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authorAndrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>2018-03-22 09:55:02 +0300
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2018-05-15 05:40:08 +0300
commit769031c92c8b85bd886f7e064430b7b512c68728 (patch)
treeaeb339bce1641974aba11403c6bdd702c6ea119b /drivers/target/target_core_file.h
parent97e066184b855dd2df4e82c2d1feff37282c53fd (diff)
downloadlinux-769031c92c8b85bd886f7e064430b7b512c68728.tar.xz
scsi: target: target/file: Add support of direct and async I/O
There are two advantages: * Direct I/O allows to avoid the write-back cache, so it reduces affects to other processes in the system. * Async I/O allows to handle a few commands concurrently. DIO + AIO shows a better perfomance for random write operations: Mode: O_DSYNC Async: 1 $ ./fio --bs=4K --direct=1 --rw=randwrite --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --name=/dev/sda --runtime=20 --numjobs=2 WRITE: bw=45.9MiB/s (48.1MB/s), 21.9MiB/s-23.0MiB/s (22.0MB/s-25.2MB/s), io=919MiB (963MB), run=20002-20020msec Mode: O_DSYNC Async: 0 $ ./fio --bs=4K --direct=1 --rw=randwrite --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --name=/dev/sdb --runtime=20 --numjobs=2 WRITE: bw=1607KiB/s (1645kB/s), 802KiB/s-805KiB/s (821kB/s-824kB/s), io=31.8MiB (33.4MB), run=20280-20295msec Known issue: DIF (PI) emulation doesn't work when a target uses async I/O, because DIF metadata is saved in a separate file, and it is another non-trivial task how to synchronize writing in two files, so that a following read operation always returns a consisten metadata for a specified block. Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_file.h b/drivers/target/target_core_file.h
index 53be5ffd3261..929b1ecd544e 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_file.h
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_file.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#define FBDF_HAS_PATH 0x01
#define FBDF_HAS_SIZE 0x02
#define FDBD_HAS_BUFFERED_IO_WCE 0x04
+#define FDBD_HAS_ASYNC_IO 0x08
#define FDBD_FORMAT_UNIT_SIZE 2048
struct fd_dev {