Each hardware queue has a bitmap of software queues with pending
requests. When new IO is queued on a software queue, the bit is
set, and when IO is pruned on a hardware queue run, the bit is
cleared. This causes a lot of traffic. Switch this from the regular
BITS_PER_LONG bitmap to a sparser layout, similarly to what was
done for blk-mq tagging.
20% performance increase was observed for single threaded IO, and
about 15% performanc increase on multiple threads driving the
same device.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
They really belong in block/, especially now since it's not in
drivers/block/ anymore. Additionally, the get_maintainer script
gets it wrong when in fs/.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This adds support for active queue tracking, meaning that the
blk-mq tagging maintains a count of active users of a tag set.
This allows us to maintain a notion of fairness between users,
so that we can distribute the tag depth evenly without starving
some users while allowing others to try unfair deep queues.
If sharing of a tag set is detected, each hardware queue will
track the depth of its own queue. And if this exceeds the total
depth divided by the number of active queues, the user is actively
throttled down.
The active queue count is done lazily to avoid bouncing that data
between submitter and completer. Each hardware queue gets marked
active when it allocates its first tag, and gets marked inactive
when 1) the last tag is cleared, and 2) the queue timeout grace
period has passed.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Both nr_cache and nr_tags arn't needed for bitmap tag anymore.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The selected tag should be selected at random between 0 and
(depth - 1) with probability 1/depth, instead between 0 and
(depth - 2) with probability 1/(depth - 1).
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The barrier isn't necessary because both atomic_dec_and_test()
and wake_up() implicate one barrier.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The unlock memory barrier need to order access to req in free
path and clearing tag bit, otherwise either request free path
may see a allocated request, or initialized request in allocate
path might be modified by the ongoing free path.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We first check if we have inflight IO, then retrieve that
same number again. Usually this isn't that costly since the
chance of having the data dirtied in between is small, but
there's no reason for calling part_in_flight() twice.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Commit c6d600c6 opened up a small race where we could attempt to
account IO completion on a request, racing with IO start accounting.
Fix this up by ensuring that we've accounted for IO start before
inserting the request.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For best performance, spreading tags over multiple cachelines
makes the tagging more efficient on multicore systems. But since
we have 8 * sizeof(unsigned long) tags per cacheline, we don't
always get a nice spread.
Attempt to spread the tags over at least 4 cachelines, using fewer
number of bits per unsigned long if we have to. This improves
tagging performance in setups with 32-128 tags. For higher depths,
the spread is the same as before (BITS_PER_LONG tags per cacheline).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk-mq currently uses percpu_ida for tag allocation. But that only
works well if the ratio between tag space and number of CPUs is
sufficiently high. For most devices and systems, that is not the
case. The end result if that we either only utilize the tag space
partially, or we end up attempting to fully exhaust it and run
into lots of lock contention with stealing between CPUs. This is
not optimal.
This new tagging scheme is a hybrid bitmap allocator. It uses
two tricks to both be SMP friendly and allow full exhaustion
of the space:
1) We cache the last allocated (or freed) tag on a per blk-mq
software context basis. This allows us to limit the space
we have to search. The key element here is not caching it
in the shared tag structure, otherwise we end up dirtying
more shared cache lines on each allocate/free operation.
2) The tag space is split into cache line sized groups, and
each context will start off randomly in that space. Even up
to full utilization of the space, this divides the tag users
efficiently into cache line groups, avoiding dirtying the same
one both between allocators and between allocator and freeer.
This scheme shows drastically better behaviour, both on small
tag spaces but on large ones as well. It has been tested extensively
to show better performance for all the cases blk-mq cares about.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This allows us to avoid a non-atomic memset over ->atomic_flags as well
as killing lots of duplicate initializations.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Right now we just pick the first CPU in the mask, but that can
easily overload that one. Add some basic batching and round-robin
all the entries in the mask instead.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
All blk_iopoll functions use iop for parent iopoll structure except
blk_iopoll_complete.This also fixes one kernel-doc warning.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We already issue a blktrace requeue event in
__blk_mq_requeue_request(), don't do it from the original caller
as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Refactor the logic around adding a new bio to a software queue,
so we nest the ctx->lock where we really need it (merge and
insertion) and don't hold it when we don't (init and IO start
accounting).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_mq_wait_for_tags() is only able to wait for "normal" tags,
not reserved tags. Pass in which one we should attempt to get
a tag for, so that waiting for reserved tags will work.
Reserved tags are used for internal commands, which are usually
serialized. Hence no waiting generally takes place, but we should
ensure that it actually works if users need that functionality.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The blk-mq code is using it's own version of the I/O completion affinity
tunables, which causes a few issues:
- the rq_affinity sysfs file doesn't work for blk-mq devices, even if it
still is present, thus breaking existing tuning setups.
- the rq_affinity = 1 mode, which is the defauly for legacy request based
drivers isn't implemented at all.
- blk-mq drivers don't implement any completion affinity with the default
flag settings.
This patches removes the blk-mq ipi_redirect flag and sysfs file, as well
as the internal BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_IPI flag and replaces it with code that
respects the queue-wide rq_affinity flags and also implements the
rq_affinity = 1 mode.
This means I/O completion affinity can now only be tuned block-queue wide
instead of per context, which seems more sensible to me anyway.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If a requeue event races with a timeout, we can get into the
situation where we attempt to complete a request from the
timeout handler when it's not start anymore. This causes a crash.
So have the timeout handler check that REQ_ATOM_STARTED is still
set on the request - if not, we ignore the event. If this happens,
the request has now been marked as complete. As a consequence, we
need to ensure to clear REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE in blk_mq_start_request(),
as to maintain proper request state.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This reverts commit 6a3c8a3ac0.
We need selective clearing of the request to make the init-at-free
time completely safe. Otherwise we end up stomping on
rq->atomic_flags, which we don't want to do.
blk_throtl_dispatch_work_fn is only used in blk-throttle.c
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The patch basically reverts the patch of(blk-mq:
initialize request on allocation) in Jens's tree(already
in -next), and only initialize req->q in allocation
for two reasons:
- presumed cache hotness on completion
- blk_rq_tagged(rq) depends on reset of req->mq_ctx
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
type of set->tags is struct blk_mq_tags **.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Avoid memory leak in the failure path.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Since we are now, by default, applying timer slack to expiry times,
the logic for when to modify a timer in the block code is suboptimal.
The block layer keeps a forward rolling timer per queue for all
requests, and modifies this timer if a request has a shorter timeout
than what the current expiry time is. However, this breaks down
when our rounded timer values get applied slack. Then each new
request ends up modifying the timer, since we're still a little
in front of the timer + slack.
Fix this by allowing a tolerance of HZ / 2, the timeout handling
doesn't need to be very precise. This drastically cuts down
the number of timer modifications we have to make.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This allows to mirror the blk-mq code flow for more a more readable I/O
completion handler in SCSI.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We will use this work_struct to requeue scsi commands from the
completion handler as well, so give it a more generic name.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This allows to requeue a request that has been accepted by ->queue_rq
earlier. This is needed by the SCSI layer in various error conditions.
The existing internal blk_mq_requeue_request is renamed to
__blk_mq_requeue_request as it is a lower level building block for this
funtionality.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a helper to unconditionally kick contexts of a queue. This will
be needed by the SCSI layer to provide fair queueing between multiple
devices on a single host.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a blk-mq equivalent to blk_delay_queue so that the scsi layer can ask
to be kicked again after a delay.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Modified by me to kill the unnecessary preempt disable/enable
in the delayed workqueue handler.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add two unlinkely branches to make sure the resid is initialized correctly
for bidi request pairs, and the second request gets properly freed.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Split out the bottom half of blk_mq_end_io so that drivers can perform
work when they know a request has been completed, but before it has been
freed. This also obsoletes blk_mq_end_io_partial as drivers can now
pass any value to blk_update_request directly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_mq_work_fn() is always invoked off the bounded workqueues,
so it can happily preempt among the queues in that set without
causing any issues for blk-mq.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
UP or CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE will return 0, and what we really
want to check is whether or not we are on the right CPU.
So don't make PREEMPT part of this, just test the CPU in
the mask directly.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a new blk_mq_tag_set structure that gets set up before we initialize
the queue. A single blk_mq_tag_set structure can be shared by multiple
queues.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Modular export of blk_mq_{alloc,free}_tagset added by me.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If we want to share tag and request allocation between queues we cannot
initialize the request at init/free time, but need to initialize it
at allocation time as it might get used for different queues over its
lifetime.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The current blk_mq_init_commands/blk_mq_free_commands interface has a
two problems:
1) Because only the constructor is passed to blk_mq_init_commands there
is no easy way to clean up when a comman initialization failed. The
current code simply leaks the allocations done in the constructor.
2) There is no good place to call blk_mq_free_commands: before
blk_cleanup_queue there is no guarantee that all outstanding
commands have completed, so we can't free them yet. After
blk_cleanup_queue the queue has usually been freed. This can be
worked around by grabbing an unconditional reference before calling
blk_cleanup_queue and dropping it after blk_mq_free_commands is
done, although that's not exatly pretty and driver writers are
guaranteed to get it wrong sooner or later.
Both issues are easily fixed by making the request constructor and
destructor normal blk_mq_ops methods.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Drivers shouldn't have to care about the block layer setting aside a
request to implement the flush state machine. We already override the
mq context and tag to make it more transparent, but so far haven't deal
with the driver private data in the request. Make sure to override this
as well, and while we're at it add a proper helper sitting in blk-mq.c
that implements the full impersonation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
