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2022-04-15block: don't merge across cgroup boundaries if blkcg is enabledTejun Heo1-0/+12
commit 6b2b04590b51aa4cf395fcd185ce439cab5961dc upstream. blk-iocost and iolatency are cgroup aware rq-qos policies but they didn't disable merges across different cgroups. This obviously can lead to accounting and control errors but more importantly to priority inversions - e.g. an IO which belongs to a higher priority cgroup or IO class may end up getting throttled incorrectly because it gets merged to an IO issued from a low priority cgroup. Fix it by adding blk_cgroup_mergeable() which is called from merge paths and rejects cross-cgroup and cross-issue_as_root merges. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Fixes: d70675121546 ("block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.19+ Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yi/eE/6zFNyWJ+qd@slm.duckdns.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-01-27block: don't use bio->bi_vcnt to figure out segment numberMing Lei1-7/+1
[ Upstream commit 1a67356e9a4829da2935dd338630a550c59c8489 ] It is wrong to use bio->bi_vcnt to figure out how many segments there are in the bio even though CLONED flag isn't set on this bio, because this bio may be splitted or advanced. So always use bio_segments() in blk_recount_segments(), and it shouldn't cause any performance loss now because the physical segment number is figured out in blk_queue_split() and BIO_SEG_VALID is set meantime since bdced438acd83ad83a6c ("block: setup bi_phys_segments after splitting"). Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Fixes: 76d8137a3113 ("blk-merge: recaculate segment if it isn't less than max segments") Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-12-17block: fix single range discard mergeMing Lei1-1/+1
commit 2a5cf35cd6c56b2924bce103413ad3381bdc31fa upstream. There are actually two kinds of discard merge: - one is the normal discard merge, just like normal read/write request, and call it single-range discard - another is the multi-range discard, queue_max_discard_segments(rq->q) > 1 For the former case, queue_max_discard_segments(rq->q) is 1, and we should handle this kind of discard merge like the normal read/write request. This patch fixes the following kernel panic issue[1], which is caused by not removing the single-range discard request from elevator queue. Guangwu has one raid discard test case, in which this issue is a bit easier to trigger, and I verified that this patch can fix the kernel panic issue in Guangwu's test case. [1] kernel panic log from Jens's report BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000148 PGD 0 P4D 0. Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 37 PID: 763 Comm: kworker/37:1H Not tainted \ 4.20.0-rc3-00649-ge64d9a554a91-dirty #14 Hardware name: Wiwynn \ Leopard-Orv2/Leopard-DDR BW, BIOS LBM08 03/03/2017 Workqueue: kblockd \ blk_mq_run_work_fn RIP: \ 0010:blk_mq_get_driver_tag+0x81/0x120 Code: 24 \ 10 48 89 7c 24 20 74 21 83 fa ff 0f 95 c0 48 8b 4c 24 28 65 48 33 0c 25 28 00 00 00 \ 0f 85 96 00 00 00 48 83 c4 30 5b 5d c3 <48> 8b 87 48 01 00 00 8b 40 04 39 43 20 72 37 \ f6 87 b0 00 00 00 02 RSP: 0018:ffffc90004aabd30 EFLAGS: 00010246 \ RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffff888465ea1300 RCX: ffffc90004aabde8 RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffffc90004aabde8 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff888465ea1348 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000001000 R11: 00000000ffffffff R12: ffff888465ea1300 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888465ea1348 R15: ffff888465d10000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88846f9c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000148 CR3: 000000000220a003 CR4: 00000000003606e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0xec/0x480 ? elv_rb_del+0x11/0x30 blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched+0x6e/0xf0 blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xfa/0x170 __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x5f/0xe0 process_one_work+0x154/0x350 worker_thread+0x46/0x3c0 kthread+0xf5/0x130 ? process_one_work+0x350/0x350 ? kthread_destroy_worker+0x50/0x50 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 Modules linked in: sb_edac x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel \ kvm switchtec irqbypass iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support efivars cdc_ether usbnet mii \ cdc_acm i2c_i801 lpc_ich mfd_core ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler acpi_cpufreq \ button sch_fq_codel nfsd nfs_acl lockd grace auth_rpcgss oid_registry sunrpc nvme \ nvme_core fuse sg loop efivarfs autofs4 CR2: 0000000000000148 \ ---[ end trace 340a1fb996df1b9b ]--- RIP: 0010:blk_mq_get_driver_tag+0x81/0x120 Code: 24 10 48 89 7c 24 20 74 21 83 fa ff 0f 95 c0 48 8b 4c 24 28 65 48 33 0c 25 28 \ 00 00 00 0f 85 96 00 00 00 48 83 c4 30 5b 5d c3 <48> 8b 87 48 01 00 00 8b 40 04 39 43 \ 20 72 37 f6 87 b0 00 00 00 02 Fixes: 445251d0f4d329a ("blk-mq: fix discard merge with scheduler attached") Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Guangwu Zhang <guazhang@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net> Cc: Jack Wang <jack.wang.usish@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-12-01block: fix the DISCARD request mergeJianchao Wang1-10/+36
[ Upstream commit 69840466086d2248898020a08dda52732686c4e6 ] There are two cases when handle DISCARD merge. If max_discard_segments == 1, the bios/requests need to be contiguous to merge. If max_discard_segments > 1, it takes every bio as a range and different range needn't to be contiguous. But now, attempt_merge screws this up. It always consider contiguity for DISCARD for the case max_discard_segments > 1 and cannot merge contiguous DISCARD for the case max_discard_segments == 1, because rq_attempt_discard_merge always returns false in this case. This patch fixes both of the two cases above. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2018-11-13block: make sure discard bio is aligned with logical block sizeMing Lei1-1/+2
commit 1adfc5e4136f5967d591c399aff95b3b035f16b7 upstream. Obviously the created discard bio has to be aligned with logical block size. This patch introduces the helper of bio_allowed_max_sectors() for this purpose. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com> Cc: Mariusz Dabrowski <mariusz.dabrowski@intel.com> Fixes: 744889b7cbb56a6 ("block: don't deal with discard limit in blkdev_issue_discard()") Fixes: a22c4d7e34402cc ("block: re-add discard_granularity and alignment checks") Reported-by: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com> Tested-by: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-06-03block: don't use blocking queue entered for recursive bio submitsJens Axboe1-0/+10
If we end up splitting a bio and the queue goes away between the initial submission and the later split submission, then we can block forever in blk_queue_enter() waiting for the reference to drop to zero. This will never happen, since we already hold a reference. Mark a split bio as already having entered the queue, so we can just use the live non-blocking queue enter variant. Thanks to Tetsuo Handa for the analysis. Reported-by: syzbot+c4f9cebf9d651f6e54de@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-05-31block: convert bounce, q->bio_split to bioset_init()/mempool_init()Kent Overstreet1-4/+4
Convert the core block functionality to embedded bio sets. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-05-09block: consolidate struct request timestamp fieldsOmar Sandoval1-6/+5
Currently, struct request has four timestamp fields: - A start time, set at get_request time, in jiffies, used for iostats - An I/O start time, set at start_request time, in ktime nanoseconds, used for blk-stats (i.e., wbt, kyber, hybrid polling) - Another start time and another I/O start time, used for cfq and bfq These can all be consolidated into one start time and one I/O start time, both in ktime nanoseconds, shaving off up to 16 bytes from struct request depending on the kernel config. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-02-02blk-mq: fix discard merge with scheduler attachedJens Axboe1-3/+26
I ran into an issue on my laptop that triggered a bug on the discard path: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 207 at drivers/nvme/host/core.c:527 nvme_setup_cmd+0x3d3/0x430 Modules linked in: rfcomm fuse ctr ccm bnep arc4 binfmt_misc snd_hda_codec_hdmi nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat snd_hda_codec_conexant fat snd_hda_codec_generic iwlmvm snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep mac80211 snd_hda_core snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp kvm_intel uvcvideo iwlwifi btusb snd_seq_device videobuf2_vmalloc btintel videobuf2_memops kvm snd_timer videobuf2_v4l2 bluetooth irqbypass videobuf2_core aesni_intel aes_x86_64 crypto_simd cryptd snd glue_helper videodev cfg80211 ecdh_generic soundcore hid_generic usbhid hid i915 psmouse e1000e ptp pps_core xhci_pci xhci_hcd intel_gtt CPU: 2 PID: 207 Comm: jbd2/nvme0n1p7- Tainted: G U 4.15.0+ #176 Hardware name: LENOVO 20FBCTO1WW/20FBCTO1WW, BIOS N1FET59W (1.33 ) 12/19/2017 RIP: 0010:nvme_setup_cmd+0x3d3/0x430 RSP: 0018:ffff880423e9f838 EFLAGS: 00010217 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880423e9f8c8 RCX: 0000000000010000 RDX: ffff88022b200010 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 00000000327f0000 RBP: ffff880421251400 R08: ffff88022b200000 R09: 0000000000000009 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000000ffff R13: ffff88042341e280 R14: 000000000000ffff R15: ffff880421251440 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880441500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000055b684795030 CR3: 0000000002e09006 CR4: 00000000001606e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: nvme_queue_rq+0x40/0xa00 ? __sbitmap_queue_get+0x24/0x90 ? blk_mq_get_tag+0xa3/0x250 ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80 ? blk_mq_get_driver_tag+0x97/0xf0 blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x7b/0x4a0 ? deadline_remove_request+0x49/0xb0 blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched+0x4f/0xc0 blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x106/0x170 __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x53/0xa0 __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x83/0xa0 blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x6c/0xd0 blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0x96/0x140 __blk_mq_try_issue_directly+0x3d/0x190 blk_mq_try_issue_directly+0x30/0x70 blk_mq_make_request+0x1a4/0x6a0 generic_make_request+0xfd/0x2f0 ? submit_bio+0x5c/0x110 submit_bio+0x5c/0x110 ? __blkdev_issue_discard+0x152/0x200 submit_bio_wait+0x43/0x60 ext4_process_freed_data+0x1cd/0x440 ? account_page_dirtied+0xe2/0x1a0 ext4_journal_commit_callback+0x4a/0xc0 jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x17e2/0x19e0 ? kjournald2+0xb0/0x250 kjournald2+0xb0/0x250 ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80 ? commit_timeout+0x10/0x10 kthread+0x111/0x130 ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x50/0x50 ? do_group_exit+0x3a/0xa0 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 Code: 73 89 c1 83 ce 10 c1 e1 10 09 ca 83 f8 04 0f 87 0f ff ff ff 8b 4d 20 48 8b 7d 00 c1 e9 09 48 01 8c c7 00 08 00 00 e9 f8 fe ff ff <0f> ff 4c 89 c7 41 bc 0a 00 00 00 e8 0d 78 d6 ff e9 a1 fc ff ff ---[ end trace 50d361cc444506c8 ]--- print_req_error: I/O error, dev nvme0n1, sector 847167488 Decoding the assembly, the request claims to have 0xffff segments, while nvme counts two. This turns out to be because we don't check for a data carrying request on the mq scheduler path, and since blk_phys_contig_segment() returns true for a non-data request, we decrement the initial segment count of 0 and end up with 0xffff in the unsigned short. There are a few issues here: 1) We should initialize the segment count for a discard to 1. 2) The discard merging is currently using the data limits for segments and sectors. Fix this up by having attempt_merge() correctly identify the request, and by initializing the segment count correctly for discards. This can only be triggered with mq-deadline on discard capable devices right now, which isn't a common configuration. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-01-10Revert "block: blk-merge: try to make front segments in full size"Ming Lei1-49/+5
This reverts commit a2d37968d784363842f87820a21e106741d28004. If max segment size isn't 512-aligned, this patch won't work well. Also once multipage bvec is enabled, adjacent bvecs won't be physically contiguous if page is added via bio_add_page(), so we don't need this kind of complicated logic. Reported-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-01-06block: blk-merge: remove unnecessary checkMing Lei1-3/+1
In this case, 'sectors' can't be zero at all, so remove the check and let the bio be split. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-01-06block: blk-merge: try to make front segments in full sizeMing Lei1-5/+49
When merging one bvec into segment, if the bvec is too big to merge, current policy is to move the whole bvec into another new segment. This patchset changes the policy into trying to maximize size of front segments, that means in above situation, part of bvec is merged into current segment, and the remainder is put into next segment. This patch prepares for support multipage bvec because it can be quite common to see this case and we should try to make front segments in full size. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-01-06blk-merge: compute bio->bi_seg_front_size efficientlyMing Lei1-4/+5
It is enough to check and compute bio->bi_seg_front_size just after the 1st segment is found, but current code checks that for each bvec, which is inefficient. This patch follows the way in __blk_recalc_rq_segments() for computing bio->bi_seg_front_size, and it is more efficient and code becomes more readable too. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-08-23block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions indexChristoph Hellwig1-1/+1
This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code). For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists once per block device. But given that the block layer also does partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is used for said remapping in generic_make_request. Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all over the stack. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-09block: pass in queue to inflight accountingJens Axboe1-2/+2
No functional change in this patch, just in preparation for basing the inflight mechanism on the queue in question. Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-27block: add support for write hints in a bioJens Axboe1-0/+14
No functional changes in this patch, we just use up some holes in the bio and request structures to define a write hint that we psas down the stack. Ensure that we don't merge requests that have different life time hints assigned to them, and that we inherit the write hint when cloning a bio. Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-21block: Check locking assumptions at runtimeBart Van Assche1-0/+3
Instead of documenting the locking assumptions of most block layer functions as a comment, use lockdep_assert_held() to verify locking assumptions at runtime. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-18block: don't check for BIO_MAX_PAGES in blk_bio_segment_split()NeilBrown1-16/+0
blk_bio_segment_split() makes sure bios have no more than BIO_MAX_PAGES entries in the bi_io_vec. This was done because bio_clone_bioset() (when given a mempool bioset) could not handle larger io_vecs. No driver uses bio_clone_bioset() any more, they all use bio_clone_fast() if anything, and bio_clone_fast() doesn't clone the bi_io_vec. The main user of of bio_clone_bioset() at this level is bounce.c, and bouncing now happens before blk_bio_segment_split(), so that is not of concern. So remove the big helpful comment and the code. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-18block: remove bio_clone() and all references.NeilBrown1-3/+3
bio_clone() is no longer used. Only bio_clone_bioset() or bio_clone_fast(). This is for the best, as bio_clone() used fs_bio_set, and filesystems are unlikely to want to use bio_clone(). So remove bio_clone() and all references. This includes a fix to some incorrect documentation. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-18block: Improvements to bounce-buffer handlingNeilBrown1-10/+4
Since commit 23688bf4f830 ("block: ensure to split after potentially bouncing a bio") blk_queue_bounce() is called *before* blk_queue_split(). This means that: 1/ the comments blk_queue_split() about bounce buffers are irrelevant, and 2/ a very large bio (more than BIO_MAX_PAGES) will no longer be split before it arrives at blk_queue_bounce(), leading to the possibility that bio_clone_bioset() will fail and a NULL will be dereferenced. Separately, blk_queue_bounce() shouldn't use fs_bio_set as the bio being copied could be from the same set, and this could lead to a deadlock. So: - allocate 2 private biosets for blk_queue_bounce, one for splitting enormous bios and one for cloning bios. - add code to split a bio that exceeds BIO_MAX_PAGES. - Fix up the comments in blk_queue_split() Credit-to: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> (suggested using single bio_for_each_segment loop) Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-18blk: remove bio_set arg from blk_queue_split()NeilBrown1-5/+4
blk_queue_split() is always called with the last arg being q->bio_split, where 'q' is the first arg. Also blk_queue_split() sometimes uses the passed-in 'bs' and sometimes uses q->bio_split. This is inconsistent and unnecessary. Remove the last arg and always use q->bio_split inside blk_queue_split() Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Credit-to: Javier González <jg@lightnvm.io> (Noticed that lightnvm was missed) Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Tested-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-04-08block: implement splitting of REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES biosChristoph Hellwig1-2/+15
Copy and past the REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME code to prepare to implementations that limit the write zeroes size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-08block: optionally merge discontiguous discard bios into a single requestChristoph Hellwig1-1/+4
Add a new merge strategy that merges discard bios into a request until the maximum number of discard ranges (or the maximum discard size) is reached from the plug merging code. I/O scheduler merging is not wired up yet but might also be useful, although not for fast devices like NVMe which are the only user for now. Note that for now we don't support limiting the size of each discard range, but if needed that can be added later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-08block: enumify ELEVATOR_*_MERGEChristoph Hellwig1-1/+1
Switch these constants to an enum, and make let the compiler ensure that all callers of blk_try_merge and elv_merge handle all potential values. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-08block: move req_set_nomerge to blk.hChristoph Hellwig1-7/+0
This makes it available outside of blk-merge.c, and inlining such a trivial helper seems pretty useful to start with. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-03block: free merged request in the callerJens Axboe1-3/+12
If we end up doing a request-to-request merge when we have completed a bio-to-request merge, we free the request from deep down in that path. For blk-mq-sched, the merge path has to hold the appropriate lock, but we don't need it for freeing the request. And in fact holding the lock is problematic, since we are now calling the mq sched put_rq_private() hook with the lock held. Other call paths do not hold this lock. Fix this inconsistency by ensuring that the caller frees a merged request. Then we can do it outside of the lock, making it both more efficient and fixing the blk-mq-sched problem of invoking parts of the scheduler with an unknown lock state. Reported-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
2017-02-03blk-merge: return the merged requestJens Axboe1-15/+16
When we attempt to merge request-to-request, we return a 0/1 if we ended up merging or not. Change that to return the pointer to the request that we freed. We will use this to move the freeing of that request out of the merge logic, so that callers can drop locks before freeing the request. There should be no functional changes in this patch. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
2017-01-17blk-mq-sched: add framework for MQ capable IO schedulersJens Axboe1-1/+1
This adds a set of hooks that intercepts the blk-mq path of allocating/inserting/issuing/completing requests, allowing us to develop a scheduler within that framework. We reuse the existing elevator scheduler API on the registration side, but augment that with the scheduler flagging support for the blk-mq interfce, and with a separate set of ops hooks for MQ devices. We split driver and scheduler tags, so we can run the scheduling independently of device queue depth. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
2017-01-17block: move existing elevator ops to unionJens Axboe1-2/+2
Prep patch for adding MQ ops as well, since doing anon unions with named initializers doesn't work on older compilers. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
2016-12-09block: improve handling of the magic discard payloadChristoph Hellwig1-36/+17
Instead of allocating a single unused biovec for discard requests, send them down without any payload. Instead we allow the driver to add a "special" payload using a biovec embedded into struct request (unioned over other fields never used while in the driver), and overloading the number of segments for this case. This has a couple of advantages: - we don't have to allocate the bio_vec - the amount of special casing for discard requests in the block layer is significantly reduced - using this same scheme for other request types is trivial, which will be important for implementing the new WRITE_ZEROES op on devices where it actually requires a payload (e.g. SCSI) - we can get rid of playing games with the request length, as we'll never touch it and completions will work just fine - it will allow us to support ranged discard operations in the future by merging non-contiguous discard bios into a single request - last but not least it removes a lot of code This patch is the common base for my WIP series for ranges discards and to remove discard_zeroes_data in favor of always using REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES, so it would be good to get it in quickly. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-12-01block: factor out req_set_nomergeRitesh Harjani1-9/+10
Factor out common code for setting REQ_NOMERGE flag which is being used out at certain places and make it a helper instead, req_set_nomerge(). Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@codeaurora.org> Get rid of the inline. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-12-01block: add support for REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROESChaitanya Kulkarni1-4/+13
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 <chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-10-28block: split out request-only flags into a new namespaceChristoph Hellwig1-4/+4
A lot of the REQ_* flags are only used on struct requests, and only of use to the block layer and a few drivers that dig into struct request internals. This patch adds a new req_flags_t rq_flags field to struct request for them, and thus dramatically shrinks the number of common requests. It also removes the unfortunate situation where we have to fit the fields from the same enum into 32 bits for struct bio and 64 bits for struct request. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-08-24block: make sure a big bio is split into at most 256 bvecsMing Lei1-0/+22
After arbitrary bio size was introduced, the incoming bio may be very big. We have to split the bio into small bios so that each holds at most BIO_MAX_PAGES bvecs for safety reason, such as bio_clone(). This patch fixes the following kernel crash: > [ 172.660142] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028 > [ 172.660229] IP: [<ffffffff811e53b4>] bio_trim+0xf/0x2a > [ 172.660289] PGD 7faf3e067 PUD 7f9279067 PMD 0 > [ 172.660399] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP > [...] > [ 172.664780] Call Trace: > [ 172.664813] [<ffffffffa007f3be>] ? raid1_make_request+0x2e8/0xad7 [raid1] > [ 172.664846] [<ffffffff811f07da>] ? blk_queue_split+0x377/0x3d4 > [ 172.664880] [<ffffffffa005fb5f>] ? md_make_request+0xf6/0x1e9 [md_mod] > [ 172.664912] [<ffffffff811eb860>] ? generic_make_request+0xb5/0x155 > [ 172.664947] [<ffffffffa0445c89>] ? prio_io+0x85/0x95 [bcache] > [ 172.664981] [<ffffffffa0448252>] ? register_cache_set+0x355/0x8d0 [bcache] > [ 172.665016] [<ffffffffa04497d3>] ? register_bcache+0x1006/0x1174 [bcache] The issue can be reproduced by the following steps: - create one raid1 over two virtio-blk - build bcache device over the above raid1 and another cache device and bucket size is set as 2Mbytes - set cache mode as writeback - run random write over ext4 on the bcache device Fixes: 54efd50(block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios) Reported-by: Sebastian Roesner <sroesner-kernelorg@roesner-online.de> Reported-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache@lists.ewheeler.net> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (4.3+) Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-08-16block: Fix secure eraseAdrian Hunter1-14/+19
Commit 288dab8a35a0 ("block: add a separate operation type for secure erase") split REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE from REQ_OP_DISCARD without considering all the places REQ_OP_DISCARD was being used to mean either. Fix those. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Fixes: 288dab8a35a0 ("block: add a separate operation type for secure erase") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-08-07block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opfJens Axboe1-4/+4
Since commit 63a4cc24867d, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger, rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break at compile time instead of at runtime. No intended functional changes in this commit. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-07-27Merge branch 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-4/+2
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe: "This branch also contains core changes. I've come to the conclusion that from 4.9 and forward, I'll be doing just a single branch. We often have dependencies between core and drivers, and it's hard to always split them up appropriately without pulling core into drivers when that happens. That said, this contains: - separate secure erase type for the core block layer, from Christoph. - set of discard fixes, from Christoph. - bio shrinking fixes from Christoph, as a followup up to the op/flags change in the core branch. - map and append request fixes from Christoph. - NVMeF (NVMe over Fabrics) code from Christoph. This is pretty exciting! - nvme-loop fixes from Arnd. - removal of ->driverfs_dev from Dan, after providing a device_add_disk() helper. - bcache fixes from Bhaktipriya and Yijing. - cdrom subchannel read fix from Vchannaiah. - set of lightnvm updates from Wenwei, Matias, Johannes, and Javier. - set of drbd updates and fixes from Fabian, Lars, and Philipp. - mg_disk error path fix from Bart. - user notification for failed device add for loop, from Minfei. - NVMe in general: + NVMe delay quirk from Guilherme. + SR-IOV support and command retry limits from Keith. + fix for memory-less NUMA node from Masayoshi. + use UINT_MAX for discard sectors, from Minfei. + cancel IO fixes from Ming. + don't allocate unused major, from Neil. + error code fixup from Dan. + use constants for PSDT/FUSE from James. + variable init fix from Jay. + fabrics fixes from Ming, Sagi, and Wei. + various fixes" * 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (115 commits) nvme/pci: Provide SR-IOV support nvme: initialize variable before logical OR'ing it block: unexport various bio mapping helpers scsi/osd: open code blk_make_request target: stop using blk_make_request block: simplify and export blk_rq_append_bio block: ensure bios return from blk_get_request are properly initialized virtio_blk: use blk_rq_map_kern memstick: don't allow REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests block: shrink bio size again block: simplify and cleanup bvec pool handling block: get rid of bio_rw and READA block: don't ignore -EOPNOTSUPP blkdev_issue_write_same block: introduce BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO to fix zeroout NVMe: don't allocate unused nvme_major nvme: avoid crashes when node 0 is memoryless node. nvme: Limit command retries loop: Make user notify for adding loop device failed nvme-loop: fix nvme-loop Kconfig dependencies nvmet: fix return value check in nvmet_subsys_alloc() ...
2016-07-21block: Fix front merge checkDamien Le Moal1-3/+3
For a front merge, the maximum number of sectors of the request must be checked against the front merge BIO sector, not the current sector of the request. Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-07-21block: do not merge requests without consulting with io schedulerTahsin Erdogan1-0/+6
Before merging a bio into an existing request, io scheduler is called to get its approval first. However, the requests that come from a plug flush may get merged by block layer without consulting with io scheduler. In case of CFQ, this can cause fairness problems. For instance, if a request gets merged into a low weight cgroup's request, high weight cgroup now will depend on low weight cgroup to get scheduled. If high weigt cgroup needs that io request to complete before submitting more requests, then it will also lose its timeslice. Following script demonstrates the problem. Group g1 has a low weight, g2 and g3 have equal high weights but g2's requests are adjacent to g1's requests so they are subject to merging. Due to these merges, g2 gets poor disk time allocation. cat > cfq-merge-repro.sh << "EOF" #!/bin/bash set -e IO_ROOT=/mnt-cgroup/io mkdir -p $IO_ROOT if ! mount | grep -qw $IO_ROOT; then mount -t cgroup none -oblkio $IO_ROOT fi cd $IO_ROOT for i in g1 g2 g3; do if [ -d $i ]; then rmdir $i fi done mkdir g1 && echo 10 > g1/blkio.weight mkdir g2 && echo 495 > g2/blkio.weight mkdir g3 && echo 495 > g3/blkio.weight RUNTIME=10 (echo $BASHPID > g1/cgroup.procs && fio --readonly --name name1 --filename /dev/sdb \ --rw read --size 64k --bs 64k --time_based \ --runtime=$RUNTIME --offset=0k &> /dev/null)& (echo $BASHPID > g2/cgroup.procs && fio --readonly --name name1 --filename /dev/sdb \ --rw read --size 64k --bs 64k --time_based \ --runtime=$RUNTIME --offset=64k &> /dev/null)& (echo $BASHPID > g3/cgroup.procs && fio --readonly --name name1 --filename /dev/sdb \ --rw read --size 64k --bs 64k --time_based \ --runtime=$RUNTIME --offset=256k &> /dev/null)& sleep $((RUNTIME+1)) for i in g1 g2 g3; do echo ---- $i ---- cat $i/blkio.time done EOF # ./cfq-merge-repro.sh ---- g1 ---- 8:16 162 ---- g2 ---- 8:16 165 ---- g3 ---- 8:16 686 After applying the patch: # ./cfq-merge-repro.sh ---- g1 ---- 8:16 90 ---- g2 ---- 8:16 445 ---- g3 ---- 8:16 471 Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-09block: add a separate operation type for secure eraseChristoph Hellwig1-4/+2
Instead of overloading the discard support with the REQ_SECURE flag. Use the opportunity to rename the queue flag as well, and remove the dead checks for this flag in the RAID 1 and RAID 10 drivers that don't claim support for secure erase. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07block: convert merge/insert code to check for REQ_OPs.Mike Christie1-4/+6
This patch converts the block layer merging code to use separate variables for the operation and flags, and to check req_op for the REQ_OP. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07block, fs, mm, drivers: use bio set/get op accessorsMike Christie1-6/+6
This patch converts the simple bi_rw use cases in the block, drivers, mm and fs code to set/get the bio operation using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op These should be simple one or two liner cases, so I just did them in one patch. The next patches handle the more complicated cases in a module per patch. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07block, drivers, cgroup: use op_is_write helper instead of checking for REQ_WRITEMike Christie1-1/+1
We currently set REQ_WRITE/WRITE for all non READ IOs like discard, flush, writesame, etc. In the next patches where we no longer set up the op as a bitmap, we will not be able to detect a operation direction like writesame by testing if REQ_WRITE is set. This patch converts the drivers and cgroup to use the op_is_write helper. This should just cover the simple cases. I did dm, md and bcache in their own patches because they were more involved. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-03-04block: merge: get the 1st and last bvec via helpersMing Lei1-6/+2
This patch applies the two introduced helpers to figure out the 1st and last bvec. Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-01-23block: fix bio splitting on max sectorsMing Lei1-7/+19
After commit e36f62042880(block: split bios to maxpossible length), bio can be splitted in the middle of a vector entry, then it is easy to split out one bio which size isn't aligned with block size, especially when the block size is bigger than 512. This patch fixes the issue by making the max io size aligned to logical block size. Fixes: e36f62042880(block: split bios to maxpossible length) Reported-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-01-20Merge branch 'for-4.5/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-3/+19
Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe: "We don't have a lot of core changes this time around, it's mostly in drivers, which will come in a subsequent pull. The cores changes include: - blk-mq - Prep patch from Christoph, changing blk_mq_alloc_request() to take flags instead of just using gfp_t for sleep/nosleep. - Doc patch from me, clarifying the difference between legacy and blk-mq for timer usage. - Fixes from Raghavendra for memory-less numa nodes, and a reuse of CPU masks. - Cleanup from Geliang Tang, using offset_in_page() instead of open coding it. - From Ilya, rename request_queue slab to it reflects what it holds, and a fix for proper use of bdgrab/put. - A real fix for the split across stripe boundaries from Keith. We yanked a broken version of this from 4.4-rc final, this one works. - From Mike Krinkin, emit a trace message when we split. - From Wei Tang, two small cleanups, not explicitly clearing memory that is already cleared" * 'for-4.5/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: use bd{grab,put}() instead of open-coding block: split bios to max possible length block: add call to split trace point blk-mq: Avoid memoryless numa node encoded in hctx numa_node blk-mq: Reuse hardware context cpumask for tags blk-mq: add a flags parameter to blk_mq_alloc_request Revert "blk-flush: Queue through IO scheduler when flush not required" block: clarify blk_add_timer() use case for blk-mq bio: use offset_in_page macro block: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL block: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL block: rename request_queue slab cache
2016-01-13block: split bios to max possible lengthKeith Busch1-3/+16
This splits bio in the middle of a vector to form the largest possible bio at the h/w's desired alignment, and guarantees the bio being split will have some data. The criteria for splitting is changed from the max sectors to the h/w's optimal sector alignment if it is provided. For h/w that advertise their block storage's underlying chunk size, it's a big performance win to not submit commands that cross them. If sector alignment is not provided, this patch uses the max sectors as before. This addresses the performance issue commit d380561113 attempted to fix, but was reverted due to splitting logic error. Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.4.x- Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-01-08Revert "block: Split bios on chunk boundaries"Jens Axboe1-1/+1
This reverts commit d3805611130af9b911e908af9f67a3f64f4f0914. If we end up splitting on the first segment, we don't adjust the sector count. That results in hitting a BUG() with attempting to split 0 sectors. As this is just a performance issue and not a regression since 4.3 release, let's just rever this change. That gives us more time to test a real fix for 4.5, which would be marked for stable anyway.
2015-12-23block: Split bios on chunk boundariesKeith Busch1-1/+1
For h/w that advertise their block storage's underlying chunk size, it's a big performance win to not submit commands that cross them. This patch uses that criteria if it is provided. If it is not provided, this patch uses the max sectors as before. Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>