kernel/linux.git/block/blk.h, branch v5.10.257

block: bump max plugged deferred size from 16 to 32

2021-11-18T13:03:57+00:00

[ Upstream commit ba0ffdd8ce48ad7f7e85191cd29f9674caca3745 ] Particularly for NVMe with efficient deferred submission for many requests, there are nice benefits to be seen by bumping the default max plug count from 16 to 32. This is especially true for virtualized setups, where the submit part is more expensive. But can be noticed even on native hardware. Reduce the multiple queue factor from 4 to 2, since we're changing the default size. While changing it, move the defines into the block layer private header. These aren't values that anyone outside of the block layer uses, or should use. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

blk-throtl: optimize IOPS throttle for large IO scenarios

2021-09-15T07:50:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4f1e9630afe6332de7286820fedd019f19eac057 ] After patch 54efd50 (block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios), the IO through io-throttle may be larger, and these IOs may be further split into more small IOs. However, IOPS throttle does not seem to be aware of this change, which makes the calculation of IOPS of large IOs incomplete, resulting in disk-side IOPS that does not meet expectations. Maybe we should fix this problem. We can reproduce it by set max_sectors_kb of disk to 128, set blkio.write_iops_throttle to 100, run a dd instance inside blkio and use iostat to watch IOPS: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1000 oflag=direct As a result, without this change the average IOPS is 1995, with this change the IOPS is 98. Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu Acked-by: Tejun Heo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/65869aaad05475797d63b4c3fed4f529febe3c26.1627876014.git.brookxu@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

blk-mq: fix is_flush_rq

2021-09-12T06:58:27+00:00

commit a9ed27a764156929efe714033edb3e9023c5f321 upstream. is_flush_rq() is called from bt_iter()/bt_tags_iter(), and runs the following check: hctx->fq->flush_rq == req but the passed hctx from bt_iter()/bt_tags_iter() may be NULL because: 1) memory re-order in blk_mq_rq_ctx_init(): rq->mq_hctx = data->hctx; ... refcount_set(&rq->ref, 1); OR 2) tag re-use and ->rqs[] isn't updated with new request. Fix the issue by re-writing is_flush_rq() as: return rq->end_io == flush_end_io; which turns out simpler to follow and immune to data race since we have ordered WRITE rq->end_io and refcount_set(&rq->ref, 1). Fixes: 2e315dc07df0 ("blk-mq: grab rq->refcount before calling ->fn in blk_mq_tagset_busy_iter") Cc: "Blank-Burian, Markus, Dr." Cc: Yufen Yu Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210818010925.607383-1-ming.lei@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Cc: Yi Zhang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: move blk_mq_sched_try_merge to blk-merge.c

2020-10-06T13:29:53+00:00

Move blk_mq_sched_try_merge to blk-merge.c, which allows to mark a lot of the merge infrastructure static there. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove the unused blk_integrity_merge_bio export

2020-10-06T13:29:53+00:00

Also move the definition from the public blkdev.h to the private block/blk.h header. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove the unused blk_integrity_merge_rq export

2020-10-06T13:29:53+00:00

Also move the definition from the public blkdev.h to the private block/blk.h header. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove the disk argument to delete_partition

2020-09-02T01:38:25+00:00

We can trivially derive the gendisk from the hd_struct. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Add a new helper to attempt to merge a bio

2020-09-01T22:49:26+00:00

There are lots of duplicated code when trying to merge a bio from plug list and sw queue, we can introduce a new helper to attempt to merge a bio, which can simplify the blk_bio_list_merge() and blk_attempt_plug_merge(). Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Move blk_mq_bio_list_merge() into blk-merge.c

2020-09-01T22:49:26+00:00

Move the blk_mq_bio_list_merge() into blk-merge.c and rename it as a generic name. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: improve discard bio alignment in __blkdev_issue_discard()

2020-07-17T13:15:10+00:00

This patch improves discard bio split for address and size alignment in __blkdev_issue_discard(). The aligned discard bio may help underlying device controller to perform better discard and internal garbage collection, and avoid unnecessary internal fragment. Current discard bio split algorithm in __blkdev_issue_discard() may have non-discarded fregment on device even the discard bio LBA and size are both aligned to device's discard granularity size. Here is the example steps on how to reproduce the above problem. - On a VMWare ESXi 6.5 update3 installation, create a 51GB virtual disk with thin mode and give it to a Linux virtual machine. - Inside the Linux virtual machine, if the 50GB virtual disk shows up as /dev/sdb, fill data into the first 50GB by, # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 count=13107200 - Discard the 50GB range from offset 0 on /dev/sdb, # blkdiscard /dev/sdb -o 0 -l 53687091200 - Observe the underlying mapping status of the device # sg_get_lba_status /dev/sdb -m 1048 --lba=0 descriptor LBA: 0x0000000000000000 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000000000800 blocks: 16773120 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x0000000000fff800 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000001000000 blocks: 8386560 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x00000000017ff800 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000001800000 blocks: 8386560 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x0000000001fff800 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000002000000 blocks: 8386560 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x00000000027ff800 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000002800000 blocks: 8386560 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x0000000002fff800 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000003000000 blocks: 8386560 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x00000000037ff800 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000003800000 blocks: 8386560 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x0000000003fff800 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000004000000 blocks: 8386560 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x00000000047ff800 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000004800000 blocks: 8386560 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x0000000004fff800 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000005000000 blocks: 8386560 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x00000000057ff800 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000005800000 blocks: 8386560 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x0000000005fff800 blocks: 2048 mapped (or unknown) descriptor LBA: 0x0000000006000000 blocks: 6291456 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x0000000006600000 blocks: 0 deallocated Although the discard bio starts at LBA 0 and has 50<<30 bytes size which are perfect aligned to the discard granularity, from the above list these are many 1MB (2048 sectors) internal fragments exist unexpectedly. The problem is in __blkdev_issue_discard(), an improper algorithm causes an improper bio size which is not aligned. 25 int __blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, 26 sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, int flags, 27 struct bio **biop) 28 { 29 struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev); [snipped] 56 57 while (nr_sects) { 58 sector_t req_sects = min_t(sector_t, nr_sects, 59 bio_allowed_max_sectors(q)); 60 61 WARN_ON_ONCE((req_sects << 9) > UINT_MAX); 62 63 bio = blk_next_bio(bio, 0, gfp_mask); 64 bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = sector; 65 bio_set_dev(bio, bdev); 66 bio_set_op_attrs(bio, op, 0); 67 68 bio->bi_iter.bi_size = req_sects << 9; 69 sector += req_sects; 70 nr_sects -= req_sects; [snipped] 79 } 80 81 *biop = bio; 82 return 0; 83 } 84 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__blkdev_issue_discard); At line 58-59, to discard a 50GB range, req_sects is set as return value of bio_allowed_max_sectors(q), which is 8388607 sectors. In the above case, the discard granularity is 2048 sectors, although the start LBA and discard length are aligned to discard granularity, req_sects never has chance to be aligned to discard granularity. This is why there are some still-mapped 2048 sectors fragment in every 4 or 8 GB range. If req_sects at line 58 is set to a value aligned to discard_granularity and close to UNIT_MAX, then all consequent split bios inside device driver are (almostly) aligned to discard_granularity of the device queue. The 2048 sectors still-mapped fragment will disappear. This patch introduces bio_aligned_discard_max_sectors() to return the the value which is aligned to q->limits.discard_granularity and closest to UINT_MAX. Then this patch replaces bio_allowed_max_sectors() with this new routine to decide a more proper split bio length. But we still need to handle the situation when discard start LBA is not aligned to q->limits.discard_granularity, otherwise even the length is aligned, current code may still leave 2048 fragment around every 4GB range. Therefore, to calculate req_sects, firstly the start LBA of discard range is checked (including partition offset), if it is not aligned to discard granularity, the first split location should make sure following bio has bi_sector aligned to discard granularity. Then there won't be still-mapped fragment in the middle of the discard range. The above is how this patch improves discard bio alignment in __blkdev_issue_discard(). Now with this patch, after discard with same command line mentiond previously, sg_get_lba_status returns, descriptor LBA: 0x0000000000000000 blocks: 106954752 deallocated descriptor LBA: 0x0000000006600000 blocks: 0 deallocated We an see there is no 2048 sectors segment anymore, everything is clean. Reported-and-tested-by: Acshai Manoj Signed-off-by: Coly Li Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: Ming Lei Reviewed-by: Xiao Ni Cc: Bart Van Assche Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Enzo Matsumiya Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe