linux-toradex.git/block/blk-core.c, branch v3.6

block: rate-limit the error message from failing commands

2012-08-30T23:26:25+00:00

When performing a cable pull test w/ active stress I/O using fio over
a dual port Intel 82599 FCoE CNA, w/ 256LUNs on one port and about 32LUNs
on the other, it is observed that the system becomes not usable due to
scsi-ml being busy printing the error messages for all the failing commands.
I don't believe this problem is specific to FCoE and these commands are
anyway failing due to link being down (DID_NO_CONNECT), just rate-limit
the messages here to solve this issue.

v2->v1: use __ratelimit() as Tomas Henzl mentioned as the proper way for
rate-limit per function. However, in this case, the failed i/o gets to
blk_end_request_err() and then blk_update_request(), which also has to
be rate-limited, as added in the v2 of this patch.

v3-v2: resolved conflict to apply on current 3.6-rc3 upstream tip.

Signed-off-by: Yi Zou 
Cc: www.Open-FCoE.org 
Cc: Tomas Henzl 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk: pass from_schedule to non-request unplug functions.

2012-07-31T07:08:15+00:00

This will allow md/raid to know why the unplug was called,
and will be able to act according - if !from_schedule it
is safe to perform tasks which could themselves schedule.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: stack unplug

2012-07-31T07:08:15+00:00

MD raid1 prepares to dispatch request in unplug callback. If make_request in
low level queue also uses unplug callback to dispatch request, the low level
queue's unplug callback will not be called. Recheck the callback list helps
this case.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk: centralize non-request unplug handling.

2012-07-31T07:08:14+00:00

Both md and umem has similar code for getting notified on an
blk_finish_plug event.
Centralize this code in block/ and allow each driver to
provide its distinctive difference.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation

2012-06-26T22:42:49+00:00

Currently, request_queue has one request_list to allocate requests
from regardless of blkcg of the IO being issued.  When the unified
request pool is used up, cfq proportional IO limits become meaningless
- whoever grabs the next request being freed wins the race regardless
of the configured weights.

This can be easily demonstrated by creating a blkio cgroup w/ very low
weight, put a program which can issue a lot of random direct IOs there
and running a sequential IO from a different cgroup.  As soon as the
request pool is used up, the sequential IO bandwidth crashes.

This patch implements per-blkg request_list.  Each blkg has its own
request_list and any IO allocates its request from the matching blkg
making blkcgs completely isolated in terms of request allocation.

* Root blkcg uses the request_list embedded in each request_queue,
  which was renamed to @q->root_rl from @q->rq.  While making blkcg rl
  handling a bit harier, this enables avoiding most overhead for root
  blkcg.

* Queue fullness is properly per request_list but bdi isn't blkcg
  aware yet, so congestion state currently just follows the root
  blkcg.  As writeback isn't aware of blkcg yet, this works okay for
  async congestion but readahead may get the wrong signals.  It's
  better than blkcg completely collapsing with shared request_list but
  needs to be improved with future changes.

* After this change, each block cgroup gets a full request pool making
  resource consumption of each cgroup higher.  This makes allowing
  non-root users to create cgroups less desirable; however, note that
  allowing non-root users to directly manage cgroups is already
  severely broken regardless of this patch - each block cgroup
  consumes kernel memory and skews IO weight (IO weights are not
  hierarchical).

v2: queue-sysfs.txt updated and patch description udpated as suggested
    by Vivek.

v3: blk_get_rl() wasn't checking error return from
    blkg_lookup_create() and may cause oops on lookup failure.  Fix it
    by falling back to root_rl on blkg lookup failures.  This problem
    was spotted by Rakesh Iyer .

v4: Updated to accomodate 458f27a982 "block: Avoid missed wakeup in
    request waitqueue".  blk_drain_queue() now wakes up waiters on all
    blkg->rl on the target queue.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: prepare for multiple request_lists

2012-06-25T09:53:52+00:00

Request allocation is about to be made per-blkg meaning that there'll
be multiple request lists.

* Make queue full state per request_list.  blk_*queue_full() functions
  are renamed to blk_*rl_full() and takes @rl instead of @q.

* Rename blk_init_free_list() to blk_init_rl() and make it take @rl
  instead of @q.  Also add @gfp_mask parameter.

* Add blk_exit_rl() instead of destroying rl directly from
  blk_release_queue().

* Add request_list->q and make request alloc/free functions -
  blk_free_request(), [__]freed_request(), __get_request() - take @rl
  instead of @q.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add q->nr_rqs[] and move q->rq.elvpriv to q->nr_rqs_elvpriv

2012-06-25T09:53:51+00:00

Add q->nr_rqs[] which currently behaves the same as q->rq.count[] and
move q->rq.elvpriv to q->nr_rqs_elvpriv.  blk_drain_queue() is updated
to use q->nr_rqs[] instead of q->rq.count[].

These counters separates queue-wide request statistics from the
request list and allow implementation of per-queue request allocation.

While at it, properly indent fields of struct request_list.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: allocate io_context upfront

2012-06-25T09:53:50+00:00

Block layer very lazy allocation of ioc.  It waits until the moment
ioc is absolutely necessary; unfortunately, that time could be inside
queue lock and __get_request() performs unlock - try alloc - retry
dancing.

Just allocate it up-front on entry to block layer.  We're not saving
the rain forest by deferring it to the last possible moment and
complicating things unnecessarily.

This patch is to prepare for further updates to request allocation
path.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: refactor get_request[_wait]()

2012-06-25T09:53:49+00:00

Currently, there are two request allocation functions - get_request()
and get_request_wait().  The former tries to allocate a request once
and the latter keeps retrying until it succeeds.  The latter wraps the
former and keeps retrying until allocation succeeds.

The combination of two functions deliver fallible non-wait allocation,
fallible wait allocation and unfailing wait allocation.  However,
given that forward progress is guaranteed, fallible wait allocation
isn't all that useful and in fact nobody uses it.

This patch simplifies the interface as follows.

* get_request() is renamed to __get_request() and is only used by the
  wrapper function.

* get_request_wait() is renamed to get_request().  It now takes
  @gfp_mask and retries iff it contains %__GFP_WAIT.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional change and is to prepare
for further updates to request allocation path.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

mempool: add @gfp_mask to mempool_create_node()

2012-06-25T09:53:47+00:00

mempool_create_node() currently assumes %GFP_KERNEL.  Its only user,
blk_init_free_list(), is about to be updated to use other allocation
flags - add @gfp_mask argument to the function.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe