- 27 Jan, 2021 3 commits
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Jan Kara authored
Currently whenever bfq queue has a request queued we add now - last_completion_time to the think time statistics. This is however misleading in case the process is able to submit several requests in parallel because e.g. if the queue has request completed at time T0 and then queues new requests at times T1, T2, then we will add T1-T0 and T2-T0 to think time statistics which just doesn't make any sence (the queue's think time is penalized by the queue being able to submit more IO). So add to think time statistics only time intervals when the queue had no IO pending. Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by:
Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> [axboe: fix whitespace on empty line] Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Jan Kara authored
Use local variable 'ttime' instead of dereferencing bfqq. Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
bfq_setup_cooperator() uses bfqd->in_serv_last_pos so detect whether it makes sense to merge current bfq queue with the in-service queue. However if the in-service queue is freshly scheduled and didn't dispatch any requests yet, bfqd->in_serv_last_pos is stale and contains value from the previously scheduled bfq queue which can thus result in a bogus decision that the two queues should be merged. This bug can be observed for example with the following fio jobfile: [global] direct=0 ioengine=sync invalidate=1 size=1g rw=read [reader] numjobs=4 directory=/mnt where the 4 processes will end up in the one shared bfq queue although they do IO to physically very distant files (for some reason I was able to observe this only with slice_idle=1ms setting). Fix the problem by invalidating bfqd->in_serv_last_pos when switching in-service queue. Fixes: 058fdecc ("block, bfq: fix in-service-queue check for queue merging") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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- 26 Jan, 2021 8 commits
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Chunguang Xu authored
When calling blkcg_schedule_throttle(), for the same queue, redundant get/put operations can be removed. Signed-off-by:
Chunguang Xu <brookxu@tencent.com> Acked-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
truncate_bdev_range is only used in always built-in block layer code, so remove the export and the !CONFIG_BLOCK stub. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Lei Chen authored
The first parameter rwb is not used for this function. So just remove it. Signed-off-by:
Lei Chen <lennychen@tencent.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
blkdev_fallocate() tries to detect whether a discard raced with an overlapping write by calling invalidate_inode_pages2_range(). However this check can give both false negatives (when writing using direct IO or when writeback already writes out the written pagecache range) and false positives (when write is not actually overlapping but ends in the same page when blocksize < pagesize). This actually causes issues for qemu which is getting confused by EBUSY errors. Fix the problem by removing this conflicting write detection since it is inherently racy and thus of little use anyway. Reported-by:
Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> CC: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20201111153913.41840-1-mlevitsk@redhat.comSigned-off-by:
Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Cloned bios are can be used to on the same device, in which case we need to inherit the BIO_REMAPPED flag to avoid a double partition remap. When the cloned bios are used on another device, bio_set_dev will clear the flag. Fixes: 309dca30 ("block: store a block_device pointer in struct bio") Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Always use the bio_set_dev helper to assign ->bi_bdev to make sure other state related to the device is uptodate. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Always use the bio_set_dev helper to assign ->bi_bdev to make sure other state related to the device is uptodate. Signed-off-by:
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Jens Axboe authored
It's only used in the same file, mark is appropriately static. Fixes: 71217df3 ("block, bfq: make waker-queue detection more robust") Reported-by:
kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 25 Jan, 2021 29 commits
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Paolo Valente authored
In the presence of many parallel I/O flows, the detection of waker bfq_queues suffers from false positives. This commits addresses this issue by making the filtering of actual wakers more selective. In more detail, a candidate waker must be found to meet waker requirements three times before being promoted to actual waker. Tested-by:
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Paolo Valente authored
To prevent injection information from being lost on bfq_queue merging, also the amount of service that a bfq_queue receives must be saved and restored when the bfq_queue is merged and split, respectively. Tested-by:
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Paolo Valente authored
To prevent weight-raising information from being lost on bfq_queue merging, also the amount of service that a bfq_queue receives must be saved and restored when the bfq_queue is merged and split, respectively. Tested-by:
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Paolo Valente authored
A bfq_queue may happen to be deemed as soft real-time while it is still enjoying interactive weight-raising. If this happens because of a false positive, then the bfq_queue is likely to loose its soft real-time status soon. Upon losing such a status, the bfq_queue must get back its interactive weight-raising, if its interactive period is not over yet. But this case is not handled. This commit corrects this error. Tested-by:
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Paolo Valente authored
Upon an I/O-dispatch attempt, BFQ may detect that it was better to plug I/O dispatch, and to wait for a new request to arrive for the currently in-service queue. But the arrival of a new request for an empty bfq_queue, and thus the switch from idle to busy of the bfq_queue, may cause the scenario to change, and make plugging no longer needed for service guarantees, or more convenient for throughput. In this case, keeping I/O-dispatch plugged would certainly lower throughput. To address this issue, this commit makes such a check, and stops plugging I/O if it is better to stop plugging I/O. Tested-by:
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Paolo Valente authored
Some BFQ mechanisms make their decisions on a bfq_queue basing also on whether the bfq_queue is I/O bound. In this respect, the current logic for evaluating whether a bfq_queue is I/O bound is rather rough. This commits replaces this logic with a more effective one. The new logic measures the percentage of time during which a bfq_queue is active, and marks the bfq_queue as I/O bound if the latter if this percentage is above a fixed threshold. Tested-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
When an already remapped bio is resubmitted (e.g. by blk_queue_split), bio_check_eod will compare the remapped bi_sector against the size of the partition, leading to spurious I/O failures. Skip the EOD check in this case. Fixes: 309dca30 ("block: store a block_device pointer in struct bio") Reported-by:
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Pavel Begunkov authored
The block layer spends quite a while in blkdev_direct_IO() to copy and initialise bio's bvec. However, if we've already got a bvec in the input iterator it might be reused in some cases, i.e. when new ITER_BVEC_FLAG_FIXED flag is set. Simple tests show considerable performance boost, and it also reduces memory footprint. Suggested-by:
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by:
Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Begunkov authored
Add a helper function calculating the number of bvec segments we need to allocate to construct a bio. It doesn't change anything functionally, but will be used to not duplicate special cases in the future. Reviewed-by:
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Pavel Begunkov authored
iov_iter_advance() is heavily used, but implemented through generic means. For bvecs there is a specifically crafted function for that, so use bvec_iter_advance() instead, it's faster and slimmer. Reviewed-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
This saves one memory allocation, and ensures the bvecs aren't freed before the AIO completion. This will allow the lower level code to be optimized so that it can avoid allocating another bvec array. Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Begunkov authored
Direct IO does not operate on the current working set of pages managed by the kernel, so it should not be accounted as memory stall to PSI infrastructure. The block layer and iomap direct IO use bio_iov_iter_get_pages() to build bios, and they are the only users of it, so to avoid PSI tracking for them clear out BIO_WORKINGSET flag. Do same for dio_bio_submit() because fs/direct_io constructs bios by hand directly calling bio_add_page(). Reported-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Suggested-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by:
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Pavel Begunkov authored
zero-length bvec segments are allowed in general, but not handled by bio and down the block layer so filtered out. This inconsistency may be confusing and prevent from optimisations. As zero-length segments are useless and places that were generating them are patched, declare them not allowed. Reviewed-by:
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Pavel Begunkov authored
iter_file_splice_write() may spawn bvec segments with zero-length. In preparation for prohibiting them, filter out by hand at splice level. Reviewed-by:
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Guoqing Jiang authored
We can remove 'q' from blk_execute_rq as well after the previous change in blk_execute_rq_nowait. And more importantly it never really was needed to start with given that we can trivial derive it from struct request. Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> # for mmc Signed-off-by:
Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@cloud.ionos.com> Signed-off-by:
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Guoqing Jiang authored
The 'q' is not used since commit a1ce35fa ("block: remove dead elevator code"), also update the comment of the function. And more importantly it never really was needed to start with given that we can trivial derive it from struct request. Cc: target-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Pan Bian authored
Free the request rq before returning error code. Fixes: 972248e9 ("scsi: bsg-lib: handle bidi requests without block layer help") Signed-off-by:
Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com> Reviewed-by:
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Ming Lei authored
This bioset is just for allocating bio only from bio_next_split, and it needn't bvecs, so remove the flag. Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org Cc: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Reviewed-by:
Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Reviewed-by:
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Ming Lei authored
bvec_alloc(), bvec_free() and bvec_nr_vecs() are only used inside block layer core functions, no need to declare them in public header. Reviewed-by:
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Ming Lei authored
bvec_alloc() may allocate more bio vectors than requested, so set .bi_max_vecs as actual allocated vector number, instead of the requested number. This way can help fs build bigger bio because new bio often won't be allocated until the current one becomes full. Reviewed-by:
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Ming Lei authored
The inline bvecs won't be used if user needn't bvecs by not passing BIOSET_NEED_BVECS, so don't allocate bvecs in this situation. Reviewed-by:
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Ming Lei authored
q->bio_split is only used by bio_split() for fast cloning bio, and no need to allocate bvecs, so remove this flag. Reviewed-by:
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Ming Lei authored
Managing bio slab cache via xarray by using slab cache size as xarray index, and storing 'struct bio_slab' instance into xarray. So code is simplified a lot, meantime it becomes more readable than before. Reviewed-by:
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huhai authored
As we can see, returns parent_sched_may_change whether sd->next_in_service changes or not, so remove this judgment. Signed-off-by:
huhai <huhai@tj.kylinos.cn> Acked-by:
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Jan Kara authored
Currently when non-mq aware IO scheduler (BFQ, mq-deadline) is used for a queue with multiple HW queues, the performance it rather bad. The problem is that these IO schedulers use queue-wide locking and their dispatch function does not respect the hctx it is passed in and returns any request it finds appropriate. Thus locality of request access is broken and dispatch from multiple CPUs just contends on IO scheduler locks. For these IO schedulers there's little point in dispatching from multiple CPUs. Instead dispatch always only from a single CPU to limit contention. Below is a comparison of dbench runs on XFS filesystem where the storage is a raid card with 64 HW queues and to it attached a single rotating disk. BFQ is used as IO scheduler: clients MQ SQ MQ-Patched Amean 1 39.12 (0.00%) 43.29 * -10.67%* 36.09 * 7.74%* Amean 2 128.58 (0.00%) 101.30 * 21.22%* 96.14 * 25.23%* Amean 4 577.42 (0.00%) 494.47 * 14.37%* 508.49 * 11.94%* Amean 8 610.95 (0.00%) 363.86 * 40.44%* 362.12 * 40.73%* Amean 16 391.78 (0.00%) 261.49 * 33.25%* 282.94 * 27.78%* Amean 32 324.64 (0.00%) 267.71 * 17.54%* 233.00 * 28.23%* Amean 64 295.04 (0.00%) 253.02 * 14.24%* 242.37 * 17.85%* Amean 512 10281.61 (0.00%) 10211.16 * 0.69%* 10447.53 * -1.61%* Numbers are times so lower is better. MQ is stock 5.10-rc6 kernel. SQ is the same kernel with megaraid_sas.host_tagset_enable=0 so that the card advertises just a single HW queue. MQ-Patched is a kernel with this patch applied. You can see multiple hardware queues heavily hurt performance in combination with BFQ. The patch restores the performance. Signed-off-by: -
Jan Kara authored
This reverts commit b445547e. Since both mq-deadline and BFQ completely ignore hctx they are passed to their dispatch function and dispatch whatever request they deem fit checking whether any request for a particular hctx is queued is just pointless since we'll very likely get a request from a different hctx anyway. In the following commit we'll deal with lock contention in these IO schedulers in presence of multiple HW queues in a different way. Signed-off-by:
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Paolo Valente authored
This commits preserves I/O-dispatch plugging for a special symmetric case that may suddenly turn into asymmetric: the case where only one bfq_queue, say bfqq, is busy. In this case, not expiring bfqq does not cause any harm to any other queues in terms of service guarantees. In contrast, it avoids the following unlucky sequence of events: (1) bfqq is expired, (2) a new queue with a lower weight than bfqq becomes busy (or more queues), (3) the new queue is served until a new request arrives for bfqq, (4) when bfqq is finally served, there are so many requests of the new queue in the drive that the pending requests for bfqq take a lot of time to be served. In particular, event (2) may case even already dispatched requests of bfqq to be delayed, inside the drive. So, to avoid this series of events, the scenario is preventively declared as asymmetric also if bfqq is the only busy queues. By doing so, I/O-dispatch plugging is performed for bfqq. Tested-by:
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Paolo Valente authored
BFQ tags some bfq_queues as interactive or soft_rt if it deems that these bfq_queues contain the I/O of, respectively, interactive or soft real-time applications. BFQ privileges both these special types of bfq_queues over normal bfq_queues. To privilege a bfq_queue, BFQ mainly raises the weight of the bfq_queue. In particular, soft_rt bfq_queues get a higher weight than interactive bfq_queues. A bfq_queue may turn from interactive to soft_rt. And this leads to a tricky issue. Soft real-time applications usually start with an I/O-bound, interactive phase, in which they load themselves into main memory. BFQ correctly detects this phase, and keeps the bfq_queues associated with the application in interactive mode for a while. Problems arise when the I/O pattern of the application finally switches to soft real-time. One of the conditions for a bfq_queue to be deemed as soft_rt is that the bfq_queue does not consume too much bandwidth. But the bfq_queues associated with a soft real-time application consume as much bandwidth as they can in the loading phase of the application. So, after the application becomes truly soft real-time, a lot of time should pass before the average bandwidth consumed by its bfq_queues finally drops to a value acceptable for soft_rt bfq_queues. As a consequence, there might be a time gap during which the application is not privileged at all, because its bfq_queues are not interactive any longer, but cannot be deemed as soft_rt yet. To avoid this problem, BFQ pretends that an interactive bfq_queue consumes zero bandwidth, and allows an interactive bfq_queue to switch to soft_rt. Yet, this fake zero-bandwidth consumption easily causes the bfq_queue to often switch to soft_rt deceptively, during its loading phase. As in soft_rt mode, the bfq_queue gets its bandwidth correctly computed, and therefore soon switches back to interactive. Then it switches again to soft_rt, and so on. These spurious fluctuations usually cause losses of throughput, because they deceive BFQ's mechanisms for boosting throughput (injection, I/O-plugging avoidance, ...). This commit addresses this issue as follows: 1) It does compute actual bandwidth consumption also for interactive bfq_queues. This avoids the above false positives. 2) When a bfq_queue switches from interactive to normal mode, the consumed bandwidth is reset (forgotten). This allows the bfq_queue to enjoy soft_rt very quickly. In particular, two alternatives are possible in this switch: - the bfq_queue still has backlog, and therefore there is a budget already scheduled to serve the bfq_queue; in this case, the scheduling of the current budget of the bfq_queue is not hindered, because only the scheduling of the next budget will be affected by the weight drop. After that, if the bfq_queue is actually in a soft_rt phase, and becomes empty during the service of its current budget, which is the natural behavior of a soft_rt bfq_queue, then the bfq_queue will be considered as soft_rt when its next I/O arrives. If, in contrast, the bfq_queue remains constantly non-empty, then its next budget will be scheduled with a low weight, which is the natural treatment for an I/O-bound (non soft_rt) bfq_queue. - the bfq_queue is empty; in this case, the bfq_queue may be considered unjustly soft_rt when its new I/O arrives. Yet the problem is now much smaller than before, because it is unlikely that more than one spurious fluctuation occurs. Tested-by: -
Paolo Valente authored
BFQ heuristics try to detect interactive I/O, and raise the weight of the queues containing such an I/O. Yet, if also the user changes the weight of a queue (i.e., the user changes the ioprio of the process associated with that queue), then it is most likely better to prevent BFQ heuristics from silently changing the same weight. Tested-by:
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