BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/block/blk-sysfs.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

blk-wbt: allow wbt to be enabled always through sysfs

2016-11-28T17:27:03+00:00

Currently there's no way to enable wbt if it's not enabled in the kernel config by default for a device. Allow a write to the 'wbt_lat_usec' queue sysfs file to enable wbt. This is useful for both the kernel config case, but also if the device is CFQ managed and it was turned off by default. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-wbt: allow reset of default latency through sysfs

2016-11-28T17:27:03+00:00

Allow a write of '-1' to reset the default latency target for a given device. This removes knowledge of the different default settings for rotational vs non-rotational from user space. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-mq: make the polling code adaptive

2016-11-17T20:34:57+00:00

The previous commit introduced the hybrid sleep/poll mode. Take that one step further, and use the completion latencies to automatically sleep for half the mean completion time. This is a good approximation. This changes the 'io_poll_delay' sysfs file a bit to expose the various options. Depending on the value, the polling code will behave differently: -1 Never enter hybrid sleep mode 0 Use half of the completion mean for the sleep delay >0 Use this specific value as the sleep delay Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Tested-By: Stephen Bates Reviewed-By: Stephen Bates

blk-mq: implement hybrid poll mode for sync O_DIRECT

2016-11-17T20:34:51+00:00

This patch enables a hybrid polling mode. Instead of polling after IO submission, we can induce an artificial delay, and then poll after that. For example, if the IO is presumed to complete in 8 usecs from now, we can sleep for 4 usecs, wake up, and then do our polling. This still puts a sleep/wakeup cycle in the IO path, but instead of the wakeup happening after the IO has completed, it'll happen before. With this hybrid scheme, we can achieve big latency reductions while still using the same (or less) amount of CPU. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Tested-By: Stephen Bates Reviewed-By: Stephen Bates

blk-wbt: remove stat ops

2016-11-11T23:18:24+00:00

Again a leftover from when the throttling code was generic. Now that we just have the block user, get rid of the stat ops and indirections. 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 scalable completion tracking of requests

2016-11-10T20:53:26+00:00

For legacy block, we simply track them in the request queue. For blk-mq, we track them on a per-sw queue basis, which we can then sum up through the hardware queues and finally to a per device state. The stats are tracked in, roughly, 0.1s interval windows. Add sysfs files to display the stats. The feature is off by default, to avoid any extra overhead. In-kernel users of it can turn it on by setting QUEUE_FLAG_STATS in the queue flags. We currently don't turn it on if someone just reads any of the stats files, that is something we could add as well. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe