kernel/linux.git/block/blk-sysfs.c, branch v3.16.4

block: only allocate/free mq_usage_counter in blk-mq

2014-05-27T15:37:08+00:00

The percpu counter is only used for blk-mq, so move its allocation and free inside blk-mq, and don't allocate it for legacy queue device. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-mq: allow changing of queue depth through sysfs

2014-05-20T17:49:02+00:00

For request_fn based devices, the block layer exports a 'nr_requests' file through sysfs to allow adjusting of queue depth on the fly. Currently this returns -EINVAL for blk-mq, since it's not wired up. Wire this up for blk-mq, so that it now also always dynamic adjustments of the allowed queue depth for any given block device managed by blk-mq. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-mq: rework flush sequencing logic

2014-02-10T16:29:00+00:00

Witch to using a preallocated flush_rq for blk-mq similar to what's done with the old request path. This allows us to set up the request properly with a tag from the actually allowed range and ->rq_disk as needed by some drivers. To make life easier we also switch to dynamic allocation of ->flush_rq for the old path. This effectively reverts most of "blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock" and "blk-mq: Don't reserve a tag for flush request" Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()

2013-12-31T16:53:05+00:00

blk_mq_free_queue() is called from release handler of queue kobject, so it needn't be called from drivers. Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS

2013-11-15T00:32:22+00:00

We've switched over every architecture that supports SMP to it, so remove the new useless config variable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism

2013-10-25T10:56:00+00:00

Linux currently has two models for block devices: - The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag management, timeout handling, queueing, etc. - The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack, driver generally have to manage everything themselves. With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands per device. The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent everything, and along with that we get all the problems again that the shared approach solved. This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues. We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports. blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include: - Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed tags, to enable cache hot reuse. - Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification, if a request happens to fail. - Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the desired location. - Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need to associate a request structure with some driver private command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time, and then any request handed to the driver will have the required size of memory associated with it. - Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus increases bandwidth. For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md devices (as it was originally intended). Contributions in this patch from the following people: Shaohua Li Alexander Gordeev Christoph Hellwig Mike Christie Matias Bjorling Jeff Moyer Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block/blk-sysfs.c: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()

2013-09-11T22:56:56+00:00

The usage of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because strict_strtoul() is obsolete. Thus, kstrtoul() should be used. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_store

2013-04-03T19:53:57+00:00

As found by gcc-4.8, the QUEUE_SYSFS_BIT_FNS macro creates functions that use a value generated by queue_var_store independent of whether that value was set or not. block/blk-sysfs.c: In function 'queue_store_nonrot': block/blk-sysfs.c:244:385: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] Unlike most other such warnings, this one is not a false positive, writing any non-number string into the sysfs files indeed has an undefined result, rather than returning an error. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: RCU free request_queue

2013-01-09T16:05:13+00:00

RCU free request_queue so that blkcg_gq->q can be dereferenced under RCU lock. This will be used to implement hierarchical stats. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Vivek Goyal

block: Rename queue dead flag

2012-12-06T13:30:58+00:00

QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD is used to indicate that queuing new requests must stop. After this flag has been set queue draining starts. However, during the queue draining phase it is still safe to invoke the queue's request_fn, so QUEUE_FLAG_DYING is a better name for this flag. This patch has been generated by running the following command over the kernel source tree: git grep -lEw 'blk_queue_dead|QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD' | xargs sed -i.tmp -e 's/blk_queue_dead/blk_queue_dying/g' \ -e 's/QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING/g'; \ sed -i.tmp -e "s/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING$(printf \\t)*5/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING$(printf \\t)5/g" \ include/linux/blkdev.h; \ sed -i.tmp -e 's/ DEAD/ DYING/g' -e 's/dead queue/a dying queue/' \ -e 's/Dead queue/A dying queue/' block/blk-core.c Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Acked-by: Tejun Heo Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Mike Christie Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Chanho Min Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe