The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device
prior to putting metadata down. However, not all devices return zeroed
blocks after a discard. Some drives return stale data, potentially
containing old superblocks. It is therefore important to know whether
discarded blocks are properly zeroed.
Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether
zeroes are returned after a discard operation. Implement a block level
interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and
queried via a new block device ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This reverts commit 3586e917f2.
Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> correctly points out, that we need
consistency of rb_key offset across groups. This means we cannot properly
use the per-service_tree service count. Revert this change.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Idling logic was disabled in some corner cases, leading to unfair share
for noidle queues.
* the idle timer was not armed if there were other requests in the
driver. unfortunately, those requests could come from other workloads,
or queues for which we don't enable idling. So we will check only
pending requests from the active queue
* rq_noidle check on no-idle queue could disable the end of tree idle if
the last completed request was rq_noidle. Now, we will disable that
idle only if all the queues served in the no-idle tree had rq_noidle
requests.
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Seeky sync queues with large depth can gain unfairly big share of disk
time, at the expense of other seeky queues. This patch ensures that
idling will be enabled for queues with I/O depth at least 4, and small
think time. The decision to enable idling is sticky, until an idle
window times out without seeing a new request.
The reasoning behind the decision is that, if an application is using
large I/O depth, it is already optimized to make full utilization of
the hardware, and therefore we reserve a slice of exclusive use for it.
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
An incoming no-idle queue should preempt the active no-idle queue
only if the active queue is idling due to service tree empty.
Previous code was buggy in two ways:
* it relied on service_tree field to be set on the active queue, while
it is not set when the code is idling for a new request
* it didn't check for the service tree empty condition, so could lead to
LIFO behaviour if multiple queues with depth > 1 were preempting each
other on an non-NCQ device.
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
CFQ's detection of queueing devices initially assumes a queuing device
and detects if the queue depth reaches a certain threshold.
However, it will reconsider this choice periodically.
Unfortunately, if device is considered not queuing, CFQ will force a
unit queue depth for some workloads, thus defeating the detection logic.
This leads to poor performance on queuing hardware,
since the idle window remains enabled.
Given this premise, switching to hw_tag = 0 after we have proved at
least once that the device is NCQ capable is not a good choice.
The new detection code starts in an indeterminate state, in which CFQ behaves
as if hw_tag = 1, and then, if for a long observation period we never saw
large depth, we switch to hw_tag = 0, otherwise we stick to hw_tag = 1,
without reconsidering it again.
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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>
cfq_should_idle returns false for no-idle queues that are not the last,
so the control flow will never reach the removed code in a state that
satisfies the if condition.
The unreachable code was added to emulate previous cfq behaviour for
non-NCQ rotational devices. My tests show that even without it, the
performances and fairness are comparable with previous cfq, thanks to
the fact that all seeky queues are grouped together, and that we idle at
the end of the tree.
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request. So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases. The patch fixes this.
The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op. Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.
See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
For the moment, different workload cfq queues are put into different
service trees. But CFQ still uses "busy_queues" to estimate rb_key
offset when inserting a cfq queue into a service tree. I think this
isn't appropriate, and it should make use of service tree count to do
this estimation. This patch is for for-2.6.33 branch.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Since 8.3.3 we fail to do the resync when a partial resynch is not
possible, but a full synch is necessary.
This regression was introduced with 7101539930c0a89146959e7a39c09ad9c3516434
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Otherwise the 'state fixup' in the receiver will change to Unconnected,
but the receiver will terminate itself, and any attempt at 'down'ing
that drbd later will block forever.
see also Bugz. #259
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
this is uncritical, as we still also serialize in userland,
but to correctly serialize on the CONFIG_PENDING bit,
it must be wait_event(state_wait, \!test_and_set_bit)
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
A recent commit broke the ia64 build:
Author: Don Brace <brace@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Date: Thu Nov 12 12:50:01 2009 -0600
cciss: Add enhanced scatter-gather support.
because of this hunk:
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.h
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.h
+struct Cmd_sg_list {
+ SGDescriptor_struct *sgchain;
+ dma64_addr_t sg_chain_dma;
+ int chain_block_size;
+};
The issue is that dma64_addr_t isn't #define'd on ia64.
The way that we're using Cmd_sg_list.sg_chain_dma is to hold an
address returned from pci_map_single().
+ temp64.val = pci_map_single(h->pdev,
+ h->cmd_sg_list[c->cmdindex]->sgchain,
+ len, dir);
+
+ h->cmd_sg_list[c->cmdindex]->sg_chain_dma = temp64.val;
pci_map_single() returns a dma_addr_t too.
This code will still work even on a 32-bit x86 build, where
dma_addr_t is defined to be a u32 because it will simply be
promoted to the __u64 that temp64.val is defined as.
Thus, declaring Cmd_sg_list.sg_chain_dma as dma_addr_t is safe.
Cc: Don Brace <brace@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Cc: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
On driver unload, only free up the extra scatter gather data if they were
allocated in the first place (the controller supports it) and don't forget
to free up the sg_cmd_list array of pointers.
Signed-off-by: Don Brace <brace@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The size of EFI GPT header is not static, but whole sector is
allocated for the header. The HeaderSize field must be greater
than 92 (= sizeof(struct gpt_header) and must be less than or
equal to the logical block size.
It means we have to read whole sector with the header, because the
header crc32 checksum is calculated according to HeaderSize.
For more details see UEFI standard (version 2.3, May 2009):
- 5.3.1 GUID Format overview, page 93
- Table 13. GUID Partition Table Header, page 96
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cciss: Fix weird usage of ENXIO in cciss_scsi.c
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cciss: Add enhanced scatter-gather support. For controllers which
supported, more than 512 scatter-gather elements per command may
be used, and the max transfer size can be increased to 8192 blocks.
Signed-off-by: Don Brace <brace@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cciss: Do not automatically rescan on UNIT ATTENTION/LUN DATA CHANGED
There are problems with doing this. If, say, several logical drives
are deleted at once, several such UNIT ATTENTIONS will be encountered,
often during the rescan triggered by the first such UNIT ATTENTION.
The block layer may be in the midst of trying to add logical drives
which were just deleted (resulting in the subsequent UNIT ATTENTION(s).)
Making the rescan code robust enough to tolerate this kind of thing
is too complicated for the moment. So, for now, we just don't do it.
Note: This UNIT ATTENTION/LUN DATA CHANGED situation only occurs on
the MSA2012.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cciss: Remove unnecessary check in scan_thread
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cciss: fix typo that causes scsi status to be lost.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cciss: remove sendcmd() as it is no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cciss: clean up code in cciss_shutdown. Send the flush cache
command down with interrupts still enabled, and do not do DMA
from the stack.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cciss: Remove the "withirq" parameter from various functions where possible
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cciss: Retry driver initiated cmds with unit attention condition
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cciss: Fix problem with remove_from_scan_list that on driver unload
it doesn't remove the controller from the scan list correctly if
the controller is currently being scanned for new devices.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cciss: Make device attributes static
Cc: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Use HZ-independent calculation of milliseconds.
Add jiffies.h where it was missing since functions or macros
from it are used.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often
have allocation blocks that are bigger. Allow the discard granularity
and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to
handle them.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cfq has a bug in computation of next_rq, that affects transition
between multiple sequential request streams in a single queue
(e.g.: two sequential buffered writers of the same priority),
causing the alternation between the two streams for a transient period.
8,0 1 18737 0.260400660 5312 D W 141653311 + 256
8,0 1 20839 0.273239461 5400 D W 141653567 + 256
8,0 1 20841 0.276343885 5394 D W 142803919 + 256
8,0 1 20843 0.279490878 5394 D W 141668927 + 256
8,0 1 20845 0.292459993 5400 D W 142804175 + 256
8,0 1 20847 0.295537247 5400 D W 141668671 + 256
8,0 1 20849 0.298656337 5400 D W 142804431 + 256
8,0 1 20851 0.311481148 5394 D W 141668415 + 256
8,0 1 20853 0.314421305 5394 D W 142804687 + 256
8,0 1 20855 0.318960112 5400 D W 142804943 + 256
The fix makes sure that the next_rq is computed from the last
dispatched request, and not affected by merging.
8,0 1 37776 4.305161306 0 D W 141738087 + 256
8,0 1 37778 4.308298091 0 D W 141738343 + 256
8,0 1 37780 4.312885190 0 D W 141738599 + 256
8,0 1 37782 4.315933291 0 D W 141738855 + 256
8,0 1 37784 4.319064459 0 D W 141739111 + 256
8,0 1 37786 4.331918431 5672 D W 142803007 + 256
8,0 1 37788 4.334930332 5672 D W 142803263 + 256
8,0 1 37790 4.337902723 5672 D W 142803519 + 256
8,0 1 37792 4.342359774 5672 D W 142803775 + 256
8,0 1 37794 4.345318286 0 D W 142804031 + 256
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When there are many blocks on the fly (ua), and the AL gets into "starving"
mode (random IO, scattered all over the device), and the connections gets
interrupted, the receiver thread deadlocks in the drbd_disconnect() code path.
Affected are only nodes in Primary role.
The bug triggers most likely on system that mirror over "long distances"
Regression introduced shortly before 8.3.3
with git commit 31e0f1250f174ac1ee317f360943a0159e19edc8
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
When IO gets frozen due to a broken fence-peer script, the user
should be able to thaw IO by the resume-io command.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
To check wether we are truncating a very large device due to limited
meta data space, we need to check the ll_dev size.
Also improve the printk to suggest "flexible" or "internal".
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Quiet sparse noise about symbol's not being declared.
Symbol blk_default_cmd_filter is only used locally and should be static.
The function blk_scsi_ioctl_init() is a fs_initcall and should also be
static.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
sendfile(2) was reworked with the splice infrastructure, but it still
checks f_op.sendpage() instead of f_op.splice_write() wrongly. Although
if f_op.sendpage() exists, f_op.splice_write() always exists at the same
time currently, the assumption will be broken in future silently. This
patch also brings a side effect: sendfile(2) can work with any output
file. Some security checks related to f_op are added too.
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The current PS3 VRAM driver uses msleep() to wait for completion of RSX
DMA transfers between system memory and VRAM. Depending on the system
timing, the processing delay and overhead of this msleep() call can
significantly impact VRAM driver IO.
To avoid the condition, add a short duration (200 usec max) udelay()
polling loop before entering the msleep() polling loop.
Signed-off-by: Hideyuki Sasaki <xhide@rd.scei.sony.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We need to rework this logic post the cooperating cfq_queue merging,
for now just get rid of it and Jeff Moyer will fix the fall out.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
CFQ has an optimization for cooperated applications. if several
io-context have close requests, they will get boost. But the
optimization get abused. Considering thread a, b, which work on one
file. a reads sectors s, s+2, s+4, ...; b reads sectors s+1, s+3, s
+5, ... Both a and b are sequential read, so they can open idle window.
a reads a sector s and goes to idle window and wakeup b. b reads sector
s+1, since in current implementation, cfq_should_preempt() thinks a and
b are cooperators, b will preempt a. b then reads sector s+1 and goes to
idle window and wakeup a. for the same reason, a will preempt b and
reads s+2. a and b will continue the circle. The circle will be very
long, and a and b will occupy whole disk queue. Other applications will
nearly have no chance to run.
Fix this limiting coop preempt until a queue is scheduled normally
again.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
