James Smart [Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:32:30 +0000 (11:32 -0700)]
nvme_fcloop: split job struct from transport for req_release
Current design has the fcloop job struct, used for both initiator and
target processing, allocated as part of the initiator request structure.
On aborts, the initiator side (based on the request) may terminate, yet
the target side wants to continue processing. the target side can't do
that if the initiator side goes away.
Revise fcloop to allocate an independent target side structure when it
starts an io from the initiator.
Added a lock to the request struct as well to synchronize pointer updates
on abort calls.
Modified target downcalls to recognize conditions where initiator has
aborted the io (thus nulled the pointer between job structs), thus
avoid referencing sgl lists which are gone and no longer making upcalls
to the initiator.
In conditions where the targetport is no longer connected, have the
initiator return an access failure rather than simulating a command
completion.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
James Smart [Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:32:29 +0000 (11:32 -0700)]
nvmet_fc: add req_release to lldd api
With the advent of the opdone calls changing context, the lldd can no
longer assume that once the op->done call returns for RSP operations
that the request struct is no longer being accessed.
As such, revise the lldd api for a req_release callback that the
transport will call when the job is complete. This will also be used
with abort cases.
Fixed text in api header for change in io complete semantics.
Revised lpfc to support the new req_release api.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
James Smart [Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:32:28 +0000 (11:32 -0700)]
nvmet_fc: add target feature flags for upcall isr contexts
Two new feature flags were added to control whether upcalls to the
transport result in context switches or stay in the calling context.
NVMET_FCTGTFEAT_CMD_IN_ISR:
By default, if the flag is not set, the transport assumes the
lldd is in a non-isr context and in the cpu context it should be
for the io queue. As such, the cmd handler is called directly in the
calling context.
If the flag is set, indicating the upcall is an isr context, the
transport mandates a transition to a workqueue. The workqueue assigned
to the queue is used for the context.
NVMET_FCTGTFEAT_OPDONE_IN_ISR
By default, if the flag is not set, the transport assumes the
lldd is in a non-isr context and in the cpu context it should be
for the io queue. As such, the fcp operation done callback is called
directly in the calling context.
If the flag is set, indicating the upcall is an isr context, the
transport mandates a transition to a workqueue. The workqueue assigned
to the queue is used for the context.
Updated lpfc for flags
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
This is safer as it doesn't rely on the data being stored in
a single page in an sgl.
It also aids our effort to start phasing out users of sg_page. See [1].
For this we kmalloc some memory, copy to it and free at the end. Note:
we can't allocate this memory on the stack as the kbuild test robot
reports some frame size overflows on i386.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/720053/
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Helen Koike [Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:51:07 +0000 (12:51 -0300)]
nvme: improve performance for virtual NVMe devices
This change provides a mechanism to reduce the number of MMIO doorbell
writes for the NVMe driver. When running in a virtualized environment
like QEMU, the cost of an MMIO is quite hefy here. The main idea for
the patch is provide the device two memory location locations:
1) to store the doorbell values so they can be lookup without the doorbell
MMIO write
2) to store an event index.
I believe the doorbell value is obvious, the event index not so much.
Similar to the virtio specification, the virtual device can tell the
driver (guest OS) not to write MMIO unless you are writing past this
value.
FYI: doorbell values are written by the nvme driver (guest OS) and the
event index is written by the virtual device (host OS).
The patch implements a new admin command that will communicate where
these two memory locations reside. If the command fails, the nvme
driver will work as before without any optimizations.
Contributions:
Eric Northup <digitaleric@google.com>
Frank Swiderski <fes@google.com>
Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Just to give an idea on the performance boost with the vendor
extension: Running fio [1], a stock NVMe driver I get about 200K read
IOPs with my vendor patch I get about 1000K read IOPs. This was
running with a null device i.e. the backing device simply returned
success on every read IO request.
Signed-off-by: Rob Nelson <rlnelson@google.com>
[mlin: port for upstream] Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org>
[koike: updated for upstream] Signed-off-by: Helen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Josef Bacik [Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:47:01 +0000 (15:47 -0400)]
nbd: set the max segments to USHRT_MAX
I lack the basic understanding of what segments mean, so we were being
limited to 512kib requests even with higher max_sectors sizes set.
Setting the maximum number of segments to unlimited allows us to
actually have arbitrarily large IO's go through NBD.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
commit c13660a08c8b ("blk-mq-sched: change ->dispatch_requests()
to ->dispatch_request()") removed the last user of this function.
Hence also remove the function itself.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk-mq: add might_sleep check to blk_mq_get_driver_tag()
If the caller passes in wait=true, it has to be able to block
for a driver tag. We just had a bug where flush insertion
would block on tag allocation, while we had preempt disabled.
Ensure that we catch cases like that earlier next time.
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Stephen Bates [Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:59:11 +0000 (16:59 -0600)]
blk-mq: Fix poll_stat for new size-based bucketing.
Fixes an issue where the size of the poll_stat array in request_queue
does not match the size expected by the new size based bucketing for
IO completion polling.
Fixes: 720b8ccc4500 ("blk-mq: Add a polling specific stats function") Signed-off-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk-mq: fix schedule-while-atomic with scheduler attached
We must have dropped the ctx before we call
blk_mq_sched_insert_request() with can_block=true, otherwise we risk
that a flush request can block on insertion if we are currently out of
tags.
Stephen Bates [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 12:24:03 +0000 (06:24 -0600)]
blk-mq: Add a polling specific stats function
Rather than bucketing IO statisics based on direction only we also
bucket based on the IO size. This leads to improved polling
performance. Update the bucket callback function and use it in the
polling latency estimation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This is for the legacy floppy and ataflop drivers that currently abuse
->errors for this purpose. It's stashed away in a union to not grow
the struct size, the other fields are either used by modern drivers
for different purposes or the I/O scheduler before queing the I/O
to drivers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk-mq: remove the error argument to blk_mq_complete_request
Now that all drivers that call blk_mq_complete_requests have a
->complete callback we can remove the direct call to blk_mq_end_request,
as well as the error argument to blk_mq_complete_request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
xen-blkfron is the last users using rq->errros for passing back error to
blk-mq, and I'd like to get rid of that. In the longer run the driver
should be moving more of the completion processing into .complete, but
this is the minimal change to move forward for now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
scsi: introduce a result field in struct scsi_request
This passes on the scsi_cmnd result field to users of passthrough
requests. Currently we abuse req->errors for this purpose, but that
field will go away in its current form.
Note that the old IDE code abuses the errors field in very creative
ways and stores all kinds of different values in it. I didn't dare
to touch this magic, so the abuses are brought forward 1:1.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Remove passing req->errors (which at that point is always 0) to
blk_mq_complete_request, and rely on the virtio status code for the
serial number passthrough request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently it's used by the lighnvm passthrough ioctl, but we'd like to make
it private in preparation of block layer specific error code. Lighnvm already
returns the real NVMe status anyway, so I think we can just limit it to
returning -EIO for any status set.
This will need a careful audit from the lightnvm folks, though.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We want our own clearly defined error field for NVMe passthrough commands,
and the request errors field is going away in its current form.
Just store the status and result field in the nvme_request field from
hardirq completion context (using a new helper) and then generate a
Linux errno for the block layer only when we actually need it.
Because we can't overload the status value with a negative error code
for cancelled command we now have a flags filed in struct nvme_request
that contains a bit for this condition.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
nvme-fc: fix status code handling in nvme_fc_fcpio_done
nvme_complete_async_event expects the little endian status code
including the phase bit, and a new completion handler I plan to
introduce will do so as well.
Change the status variable into the little endian format with the
phase bit used in the NVMe CQE to fix / enable this.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:46 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
ubifs: Convert to separately allocated bdi
Allocate struct backing_dev_info separately instead of embedding it
inside the superblock. This unifies handling of bdi among users.
CC: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> CC: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> CC: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> CC: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:44 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
ncpfs: Convert to separately allocated bdi
Allocate struct backing_dev_info separately instead of embedding it
inside the superblock. This unifies handling of bdi among users.
CC: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Acked-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:43 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
nilfs2: Convert to properly refcounting bdi
Similarly to set_bdev_super() NILFS2 just used block device reference to
bdi. Convert it to properly getting bdi reference. The reference will
get automatically dropped on superblock destruction.
CC: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:42 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
gfs2: Convert to properly refcounting bdi
Similarly to set_bdev_super() GFS2 just used block device reference to
bdi. Convert it to properly getting bdi reference. The reference will
get automatically dropped on superblock destruction.
CC: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> CC: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> CC: cluster-devel@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:38 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
coda: Convert to separately allocated bdi
Allocate struct backing_dev_info separately instead of embedding it
inside the superblock. This unifies handling of bdi among users.
CC: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> CC: coda@cs.cmu.edu CC: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:37 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
mtd: Convert to dynamically allocated bdi infrastructure
MTD already allocates backing_dev_info dynamically. Convert it to use
generic infrastructure for this including proper refcounting. We drop
mtd->backing_dev_info as its only use was to pass mtd_bdi pointer from
one file into another and if we wanted to keep that in a clean way, we'd
have to make mtd hold and drop bdi reference as needed which seems
pointless for passing one global pointer...
CC: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> CC: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> CC: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:36 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
afs: Convert to separately allocated bdi
Allocate struct backing_dev_info separately instead of embedding it
inside the superblock. This unifies handling of bdi among users.
CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> CC: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:34 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
cifs: Convert to separately allocated bdi
Allocate struct backing_dev_info separately instead of embedding it
inside superblock. This unifies handling of bdi among users.
CC: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> CC: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:32 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
btrfs: Convert to separately allocated bdi
Allocate struct backing_dev_info separately instead of embedding it
inside superblock. This unifies handling of bdi among users.
CC: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> CC: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> CC: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> CC: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:31 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
9p: Convert to separately allocated bdi
Allocate struct backing_dev_info separately instead of embedding it
inside session. This unifies handling of bdi among users.
CC: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> CC: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> CC: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> CC: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:30 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
lustre: Convert to separately allocated bdi
Allocate struct backing_dev_info separately instead of embedding it
inside superblock. This unifies handling of bdi among users.
CC: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> CC: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> CC: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> CC: lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:29 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
fs: Get proper reference for s_bdi
So far we just relied on block device to hold a bdi reference for us
while the filesystem is mounted. While that works perfectly fine, it is
a bit awkward that we have a pointer to a refcounted structure in the
superblock without proper reference. So make s_bdi hold a proper
reference to block device's BDI. No filesystem using mount_bdev()
actually changes s_bdi so this is safe and will make bdev filesystems
work the same way as filesystems needing to set up their private bdi.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:28 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
fs: Provide infrastructure for dynamic BDIs in filesystems
Provide helper functions for setting up dynamically allocated
backing_dev_info structures for filesystems and cleaning them up on
superblock destruction.
Jan Kara [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:24:26 +0000 (12:24 +0200)]
block: Unregister bdi on last reference drop
Most users will want to unregister bdi when dropping last reference to a
bdi. Only a few users (like block devices) want to play more complex
tricks with bdi registration and unregistration. So unregister bdi when
the last reference to bdi is dropped and just make sure we don't
unregister the bdi the second time if it is already unregistered.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk-throttle: fix unused variable warning with BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW=n
We trigger this warning:
block/blk-throttle.c: In function ‘blk_throtl_bio’:
block/blk-throttle.c:2042:6: warning: variable ‘ret’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
int ret;
^~~
since we only assign 'ret' if BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW is off, we never
check it.
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If we don't have CGROUPS enabled, the compile ends in the
following misery:
In file included from ../block/bfq-iosched.c:105:0:
../block/bfq-iosched.h:819:22: error: array type has incomplete element type
extern struct cftype bfq_blkcg_legacy_files[];
^
../block/bfq-iosched.h:820:22: error: array type has incomplete element type
extern struct cftype bfq_blkg_files[];
^
Move the declarations under the right ifdef.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Colin Ian King [Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:07:18 +0000 (15:07 +0100)]
block, bfq: don't dereference bic before null checking it
The call to bfq_check_ioprio_change will dereference bic, however,
the null check for bic is after this call. Move the the null
check on bic to before the call to avoid any potential null
pointer dereference issues.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1430138 ("Dereference before null check")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
On an error path in NVM_DEV_CREATE ioctl blk_put_queue is being called
twice: one via blk_cleanup_queue and another via put_disk. Straight fix
seems to remove queue pointer so that disk_release never ends up caling
blk_put_queue again.
Since ioprio_best() translates IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE into IOPRIO_CLASS_BE
and since lower numerical priority values represent a higher priority
a simple numerical comparison is sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Manzanares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com> Tested-by: Adam Manzanares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Since only a single caller remains, inline blk_rq_set_prio(). Initialize
req->ioprio even if no I/O priority has been set in the bio nor in the
I/O context.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Manzanares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com> Tested-by: Adam Manzanares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
lightnvm: Use blk_init_request_from_bio() instead of open-coding it
This patch changes the behavior of the lightnvm driver as follows:
* REQ_FAILFAST_MASK is set for read-ahead requests.
* If no I/O priority has been set in the bio, the I/O priority is
copied from the I/O context.
* The rq_disk member is initialized if bio->bi_bdev != NULL.
* The bio sector offset is copied into req->__sector instead of
retaining the value -1 set by blk_mq_alloc_request().
* req->errors is initialized to zero.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Cc: Adam Manzanares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
null_blk: Use blk_init_request_from_bio() instead of open-coding it
This patch changes the behavior of the null_blk driver for the
LightNVM mode as follows:
* REQ_FAILFAST_MASK is set for read-ahead requests.
* If no I/O priority has been set in the bio, the I/O priority is
copied from the I/O context.
* The rq_disk member is initialized if bio->bi_bdev != NULL.
* req->errors is initialized to zero.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Cc: Adam Manzanares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The driver uses both u64 and sector_t to refer to offsets, and assigns between the
two. This causes one harmless warning when sector_t is 32-bit:
drivers/lightnvm/pblk-rb.c: In function 'pblk_rb_write_entry_gc':
include/linux/lightnvm.h:215:20: error: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type [-Werror=overflow]
drivers/lightnvm/pblk-rb.c:324:22: note: in expansion of macro 'ADDR_EMPTY'
As the driver is already doing this inconsistently, changing the type
won't make it worse and is an easy way to avoid the warning.
Jan Kara [Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:33:27 +0000 (11:33 +0200)]
block: Make writeback throttling defaults consistent for SQ devices
When CFQ is used as an elevator, it disables writeback throttling
because they don't play well together. Later when a different elevator
is chosen for the device, writeback throttling doesn't get enabled
again as it should. Make sure CFQ enables writeback throttling (if it
should be enabled by default) when we switch from it to another IO
scheduler.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Paolo Valente [Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:48:24 +0000 (08:48 -0600)]
block, bfq: split bfq-iosched.c into multiple source files
The BFQ I/O scheduler features an optimal fair-queuing
(proportional-share) scheduling algorithm, enriched with several
mechanisms to boost throughput and reduce latency for interactive and
real-time applications. This makes BFQ a large and complex piece of
code. This commit addresses this issue by splitting BFQ into three
main, independent components, and by moving each component into a
separate source file:
1. Main algorithm: handles the interaction with the kernel, and
decides which requests to dispatch; it uses the following two further
components to achieve its goals.
2. Scheduling engine (Hierarchical B-WF2Q+ scheduling algorithm):
computes the schedule, using weights and budgets provided by the above
component.
3. cgroups support: handles group operations (creation, destruction,
move, ...).
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Paolo Valente [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:23:21 +0000 (18:23 +0200)]
block, bfq: remove all get and put of I/O contexts
When a bfq queue is set in service and when it is merged, a reference
to the I/O context associated with the queue is taken. This reference
is then released when the queue is deselected from service or
split. More precisely, the release of the reference is postponed to
when the scheduler lock is released, to avoid nesting between the
scheduler and the I/O-context lock. In fact, such nesting would lead
to deadlocks, because of other code paths that take the same locks in
the opposite order. This postponing of I/O-context releases does
complicate code.
This commit addresses these issue by modifying involved operations in
such a way to not need to get the above I/O-context references any
more. Then it also removes any get and release of these references.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Many popular I/O-intensive services or applications spawn or
reactivate many parallel threads/processes during short time
intervals. Examples are systemd during boot or git grep. These
services or applications benefit mostly from a high throughput: the
quicker the I/O generated by their processes is cumulatively served,
the sooner the target job of these services or applications gets
completed. As a consequence, it is almost always counterproductive to
weight-raise any of the queues associated to the processes of these
services or applications: in most cases it would just lower the
throughput, mainly because weight-raising also implies device idling.
To address this issue, an I/O scheduler needs, first, to detect which
queues are associated with these services or applications. In this
respect, we have that, from the I/O-scheduler standpoint, these
services or applications cause bursts of activations, i.e.,
activations of different queues occurring shortly after each
other. However, a shorter burst of activations may be caused also by
the start of an application that does not consist in a lot of parallel
I/O-bound threads (see the comments on the function bfq_handle_burst
for details).
In view of these facts, this commit introduces:
1) an heuristic to detect (only) bursts of queue activations caused by
services or applications consisting in many parallel I/O-bound
threads;
2) the prevention of device idling and weight-raising for the queues
belonging to these bursts.
Paolo Valente [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:23:19 +0000 (18:23 +0200)]
block, bfq: boost the throughput with random I/O on NCQ-capable HDDs
This patch is basically the counterpart, for NCQ-capable rotational
devices, of the previous patch. Exactly as the previous patch does on
flash-based devices and for any workload, this patch disables device
idling on rotational devices, but only for random I/O. In fact, only
with these queues disabling idling boosts the throughput on
NCQ-capable rotational devices. To not break service guarantees,
idling is disabled for NCQ-enabled rotational devices only when the
same symmetry conditions considered in the previous patches hold.
Paolo Valente [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:23:18 +0000 (18:23 +0200)]
block, bfq: boost the throughput on NCQ-capable flash-based devices
This patch boosts the throughput on NCQ-capable flash-based devices,
while still preserving latency guarantees for interactive and soft
real-time applications. The throughput is boosted by just not idling
the device when the in-service queue remains empty, even if the queue
is sync and has a non-null idle window. This helps to keep the drive's
internal queue full, which is necessary to achieve maximum
performance. This solution to boost the throughput is a port of
commits a68bbdd and f7d7b7a for CFQ.
As already highlighted in a previous patch, allowing the device to
prefetch and internally reorder requests trivially causes loss of
control on the request service order, and hence on service guarantees.
Fortunately, as discussed in detail in the comments on the function
bfq_bfqq_may_idle(), if every process has to receive the same
fraction of the throughput, then the service order enforced by the
internal scheduler of a flash-based device is relatively close to that
enforced by BFQ. In particular, it is close enough to let service
guarantees be substantially preserved.
Things change in an asymmetric scenario, i.e., if not every process
has to receive the same fraction of the throughput. In this case, to
guarantee the desired throughput distribution, the device must be
prevented from prefetching requests. This is exactly what this patch
does in asymmetric scenarios.
block, bfq: reduce idling only in symmetric scenarios
A seeky queue (i..e, a queue containing random requests) is assigned a
very small device-idling slice, for throughput issues. Unfortunately,
given the process associated with a seeky queue, this behavior causes
the following problem: if the process, say P, performs sync I/O and
has a higher weight than some other processes doing I/O and associated
with non-seeky queues, then BFQ may fail to guarantee to P its
reserved share of the throughput. The reason is that idling is key
for providing service guarantees to processes doing sync I/O [1].
This commit addresses this issue by allowing the device-idling slice
to be reduced for a seeky queue only if the scenario happens to be
symmetric, i.e., if all the queues are to receive the same share of
the throughput.
[1] P. Valente, A. Avanzini, "Evolution of the BFQ Storage I/O
Scheduler", Proceedings of the First Workshop on Mobile System
Technologies (MST-2015), May 2015.
http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/mst-2015.pdf
A set of processes may happen to perform interleaved reads, i.e.,
read requests whose union would give rise to a sequential read pattern.
There are two typical cases: first, processes reading fixed-size chunks
of data at a fixed distance from each other; second, processes reading
variable-size chunks at variable distances. The latter case occurs for
example with QEMU, which splits the I/O generated by a guest into
multiple chunks, and lets these chunks be served by a pool of I/O
threads, iteratively assigning the next chunk of I/O to the first
available thread. CFQ denotes as 'cooperating' a set of processes that
are doing interleaved I/O, and when it detects cooperating processes,
it merges their queues to obtain a sequential I/O pattern from the union
of their I/O requests, and hence boost the throughput.
Unfortunately, in the following frequent case, the mechanism
implemented in CFQ for detecting cooperating processes and merging
their queues is not responsive enough to handle also the fluctuating
I/O pattern of the second type of processes. Suppose that one process
of the second type issues a request close to the next request to serve
of another process of the same type. At that time the two processes
would be considered as cooperating. But, if the request issued by the
first process is to be merged with some other already-queued request,
then, from the moment at which this request arrives, to the moment
when CFQ controls whether the two processes are cooperating, the two
processes are likely to be already doing I/O in distant zones of the
disk surface or device memory.
CFQ uses however preemption to get a sequential read pattern out of
the read requests performed by the second type of processes too. As a
consequence, CFQ uses two different mechanisms to achieve the same
goal: boosting the throughput with interleaved I/O.
This patch introduces Early Queue Merge (EQM), a unified mechanism to
get a sequential read pattern with both types of processes. The main
idea is to immediately check whether a newly-arrived request lets some
pair of processes become cooperating, both in the case of actual
request insertion and, to be responsive with the second type of
processes, in the case of request merge. Both types of processes are
then handled by just merging their queues.
