Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
- Add BFQ IO scheduler under the new blk-mq scheduling framework. BFQ
was initially a fork of CFQ, but subsequently changed to implement
fairness based on B-WF2Q+, a modified variant of WF2Q. BFQ is meant
to be used on desktop type single drives, providing good fairness.
From Paolo.
- Add Kyber IO scheduler. This is a full multiqueue aware scheduler,
using a scalable token based algorithm that throttles IO based on
live completion IO stats, similary to blk-wbt. From Omar.
- A series from Jan, moving users to separately allocated backing
devices. This continues the work of separating backing device life
times, solving various problems with hot removal.
- A series of updates for lightnvm, mostly from Javier. Includes a
'pblk' target that exposes an open channel SSD as a physical block
device.
- A series of fixes and improvements for nbd from Josef.
- A series from Omar, removing queue sharing between devices on mostly
legacy drivers. This helps us clean up other bits, if we know that a
queue only has a single device backing. This has been overdue for
more than a decade.
- Fixes for the blk-stats, and improvements to unify the stats and user
windows. This both improves blk-wbt, and enables other users to
register a need to receive IO stats for a device. From Omar.
- blk-throttle improvements from Shaohua. This provides a scalable
framework for implementing scalable priotization - particularly for
blk-mq, but applicable to any type of block device. The interface is
marked experimental for now.
- Bucketized IO stats for IO polling from Stephen Bates. This improves
efficiency of polled workloads in the presence of mixed block size
IO.
- A few fixes for opal, from Scott.
- A few pulls for NVMe, including a lot of fixes for NVMe-over-fabrics.
From a variety of folks, mostly Sagi and James Smart.
- A series from Bart, improving our exposed info and capabilities from
the blk-mq debugfs support.
- A series from Christoph, cleaning up how handle WRITE_ZEROES.
- A series from Christoph, cleaning up the block layer handling of how
we track errors in a request. On top of being a nice cleanup, it also
shrinks the size of struct request a bit.
- Removal of mg_disk and hd (sorry Linus) by Christoph. The former was
never used by platforms, and the latter has outlived it's usefulness.
- Various little bug fixes and cleanups from a wide variety of folks.
* 'for-4.12/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (329 commits)
block: hide badblocks attribute by default
blk-mq: unify hctx delay_work and run_work
block: add kblock_mod_delayed_work_on()
blk-mq: unify hctx delayed_run_work and run_work
nbd: fix use after free on module unload
MAINTAINERS: bfq: Add Paolo as maintainer for the BFQ I/O scheduler
blk-mq-sched: alloate reserved tags out of normal pool
mtip32xx: use runtime tag to initialize command header
scsi: Implement blk_mq_ops.show_rq()
blk-mq: Add blk_mq_ops.show_rq()
blk-mq: Show operation, cmd_flags and rq_flags names
blk-mq: Make blk_flags_show() callers append a newline character
blk-mq: Move the "state" debugfs attribute one level down
blk-mq: Unregister debugfs attributes earlier
blk-mq: Only unregister hctxs for which registration succeeded
blk-mq-debugfs: Rename functions for registering and unregistering the mq directory
blk-mq: Let blk_mq_debugfs_register() look up the queue name
blk-mq: Register <dev>/queue/mq after having registered <dev>/queue
ide-pm: always pass 0 error to ide_complete_rq in ide_do_devset
ide-pm: always pass 0 error to __blk_end_request_all
..
Commit 99e6608c9e "block: Add badblock management for gendisks"
allowed for drivers like pmem and software-raid to advertise a list of
bad media areas. However, it inadvertently added a 'badblocks' to all
block devices. Lets clean this up by having the 'badblocks' attribute
not be visible when the driver has not populated a 'struct badblocks'
instance in the gendisk.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The only difference between ->run_work and ->delay_work, is that
the latter is used to defer running a queue. This is done by
marking the queue stopped, and scheduling ->delay_work to run
sometime in the future. While the queue is stopped, direct runs
or runs through ->run_work will not run the queue.
If we combine the handlers, then we need to handle two things:
1) If a delayed/stopped run is scheduled, then we should not run
the queue before that has been completed.
2) If a queue is delayed/stopped, the handler needs to restart
the queue. Normally a run of a queue with the stopped bit set
would be a no-op.
Case 1 is handled by modifying a currently pending queue run
to the deadline set by the caller of blk_mq_delay_queue().
Subsequent attempts to queue a queue run will find the work
item already pending, and direct runs will see a stopped queue
as before.
Case 2 is handled by adding a new bit, BLK_MQ_S_START_ON_RUN,
that tells the work handler that it should clear a stopped
queue and run the handler.
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This modifies (or adds, if not currently pending) an existing
delayed work item.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
They serve the exact same purpose. Get rid of the non-delayed
work variant, and just run it without delay for the normal case.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
At least one driver, mtip32xx, has a hard coded dependency on
the value of the reserved tag used for internal commands. While
that should really be fixed up, for now let's ensure that we just
bypass the scheduler tags an allocation marked as reserved. They
are used for house keeping or error handling, so we can safely
ignore them in the scheduler.
Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This new callback function will be used in the next patch to show
more information about SCSI requests.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Show the operation name, .cmd_flags and .rq_flags as names instead
of numbers.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch does not change any functionality but makes it possible
to produce a single line of output with multiple flag-to-name
translations.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Move the "state" attribute from the top level to the "mq" directory
as requested by Omar.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We currently call blk_mq_free_queue() from blk_cleanup_queue()
before we unregister the debugfs attributes for that queue in
blk_release_queue(). This leaves a window open during which
accessing most of the mq debugfs attributes would cause a
use-after-free. Additionally, the "state" attribute allows
running the queue, which we should not do after the queue has
entered the "dead" state. Fix both cases by unregistering the
debugfs attributes before freeing queue resources starts.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Hctx unregistration involves calling kobject_del(). kobject_del()
must not be called if kobject_add() has not been called. Hence in
the error path only unregister hctxs for which registration succeeded.
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>
Since the blk_mq_debugfs_*register_hctxs() functions register and
unregister all attributes under the "mq" directory, rename these
into blk_mq_debugfs_*register_mq().
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
A later patch will move the call of blk_mq_debugfs_register() to
a function to which the queue name is not passed as an argument.
To avoid having to add a 'name' argument to multiple callers, let
blk_mq_debugfs_register() look up the queue name.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
A later patch in this series will modify blk_mq_debugfs_register()
such that it uses q->kobj.parent to determine the name of a
request queue. Hence make sure that that pointer is initialized
before blk_mq_debugfs_register() is called. To avoid lock inversion,
protect sysfs / debugfs registration with the queue sysfs_lock
instead of the global mutex all_q_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
When registering an integrity profile: if the template's interval_exp is
not 0 use it, otherwise use the ilog2() of logical block size of the
provided gendisk.
This fixes a long-standing DM linear target bug where it cannot pass
integrity data to the underlying device if its logical block size
conflicts with the underlying device's logical block size.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Commit 25520d55cd ("block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk")
introduced blk_integrity_revalidate(), which seems to assume ownership
of the stable pages flag and unilaterally clears it if no blk_integrity
profile is registered:
if (bi->profile)
disk->queue->backing_dev_info->capabilities |=
BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;
else
disk->queue->backing_dev_info->capabilities &=
~BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;
It's called from revalidate_disk() and rescan_partitions(), making it
impossible to enable stable pages for drivers that support partitions
and don't use blk_integrity: while the call in revalidate_disk() can be
trivially worked around (see zram, which doesn't support partitions and
hence gets away with zram_revalidate_disk()), rescan_partitions() can
be triggered from userspace at any time. This breaks rbd, where the
ceph messenger is responsible for generating/verifying CRCs.
Since blk_integrity_{un,}register() "must" be used for (un)registering
the integrity profile with the block layer, move BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES
setting there. This way drivers that call blk_integrity_register() and
use integrity infrastructure won't interfere with drivers that don't
but still want stable pages.
Fixes: 25520d55cd ("block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk")
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+, needs backporting
Tested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Avoid that the following kernel bug gets triggered:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/buffer_head.h:349
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 8019, name: find
CPU: 10 PID: 8019 Comm: find Tainted: G W I 4.11.0-rc4-dbg+ #2
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x68/0x93
___might_sleep+0x16e/0x230
__might_sleep+0x4a/0x80
__ext4_get_inode_loc+0x1e0/0x4e0
ext4_iget+0x70/0xbc0
ext4_iget_normal+0x2f/0x40
ext4_lookup+0xb6/0x1f0
lookup_slow+0x104/0x1e0
walk_component+0x19a/0x330
path_lookupat+0x4b/0x100
filename_lookup+0x9a/0x110
user_path_at_empty+0x36/0x40
vfs_statx+0x67/0xc0
SYSC_newfstatat+0x20/0x40
SyS_newfstatat+0xe/0x10
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad
This happens since the big if/else in blk_mq_make_request() doesn't
have final else section that also drops the ctx. Add that.
Fixes: b00c53e8f4 ("blk-mq: fix schedule-while-atomic with scheduler attached")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Added a bit more to the commit log.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
No point in providing and exporting this helper. There's just
one (real) user of it, just use rq_data_dir().
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
commit c13660a08c ("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>
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>
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: 720b8ccc45 ("blk-mq: Add a polling specific stats function")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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>
In order to allow for filtering of IO based on some other properties
of the request than direction we allow the bucket function to return
an int.
If the bucket callback returns a negative do no count it in the stats
accumulation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
Fixed up Kyber scheduler stat callback.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If we have a scheduler attached, blk_mq_tag_to_rq() on the
scheduled tags will return NULL if a request is no longer
in flight. This is different than using the normal tags,
where it will always return the fixed request. Check for
this condition for polling, in case we happen to enter
polling for a completed request.
The request address remains valid, so this check and return
should be perfectly safe.
Fixes: bd166ef183 ("blk-mq-sched: add framework for MQ capable IO schedulers")
Tested-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Merge blk_mq_ipi_complete_request and blk_mq_stat_add into their only
caller.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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>
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>
The function only returns -EIO if rq->errors is non-zero, which is not
very useful and lets a large number of callers ignore the return value.
Just let the callers figure out their error themselves.
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>
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>
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>
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>
Export this function such that it becomes available to block
drivers.
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>
If one driver claims that it doesn't support io scheduler via
BLK_MQ_F_NO_SCHED, we should not allow to change and show the
availabe io schedulers.
This patch adds check to enhance this behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_insert_flush should be using __blk_end_request to start with.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This function is not used anywhere in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Both functions are entirely unused.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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>
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>
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.
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Riccardo Pizzetti <riccardo.pizzetti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuele Zecchini <samuele.zecchini92@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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.
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Andreolini <mauro.andreolini@unimore.it>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
