20 Sep, 2012
2 commits
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The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same
block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a
single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device
writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O.This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The
blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block
drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to
efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc.Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer
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Remove special-casing of non-rw fs style requests (discard). The nomerge
flags are consolidated in blk_types.h, and rq_mergeable() and
bio_mergeable() have been modified to use them.bio_is_rw() is used in place of bio_has_data() a few places. This is
done to to distinguish true reads and writes from other fs type requests
that carry a payload (e.g. write same).Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
09 Sep, 2012
3 commits
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Now that we've got generic code for freeing bios allocated from bio
pools, this isn't needed anymore.This patch also makes bio_free() static, since without bi_destructor
there should be no need for it to be called anywhere else.bio_free() is now only called from bio_put, so we can refactor those a
bit - move some code from bio_put() to bio_free() and kill the redundant
bio->bi_next = NULL.v5: Switch to BIO_KMALLOC_POOL ((void *)~0), per Boaz
v6: BIO_KMALLOC_POOL now NULL, drop bio_free's EXPORT_SYMBOL
v7: No #define BIO_KMALLOC_POOL anymoreSigned-off-by: Kent Overstreet
CC: Jens Axboe
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Reusing bios is something that's been highly frowned upon in the past,
but driver code keeps doing it anyways. If it's going to happen anyways,
we should provide a generic method.This'll help with getting rid of bi_destructor - drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
was open coding it, by doing a bio_init() and resetting bi_destructor.This required reordering struct bio, but the block layer is not yet
nearly fast enough for any cacheline effects to matter here.v5: Add a define BIO_RESET_BITS, to be very explicit about what parts of
bio->bi_flags are saved.
v6: Further commenting verbosity, per Tejun
v9: Add a function commentSigned-off-by: Kent Overstreet
CC: Jens Axboe
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
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With the old code, when you allocate a bio from a bio pool you have to
implement your own destructor that knows how to find the bio pool the
bio was originally allocated from.This adds a new field to struct bio (bi_pool) and changes
bio_alloc_bioset() to use it. This makes various bio destructors
unnecessary, so they're then deleted.v6: Explain the temporary if statement in bio_put
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet
CC: Jens Axboe
CC: NeilBrown
CC: Alasdair Kergon
CC: Nicholas Bellinger
CC: Lars Ellenberg
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Nicholas Bellinger
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
01 Aug, 2012
1 commit
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This patch adds two new APIs get_kernel_pages() and get_kernel_page() that
may be used to pin a vector of kernel addresses for IO. The initial user
is expected to be NFS for allowing pages to be written to swap using
aops->direct_IO(). Strictly speaking, swap-over-NFS only needs to pin one
page for IO but it makes sense to express the API in terms of a vector and
add a helper for pinning single pages.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Eric B Munson
Cc: Eric Paris
Cc: James Morris
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Mike Christie
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Cc: Xiaotian Feng
Cc: Mark Salter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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IO scheduling and cgroup are tied to the issuing task via io_context
and cgroup of %current. Unfortunately, there are cases where IOs need
to be routed via a different task which makes scheduling and cgroup
limit enforcement applied completely incorrectly.For example, all bios delayed by blk-throttle end up being issued by a
delayed work item and get assigned the io_context of the worker task
which happens to serve the work item and dumped to the default block
cgroup. This is double confusing as bios which aren't delayed end up
in the correct cgroup and makes using blk-throttle and cfq propio
together impossible.Any code which punts IO issuing to another task is affected which is
getting more and more common (e.g. btrfs). As both io_context and
cgroup are firmly tied to task including userland visible APIs to
manipulate them, it makes a lot of sense to match up tasks to bios.This patch implements bio_associate_current() which associates the
specified bio with %current. The bio will record the associated ioc
and blkcg at that point and block layer will use the recorded ones
regardless of which task actually ends up issuing the bio. bio
release puts the associated ioc and blkcg.It grabs and remembers ioc and blkcg instead of the task itself
because task may already be dead by the time the bio is issued making
ioc and blkcg inaccessible and those are all block layer cares about.elevator_set_req_fn() is updated such that the bio elvdata is being
allocated for is available to the elevator.This doesn't update block cgroup policies yet. Further patches will
implement the support.-v2: #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP added around bio->bi_ioc dereference in
