A new bio operation flag REQ_NOWAIT is introduced to identify bio's
orignating from iocb with IOCB_NOWAIT. This flag indicates
to return immediately if a request cannot be made instead
of retrying.
Stacked devices such as md (the ones with make_request_fn hooks)
currently are not supported because it may block for housekeeping.
For example, an md can have a part of the device suspended.
For this reason, only request based devices are supported.
In the future, this feature will be expanded to stacked devices
by teaching them how to handle the REQ_NOWAIT flags.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Only read bio->bi_error once in the common path.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Replace all 1 << inode->i_blkbits and (1 << inode->i_blkbits) in fs
branch.
This patch also fixes multiple checkpatch warnings: WARNING: Prefer
'unsigned int' to bare use of 'unsigned'
Thanks to Andrew Morton for suggesting more appropriate function instead
of macro.
[geliangtang@gmail.com: truncate: use i_blocksize()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9c8b2cd83c8f5653805d43debde9fa8817e02fc4.1484895804.git.geliangtang@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481319905-10126-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The code currently uses sdio->blkbits to compute the number of blocks to
be cleaned. However sdio->blkbits is derived from the logical block size
of the underlying block device (Refer to the definition of
do_blockdev_direct_IO()). Due to this, generic/299 test would rarely
fail when executed on an ext4 filesystem with 64k as the block size and
when using a virtio based disk (having 512 byte as the logical block
size) inside a kvm guest.
This commit fixes the bug by using inode->i_blkbits to compute the
number of blocks to be cleaned.
Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fixed up by Jeff Moyer to only use/evaluate inode->i_blkbits once,
to avoid issues with block size changes with IO in flight.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Contained in this update:
- DAX PMD vaults via iomap infrastructure
- Direct-io support in iomap infrastructure
- removal of now-redundant XFS inode iolock, replaced with VFS i_rwsem
- synchronisation with fixes and changes in userspace libxfs code
- extent tree lookup helpers
- lots of little corruption detection improvements to verifiers
- optimised CRC calculations
- faster buffer cache lookups
- deprecation of barrier/nobarrier mount options - we always use
REQ_FUA/REQ_FLUSH where appropriate for data integrity now
- cleanups to speculative preallocation
- miscellaneous minor bug fixes and cleanups
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Merge tag 'xfs-for-linus-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs
Pull xfs updates from Dave Chinner:
"There is quite a varied bunch of stuff in this update, and some of it
you will have already merged through the ext4 tree which imported the
dax-4.10-iomap-pmd topic branch from the XFS tree.
There is also a new direct IO implementation that uses the iomap
infrastructure. It's much simpler, faster, and has lower IO latency
than the existing direct IO infrastructure.
Summary:
- DAX PMD faults via iomap infrastructure
- Direct-io support in iomap infrastructure
- removal of now-redundant XFS inode iolock, replaced with VFS
i_rwsem
- synchronisation with fixes and changes in userspace libxfs code
- extent tree lookup helpers
- lots of little corruption detection improvements to verifiers
- optimised CRC calculations
- faster buffer cache lookups
- deprecation of barrier/nobarrier mount options - we always use
REQ_FUA/REQ_FLUSH where appropriate for data integrity now
- cleanups to speculative preallocation
- miscellaneous minor bug fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'xfs-for-linus-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs: (63 commits)
xfs: nuke unused tracepoint definitions
xfs: use GPF_NOFS when allocating btree cursors
xfs: use xfs_vn_setattr_size to check on new size
xfs: deprecate barrier/nobarrier mount option
xfs: Always flush caches when integrity is required
xfs: ignore leaf attr ichdr.count in verifier during log replay
xfs: use rhashtable to track buffer cache
xfs: optimise CRC updates
xfs: make xfs btree stats less huge
xfs: don't cap maximum dedupe request length
xfs: don't allow di_size with high bit set
xfs: error out if trying to add attrs and anextents > 0
xfs: don't crash if reading a directory results in an unexpected hole
xfs: complain if we don't get nextents bmap records
xfs: check for bogus values in btree block headers
xfs: forbid AG btrees with level == 0
xfs: several xattr functions can be void
xfs: handle cow fork in xfs_bmap_trace_exlist
xfs: pass state not whichfork to trace_xfs_extlist
xfs: Move AGI buffer type setting to xfs_read_agi
...
Pull fs meta data unmap optimization from Jens Axboe:
"A series from Jan Kara, providing a more efficient way for unmapping
meta data from in the buffer cache than doing it block-by-block.
Provide a general helper that existing callers can use"
* 'for-4.10/fs-unmap' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
fs: Remove unmap_underlying_metadata
fs: Add helper to clean bdev aliases under a bh and use it
ext2: Use clean_bdev_aliases() instead of iteration
ext4: Use clean_bdev_aliases() instead of iteration
direct-io: Use clean_bdev_aliases() instead of handmade iteration
fs: Provide function to unmap metadata for a range of blocks
We want to use the per-sb completion workqueue from the new iomap
direct I/O code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
The poll code is blk-mq specific, let's move it to blk-mq.c. This
is a prep patch for improving the polling code.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Use new provided function instead of an iteration through all allocated
blocks.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Remove the WRITE_* and READ_SYNC wrappers, and just use the flags
directly. Where applicable this also drops usage of the
bio_set_op_attrs wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Make local filesystems treat a fault as shortened IO,
returning -EFAULT only if nothing had been transferred.
That's how everything else (NFS, FUSE, ceph, Lustre)
behaves.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch has the dio code use a REQ_OP for the op and rq_flag_bits
for bi_rw flags. To set/get the op it uses the bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op
accssors.
It also begins to convert btrfs's dio_submit_t because of the dio
submit_io callout use. The next patches will completely convert
this code and the reset of the btrfs code paths.
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>
This has callers of submit_bio/submit_bio_wait set the bio->bi_rw
instead of passing it in. This makes that use the same as
generic_make_request and how we set the other bio fields.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Fixed up fs/ext4/crypto.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently direct writes inside i_size on a DIO_SKIP_HOLES filesystem are
not allowed to allocate blocks(get_more_blocks() sets 'create' to 0
before calling get_block() callback), if it's a sparse file, direct
writes fall back to buffered writes to avoid stale data exposure from
concurrent buffered read. But there're two cases that can result in
stale data exposure are not correctly detected.
1. The detection for "writing inside i_size" is not sufficient,
writes can be treated as "extending writes" wrongly. For example,
direct write 1FSB (file system block) to a 1FSB sparse file on
ext2/3/4, starting from offset 0, in this case it's writing inside
i_size, but 'create' is non-zero, because 'block_in_file' and
'(i_size_read(inode) >> blkbits' are both zero.
2. Direct writes starting from or beyong i_size (not inside i_size)
also could trigger block allocation and expose stale data. For
example, consider a sparse file with i_size of 2k, and a write to
offset 2k or 3k into the file, with a filesystem block size of 4k.
(Thanks to Jeff Moyer for pointing this case out in his review.)
The first problem can be demostrated by running ltp-aiodio test ADSP045
many times. When testing on extN filesystems, I see test failures
occasionally, buffered read could read non-zero (stale) data.
ADSP045: dio_sparse -a 4k -w 4k -s 2k -n 1
dio_sparse 0 TINFO : Dirtying free blocks
dio_sparse 0 TINFO : Starting I/O tests
non zero buffer at buf[0] => 0xffffffaa,ffffffaa,ffffffaa,ffffffaa
non-zero read at offset 0
dio_sparse 0 TINFO : Killing childrens(s)
dio_sparse 1 TFAIL : dio_sparse.c:191: 1 children(s) exited abnormally
The second problem can also be reproduced easily by a hacked dio_sparse
program, which accepts an option to specify the write offset.
What we should really do is to disable block allocation for writes that
could result in filling holes inside i_size.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463156728-13357-1-git-send-email-guaneryu@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The kiocb already has the new position, so use that. The only interesting
case is AIO, where we currently don't bother updating ki_pos. We're about
to free the kiocb after we're done, so we might as well update it to make
everyone's life simpler.
While we're at it also return the bytes written argument passed in if
we were successful so that the boilerplate error switch code in the
callers can go away.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This will allow us to do per-I/O sync file writes, as required by a lot
of fileservers or storage targets.
XXX: Will need a few additional audits for O_DSYNC
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
It has to be identical to ki_pos of the iocb, so use that instead.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Including blkdev_direct_IO and dax_do_io. It has to be ki_pos to actually
work, so eliminate the superflous argument.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.
This promise never materialized. And unlikely will.
We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE. And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.
Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.
Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special. They are
not.
The changes are pretty straight-forward:
- <foo> << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;
- <foo> >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;
- PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};
- page_cache_get() -> get_page();
- page_cache_release() -> put_page();
This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below. For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.
The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.
There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach. I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch. Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.
virtual patch
@@
expression E;
@@
- E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E
@@
expression E;
@@
- E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E
@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT
@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE
@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK
@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)
@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)
@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change summary:
o error propagation for direct IO failures fixes for both XFS and ext4
o new quota interfaces and XFS implementation for iterating all the quota IDs
in the filesystem
o locking fixes for real-time device extent allocation
o reduction of duplicate information in the xfs and vfs inode, saving roughly
100 bytes of memory per cached inode.
o buffer flag cleanup
o rework of the writepage code to use the generic write clustering mechanisms
o several fixes for inode flag based DAX enablement
o rework of remount option parsing
o compile time verification of on-disk format structure sizes
o delayed allocation reservation overrun fixes
o lots of little error handling fixes
o small memory leak fixes
o enable xfsaild freezing again
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Merge tag 'xfs-for-linus-4.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs
Pull xfs updates from Dave Chinner:
"There's quite a lot in this request, and there's some cross-over with
ext4, dax and quota code due to the nature of the changes being made.
As for the rest of the XFS changes, there are lots of little things
all over the place, which add up to a lot of changes in the end.
The major changes are that we've reduced the size of the struct
xfs_inode by ~100 bytes (gives an inode cache footprint reduction of
>10%), the writepage code now only does a single set of mapping tree
lockups so uses less CPU, delayed allocation reservations won't
overrun under random write loads anymore, and we added compile time
verification for on-disk structure sizes so we find out when a commit
or platform/compiler change breaks the on disk structure as early as
possible.
Change summary:
- error propagation for direct IO failures fixes for both XFS and
ext4
- new quota interfaces and XFS implementation for iterating all the
quota IDs in the filesystem
- locking fixes for real-time device extent allocation
- reduction of duplicate information in the xfs and vfs inode, saving
roughly 100 bytes of memory per cached inode.
- buffer flag cleanup
- rework of the writepage code to use the generic write clustering
mechanisms
- several fixes for inode flag based DAX enablement
- rework of remount option parsing
- compile time verification of on-disk format structure sizes
- delayed allocation reservation overrun fixes
- lots of little error handling fixes
- small memory leak fixes
- enable xfsaild freezing again"
* tag 'xfs-for-linus-4.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs: (66 commits)
xfs: always set rvalp in xfs_dir2_node_trim_free
xfs: ensure committed is initialized in xfs_trans_roll
xfs: borrow indirect blocks from freed extent when available
xfs: refactor delalloc indlen reservation split into helper
xfs: update freeblocks counter after extent deletion
xfs: debug mode forced buffered write failure
xfs: remove impossible condition
xfs: check sizes of XFS on-disk structures at compile time
xfs: ioends require logically contiguous file offsets
xfs: use named array initializers for log item dumping
xfs: fix computation of inode btree maxlevels
xfs: reinitialise per-AG structures if geometry changes during recovery
xfs: remove xfs_trans_get_block_res
xfs: fix up inode32/64 (re)mount handling
xfs: fix format specifier , should be %llx and not %llu
xfs: sanitize remount options
xfs: convert mount option parsing to tokens
xfs: fix two memory leaks in xfs_attr_list.c error paths
xfs: XFS_DIFLAG2_DAX limited by PAGE_SIZE
xfs: dynamically switch modes when XFS_DIFLAG2_DAX is set/cleared
...
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
- Preparations of parallel lookups (the remaining main obstacle is the
need to move security_d_instantiate(); once that becomes safe, the
rest will be a matter of rather short series local to fs/*.c
- preadv2/pwritev2 series from Christoph
- assorted fixes
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (32 commits)
splice: handle zero nr_pages in splice_to_pipe()
vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method
dcache.c: new helper: __d_add()
don't bother with __d_instantiate(dentry, NULL)
untangle fsnotify_d_instantiate() a bit
uninline d_add()
replace d_add_unique() with saner primitive
quota: use lookup_one_len_unlocked()
cifs_get_root(): use lookup_one_len_unlocked()
nfs_lookup: don't bother with d_instantiate(dentry, NULL)
kill dentry_unhash()
ceph_fill_trace(): don't bother with d_instantiate(dn, NULL)
autofs4: don't bother with d_instantiate(dentry, NULL) in ->lookup()
configfs: move d_rehash() into configfs_create() for regular files
ceph: don't bother with d_rehash() in splice_dentry()
namei: teach lookup_slow() to skip revalidate
namei: massage lookup_slow() to be usable by lookup_one_len_unlocked()
lookup_one_len_unlocked(): use lookup_dcache()
namei: simplify invalidation logics in lookup_dcache()
namei: change calling conventions for lookup_{fast,slow} and follow_managed()
...
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Bates <stephen.bates@pmcs.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Bates <stephen.bates@pmcs.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This way we can pass back errors to the file system, and allow for
cleanup required for all direct I/O invocations.
Also allow the ->end_io handlers to return errors on their own, so that
I/O completion errors can be passed on to the callers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).
Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
only shared.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sure, it's better to bail out of past-the-eof read and return 0 than return
a bogus negative value on such. Only we'd better make sure we are bailing out
with 0 and not -ENOMEM...
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Assume a filesystem with 4KB blocks. When a file has size 1000 bytes and
we issue direct IO read at offset 1024, blockdev_direct_IO() reads the
tail of the last block and the logic for handling short DIO reads in
dio_complete() results in a return value -24 (1000 - 1024) which
obviously confuses userspace.
Fix the problem by bailing out early once we sample i_size and can
reliably check that direct IO read starts beyond i_size.
Reported-by: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Fixes: 9fe55eea7e
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
CC: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull block IO poll support from Jens Axboe:
"Various groups have been doing experimentation around IO polling for
(really) fast devices. The code has been reviewed and has been
sitting on the side for a few releases, but this is now good enough
for coordinated benchmarking and further experimentation.
Currently O_DIRECT sync read/write are supported. A framework is in
the works that allows scalable stats tracking so we can auto-tune
this. And we'll add libaio support as well soon. Fow now, it's an
opt-in feature for test purposes"
* 'for-4.4/io-poll' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
direct-io: be sure to assign dio->bio_bdev for both paths
directio: add block polling support
NVMe: add blk polling support
block: add block polling support
blk-mq: return tag/queue combo in the make_request_fn handlers
block: change ->make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookie
btrfs sets ->submit_io(), and we failed to set the block dev for
that path. That resulted in a potential NULL dereference when
we later wait for IO in dio_await_one().
Reported-by: kernel test robot <ying.huang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This adds support for sync O_DIRECT read/write poll support.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
[hch: split from a larger patch, minor updates]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and
could not sleep. Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic
context and callers that are not willing to sleep. The latter should
clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake. As clearing
__GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the
wrong flags. This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly
indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing
them prevents it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When direct read IO is submitted from kernel, it is often
unnecessary to dirty pages, for example of loop, dirtying pages
have been considered in the upper filesystem(over loop) side
already, and they don't need to be dirtied again.
So this patch doesn't dirtying pages for ITER_BVEC/ITER_KVEC
direct read, and loop should be the 1st case to use ITER_BVEC/ITER_KVEC
for direct read I/O.
The patch is based on previous Dave's patch.
Reviewed-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We can always fill up the bio now, no need to estimate the possible
size based on queue parameters.
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
[hch: rebased and wrote a changelog]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.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>
do_blockdev_direct_IO() increments and decrements the inode
->i_dio_count for each IO operation. It does this to protect against
truncate of a file. Block devices don't need this sort of protection.
For a capable multiqueue setup, this atomic int is the only shared
state between applications accessing the device for O_DIRECT, and it
presents a scaling wall for that. In my testing, as much as 30% of
system time is spent incrementing and decrementing this value. A mixed
read/write workload improved from ~2.5M IOPS to ~9.6M IOPS, with
better latencies too. Before:
clat percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 33], 5.00th=[ 34], 10.00th=[ 34], 20.00th=[ 34],
| 30.00th=[ 34], 40.00th=[ 34], 50.00th=[ 35], 60.00th=[ 35],
| 70.00th=[ 35], 80.00th=[ 35], 90.00th=[ 37], 95.00th=[ 80],
| 99.00th=[ 98], 99.50th=[ 151], 99.90th=[ 155], 99.95th=[ 155],
| 99.99th=[ 165]
After:
clat percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 95], 5.00th=[ 108], 10.00th=[ 129], 20.00th=[ 149],
| 30.00th=[ 155], 40.00th=[ 161], 50.00th=[ 167], 60.00th=[ 171],
| 70.00th=[ 177], 80.00th=[ 185], 90.00th=[ 201], 95.00th=[ 270],
| 99.00th=[ 390], 99.50th=[ 398], 99.90th=[ 418], 99.95th=[ 422],
| 99.99th=[ 438]
In other setups, Robert Elliott reported seeing good performance
improvements:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/3/557
The more applications accessing the device, the worse it gets.
Add a new direct-io flags, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT, which tells
do_blockdev_direct_IO() that it need not worry about incrementing
or decrementing the inode i_dio_count for this caller.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) <elliott@hp.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Most filesystems call through to these at some point, so we'll start
here.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
struct kiocb now is a generic I/O container, so move it to fs.h.
Also do a #include diet for aio.h while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Most callers in the kernel want to perform synchronous file I/O, but
still have to bloat the stack with a full struct kiocb. Split out
the parts needed in filesystem code from those in the aio code, and
only allocate those needed to pass down argument on the stack. The
aio code embedds the generic iocb in the one it allocates and can
easily get back to it by using container_of.
Also add a ->ki_complete method to struct kiocb, this is used to call
into the aio code and thus removes the dependency on aio for filesystems
impementing asynchronous operations. It will also allow other callers
to substitute their own completion callback.
We also add a new ->ki_flags field to work around the nasty layering
violation recently introduced in commit 5e33f6 ("usb: gadget: ffs: add
eventfd notification about ffs events").
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The third argument of fuse_get_user_pages() "nbytesp" refers to the number of
bytes a caller asked to pack into fuse request. This value may be lesser
than capacity of fuse request or iov_iter. So fuse_get_user_pages() must
ensure that *nbytesp won't grow.
Now, when helper iov_iter_get_pages() performs all hard work of extracting
pages from iov_iter, it can be done by passing properly calculated
"maxsize" to the helper.
The other caller of iov_iter_get_pages() (dio_refill_pages()) doesn't need
this capability, so pass LONG_MAX as the maxsize argument here.
Fixes: c9c37e2e63 ("fuse: switch to iov_iter_get_pages()")
Reported-by: Werner Baumann <werner.baumann@onlinehome.de>
Tested-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The direct-io.c rewrite to use the iov_iter infrastructure stopped updating
the size field in struct dio_submit, and thus rendered the check for
allowing asynchronous completions to always return false. Fix this by
comparing it to the count of bytes in the iov_iter instead.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
The following warnings:
fs/direct-io.c: In function ‘__blockdev_direct_IO’:
fs/direct-io.c:1011:12: warning: ‘to’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
fs/direct-io.c:913:16: note: ‘to’ was declared here
fs/direct-io.c:1011:12: warning: ‘from’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
fs/direct-io.c:913:10: note: ‘from’ was declared here
are false positive because dio_get_page() either fails, or sets both
'from' and 'to'.
Paul Bolle said ...
Maybe it's better to move initializing "to" and "from" out of
dio_get_page(). That _might_ make it easier for both the the reader and
the compiler to understand what's going on. Something like this:
Christoph Hellwig said ...
The fix of moving the code definitively looks nicer, while I think
uninitialized_var is horrible wart that won't get anywhere near my code.
Boaz Harrosh: I agree with Christoph and Paul
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
counts the pages covered by iov_iter, up to given limit.
do_block_direct_io() and fuse_iter_npages() switched to
it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
iov_iter_get_pages(iter, pages, maxsize, &start) grabs references pinning
the pages of up to maxsize of (contiguous) data from iter. Returns the
amount of memory grabbed or -error. In case of success, the requested
area begins at offset start in pages[0] and runs through pages[1], etc.
Less than requested amount might be returned - either because the contiguous
area in the beginning of iterator is smaller than requested, or because
the kernel failed to pin that many pages.
direct-io.c switched to using iov_iter_get_pages()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
returns the value aligned as badly as the worst remaining segment
in iov_iter is. Use instead of open-coded equivalents.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The main changes in the XFS tree for 3.15-rc1 are:
- O_TMPFILE support
- allowing AIO+DIO writes beyond EOF
- FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE support for fallocate syscall and XFS
implementation
- FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE support for fallocate syscall and XFS
implementation
- IO verifier cleanup and rework
- stack usage reduction changes
- vm_map_ram NOIO context fixes to remove lockdep warings
- various bug fixes and cleanups
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Merge tag 'xfs-for-linus-3.15-rc1' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
Pull xfs update from Dave Chinner:
"There are a couple of new fallocate features in this request - it was
decided that it was easiest to push them through the XFS tree using
topic branches and have the ext4 support be based on those branches.
Hence you may see some overlap with the ext4 tree merge depending on
how they including those topic branches into their tree. Other than
that, there is O_TMPFILE support, some cleanups and bug fixes.
The main changes in the XFS tree for 3.15-rc1 are:
- O_TMPFILE support
- allowing AIO+DIO writes beyond EOF
- FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE support for fallocate syscall and XFS
implementation
- FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE support for fallocate syscall and XFS
implementation
- IO verifier cleanup and rework
- stack usage reduction changes
- vm_map_ram NOIO context fixes to remove lockdep warings
- various bug fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'xfs-for-linus-3.15-rc1' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (34 commits)
xfs: fix directory hash ordering bug
xfs: extra semi-colon breaks a condition
xfs: Add support for FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE
fs: Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate
xfs: inode log reservations are still too small
xfs: xfs_check_page_type buffer checks need help
xfs: avoid AGI/AGF deadlock scenario for inode chunk allocation
xfs: use NOIO contexts for vm_map_ram
xfs: don't leak EFSBADCRC to userspace
xfs: fix directory inode iolock lockdep false positive
xfs: allocate xfs_da_args to reduce stack footprint
xfs: always do log forces via the workqueue
xfs: modify verifiers to differentiate CRC from other errors
xfs: print useful caller information in xfs_error_report
xfs: add xfs_verifier_error()
xfs: add helper for updating checksums on xfs_bufs
xfs: add helper for verifying checksums on xfs_bufs
xfs: Use defines for CRC offsets in all cases
xfs: skip pointless CRC updates after verifier failures
xfs: Add support FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE for fallocate
...
The return value of bio_get_nr_vecs() cannot be bigger than
BIO_MAX_PAGES, so we can remove redundant the comparison between
nr_pages and BIO_MAX_PAGES.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some filesystems can handle direct I/O writes beyond i_size safely,
so allow them to opt into receiving them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Not using the return value can in the generic case be racy, so it's
in general good practice to check the return value instead.
This also resolved the warning caused on ARM and other architectures:
fs/direct-io.c: In function 'sb_init_dio_done_wq':
fs/direct-io.c:557:2: warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value]
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Call generic_write_sync() from the deferred I/O completion handler if
O_DSYNC is set for a write request. Also make sure various callers
don't call generic_write_sync if the direct I/O code returns
-EIOCBQUEUED.
Based on an earlier patch from Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> with updates from
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> and Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add support to the core direct-io code to defer AIO completions to user
context using a workqueue. This replaces opencoded and less efficient
code in XFS and ext4 (we save a memory allocation for each direct IO)
and will be needed to properly support O_(D)SYNC for AIO.
The communication between the filesystem and the direct I/O code requires
a new buffer head flag, which is a bit ugly but not avoidable until the
direct I/O code stops abusing the buffer_head structure for communicating
with the filesystems.
Currently this creates a per-superblock unbound workqueue for these
completions, which is taken from an earlier patch by Jan Kara. I'm
not really convinced about this use and would prefer a "normal" global
workqueue with a high concurrency limit, but this needs further discussion.
JK: Fixed ext4 part, dynamic allocation of the workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:
- Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.
- Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
bypass operation.
- Fix for the hang on exceeded rq->datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
discard bios.
- Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
workqueue mechanism.
- Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
tree.
- A few random fixes.
* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
block: fix max discard sectors limit
blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
raid1: use bio_copy_data()
pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
block: Add bio_copy_data()
...
Currently, dio_send_cur_page() submits bio before current page and cached
sdio->cur_page is added to the bio if sdio->boundary is set. This is
actually wrong because sdio->boundary means the current buffer is the last
one before metadata needs to be read. So we should rather submit the bio
after the current page is added to it.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we read/write a file sequentially, we will read/write not only the
data blocks but also the indirect blocks that may not be physically
adjacent to the data blocks. So filesystems set the BH_Boundary flag to
submit the previous I/O before reading/writing an indirect block.
However the generic direct IO code mishandles buffer_boundary(), setting
sdio->boundary before each submit_page_section() call which results in
sending only one page bios as underlying code thinks this page is the last
in the contiguous extent. So fix the problem by setting sdio->boundary
only if the current page is really the last one in the mapped extent.
With this patch and "direct-io: submit bio after boundary buffer is added
to it" I've measured about 10% throughput improvement of direct IO reads
on ext3 with SATA harddrive (from 90 MB/s to 100 MB/s). With ramdisk, the
improvement was about 3-fold (from 350 MB/s to 1.2 GB/s). For other
filesystems (such as ext4), the improvements won't be as visible because
the frequency of BH_Boundary flag being set is much smaller.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
More prep work for immutable bvecs:
A few places in the code were either open coding or using the wrong
version - fix.
After we introduce the bvec iter, it'll no longer be possible to modify
the biovec through bio_for_each_segment_all() - it doesn't increment a
pointer to the current bvec, you pass in a struct bio_vec (not a
pointer) which is updated with what the current biovec would be (taking
into account bi_bvec_done and bi_size).
So because of that it's more worthwhile to be consistent about
bio_for_each_segment()/bio_for_each_segment_all() usage.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
CC: dm-devel@redhat.com
CC: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Running AIO is pinning inode in memory using file reference. Once AIO
is completed using aio_complete(), file reference is put and inode can
be freed from memory. So we have to be sure that calling aio_complete()
is the last thing we do with the inode.
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Since directio can work on a raw block device, and the block size of the
device can change under it, we need to do the same thing that
fs/buffer.c now does: read the block size a single time, using
ACCESS_ONCE().
Reading it multiple times can get different results, which will then
confuse the code because it actually encodes the i_blksize in
relationship to the underlying logical blocksize.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move unplugging for direct I/O from around ->direct_IO() down to
do_blockdev_direct_IO(). This implicitly adds plugging for direct
writes.
CC: Li Shaohua <shli@fusionio.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
READ is 0, so the result of the bit-and operation is 0. Rewrite with == as
done elsewhere in the same file.
This problem was found using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Use the same mechanism as the block devices are using, but move the
helper functions from fs/direct-io.c into fs/inode.c to remove the
dependency on CONFIG_BLOCK.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With kernel 3.1, Christoph removed i_alloc_sem and replaced it with
calls (namely inode_dio_wait() and inode_dio_done()) which are
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() thus they cannot be used by non-GPL file systems and
further inode_dio_wait() was pushed from notify_change() into the file
system ->setattr() method but no non-GPL file system can make this call.
That means non-GPL file systems cannot exist any more unless they do not
use any VFS functionality related to reading/writing as far as I can
tell or at least as long as they want to implement direct i/o.
Both Linus and Al (and others) have said on LKML that this breakage of
the VFS API should not have happened and that the change was simply
missed as it was not documented in the change logs of the patches that
did those changes.
This patch changes the two function exports in question to be
EXPORT_SYMBOL() thus restoring the VFS API as it used to be - accessible
for all modules.
Christoph, who introduced the two functions and exported them GPL-only
is CC-ed on this patch to give him the opportunity to object to the
symbols being changed in this manner if he did indeed intend them to be
GPL-only and does not want them to become available to all modules.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some investigation of a transaction processing workload showed that a
major consumer of cycles in __blockdev_direct_IO is the cache miss while
accessing the block size. This is because it has to walk the chain from
block_dev to gendisk to queue.
The block size is needed early on to check alignment and sizes. It's only
done if the check for the inode block size fails. But the costly block
device state is unconditionally fetched.
- Reorganize the code to only fetch block dev state when actually
needed.
Then do a prefetch on the block dev early on in the direct IO path. This
is worth it, because there is substantial code run before we actually
touch the block dev now.
- I also added some unlikelies to make it clear the compiler that block
device fetch code is not normally executed.
This gave a small, but measurable improvement on a large database
benchmark (about 0.3%)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: using prefetch requires including prefetch.h]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In get_more_blocks(), we use dio_count to calcuate fs_count and do some
tricky things to increase fs_count if dio_count isn't aligned. But
actually it still has some corner cases that can't be coverd. See the
following example:
dio_write foo -s 1024 -w 4096
(direct write 4096 bytes at offset 1024). The same goes if the offset
isn't aligned to fs_blocksize.
In this case, the old calculation counts fs_count to be 1, but actually we
will write into 2 different blocks (if fs_blocksize=4096). The old code
just works, since it will call get_block twice (and may have to allocate
and create extents twice for filesystems like ext4). So we'd better call
get_block just once with the proper fs_count.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This doesn't change anything for the compiler, but hch thought it would
make the code clearer.
I moved the reference counting into its own little inline.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add inlines to all the submission path functions. While this increases
code size it also gives gcc a lot of optimization opportunities
in this critical hotpath.
In particular -- together with some other changes -- this
allows gcc to get rid of the unnecessary clearing of
sdio at the beginning and optimize the messy parameter passing.
Any non inlining of a function which takes a sdio parameter
would break this optimization because they cannot be done if the
address of a structure is taken.
Note that benefits are only seen with CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING
and CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE both set to off.
This gives about 2.2% improvement on a large database benchmark
with a high IOPS rate.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Only a single b_private field in the map_bh buffer head is needed after
the submission path. Move map_bh separately to avoid storing
this information in the long term slab.
This avoids the weird 104 byte hole in struct dio_submit which also needed
to be memseted early.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
A direct slab call is slightly faster than kmalloc and can be better cached
per CPU. It also avoids rounding to the next kmalloc slab.
In addition this enforces cache line alignment for struct dio to avoid
any false sharing.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fix most problems reported by pahole.
There is still a weird 104 byte hole after map_bh. I'm not sure what
causes this.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
There's nothing on the stack, even before my changes.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This large, but largely mechanic, patch moves all fields in struct dio
that are only used in the submission path into a separate on stack
data structure. This has the advantage that the memory is very likely
cache hot, which is not guaranteed for memory fresh out of kmalloc.
This also gives gcc more optimization potential because it can easier
determine that there are no external aliases for these variables.
The sdio initialization is a initialization now instead of memset.
This allows gcc to break sdio into individual fields and optimize
away unnecessary zeroing (after all the functions are inlined)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For filesystems that delay their end_io processing we should keep our
i_dio_count until the the processing is done. Enable this by moving
the inode_dio_done call to the end_io handler if one exist. Note that
the actual move to the workqueue for ext4 and XFS is not done in
this patch yet, but left to the filesystem maintainers. At least
for XFS it's not needed yet either as XFS has an internal equivalent
to i_dio_count.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Maintain i_dio_count for all filesystems, not just those using DIO_LOCKING.
This these filesystems to also protect truncate against direct I/O requests
by using common code. Right now the only non-DIO_LOCKING filesystem that
appears to do so is XFS, which uses an opencoded variant of the i_dio_count
scheme.
Behaviour doesn't change for filesystems never calling inode_dio_wait.
For ext4 behaviour changes when using the dioread_nonlock option, which
previously was missing any protection between truncate and direct I/O reads.
For ocfs2 that handcrafted i_dio_count manipulations are replaced with
the common code now enable.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
i_alloc_sem is a rather special rw_semaphore. It's the last one that may
be released by a non-owner, and it's write side is always mirrored by
real exclusion. It's intended use it to wait for all pending direct I/O
requests to finish before starting a truncate.
Replace it with a hand-grown construct:
- exclusion for truncates is already guaranteed by i_mutex, so it can
simply fall way
- the reader side is replaced by an i_dio_count member in struct inode
that counts the number of pending direct I/O requests. Truncate can't
proceed as long as it's non-zero
- when i_dio_count reaches non-zero we wake up a pending truncate using
wake_up_bit on a new bit in i_flags
- new references to i_dio_count can't appear while we are waiting for
it to read zero because the direct I/O count always needs i_mutex
(or an equivalent like XFS's i_iolock) for starting a new operation.
This scheme is much simpler, and saves the space of a spinlock_t and a
struct list_head in struct inode (typically 160 bits on a non-debug 64-bit
system).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reject zero sized reads as soon as we know our I/O length, and don't
borther with locks or allocations that might have to be cleaned up
otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
...
Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When using devices that support max_segments > BIO_MAX_PAGES (256), direct
IO tries to allocate a bio with more pages than allowed, which leads to an
oops in dio_bio_alloc(). Clamp the request to the supported maximum, and
change dio_bio_alloc() to reflect that bio_alloc() will always return a
bio when called with __GFP_WAIT and a valid number of vectors.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove redundant BUG_ON()]
Signed-off-by: David Dillow <dillowda@ornl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix up truncation (ssize_t->int). This only matters with >2G
reads/writes, which the kernel doesn't permit.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
commit c2c6ca4 (direct-io: do not merge logically non-contiguous requests)
introduced a bug whereby all O_DIRECT I/Os were submitted a page at a time
to the block layer. The problem is that the code expected
dio->block_in_file to correspond to the current page in the dio. In fact,
it corresponds to the previous page submitted via submit_page_section.
This was purely an oversight, as the dio->cur_page_fs_offset field was
introduced for just this purpose. This patch simply uses the correct
variable when calculating whether there is a mismatch between contiguous
logical blocks and contiguous physical blocks (as described in the
comments).
I also switched the if conditional following this check to an else if, to
ensure that we never call dio_bio_submit twice for the same dio (in
theory, this should not happen, anyway).
I've tested this by running blktrace and verifying that a 64KB I/O was
submitted as a single I/O. I also ran the patched kernel through
xfstests' aio tests using xfs, ext4 (with 1k and 4k block sizes) and btrfs
and verified that there were no regressions as compared to an unpatched
kernel.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.35.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in prepearation of the new truncate calling sequence. This was only done
for DIO_LOCKING filesystems, so the __blockdev_direct_IO_newtrunc variant
was not needed anyway. Get rid of blockdev_direct_IO_no_locking and
its _newtrunc variant while at it as just opencoding the two additional
paramters is shorted than the name suffix.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Filesystems with unwritten extent support must not complete an AIO request
until the transaction to convert the extent has been commited. That means
the aio_complete calls needs to be moved into the ->end_io callback so
that the filesystem can control when to call it exactly.
This makes a bit of a mess out of dio_complete and the ->end_io callback
prototype even more complicated.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Introduce a new truncate calling sequence into fs/mm subsystems. Rather than
setattr > vmtruncate > truncate, have filesystems call their truncate sequence
from ->setattr if filesystem specific operations are required. vmtruncate is
deprecated, and truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok helpers introduced
previously should be used.
simple_setattr is introduced for simple in-ram filesystems to implement
the new truncate sequence. Eventually all filesystems should be converted
to implement a setattr, and the default code in notify_change should go
away.
simple_setsize is also introduced to perform just the ATTR_SIZE portion
of simple_setattr (ie. changing i_size and trimming pagecache).
To implement the new truncate sequence:
- filesystem specific manipulations (eg freeing blocks) must be done in
the setattr method rather than ->truncate.
- vmtruncate can not be used by core code to trim blocks past i_size in
the event of write failure after allocation, so this must be performed
in the fs code.
- convert usage of helpers block_write_begin, nobh_write_begin,
cont_write_begin, and *blockdev_direct_IO* to use _newtrunc postfixed
variants. These avoid calling vmtruncate to trim blocks (see previous).
- inode_setattr should not be used. generic_setattr is a new function
to be used to copy simple attributes into the generic inode.
- make use of the better opportunity to handle errors with the new sequence.
Big problem with the previous calling sequence: the filesystem is not called
until i_size has already changed. This means it is not allowed to fail the
call, and also it does not know what the previous i_size was. Also, generic
code calling vmtruncate to truncate allocated blocks in case of error had
no good way to return a meaningful error (or, for example, atomically handle
block deallocation).
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Btrfs cannot handle having logically non-contiguous requests submitted. For
example if you have
Logical: [0-4095][HOLE][8192-12287]
Physical: [0-4095] [4096-8191]
Normally the DIO code would put these into the same BIO's. The problem is we
need to know exactly what offset is associated with what BIO so we can do our
checksumming and unlocking properly, so putting them in the same BIO doesn't
work. So add another check where we submit the current BIO if the physical
blocks are not contigous OR the logical blocks are not contiguous.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Because BTRFS can do RAID and such, we need our own submit hook so we can setup
the bio's in the correct fashion, and handle checksum errors properly. So there
are a few changes here
1) The submit_io hook. This is straightforward, just call this instead of
submit_bio.
2) Allow the fs to return -ENOTBLK for reads. Usually this has only worked for
writes, since writes can fallback onto buffered IO. But BTRFS needs the option
of falling back on buffered IO if it encounters a compressed extent, since we
need to read the entire extent in and decompress it. So if we get -ENOTBLK back
from get_block we'll return back and fallback on buffered just like the write
case.
I've tested these changes with fsx and everything seems to work. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Currently the locking in blockdev_direct_IO is a mess, we have three
different locking types and very confusing checks for some of them. The
most complicated one is DIO_OWN_LOCKING for reads, which happens to not
actually be used.
This patch gets rid of the DIO_OWN_LOCKING - as mentioned above the read
case is unused anyway, and the write side is almost identical to
DIO_NO_LOCKING. The difference is that DIO_NO_LOCKING always sets the
create argument for the get_blocks callback to zero, but we can easily
move that to the actual get_blocks callbacks. There are four users of the
DIO_NO_LOCKING mode: gfs already ignores the create argument and thus is
fine with the new version, ocfs2 only errors out if create were ever set,
and we can remove this dead code now, the block device code only ever uses
create for an error message if we are fully beyond the device which can
never happen, and last but not least XFS will need the new behavour for
writes.
Now we can replace the lock_type variable with a flags one, where no flag
means the DIO_NO_LOCKING behaviour and DIO_LOCKING is kept as the first
flag. Separate out the check for not allowing to fill holes into a
separate flag, although for now both flags always get set at the same
time.
Also revamp the documentation of the locking scheme to actually make
sense.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Intel reported a performance regression caused by the following commit:
commit 848c4dd515
Author: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Date: Mon Aug 20 17:12:01 2007 -0700
dio: zero struct dio with kzalloc instead of manually
This patch uses kzalloc to zero all of struct dio rather than
manually trying to track which fields we rely on being zero. It
passed aio+dio stress testing and some bug regression testing on
ext3.
This patch was introduced by Linus in the conversation that lead up
to Badari's minimal fix to manually zero .map_bh.b_state in commit:
6a648fa721
It makes the code a bit smaller. Maybe a couple fewer cachelines to
load, if we're lucky:
text data bss dec hex filename
3285925 568506 1304616 5159047 4eb887 vmlinux
3285797 568506 1304616 5158919 4eb807 vmlinux.patched
I was unable to measure a stable difference in the number of cpu
cycles spent in blockdev_direct_IO() when pushing aio+dio 256K reads
at ~340MB/s.
So the resulting intent of the patch isn't a performance gain but to
avoid exposing ourselves to the risk of finding another field like
.map_bh.b_state where we rely on zeroing but don't enforce it in the
code.
Zach surmised that zeroing out the page array was what caused most of
the problem, and suggested the approach taken in the attached patch for
resolving the issue. Intel re-tested with this patch and saw a 0.6%
performance gain (the original regression was 0.5%).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There seems to be a regression in direct write path due to following
commit in for-2.6.33 branch of block tree.
commit 1af60fbd75
Author: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Date: Fri Oct 2 18:56:53 2009 -0400
block: get rid of the WRITE_ODIRECT flag
Marking direct writes as WRITE_SYNC_PLUG instead of WRITE_ODIRECT, sets
the NOIDLE flag in bio and hence in request. This tells CFQ to not expect
more request from the queue and not idle on it (despite the fact that
queue's think time is less and it is not seeky).
So direct writers lose big time when competing with sequential readers.
Using fio, I have run one direct writer and two sequential readers and
following are the results with 2.6.32-rc7 kernel and with for-2.6.33
branch.
Test
====
1 direct writer and 2 sequential reader running simultaneously.
[global]
directory=/mnt/sdc/fio/
runtime=10
[seqwrite]
rw=write
size=4G
direct=1
[seqread]
rw=read
size=2G
numjobs=2
2.6.32-rc7
==========
direct writes: aggrb=2,968KB/s
readers : aggrb=101MB/s
for-2.6.33 branch
=================
direct write: aggrb=19KB/s
readers aggrb=137MB/s
This patch brings back the WRITE_ODIRECT flag, with the difference that we
don't set the BIO_RW_UNPLUG flag so that device is not unplugged after
submission of request and an explicit unplug from submitter is required.
That way we fix the jeff's issue of not enough merging taking place in aio
path as well as make sure direct writes get their fair share.
After the fix
=============
for-2.6.33 + fix
----------------
direct writes: aggrb=2,728KB/s
reads: aggrb=103MB/s
Thanks
Vivek
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Hi,
Some workloads issue batches of small I/O, and the performance is poor
due to the call to blk_run_address_space for every single iocb. Nathan
Roberts pointed this out, and suggested that by deferring this call
until all I/Os in the iocb array are submitted to the block layer, we
can realize some impressive performance gains (up to 30% for sequential
4k reads in batches of 16).
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>