Paolo Valente [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:23:15 +0000 (18:23 +0200)]
block, bfq: reduce latency during request-pool saturation
This patch introduces an heuristic that reduces latency when the
I/O-request pool is saturated. This goal is achieved by disabling
device idling, for non-weight-raised queues, when there are weight-
raised queues with pending or in-flight requests. In fact, as
explained in more detail in the comment on the function
bfq_bfqq_may_idle(), this reduces the rate at which processes
associated with non-weight-raised queues grab requests from the pool,
thereby increasing the probability that processes associated with
weight-raised queues get a request immediately (or at least soon) when
they need one. Along the same line, if there are weight-raised queues,
then this patch halves the service rate of async (write) requests for
non-weight-raised queues.
Paolo Valente [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:23:14 +0000 (18:23 +0200)]
block, bfq: preserve a low latency also with NCQ-capable drives
I/O schedulers typically allow NCQ-capable drives to prefetch I/O
requests, as NCQ boosts the throughput exactly by prefetching and
internally reordering requests.
Unfortunately, as discussed in detail and shown experimentally in [1],
this may cause fairness and latency guarantees to be violated. The
main problem is that the internal scheduler of an NCQ-capable drive
may postpone the service of some unlucky (prefetched) requests as long
as it deems serving other requests more appropriate to boost the
throughput.
This patch addresses this issue by not disabling device idling for
weight-raised queues, even if the device supports NCQ. This allows BFQ
to start serving a new queue, and therefore allows the drive to
prefetch new requests, only after the idling timeout expires. At that
time, all the outstanding requests of the expired queue have been most
certainly served.
[1] P. Valente and M. Andreolini, "Improving Application
Responsiveness with the BFQ Disk I/O Scheduler", Proceedings of
the 5th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference
(SYSTOR '12), June 2012.
Slightly extended version:
http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/bfq-v1-suite-
results.pdf
Paolo Valente [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:23:13 +0000 (18:23 +0200)]
block, bfq: reduce I/O latency for soft real-time applications
To guarantee a low latency also to the I/O requests issued by soft
real-time applications, this patch introduces a further heuristic,
which weight-raises (in the sense explained in the previous patch)
also the queues associated to applications deemed as soft real-time.
To be deemed as soft real-time, an application must meet two
requirements. First, the application must not require an average
bandwidth higher than the approximate bandwidth required to playback
or record a compressed high-definition video. Second, the request
pattern of the application must be isochronous, i.e., after issuing a
request or a batch of requests, the application must stop issuing new
requests until all its pending requests have been completed. After
that, the application may issue a new batch, and so on.
As for the second requirement, it is critical to require also that,
after all the pending requests of the application have been completed,
an adequate minimum amount of time elapses before the application
starts issuing new requests. This prevents also greedy (i.e.,
I/O-bound) applications from being incorrectly deemed, occasionally,
as soft real-time. In fact, if *any amount of time* is fine, then even
a greedy application may, paradoxically, meet both the above
requirements, if: (1) the application performs random I/O and/or the
device is slow, and (2) the CPU load is high. The reason is the
following. First, if condition (1) is true, then, during the service
of the application, the throughput may be low enough to let the
application meet the bandwidth requirement. Second, if condition (2)
is true as well, then the application may occasionally behave in an
apparently isochronous way, because it may simply stop issuing
requests while the CPUs are busy serving other processes.
To address this issue, the heuristic leverages the simple fact that
greedy applications issue *all* their requests as quickly as they can,
whereas soft real-time applications spend some time processing data
after each batch of requests is completed. In particular, the
heuristic works as follows. First, according to the above isochrony
requirement, the heuristic checks whether an application may be soft
real-time, thereby giving to the application the opportunity to be
deemed as such, only when both the following two conditions happen to
hold: 1) the queue associated with the application has expired and is
empty, 2) there is no outstanding request of the application.
Suppose that both conditions hold at time, say, t_c and that the
application issues its next request at time, say, t_i. At time t_c the
heuristic computes the next time instant, called soft_rt_next_start in
the code, such that, only if t_i >= soft_rt_next_start, then both the
next conditions will hold when the application issues its next
request: 1) the application will meet the above bandwidth requirement,
2) a given minimum time interval, say Delta, will have elapsed from
time t_c (so as to filter out greedy application).
The current value of Delta is a little bit higher than the value that
we have found, experimentally, to be adequate on a real,
general-purpose machine. In particular we had to increase Delta to
make the filter quite precise also in slower, embedded systems, and in
KVM/QEMU virtual machines (details in the comments on the code).
If the application actually issues its next request after time
soft_rt_next_start, then its associated queue will be weight-raised
for a relatively short time interval. If, during this time interval,
the application proves again to meet the bandwidth and isochrony
requirements, then the end of the weight-raising period for the queue
is moved forward, and so on. Note that an application whose associated
queue never happens to be empty when it expires will never have the
opportunity to be deemed as soft real-time.
Paolo Valente [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:23:12 +0000 (18:23 +0200)]
block, bfq: improve responsiveness
This patch introduces a simple heuristic to load applications quickly,
and to perform the I/O requested by interactive applications just as
quickly. To this purpose, both a newly-created queue and a queue
associated with an interactive application (we explain in a moment how
BFQ decides whether the associated application is interactive),
receive the following two special treatments:
1) The weight of the queue is raised.
2) The queue unconditionally enjoys device idling when it empties; in
fact, if the requests of a queue are sync, then performing device
idling for the queue is a necessary condition to guarantee that the
queue receives a fraction of the throughput proportional to its weight
(see [1] for details).
For brevity, we call just weight-raising the combination of these
two preferential treatments. For a newly-created queue,
weight-raising starts immediately and lasts for a time interval that:
1) depends on the device speed and type (rotational or
non-rotational), and 2) is equal to the time needed to load (start up)
a large-size application on that device, with cold caches and with no
additional workload.
Finally, as for guaranteeing a fast execution to interactive,
I/O-related tasks (such as opening a file), consider that any
interactive application blocks and waits for user input both after
starting up and after executing some task. After a while, the user may
trigger new operations, after which the application stops again, and
so on. Accordingly, the low-latency heuristic weight-raises again a
queue in case it becomes backlogged after being idle for a
sufficiently long (configurable) time. The weight-raising then lasts
for the same time as for a just-created queue.
According to our experiments, the combination of this low-latency
heuristic and of the improvements described in the previous patch
allows BFQ to guarantee a high application responsiveness.
[1] P. Valente, A. Avanzini, "Evolution of the BFQ Storage I/O
Scheduler", Proceedings of the First Workshop on Mobile System
Technologies (MST-2015), May 2015.
http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/mst-2015.pdf
Paolo Valente [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:23:11 +0000 (18:23 +0200)]
block, bfq: add more fairness with writes and slow processes
This patch deals with two sources of unfairness, which can also cause
high latencies and throughput loss. The first source is related to
write requests. Write requests tend to starve read requests, basically
because, on one side, writes are slower than reads, whereas, on the
other side, storage devices confuse schedulers by deceptively
signaling the completion of write requests immediately after receiving
them. This patch addresses this issue by just throttling writes. In
particular, after a write request is dispatched for a queue, the
budget of the queue is decremented by the number of sectors to write,
multiplied by an (over)charge coefficient. The value of the
coefficient is the result of our tuning with different devices.
The second source of unfairness has to do with slowness detection:
when the in-service queue is expired, BFQ also controls whether the
queue has been "too slow", i.e., has consumed its last-assigned budget
at such a low rate that it would have been impossible to consume all
of this budget within the maximum time slice T_max (Subsec. 3.5 in
[1]). In this case, the queue is always (over)charged the whole
budget, to reduce its utilization of the device. Both this overcharge
and the slowness-detection criterion may cause unfairness.
First, always charging a full budget to a slow queue is too coarse. It
is much more accurate, and this patch lets BFQ do so, to charge an
amount of service 'equivalent' to the amount of time during which the
queue has been in service. As explained in more detail in the comments
on the code, this enables BFQ to provide time fairness among slow
queues.
Secondly, because of ZBR, a queue may be deemed as slow when its
associated process is performing I/O on the slowest zones of a
disk. However, unless the process is truly too slow, not reducing the
disk utilization of the queue is more profitable in terms of disk
throughput than the opposite. A similar problem is caused by logical
block mapping on non-rotational devices. For this reason, this patch
lets a queue be charged time, and not budget, only if the queue has
consumed less than 2/3 of its assigned budget. As an additional,
important benefit, this tolerance allows BFQ to preserve enough
elasticity to still perform bandwidth, and not time, distribution with
little unlucky or quasi-sequential processes.
Finally, for the same reasons as above, this patch makes slowness
detection itself much less harsh: a queue is deemed slow only if it
has consumed its budget at less than half of the peak rate.
[1] P. Valente and M. Andreolini, "Improving Application
Responsiveness with the BFQ Disk I/O Scheduler", Proceedings of
the 5th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference
(SYSTOR '12), June 2012.
Slightly extended version:
http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/bfq-v1-suite-
results.pdf
Paolo Valente [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:23:10 +0000 (18:23 +0200)]
block, bfq: modify the peak-rate estimator
Unless the maximum budget B_max that BFQ can assign to a queue is set
explicitly by the user, BFQ automatically updates B_max. In
particular, BFQ dynamically sets B_max to the number of sectors that
can be read, at the current estimated peak rate, during the maximum
time, T_max, allowed before a budget timeout occurs. In formulas, if
we denote as R_est the estimated peak rate, then B_max = T_max ∗
R_est. Hence, the higher R_est is with respect to the actual device
peak rate, the higher the probability that processes incur budget
timeouts unjustly is. Besides, a too high value of B_max unnecessarily
increases the deviation from an ideal, smooth service.
Unfortunately, it is not trivial to estimate the peak rate correctly:
because of the presence of sw and hw queues between the scheduler and
the device components that finally serve I/O requests, it is hard to
say exactly when a given dispatched request is served inside the
device, and for how long. As a consequence, it is hard to know
precisely at what rate a given set of requests is actually served by
the device.
On the opposite end, the dispatch time of any request is trivially
available, and, from this piece of information, the "dispatch rate"
of requests can be immediately computed. So, the idea in the next
function is to use what is known, namely request dispatch times
(plus, when useful, request completion times), to estimate what is
unknown, namely in-device request service rate.
The main issue is that, because of the above facts, the rate at
which a certain set of requests is dispatched over a certain time
interval can vary greatly with respect to the rate at which the
same requests are then served. But, since the size of any
intermediate queue is limited, and the service scheme is lossless
(no request is silently dropped), the following obvious convergence
property holds: the number of requests dispatched MUST become
closer and closer to the number of requests completed as the
observation interval grows. This is the key property used in
this new version of the peak-rate estimator.
Paolo Valente [Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:23:09 +0000 (18:23 +0200)]
block, bfq: improve throughput boosting
The feedback-loop algorithm used by BFQ to compute queue (process)
budgets is basically a set of three update rules, one for each of the
main reasons why a queue may be expired. If many processes suddenly
switch from sporadic I/O to greedy and sequential I/O, then these
rules are quite slow to assign large budgets to these processes, and
hence to achieve a high throughput. On the opposite side, BFQ assigns
the maximum possible budget B_max to a just-created queue. This allows
a high throughput to be achieved immediately if the associated process
is I/O-bound and performs sequential I/O from the beginning. But it
also increases the worst-case latency experienced by the first
requests issued by the process, because the larger the budget of a
queue waiting for service is, the later the queue will be served by
B-WF2Q+ (Subsec 3.3 in [1]). This is detrimental for an interactive or
soft real-time application.
To tackle these throughput and latency problems, on one hand this
patch changes the initial budget value to B_max/2. On the other hand,
it re-tunes the three rules, adopting a more aggressive,
multiplicative increase/linear decrease scheme. This scheme trades
latency for throughput more than before, and tends to assign large
budgets quickly to processes that are or become I/O-bound. For two of
the expiration reasons, the new version of the rules also contains
some more little improvements, briefly described below.
*No more backlog.* In this case, the budget was larger than the number
of sectors actually read/written by the process before it stopped
doing I/O. Hence, to reduce latency for the possible future I/O
requests of the process, the old rule simply set the next budget to
the number of sectors actually consumed by the process. However, if
there are still outstanding requests, then the process may have not
yet issued its next request just because it is still waiting for the
completion of some of the still outstanding ones. If this sub-case
holds true, then the new rule, instead of decreasing the budget,
doubles it, proactively, in the hope that: 1) a larger budget will fit
the actual needs of the process, and 2) the process is sequential and
hence a higher throughput will be achieved by serving the process
longer after granting it access to the device.
*Budget timeout*. The original rule set the new budget to the maximum
value B_max, to maximize throughput and let all processes experiencing
budget timeouts receive the same share of the device time. In our
experiments we verified that this sudden jump to B_max did not provide
sensible benefits; rather it increased the latency of processes
performing sporadic and short I/O. The new rule only doubles the
budget.
[1] P. Valente and M. Andreolini, "Improving Application
Responsiveness with the BFQ Disk I/O Scheduler", Proceedings of
the 5th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference
(SYSTOR '12), June 2012.
Slightly extended version:
http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/bfq-v1-suite-
results.pdf
block, bfq: add full hierarchical scheduling and cgroups support
Add complete support for full hierarchical scheduling, with a cgroups
interface. Full hierarchical scheduling is implemented through the
'entity' abstraction: both bfq_queues, i.e., the internal BFQ queues
associated with processes, and groups are represented in general by
entities. Given the bfq_queues associated with the processes belonging
to a given group, the entities representing these queues are sons of
the entity representing the group. At higher levels, if a group, say
G, contains other groups, then the entity representing G is the parent
entity of the entities representing the groups in G.
Hierarchical scheduling is performed as follows: if the timestamps of
a leaf entity (i.e., of a bfq_queue) change, and such a change lets
the entity become the next-to-serve entity for its parent entity, then
the timestamps of the parent entity are recomputed as a function of
the budget of its new next-to-serve leaf entity. If the parent entity
belongs, in its turn, to a group, and its new timestamps let it become
the next-to-serve for its parent entity, then the timestamps of the
latter parent entity are recomputed as well, and so on. When a new
bfq_queue must be set in service, the reverse path is followed: the
next-to-serve highest-level entity is chosen, then its next-to-serve
child entity, and so on, until the next-to-serve leaf entity is
reached, and the bfq_queue that this entity represents is set in
service.
Writeback is accounted for on a per-group basis, i.e., for each group,
the async I/O requests of the processes of the group are enqueued in a
distinct bfq_queue, and the entity associated with this queue is a
child of the entity associated with the group.
Weights can be assigned explicitly to groups and processes through the
cgroups interface, differently from what happens, for single
processes, if the cgroups interface is not used (as explained in the
description of the previous patch). In particular, since each node has
a full scheduler, each group can be assigned its own weight.
Paolo Valente [Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:29:02 +0000 (08:29 -0600)]
block, bfq: introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler
We tag as v0 the version of BFQ containing only BFQ's engine plus
hierarchical support. BFQ's engine is introduced by this commit, while
hierarchical support is added by next commit. We use the v0 tag to
distinguish this minimal version of BFQ from the versions containing
also the features and the improvements added by next commits. BFQ-v0
coincides with the version of BFQ submitted a few years ago [1], apart
from the introduction of preemption, described below.
BFQ is a proportional-share I/O scheduler, whose general structure,
plus a lot of code, are borrowed from CFQ.
- Each process doing I/O on a device is associated with a weight and a
(bfq_)queue.
- BFQ grants exclusive access to the device, for a while, to one queue
(process) at a time, and implements this service model by
associating every queue with a budget, measured in number of
sectors.
- After a queue is granted access to the device, the budget of the
queue is decremented, on each request dispatch, by the size of the
request.
- The in-service queue is expired, i.e., its service is suspended,
only if one of the following events occurs: 1) the queue finishes
its budget, 2) the queue empties, 3) a "budget timeout" fires.
- The budget timeout prevents processes doing random I/O from
holding the device for too long and dramatically reducing
throughput.
- Actually, as in CFQ, a queue associated with a process issuing
sync requests may not be expired immediately when it empties. In
contrast, BFQ may idle the device for a short time interval,
giving the process the chance to go on being served if it issues
a new request in time. Device idling typically boosts the
throughput on rotational devices, if processes do synchronous
and sequential I/O. In addition, under BFQ, device idling is
also instrumental in guaranteeing the desired throughput
fraction to processes issuing sync requests (see [2] for
details).
- With respect to idling for service guarantees, if several
processes are competing for the device at the same time, but
all processes (and groups, after the following commit) have
the same weight, then BFQ guarantees the expected throughput
distribution without ever idling the device. Throughput is
thus as high as possible in this common scenario.
- Queues are scheduled according to a variant of WF2Q+, named
B-WF2Q+, and implemented using an augmented rb-tree to preserve an
O(log N) overall complexity. See [2] for more details. B-WF2Q+ is
also ready for hierarchical scheduling. However, for a cleaner
logical breakdown, the code that enables and completes
hierarchical support is provided in the next commit, which focuses
exactly on this feature.
- B-WF2Q+ guarantees a tight deviation with respect to an ideal,
perfectly fair, and smooth service. In particular, B-WF2Q+
guarantees that each queue receives a fraction of the device
throughput proportional to its weight, even if the throughput
fluctuates, and regardless of: the device parameters, the current
workload and the budgets assigned to the queue.
- The last, budget-independence, property (although probably
counterintuitive in the first place) is definitely beneficial, for
the following reasons:
- First, with any proportional-share scheduler, the maximum
deviation with respect to an ideal service is proportional to
the maximum budget (slice) assigned to queues. As a consequence,
BFQ can keep this deviation tight not only because of the
accurate service of B-WF2Q+, but also because BFQ *does not*
need to assign a larger budget to a queue to let the queue
receive a higher fraction of the device throughput.
- Second, BFQ is free to choose, for every process (queue), the
budget that best fits the needs of the process, or best
leverages the I/O pattern of the process. In particular, BFQ
updates queue budgets with a simple feedback-loop algorithm that
allows a high throughput to be achieved, while still providing
tight latency guarantees to time-sensitive applications. When
the in-service queue expires, this algorithm computes the next
budget of the queue so as to:
- Let large budgets be eventually assigned to the queues
associated with I/O-bound applications performing sequential
I/O: in fact, the longer these applications are served once
got access to the device, the higher the throughput is.
- Let small budgets be eventually assigned to the queues
associated with time-sensitive applications (which typically
perform sporadic and short I/O), because, the smaller the
budget assigned to a queue waiting for service is, the sooner
B-WF2Q+ will serve that queue (Subsec 3.3 in [2]).
- Weights can be assigned to processes only indirectly, through I/O
priorities, and according to the relation:
weight = 10 * (IOPRIO_BE_NR - ioprio).
The next patch provides, instead, a cgroups interface through which
weights can be assigned explicitly.
- If several processes are competing for the device at the same time,
but all processes and groups have the same weight, then BFQ
guarantees the expected throughput distribution without ever idling
the device. It uses preemption instead. Throughput is then much
higher in this common scenario.
- ioprio classes are served in strict priority order, i.e.,
lower-priority queues are not served as long as there are
higher-priority queues. Among queues in the same class, the
bandwidth is distributed in proportion to the weight of each
queue. A very thin extra bandwidth is however guaranteed to the Idle
class, to prevent it from starving.
- If the strict_guarantees parameter is set (default: unset), then BFQ
- always performs idling when the in-service queue becomes empty;
- forces the device to serve one I/O request at a time, by
dispatching a new request only if there is no outstanding
request.
In the presence of differentiated weights or I/O-request sizes,
both the above conditions are needed to guarantee that every
queue receives its allotted share of the bandwidth (see
Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt for more details). Setting
strict_guarantees may evidently affect throughput.
[2] P. Valente and M. Andreolini, "Improving Application
Responsiveness with the BFQ Disk I/O Scheduler", Proceedings of
the 5th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference
(SYSTOR '12), June 2012.
Slightly extended version:
http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/bfq-v1-suite-
results.pdf
Josef Bacik [Tue, 18 Apr 2017 20:22:51 +0000 (16:22 -0400)]
nbd: set the max segment size to UINT_MAX
NBD doesn't care about limiting the segment size, let the user push the
largest bio's they want. This allows us to control the request size
solely through max_sectors_kb.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Marc Olson [Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:24:09 +0000 (12:24 -0700)]
blkfront: add uevent for size change
When a blkfront device is resized from dom0, emit a KOBJ_CHANGE uevent to
notify the guest about the change. This allows for custom udev rules, such
as automatically resizing a filesystem, when an event occurs.
Josef Bacik [Thu, 6 Apr 2017 21:02:07 +0000 (17:02 -0400)]
nbd: add a flag to destroy an nbd device on disconnect
For ease of management it would be nice for users to specify that the
device node for a nbd device is destroyed once it is disconnected and
there are no more users. Add a client flag and enable this operation to
happen.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Josef Bacik [Thu, 6 Apr 2017 21:02:06 +0000 (17:02 -0400)]
nbd: add device refcounting
In order to support deleting the device on disconnect we need to
refcount the actual nbd_device struct. So add the refcounting framework
and change how we free the normal devices at rmmod time so we can catch
reference leaks.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Josef Bacik [Thu, 6 Apr 2017 21:02:05 +0000 (17:02 -0400)]
nbd: add a status netlink command
Allow users to query the status of existing nbd devices. Right now this
only returns whether or not the device is connected, but could be
extended in the future to include more information.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Josef Bacik [Thu, 6 Apr 2017 21:02:04 +0000 (17:02 -0400)]
nbd: handle dead connections
Sometimes we like to upgrade our server without making all of our
clients freak out and reconnect. This patch provides a way to specify a
dead connection timeout to allow us to pause all requests and wait for
new connections to be opened. With this in place I can take down the
nbd server for less than the dead connection timeout time and bring it
back up and everything resumes gracefully.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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