rq_ioc() to fix build breakage.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Vivek Goyal
Cc: Kent Overstreet
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
24 Oct, 2011
1 commit
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bio originally has the functionality to set the complete cpu, but
it is broken.Chirstoph said that "This code is unused, and from the all the
discussions lately pretty obviously broken. The only thing keeping
it serves is creating more confusion and possibly more bugs."And Jens replied with "We can kill bio_set_completion_cpu(). I'm fine
with leaving cpu control to the request based drivers, they are the
only ones that can toggle the setting anyway".So this patch tries to remove all the work of controling complete cpu
from a bio.Cc: Shaohua Li
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
23 Aug, 2011
1 commit
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Add a new REQ_PRIO to let requests preempt others in the cfq I/O schedule,
and lave REQ_META purely for marking requests as metadata in blktrace.All existing callers of REQ_META except for XFS are updated to also
set REQ_PRIO for now.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
11 Aug, 2011
1 commit
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REQ_SECURE, REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA may all be set on a bio as well as
on a request, so relocate them to the shared part of the enum.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
20 Jun, 2011
1 commit
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Add REQ_SECURE flag to REQ_COMMON_MASK so that
init_request_from_bio() can pass it to @req->cmd_flags.Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.36 and newer
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
21 May, 2011
1 commit
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We don't need them anymore, so kill:
- REQ_ON_PLUG checks in various places
- !rq_mergeable() check in plug mergingSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe
10 Mar, 2011
2 commits
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With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
25 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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rq == &q->flush_rq was used to determine whether a rq is part of a
flush sequence, which worked because all requests in a flush sequence
were sequenced using the single dedicated request. This is about to
change, so introduce REQ_FLUSH_SEQ flag to distinguish flush sequence
requests.This patch doesn't cause any behavior change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
10 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers. What's left
at this point is:- various checks inside the block layer.
- sanity checks in bio based drivers.
- now unused bio_empty_barrier helper.
- Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while,
but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton.
- setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi
drivers.
- scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been
removed when flushes were converted to FS requests.
- blktrace handling of barriers - removed. Someone who knows blktrace
better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
23 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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* 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (46 commits)
xen-blkfront: disable barrier/flush write support
Added blk-lib.c and blk-barrier.c was renamed to blk-flush.c
block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT
aic7xxx_old: removed unused 'req' variable
block: remove the BH_Eopnotsupp flag
block: remove the BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER flag
block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag
swap: do not send discards as barriers
fat: do not send discards as barriers
ext4: do not send discards as barriers
jbd2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
jbd2: Modify ASYNC_COMMIT code to not rely on queue draining on barrier
jbd: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
nilfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
reiserfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
gfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
btrfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
xfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
block: pass gfp_mask and flags to sb_issue_discard
dm: convey that all flushes are processed as empty
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15 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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Previously we tracked whether the integrity metadata had been remapped
using a request flag. This was fine for low-level retries. However, if
an I/O was redriven by upper layers we would end up remapping again,
causing the retry to fail.Deprecate the REQ_INTEGRITY flag and introduce BIO_MAPPED_INTEGRITY
which enables filesystems to notify lower layers that the bio in
question has already been remapped.Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
16 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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o Actual implementation of throttling policy in block layer. Currently it
implements READ and WRITE bytes per second throttling logic. IOPS throttling
comes in later patches.Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
10 Sep, 2010
3 commits
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Currently __blk_rq_prep_clone() copies only REQ_WRITE and REQ_DISCARD.
There's no reason to omit other command flags and REQ_FUA needs to be
copied to implement FUA support in request-based dm.REQ_COMMON_MASK which specifies flags to be copied from bio to request
already identifies all the command flags. Define REQ_CLONE_MASK to be
the same as REQ_COMMON_MASK for clarity and make __blk_rq_prep_clone()
copy all flags in the mask.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
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Now that the backend conversion is complete, export sequenced
FLUSH/FUA capability through REQ_FLUSH/FUA flags. REQ_FLUSH means the
device cache should be flushed before executing the request. REQ_FUA
means that the data in the request should be on non-volatile media on
completion.Block layer will choose the correct way of implementing the semantics
and execute it. The request may be passed to the device directly if
the device can handle it; otherwise, it will be sequenced using one or
more proxy requests. Devices will never see REQ_FLUSH and/or FUA
which it doesn't support.Also, unlike the original REQ_HARDBARRIER, REQ_FLUSH/FUA requests are
never failed with -EOPNOTSUPP. If the underlying device doesn't
support FLUSH/FUA, the block layer simply make those noop. IOW, it no
longer distinguishes between writeback cache which doesn't support
cache flush and writethrough/no cache. Devices which have WB cache
w/o flush are very difficult to come by these days and there's nothing
much we can do anyway, so it doesn't make sense to require everyone to
implement -EOPNOTSUPP handling. This will simplify filesystems and
block drivers as they can drop -EOPNOTSUPP retry logic for barriers.* QUEUE_ORDERED_* are removed and QUEUE_FSEQ_* are moved into
blk-flush.c.* REQ_FLUSH w/o data can also be directly passed to drivers without
sequencing but some drivers assume that zero length requests don't
have rq->bio which isn't true for these requests requiring the use
of proxy requests.* REQ_COMMON_MASK now includes REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA so that they are
copied from bio to request.* WRITE_BARRIER is marked deprecated and WRITE_FLUSH, WRITE_FUA and
WRITE_FLUSH_FUA are added.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
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Filesystems will take all the responsibilities for ordering requests
around commit writes and will only indicate how the commit writes
themselves should be handled by block layers. This patch drops
barrier ordering by queue draining from block layer. Ordering by
draining implementation was somewhat invasive to request handling.
List of notable changes follow.* Each queue has 1 bit color which is flipped on each barrier issue.
This is used to track whether a given request is issued before the
current barrier or not. REQ_ORDERED_COLOR flag and coloring
implementation in __elv_add_request() are removed.* Requests which shouldn't be processed yet for draining were stalled
by returning -EAGAIN from blk_do_ordered() according to the test
result between blk_ordered_req_seq() and blk_blk_ordered_cur_seq().
This logic is removed.* Draining completion logic in elv_completed_request() removed.
* All barrier sequence requests were queued to request queue and then
trckled to lower layer according to progress and thus maintaining
request orders during requeue was necessary. This is replaced by
queueing the next request in the barrier sequence only after the
current one is complete from blk_ordered_complete_seq(), which
removes the need for multiple proxy requests in struct request_queue
and the request sorting logic in the ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE path of
elv_insert().* As barriers no longer have ordering constraints, there's no need to
dump the whole elevator onto the dispatch queue on each barrier.
Insert barriers at the front instead.* If other barrier requests come to the front of the dispatch queue
while one is already in progress, they are stored in
q->pending_barriers and restored to dispatch queue one-by-one after
each barrier completion from blk_ordered_complete_seq().Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
12 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Secure discard is the same as discard except that all copies of the
discarded sectors (perhaps created by garbage collection) must also be
erased.Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter
Acked-by: Jens Axboe
Cc: Kyungmin Park
Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Ben Gardiner
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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These form the basis of the basic WRITE etc primitives, so we
need them to be always visible. Otherwise we see errors like:mm/filemap.c:2164: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclared
fs/read_write.c:362: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclared
fs/splice.c:1108: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclared
fs/aio.c:1496: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclaredReported-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
08 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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linux/fs.h hard coded READ/WRITE constants which should match BIO_RW_*
flags. This is fragile and caused breakage during BIO_RW_* flag
rearrangement. The hardcoding is to avoid include dependency hell.Create linux/bio_types.h which contatins definitions for bio data
structures and flags and include it from bio.h and fs.h, and make fs.h
define all READ/WRITE related constants in terms of BIO_RW_* flags.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe