discard_max_bytes writeable, by me.
Most devices have huge trim limits, which can cause nasty latencies
when deleting files. Enable the admin to configure the size down.
We will look into having a more sane default instead of UINT_MAX
sectors.
- Improvement of the SGP gaps logic from Keith Busch.
- Enable the block core to handle arbitrarily sized bios, which
enables a nice simplification of bio_add_page() (which is an IO hot
path). From Kent.
- Improvements to the partition io stats accounting, making it
faster. From Ming Lei.
- Also from Ming Lei, a basic fixup for overflow of the sysfs pending
file in blk-mq, as well as a fix for a blk-mq timeout race
condition.
- Ming Lin has been carrying Kents above mentioned patches forward
for a while, and testing them. Ming also did a few fixes around
that.
- Sasha Levin found and fixed a use-after-free problem introduced by
the bio->bi_error changes from Christoph.
- Small blk cgroup cleanup from Viresh Kumar"
* 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
blk: Fix bio_io_vec index when checking bvec gaps
block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits mask
block: bump BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS to 2560
Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap"
blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request
blk-mq: fix buffer overflow when reading sysfs file of 'pending'
Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios
block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()
fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec
block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely
md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev()
md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read
block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}
btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls
bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code
block: simplify bio_add_page()
block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
blk-cgroup: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
block: don't access bio->bi_error after bio_put()
block: shrink struct bio down to 2 cache lines again
...
Both free_io_migration() and issue_discard() dereference a migration
that was just freed. Fix those by saving off the migrations's cache
object before freeing the migration. Also cleanup needless mg->cache
dereferences now that the cache object is available directly.
Fixes: e44b6a5a3c ("dm cache: move wake_waker() from free_migrations() to where it is needed")
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Eliminate __cell_release() since it only had one caller that always
released the cell holder.
Switch cell_error_with_code() to using free_prison_cell() for the sake
of consistency.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
There were two cases where dm_cell_visit_release() was being called,
which removes the cell from the prison's rbtree, but the callers didn't
also return the cell to the mempool. Fix this by having them call
free_prison_cell().
This leak manifested as the 'kmalloc-96' slab growing until OOM.
Fixes: 651f5fa2a3 ("dm cache: defer whole cells")
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+
As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own ->merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
[dpark: also remove ->merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
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>
This stops spurious wake ups from calls to prealloc_free_structs().
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Commit 665022d72f ("dm cache: avoid calls to prealloc_free_structs() if
possible") introduced a regression that caused the removal of a DM cache
device to hang in cache_postsuspend()'s call to wait_for_migrations()
with the following stack trace:
[<ffffffff81651457>] schedule+0x37/0x80
[<ffffffffa041e21b>] cache_postsuspend+0xbb/0x470 [dm_cache]
[<ffffffff810ba970>] ? prepare_to_wait_event+0xf0/0xf0
[<ffffffffa0006f77>] dm_table_postsuspend_targets+0x47/0x60 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa0001eb5>] __dm_destroy+0x215/0x250 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa0004113>] dm_destroy+0x13/0x20 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa00098cd>] dev_remove+0x10d/0x170 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa00097c0>] ? dev_suspend+0x240/0x240 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa0009f85>] ctl_ioctl+0x255/0x4d0 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffff8127ac00>] ? SYSC_semtimedop+0x280/0xe10
[<ffffffffa000a213>] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x20 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffff811fd432>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2d2/0x4b0
[<ffffffff81117d5f>] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xaf/0x100
[<ffffffff81022636>] ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x66/0x70
[<ffffffff811fd689>] SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
[<ffffffff81023e58>] ? syscall_trace_leave+0xb8/0x110
[<ffffffff81654f6e>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
Fix this by accounting for the call to prealloc_data_structs()
immediately _before_ the call as opposed to after. This is needed
because it is possible to break out of the control loop after the call
to prealloc_data_structs() but before prealloc_used was set to true.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 386cb7cdee.
Taking the wake_worker() out of free_migration() will slow writeback
dramatically, and hence adaptability.
Say we have 10k blocks that need writing back, but are only able to
issue 5 concurrently due to the migration bandwidth: it's imperative
that we wake_worker() immediately after migration completion; waiting
for the next 1 second wake up (via do_waker) means it'll take a long
time to write that all back.
Reported-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:
(1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
(2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback
The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.
So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If no work was performed then prealloc_data_structs() wasn't ever called
so there isn't any need to call prealloc_free_structs().
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Refactor writeback_some_dirty_blocks() to avoid prealloc_data_structs()
if the policy doesn't have any dirty blocks ready for writeback.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
All methods that queue work call wake_worker() as you'd expect.
E.g. cell_defer, defer_bio, quiesce_migration (which is called by
writeback, promote, demote_then_promote, invalidate, discard, etc).
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
There is currently no way to see that the needs_check flag has been set
in the metadata. Display 'needs_check' in the cache status if it is set
in the cache metadata.
Also, update cache documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
The policy tick() method is normally called from interrupt context.
Both the mq and smq policies do some bottom half work for the tick
method in their map functions. However if no IO is going through the
cache, then that bottom half work doesn't occur. With these policies
this means recently hit entries do not age and do not get written
back as early as we'd like.
Fix this by introducing a new 'can_block' parameter to the tick()
method. When this is set the bottom half work occurs immediately.
'can_block' is set when the tick method is called every second by the
core target (not in interrupt context).
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
If a cache metadata operation fails (e.g. transaction commit) the
cache's metadata device will abort the current transaction, set a new
needs_check flag, and the cache will transition to "read-only" mode. If
aborting the transaction or setting the needs_check flag fails the cache
will transition to "fail-io" mode.
Once needs_check is set the cache device will not be allowed to
activate. Activation requires write access to metadata. Future work is
needed to add proper support for running the cache in read-only mode.
Once in fail-io mode the cache will report a status of "Fail".
Also, add commit() wrapper that will disallow commits if in read_only or
fail mode.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
When the cache is idle, writeback work was only being issued every
second. With this change outstanding writebacks are streamed
constantly. This offers a writeback performance improvement.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
When considering whether to move a block to the cache we already give
preferential treatment to discarded blocks, since they are cheap to
promote (no read of the origin required since the data is junk).
The same is true of blocks that are about to be completely
overwritten, so we likewise boost their promotion chances.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Currently individual bios are deferred to the worker thread if they
cannot be processed immediately (eg, a block is in the process of
being moved to the fast device).
This patch passes whole cells across to the worker. This saves
reaquiring the cell, and also collects bios destined for the same block
together, which allows them to be mapped with a single look up to the
policy. This reduces the overhead of using dm-cache.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
We only allow non critical writeback if the origin is idle. It is up
to the policy to decide what writeback work is critical.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
A little class that keeps track of the volume of io that is in flight,
and the length of time that a device has been idle for.
FIXME: rather than jiffes, may be best to use ktime_t (to support faster
devices).
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
There is a race between a policy deciding to replace a cache entry,
the core target writing back any dirty data from this block, and other
IO threads doing IO to the same block.
This sort of problem is avoided most of the time by the core target
grabbing a bio prison cell before making the request to the policy.
But for a demotion the core target doesn't know which block will be
demoted, so can't do this in advance.
Fix this demotion race by introducing a callback to the policy interface
that allows the policy to grab the cell on behalf of the core target.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Commit c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for
non-chains") regressed all existing callers that followed this pattern:
1) saving a bio's original bi_end_io
2) wiring up an intermediate bi_end_io
3) restoring the original bi_end_io from intermediate bi_end_io
4) calling bio_endio() to execute the restored original bi_end_io
The regression was due to BIO_CHAIN only ever getting set if
bio_inc_remaining() is called. For the above pattern it isn't set until
step 3 above (step 2 would've needed to establish BIO_CHAIN). As such
the first bio_endio(), in step 2 above, never decremented __bi_remaining
before calling the intermediate bi_end_io -- leaving __bi_remaining with
the value 1 instead of 0. When bio_inc_remaining() occurred during step
3 it brought it to a value of 2. When the second bio_endio() was
called, in step 4 above, it should've called the original bi_end_io but
it didn't because there was an extra reference that wasn't dropped (due
to atomic operations being optimized away since BIO_CHAIN wasn't set
upfront).
Fix this issue by removing the __bi_remaining management complexity for
all callers that use the above pattern -- bio_chain() is the only
interface that _needs_ to be concerned with __bi_remaining. For the
above pattern callers just expect the bi_end_io they set to get called!
Remove bio_endio_nodec() and also remove all bio_inc_remaining() calls
that aren't associated with the bio_chain() interface.
Also, the bio_inc_remaining() interface has been moved local to bio.c.
Fixes: c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for non-chains")
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Struct bio has an atomic ref count for chained bio's, and we use this
to know when to end IO on the bio. However, most bio's are not chained,
so we don't need to always introduce this atomic operation as part of
ending IO.
Add a helper to elevate the bi_remaining count, and flag the bio as
now actually needing the decrement at end_io time. Rename the field
to __bi_remaining to catch any current users of this doing the
incrementing manually.
For high IOPS workloads, this reduces the overhead of bio_endio()
substantially.
Tested-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
stacking ontop of blk-mq devices. This blk-mq support changes the
model request-based DM uses for cloning a request to relying on
calling blk_get_request() directly from the underlying blk-mq device.
Early consumer of this code is Intel's emerging NVMe hardware; thanks
to Keith Busch for working on, and pushing for, these changes.
- A few other small fixes and cleanups across other DM targets.
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Merge tag 'dm-3.20-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper changes from Mike Snitzer:
- The most significant change this cycle is request-based DM now
supports stacking ontop of blk-mq devices. This blk-mq support
changes the model request-based DM uses for cloning a request to
relying on calling blk_get_request() directly from the underlying
blk-mq device.
An early consumer of this code is Intel's emerging NVMe hardware;
thanks to Keith Busch for working on, and pushing for, these changes.
- A few other small fixes and cleanups across other DM targets.
* tag 'dm-3.20-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
dm: inherit QUEUE_FLAG_SG_GAPS flags from underlying queues
dm snapshot: remove unnecessary NULL checks before vfree() calls
dm mpath: simplify failure path of dm_multipath_init()
dm thin metadata: remove unused dm_pool_get_data_block_size()
dm ioctl: fix stale comment above dm_get_inactive_table()
dm crypt: update url in CONFIG_DM_CRYPT help text
dm bufio: fix time comparison to use time_after_eq()
dm: use time_in_range() and time_after()
dm raid: fix a couple integer overflows
dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate
dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on blk-mq devices
dm: prepare for allocating blk-mq clone requests in target
dm: submit stacked requests in irq enabled context
dm: split request structure out from dm_rq_target_io structure
dm: remove exports for request-based interfaces without external callers
To be future-proof and for better readability the time comparisons are modified
to use time_in_range() and time_after() instead of plain, error-prone math.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Introduce a new variable to count the number of allocated migration
structures. The existing variable cache->nr_migrations became
overloaded. It was used to:
i) track of the number of migrations in flight for the purposes of
quiescing during suspend.
ii) to estimate the amount of background IO occuring.
Recent discard changes meant that REQ_DISCARD bios are processed with
a migration. Discards are not background IO so nr_migrations was not
incremented. However this could cause quiescing to complete early.
(i) is now handled with a new variable cache->nr_allocated_migrations.
cache->nr_migrations has been renamed cache->nr_io_migrations.
cleanup_migration() is now called free_io_migration(), since it
decrements that variable.
Also, remove the unused cache->next_migration variable that got replaced
with with prealloc_structs a while ago.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
We never bother caching a partial block that is at the back end of the
origin device. No cell ever gets locked, but the calling code was
assuming it was and trying to release it.
Now the code only releases if the cell has been set to a non NULL
value.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
If the incoming bio is a WRITE and completely covers a block then we
don't bother to do any copying for a promotion operation. Once this is
done the cache block and origin block will be different, so we need to
set it to 'dirty'.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Overwrite causes the cache block and origin blocks to diverge, which
is only allowed in writeback mode.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Otherwise the cache blocks may span two discard blocks, which we don't
handle when doing the discard lookup.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
It is more correct to hold the cell before checking the discard state.
These flags are only used as hints to the policy so this change will
have negligable effect.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
The discard block size can change if the origin changes size or if an
old DM cache is upgraded from using a discard block size that was equal
to cache block size.
