BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/block/blk-settings.c, branch dev-4.10

Merge branch 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2016-12-13T18:19:16+00:00

Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the main block pull request this series. Contrary to previous release, I've kept the core and driver changes in the same branch. We always ended up having dependencies between the two for obvious reasons, so makes more sense to keep them together. That said, I'll probably try and keep more topical branches going forward, especially for cycles that end up being as busy as this one. The major parts of this pull request is: - Improved support for O_DIRECT on block devices, with a small private implementation instead of using the pig that is fs/direct-io.c. From Christoph. - Request completion tracking in a scalable fashion. This is utilized by two components in this pull, the new hybrid polling and the writeback queue throttling code. - Improved support for polling with O_DIRECT, adding a hybrid mode that combines pure polling with an initial sleep. From me. - Support for automatic throttling of writeback queues on the block side. This uses feedback from the device completion latencies to scale the queue on the block side up or down. From me. - Support from SMR drives in the block layer and for SD. From Hannes and Shaun. - Multi-connection support for nbd. From Josef. - Cleanup of request and bio flags, so we have a clear split between which are bio (or rq) private, and which ones are shared. From Christoph. - A set of patches from Bart, that improve how we handle queue stopping and starting in blk-mq. - Support for WRITE_ZEROES from Chaitanya. - Lightnvm updates from Javier/Matias. - Supoort for FC for the nvme-over-fabrics code. From James Smart. - A bunch of fixes from a whole slew of people, too many to name here" * 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (182 commits) blk-stat: fix a few cases of missing batch flushing blk-flush: run the queue when inserting blk-mq flush elevator: make the rqhash helpers exported blk-mq: abstract out blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() helper blk-mq: add blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queue() block: improve handling of the magic discard payload blk-wbt: don't throttle discard or write zeroes nbd: use dev_err_ratelimited in io path nbd: reset the setup task for NBD_CLEAR_SOCK nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC-NVME nvme-fabrics: Add target support for FC transport nvme-fabrics: Add host support for FC transport nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport LLDD api definitions nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport FC-NVME definitions nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport error codes to nvme.h Add type 0x28 NVME type code to scsi fc headers nvme-fabrics: patch target code in prep for FC transport support nvme-fabrics: set sqe.command_id in core not transports parser: add u64 number parser nvme-rdma: align to generic ib_event logging helper ...

mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting

2016-12-13T02:55:08+00:00

We ran into a funky issue, where someone doing 256K buffered reads saw 128K requests at the device level. Turns out it is read-ahead capping the request size, since we use 128K as the default setting. This doesn't make a lot of sense - if someone is issuing 256K reads, they should see 256K reads, regardless of the read-ahead setting, if the underlying device can support a 256K read in a single command. This patch introduces a bdi hint, io_pages. This is the soft max IO size for the lower level, I've hooked it up to the bdev settings here. Read-ahead is modified to issue the maximum of the user request size, and the read-ahead max size, but capped to the max request size on the device side. The latter is done to avoid reading ahead too much, if the application asks for a huge read. With this patch, the kernel behaves like the application expects. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479498073-8657-1-git-send-email-axboe@fb.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: add support for REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES

2016-12-01T14:58:40+00:00

This adds a new block layer operation to zero out a range of LBAs. This allows to implement zeroing for devices that don't use either discard with a predictable zero pattern or WRITE SAME of zeroes. The prominent example of that is NVMe with the Write Zeroes command, but in the future, this should also help with improving the way zeroing discards work. For this operation, suitable entry is exported in sysfs which indicate the number of maximum bytes allowed in one write zeroes operation by the device. Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: hook up writeback throttling

2016-11-10T20:53:40+00:00

Enable throttling of buffered writeback to make it a lot more smooth, and has way less impact on other system activity. Background writeback should be, by definition, background activity. The fact that we flush huge bundles of it at the time means that it potentially has heavy impacts on foreground workloads, which isn't ideal. We can't easily limit the sizes of writes that we do, since that would impact file system layout in the presence of delayed allocation. So just throttle back buffered writeback, unless someone is waiting for it. The algorithm for when to throttle takes its inspiration in the CoDel networking scheduling algorithm. Like CoDel, blk-wb monitors the minimum latencies of requests over a window of time. In that window of time, if the minimum latency of any request exceeds a given target, then a scale count is incremented and the queue depth is shrunk. The next monitoring window is shrunk accordingly. Unlike CoDel, if we hit a window that exhibits good behavior, then we simply increment the scale count and re-calculate the limits for that scale value. This prevents us from oscillating between a close-to-ideal value and max all the time, instead remaining in the windows where we get good behavior. Unlike CoDel, blk-wb allows the scale count to to negative. This happens if we primarily have writes going on. Unlike positive scale counts, this doesn't change the size of the monitoring window. When the heavy writers finish, blk-bw quickly snaps back to it's stable state of a zero scale count. The patch registers a sysfs entry, 'wb_lat_usec'. This sets the latency target to me met. It defaults to 2 msec for non-rotational storage, and 75 msec for rotational storage. Setting this value to '0' disables blk-wb. Generally, a user would not have to touch this setting. We don't enable WBT on devices that are managed with CFQ, and have a non-root block cgroup attached. If we have a proportional share setup on this particular disk, then the wbt throttling will interfere with that. We don't have a strong need for wbt for that case, since we will rely on CFQ doing that for us. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add code to track actual device queue depth

2016-11-05T23:09:53+00:00

For blk-mq, ->nr_requests does track queue depth, at least at init time. But for the older queue paths, it's simply a soft setting. On top of that, it's generally larger than the hardware setting on purpose, to allow backup of requests for merging. Fill a hole in struct request with a 'queue_depth' member, that drivers can call to more closely inform the block layer of the real queue depth. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: Jan Kara

block: update chunk_sectors in blk_stack_limits()

2016-10-18T16:02:04+00:00

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff Tested-by: Shaun Tancheff Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Add 'zoned' queue limit

2016-10-18T16:02:00+00:00

Add the zoned queue limit to indicate the zoning model of a block device. Defined values are 0 (BLK_ZONED_NONE) for regular block devices, 1 (BLK_ZONED_HA) for host-aware zone block devices and 2 (BLK_ZONED_HM) for host-managed zone block devices. The standards defined drive managed model is not defined here since these block devices do not provide any command for accessing zone information. Drive managed model devices will be reported as BLK_ZONED_NONE. The helper functions blk_queue_zoned_model and bdev_zoned_model return the zoned limit and the functions blk_queue_is_zoned and bdev_is_zoned return a boolean for callers to test if a block device is zoned. The zoned attribute is also exported as a string to applications via sysfs. BLK_ZONED_NONE shows as "none", BLK_ZONED_HA as "host-aware" and BLK_ZONED_HM as "host-managed". Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff Tested-by: Shaun Tancheff Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: kill off q->flush_flags

2016-04-13T19:33:19+00:00

Now that we converted everything to the newer block write cache interface, kill off the queue flush_flags and queueable flush entries. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: kill blk_queue_flush()

2016-04-12T22:00:39+00:00

We don't have any drivers left using it, so kill it off. Update documentation to use the newer blk_queue_write_cache(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig

block: add ability to flag write back caching on a device

2016-04-12T21:46:27+00:00

Add an internal helper and flag for setting whether a queue has write back caching, or write through (or none). Add a sysfs file to show this as well, and make it changeable from user space. This will replace the (awkward) blk_queue_flush() interface that drivers currently use to inform the block layer of write cache state and capabilities. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig