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This patch changes the approach to handling partial read path.
In old approach merging of data from round buffer and drive was fully
made by drive. This had some disadvantages - code was complex and
relies on bio internals, so it was hard to maintain and was strongly
dependent on bio changes.
In new approach most of the handling is done mostly by block layer
functions such as bio_split(), bio_chain() and generic_make request()
and generally is less complex and easier to maintain. Below some more
details of the new approach.
When read bio arrives, it is cloned for pblk internal purposes. All
the L2P mapping, which includes copying data from round buffer to bio
and thus bio_advance() calls is done on the cloned bio, so the original
bio is untouched. If we found that we have partial read case, we
still have original bio untouched, so we can split it and continue to
process only first part of it in current context, when the rest will be
called as separate bio request which is passed to generic_make_request()
for further processing.
Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiner Litz <hlitz@ucsc.edu>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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This patch is made in order to prepare read path for new approach to
partial read handling, which is simpler in compare with previous one.
The most important change is to move the handling of completed and
failed bio from the pblk_make_rq() to particular read and write
functions. This is needed, since after partial read path changes,
sometimes completed/failed bio will be different from original one, so
we cannot do this any longer in pblk_make_rq().
Other changes are small read path refactor in order to reduce the size
of the following patch with partial read changes.
Generally the goal of this patch is not to change the functionality,
but just to prepare the code for the following changes.
Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Currently when there is an IO error (or similar) on GC read path, pblk
still move the line, which was currently under GC process to free state.
Such a behaviour can lead to silent data mismatch issue.
With this patch, the line which was under GC process on which some IO
errors occurred, will be putted back to closed state (instead of free
state as it was without this patch) and the L2P mapping for such a
failed sectors will not be updated.
Then in case of any user IOs to such a failed sectors, pblk would be
able to return at least real IO error instead of stale data as it is
right now.
Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Currently in case of read errors, bi_status is not set properly which
leads to returning inproper data to layers above. This patch fix that
by setting proper status in case of read errors.
Also remove unnecessary warn_once(), which does not make sense
in that place, since user bio is not used for interation with drive
and thus bi_status will not be set here.
Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Currently L2P map size is calculated based on the total number of
available sectors, which is redundant, since it contains mapping for
overprovisioning as well (11% by default).
Change this size to the real capacity and thus reduce the memory
footprint significantly - with default op value it is approx.
110MB of DRAM less for every 1TB of media.
Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The introduction of multipage bio vectors broke pblk's partial read
logic due to it not being prepared for multipage bio vectors.
Use bio vector iterators instead of direct bio vector indexing.
Fixes: 07173c3ec276 ("block: enable multipage bvecs")
Reported-by: Klaus Jensen <klaus.jensen@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Updated description.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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pblk performs recovery of open lines by storing the LBA in the per LBA
metadata field. Recovery therefore only works for drives that has this
field.
This patch adds support for packed metadata, which store l2p mapping
for open lines in last sector of every write unit and enables drives
without per IO metadata to recover open lines.
After this patch, drives with OOB size <16B will use packed metadata
and metadata size larger than16B will continue to use the device per
IO metadata.
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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pblk currently assumes that size of OOB metadata on drive is always
equal to size of pblk_sec_meta struct. This commit add helpers which will
allow to handle different sizes of OOB metadata on drive in the future.
After this patch only OOB metadata equal to 16 bytes is supported.
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Currently DMA allocated memory is reused on partial read
for lba_list_mem and lba_list_media arrays. In preparation
for dynamic DMA pool sizes we need to move this arrays
into pblk_pr_ctx structures.
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Add GLP-2.0 SPDX license tag to all pblk files
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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dma allocations for ppa_list and meta_list in rqd are replicated in
several places across the pblk codebase. Make helpers to encapsulate
creation and deletion to simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The prefix when printing ppas in pblk_read_check_rand should be "rnd"
not "seq", so fix this so we can differentiate between lba missmatches
in random and sequential reads. Also change the print order so
we align with pblk_read_check_seq, printing read lba first.
Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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There is a number of places in the lightnvm subsystem where the user
iterates over the ppa list. Before iterating, the user must know if it
is a single or multiple LBAs due to vector commands using either the
nvm_rq ->ppa_addr or ->ppa_list fields on command submission, which
leads to open-coding the if/else statement.
Instead of having multiple if/else's, move it into a function that can
be called by its users.
A nice side effect of this cleanup is that this patch fixes up a
bunch of cases where we don't consider the single-ppa case in pblk.
Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The current helper to obtain a line from a ppa returns the line id,
which requires its users to explicitly retrieve the pointer to the line
with the id.
Make 2 different helpers: one returning the line id and one returning
the line directly.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The read completion path uses the put_line variable to decide whether
the reference on a line should be released. The function name used for
that is pblk_read_put_rqd_kref, which could lead one to believe that it
is the rqd that is releasing the reference, while it is the line
reference that is put.
Rename and also split the function in two to account for either rqd or
single ppa callers and move it to core, such that it later can be used
in the write path as well.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiner Litz <hlitz@ucsc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The I/O size and capacity checks are already done by the block layer.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Both NVM_MAX_VLBA and PBLK_MAX_REQ_ADDRS define how many LBAs that
are available in a vector command. pblk uses them interchangeably
in its implementation. Use NVM_MAX_VLBA as the main one and remove
usages of PBLK_MAX_REQ_ADDRS.
Also remove the power representation that only has one user, and
instead calculate it at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Add nvm_set_flags helper to enable core to appropriately
set the command flags for read/write/erase depending on which version
a drive supports.
The flags arguments can be distilled into the access hint,
scrambling, and program/erase suspend. Replace the access hint with
a "is_seq" parameter. The rest of the flags are dependent on the
command opcode, which is trivial to detect and set.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Add and use a new op_stat_group() function for indexing partition stat
fields rather than indexing them by rq_data_dir() or bio_data_dir().
This function works similarly to op_is_sync() in that it takes the
request::cmd_flags or bio::bi_opf flags and determines which stats
should et updated.
In addition, the second parameter to generic_start_io_acct() and
generic_end_io_acct() is now a REQ_OP rather than simply a read or
write bit and it uses op_stat_group() on the parameter to determine
the stat group.
Note that the partition in_flight counts are not part of the per-cpu
statistics and as such are not indexed via this function. It's now
indexed by op_is_write().
tj: Refreshed on top of v4.17. Updated to pass around REQ_OP.
Signed-off-by: Michael Callahan <michaelcallahan@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Matias Bjorling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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In the read path, partial reads are currently performed synchronously
which affects performance for workloads that generate many partial
reads. This patch adds an asynchronous partial read path as well as
the required partial read ctx.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Litz <hlitz@ucsc.edu>
Reviewed-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The error messages in pblk does not say which pblk instance that
a message occurred from. Update each error message to reflect the
instance it belongs to, and also prefix it with pblk, so we know
the message comes from the pblk module.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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If using pblk on a 32bit architecture, and there is a need to
perform a partial read, the partial read bitmap will only have
allocated 32 entries, where as 64 are needed.
Make sure that the read_bitmap is initialized to 64bits on 32bit
architectures as well.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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There is no users of CONFIG_NVM_DEBUG in the LightNVM subsystem. All
users are in pblk. Rename NVM_DEBUG to NVM_PBLK_DEBUG and enable
only for pblk.
Also fix up the CONFIG_NVM_PBLK entry to follow the code style for
Kconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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In the read path, pblk gets a reference to the incoming bio and puts it
after ending the bio. Though this behavior is correct, it is unnecessary
since pblk is the one putting the bio, therefore, it cannot disappear
underneath it.
Removing this reference, allows to clean up rqd->bio and avoids pointer
bouncing for the different read paths. Now, the incoming bio always
resides in the read context and pblk's internal bios (if any) reside in
rqd->bio.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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When error occurs during bio_add_page on partial read path, pblk
tries to free pages twice.
Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcin Dziegielewski <marcin.dziegielewski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Call nvm_submit_io directly and remove an unnecessary indirection on the
read path.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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In the event of a mismatch between the read LBA and the metadata pointer
reported by the device, improve the error message to be able to detect
the offending physical address (PPA) mapped to the corrupted LBA.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Check that the lba stored in the LBA metadata is correct in the GC path
too. This requires a new helper function to check random reads in the
vector read.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Convert lightnvm to embedded bio sets.
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Currently, the device geometry is stored redundantly in the nvm_id and
nvm_geo structures at a device level. Moreover, when instantiating
targets on a specific number of LUNs, these structures are replicated
and manually modified to fit the instance channel and LUN partitioning.
Instead, create a generic geometry around nvm_geo, which can be used by
(i) the underlying device to describe the geometry of the whole device,
and (ii) instances to describe their geometry independently.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Since pblk registers its own block device, the iostat accounting is
not automatically done for us. Therefore, add the necessary
accounting logic to satisfy the iostat interface.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Through time, we have generated some redundant helper functions.
Refactor them to eliminate redundant and unnecessary code. Also, reorder
them to improve readability
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Implement a generic path for sending sync I/O on LightNVM. This allows
to reuse the standard synchronous path trough blk_execute_rq(), instead
of implementing a wait_for_completion on the target side (e.g., pblk).
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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A partial read I/O in pblk is an I/O where some sectors reside in the
write buffer in main memory and some are persisted on the device. Such
an I/O must at least contain 2 lbas, therefore checking for the case
where a single lba is mapped is not necessary.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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When a line is recycled during garbage collection, reads can still be
issued to the line. If the line is freed in the middle of this process,
data corruption might occur.
This patch guarantees that lines are not freed in the middle of reads
that target them (lines). Specifically, we use the existing line
reference to decide when a line is eligible for being freed after the
recycle process.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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As part of pblk's recovery scheme, we store the lba mapped to each
physical sector on the device's out-of-bound (OOB) area.
On the read path, we can use this information to validate that the data
being delivered to the upper layers corresponds to the lba being
requested. The cost of this check is an extra copy on the DMA region on
the device and an extra comparison in the host, given that (i) the OOB
area is being read together with the data in the media, and (ii) the DMA
region allocated for the ppa list can be reused for the metadata stored
on the OOB area.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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For consistency with the rest of pblk, use rqd->end_io to point to the
function taking care of ending the request on the completion path.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Refactor the rqd allocation and free functions so that all I/O types can
use these helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Each request type sent to the LightNVM subsystem requires different
metadata. Until now, we have tailored this metadata based on write, read
and erase commands. However, pblk uses different metadata for internal
writes that do not hit the write buffer. Instead of abusing the metadata
for reads, create a new request type - internal write to improve
code readability.
In the process, create internal values for each I/O type instead of
abusing the READ/WRITE macros, as suggested by Christoph.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Simplify put bio by doing it on bio end_io instead of manually putting
it on the completion path.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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When a line is selected for recycling by the garbage collector (GC), the
line state changes and the invalid bitmap is frozen, preventing
invalidations from happening. Throughout the GC, the L2P map is checked
to verify that not data being recycled has been updated. The last check
is done before the new map is being stored on the L2P table. Though
this algorithm works, it requires a number of corner cases to be checked
each time the L2P table is being updated. This complicates readability
and is error prone in case that the recycling algorithm is modified.
Instead, this patch makes the invalid bitmap accessible even when the
line is being recycled. When recycled data is being remapped, it is
enough to check the invalid bitmap for the line before updating the L2P
table.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Refactor lba sanity check on read path to avoid code duplication.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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As part of the mempool audit on pblk, remove unnecessary mempool
allocation checks on mempools.
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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pblk uses an internal page mempool for allocating pages on internal
bios. The main two users of this memory pool are partial reads (reads
with some sectors in cache and some on media) and padded writes, which
need to add dummy pages to an existing bio already containing valid
data (and with a large enough bioset allocated). In both cases, the
maximum number of pages per bio is defined by the maximum number of
physical sectors supported by the underlying device.
This patch fixes a bad mempool allocation, where the min_nr of elements
on the pool was fixed (to 16), which is lower than the maximum number
of sectors supported by NVMe (as of the time for this patch). Instead,
use the maximum number of allowed sectors reported by the device.
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The data buffer for the GC path allocates virtual memory through
vmalloc. When this change was introduced, a flag signaling kmalloc'ed
memory was wrongly introduced. Use the right flag when creating a bio
from this buffer.
Fixes: de54e703a422 ("lightnvm: pblk: use vmalloc for GC data buffer")
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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When a lba either hits the cache or corresponds to an empty entry in the
L2P table, we need to advance the bio according to the position in which
the lba is located. Otherwise, we will copy data in the wrong page, thus
causing data corruption for the application.
In case of a cache hit, we assumed that bio->bi_iter.bi_idx would
contain the correct index, but this is no necessarily true. Instead, use
the local bio advance counter and iterator. This guarantees that lbas
hitting the cache are copied into the right bv_page.
In case of an empty L2P entry, we omitted to advance the bio. In the
cases when the same I/O also contains a cache hit, data corresponding
to this lba will be copied to the wrong bv_page. Fix this by advancing
the bio as we do in the case of a cache hit.
Fixes: a4bd217b4326 lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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When a read is directed to the cache, we risk that the lba has been
updated during the time we made the L2P table lookup and the time we are
actually reading form the cache. We intentionally not hold the L2P lock
not to block other threads.
While strict ordering is not a guarantee at this level (unless REQ_FLUSH
has been previously issued), we have experience that some databases that
have recently implemented direct I/O support, issue metadata reads very
close to the writes, without issuing a fsync in the middle. An easy way
to support them while they is to make an extra effort and check the L2P
map right before reading the cache.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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For now, we allocate a per I/O buffer for GC data. Since the potential
size of the buffer is 256KB and GC is not in the fast path, do this
allocation with vmalloc. This puts lets pressure on the memory
allocator at no performance cost.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Due to user writes being decoupled from media writes because of the need
of an intermediate write buffer, irrecoverable media write errors lead
to pblk stalling; user writes fill up the buffer and end up in an
infinite retry loop.
In order to let user writes fail gracefully, it is necessary for pblk to
keep track of its own internal state and prevent further writes from
being placed into the write buffer.
This patch implements a state machine to keep track of internal errors
and, in case of failure, fail further user writes in an standard way.
Depending on the type of error, pblk will do its best to persist
buffered writes (which are already acknowledged) and close down on a
graceful manner. This way, data might be recovered by re-instantiating
pblk. Such state machine paves out the way for a state-based FTL log.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Set a dma area for all I/Os in order to read/write from/to the metadata
stored on the per-sector out-of-bound area.
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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