To fix this an extent of discarded blocks is established for the purpose
of translating the old discard block size to the new in-core discard
block size and set bits. The old (potentially huge) discard bitset is
left ondisk until it is re-written using the new in-core information on
the next successful DM cache shutdown.
Fixes: 7ae34e7778 ("dm cache: improve discard support")
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Commit 7ae34e777 ("dm cache: improve discard support") needed to also:
- discontinue having DM core split the discard bios on cache block
boundaries
- calculate the cache's discard_nr_blocks relative to the determined
discard_block_size rather than using oblock_to_dblock()
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Loading and saving millions of block mappings takes time. We may as
well explain what's going on, and encourage people to use a larger
cache block size.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Safely allow the discard blocksize to be larger than the cache blocksize
by using the bio prison's range locking support. This also improves
discard performance considerly because larger discards are issued to the
dm-cache device. The discard blocksize was always intended to be
greater than the cache blocksize. But until now it wasn't implemented
safely.
Also, by safely restoring the ability to have discard blocksize larger
than cache blocksize we're able to significantly reduce the memory used
for the cache's discard bitset. Before, with a small discard blocksize,
the discard bitset could get quite large because its size is a function
of the discard blocksize and the origin device's size. For example,
previously, using a 32KB cache blocksize with a 40TB origin resulted in
1280MB of incore memory use for the discard bitset! Now, the discard
blocksize is scaled up accordingly to ensure the discard bitset is
capped at 2**14 bits, or 16KB.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
This reverts commit d132cc6d9e because we
actually do want to allow the discard blocksize to be larger than the
cache blocksize. Further dm-cache discard changes will make this
possible.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 64ab346a36 because we
actually do want to allow the discard blocksize to be larger than the
cache blocksize. Further dm-cache discard changes will make this
possible.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Ranges will be placed in the same cell if they overlap.
Range locking is a prerequisite for more efficient multi-block discard
support in both the cache and thin-provisioning targets.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Previously it was using a fixed sized hash table. There are times
when very many concurrent cells are held (such as when processing a very
large discard). When this happens the hash table performance becomes
very poor.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
When a writeback or a promotion of a block is completed, the cell of
that block is removed from the prison, the block is marked as clean, and
the clear_dirty() callback of the cache policy is called.
Unfortunately, performing those actions in this order allows an incoming
new write bio for that block to come in before clearing the dirty status
is completed and therefore possibly causing one of these two scenarios:
Scenario A:
Thread 1 Thread 2
cell_defer() .
- cell removed from prison .
- detained bios queued .
. incoming write bio
. remapped to cache
. set_dirty() called,
. but block already dirty
. => it does nothing
clear_dirty() .
- block marked clean .
- policy clear_dirty() called .
Result: Block is marked clean even though it is actually dirty. No
writeback will occur.
Scenario B:
Thread 1 Thread 2
cell_defer() .
- cell removed from prison .
- detained bios queued .
clear_dirty() .
- block marked clean .
. incoming write bio
. remapped to cache
. set_dirty() called
. - block marked dirty
. - policy set_dirty() called
- policy clear_dirty() called .
Result: Block is properly marked as dirty, but policy thinks it is clean
and therefore never asks us to writeback it.
This case is visible in "dmsetup status" dirty block count (which
normally decreases to 0 on a quiet device).
Fix these issues by calling clear_dirty() before calling cell_defer().
Incoming bios for that block will then be detained in the cell and
released only after clear_dirty() has completed, so the race will not
occur.
Found by inspecting the code after noticing spurious dirty counts
(scenario B).
Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Before, if the block layer's limit stacking didn't establish an
optimal_io_size that was compatible with the cache's data block size
we'd set optimal_io_size to the data block size and minimum_io_size to 0
(which the block layer adjusts to be physical_block_size).
Update cache_io_hints() to set both minimum_io_size and optimal_io_size
to the cache's data block size. This fixes an issue where mkfs.xfs
would create more XFS Allocation Groups on cache volumes than on a
normal linear LV of comparable size.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Mike Snitzer
Joe Thornber
Mikulas Patocka
Julia Lawall
Linus Torvalds
Kent Overstreet
Christoph Hellwig
Jens Axboe
Manuel Schölling
Anssi Hannula