1. 10 Sep, 2010 9 commits
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      block: rename barrier/ordered to flush · dd4c133f
      Tejun Heo authored
      With ordering requirements dropped, barrier and ordered are misnomers.
      Now all block layer does is sequencing FLUSH and FUA.  Rename them to
      flush.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      dd4c133f
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      block: rename blk-barrier.c to blk-flush.c · 8839a0e0
      Tejun Heo authored
      Without ordering requirements, barrier and ordering are minomers.
      Rename block/blk-barrier.c to block/blk-flush.c.  Rename of symbols
      will follow.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      8839a0e0
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      block: drop barrier ordering by queue draining · 28e7d184
      Tejun Heo authored
      Filesystems will take all the responsibilities for ordering requests
      around commit writes and will only indicate how the commit writes
      themselves should be handled by block layers.  This patch drops
      barrier ordering by queue draining from block layer.  Ordering by
      draining implementation was somewhat invasive to request handling.
      List of notable changes follow.
      
      * Each queue has 1 bit color which is flipped on each barrier issue.
        This is used to track whether a given request is issued before the
        current barrier or not.  REQ_ORDERED_COLOR flag and coloring
        implementation in __elv_add_request() are removed.
      
      * Requests which shouldn't be processed yet for draining were stalled
        by returning -EAGAIN from blk_do_ordered() according to the test
        result between blk_ordered_req_seq() and blk_blk_ordered_cur_seq().
        This logic is removed.
      
      * Draining completion logic in elv_completed_request() removed.
      
      * All barrier sequence requests were queued to request queue and then
        trckled to lower layer according to progress and thus maintaining
        request orders during requeue was necessary.  This is replaced by
        queueing the next request in the barrier sequence only after the
        current one is complete from blk_ordered_complete_seq(), which
        removes the need for multiple proxy requests in struct request_queue
        and the request sorting logic in the ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE path of
        elv_insert().
      
      * As barriers no longer have ordering constraints, there's no need to
        dump the whole elevator onto the dispatch queue on each barrier.
        Insert barriers at the front instead.
      
      * If other barrier requests come to the front of the dispatch queue
        while one is already in progress, they are stored in
        q->pending_barriers and restored to dispatch queue one-by-one after
        each barrier completion from blk_ordered_complete_seq().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      28e7d184
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      block: misc cleanups in barrier code · dd831006
      Tejun Heo authored
      Make the following cleanups in preparation of barrier/flush update.
      
      * blk_do_ordered() declaration is moved from include/linux/blkdev.h to
        block/blk.h.
      
      * blk_do_ordered() now returns pointer to struct request, with %NULL
        meaning "try the next request" and ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) "try again
        later".  The third case will be dropped with further changes.
      
      * In the initialization of proxy barrier request, data direction is
        already set by init_request_from_bio().  Drop unnecessary explicit
        REQ_WRITE setting and move init_request_from_bio() above REQ_FUA
        flag setting.
      
      * add_request() is collapsed into __make_request().
      
      These changes don't make any functional difference.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      dd831006
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      block: remove spurious uses of REQ_HARDBARRIER · 9cbbdca4
      Tejun Heo authored
      REQ_HARDBARRIER is deprecated.  Remove spurious uses in the following
      users.  Please note that other than osdblk, all other uses were
      already spurious before deprecation.
      
      * osdblk: osdblk_rq_fn() won't receive any request with
        REQ_HARDBARRIER set.  Remove the test for it.
      
      * pktcdvd: use of REQ_HARDBARRIER in pkt_generic_packet() doesn't mean
        anything.  Removed.
      
      * aic7xxx_old: Setting MSG_ORDERED_Q_TAG on REQ_HARDBARRIER is
        spurious.  Removed.
      
      * sas_scsi_host: Setting TASK_ATTR_ORDERED on REQ_HARDBARRIER is
        spurious.  Removed.
      
      * scsi_tcq: The ordered tag path wasn't being used anyway.  Removed.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
      Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      9cbbdca4
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      block: deprecate barrier and replace blk_queue_ordered() with blk_queue_flush() · 4913efe4
      Tejun Heo authored
      Barrier is deemed too heavy and will soon be replaced by FLUSH/FUA
      requests.  Deprecate barrier.  All REQ_HARDBARRIERs are failed with
      -EOPNOTSUPP and blk_queue_ordered() is replaced with simpler
      blk_queue_flush().
      
      blk_queue_flush() takes combinations of REQ_FLUSH and FUA.  If a
      device has write cache and can flush it, it should set REQ_FLUSH.  If
      the device can handle FUA writes, it should also set REQ_FUA.
      
      All blk_queue_ordered() users are converted.
      
      * ORDERED_DRAIN is mapped to 0 which is the default value.
      * ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH is mapped to REQ_FLUSH.
      * ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH_FUA is mapped to REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
      Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
      Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      4913efe4
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      block: kill QUEUE_ORDERED_BY_TAG · 6958f145
      Tejun Heo authored
      Nobody is making meaningful use of ORDERED_BY_TAG now and queue
      draining for barrier requests will be removed soon which will render
      the advantage of tag ordering moot.  Kill ORDERED_BY_TAG.  The
      following users are affected.
      
      * brd: converted to ORDERED_DRAIN.
      * virtio_blk: ORDERED_TAG path was already marked deprecated.  Removed.
      * xen-blkfront: ORDERED_TAG case dropped.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      6958f145
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      block/loop: queue ordered mode should be DRAIN_FLUSH · 589d7ed0
      Tejun Heo authored
      loop implements FLUSH using fsync but was incorrectly setting its
      ordered mode to DRAIN.  Change it to DRAIN_FLUSH.  In practice, this
      doesn't change anything as loop doesn't make use of the block layer
      ordered implementation.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      589d7ed0
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      ide: remove unnecessary blk_queue_flushing() test in do_ide_request() · 0da2f509
      Tejun Heo authored
      Unplugging from a request function doesn't really help much (it's
      already in the request_fn) and soon block layer will be updated to mix
      barrier sequence with other commands, so there's no need to treat
      queue flushing any differently.
      
      ide was the only user of blk_queue_flushing().  Remove it.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      0da2f509
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