- 10 Nov, 2014 7 commits
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Joe Thornber authored
Prefetch metadata at the start of the worker thread and then again every 128th bio processed from the deferred list. Signed-off-by:
Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Joe Thornber authored
Introduce the dm_tm_issue_prefetches interface. If you're using a non-blocking clone the tm will build up a list of requested blocks that weren't in core. dm_tm_issue_prefetches will request those blocks to be prefetched. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Thornber authored
This change is a prerequisite for allowing metadata to be prefetched. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Thornber authored
Previously it was using a fixed sized hash table. There are times when very many concurrent cells are held (such as when processing a very large discard). When this happens the hash table performance becomes very poor. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Thornber authored
These changes help keep metadata backed by dm-bufio in-core longer which fixes reports of metadata churn in the face of heavy random IO workloads. Before, bufio evicted all buffers older than DM_BUFIO_DEFAULT_AGE_SECS. Having a device (e.g. dm-thinp or dm-cache) lose all metadata just because associated buffers had been idle for some time is unfriendly. Now, the user may now configure the number of bytes that bufio retains using the 'retain_bytes' module parameter. The default is 256K. Also, the DM_BUFIO_WORK_TIMER_SECS and DM_BUFIO_DEFAULT_AGE_SECS defaults were quite low so increase them (to 30 and 300 respectively). Signed-off-by:
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Joe Thornber authored
Converting over to using an rbtree eliminates a fixed 8MB allocation from vmalloc space for the hash table. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Thornber authored
The walk code was using a 'ro_spine' to hold it's locked btree nodes. But this data structure is designed for the rolling lock scheme, and as such automatically unlocks blocks that are two steps up the call chain. This is not suitable for the simple recursive walk algorithm, which retraces its steps. This code is only used by the persistent array code, which in turn is only used by dm-cache. In order to trigger it you need to have a mapping tree that is more than 2 levels deep; which equates to 8-16 million cache blocks. For instance a 4T ssd with a very small block size of 32k only just triggers this bug. The fix just places the locked blocks on the stack, and stops using the ro_spine altogether. Signed-off-by:
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- 04 Nov, 2014 1 commit
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Joe Thornber authored
Avoids normal IO racing with discard. Signed-off-by:
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- 29 Oct, 2014 1 commit
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Heinz Mauelshagen authored
Commit 48cf06bc ("dm raid: add discard support for RAID levels 4, 5 and 6") did not properly handle missing metadata device(s). A failing read of the superblock causes the metadata and data devices to be removed from the dev array in struct raid_set, setting references to both devices to NULL. configure_discard_support() nonetheless tries to access the data dev unconditionally causing an oops. Signed-off-by:
Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 21 Oct, 2014 1 commit
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Heinz Mauelshagen authored
The dm-raid superblock (struct dm_raid_superblock) is padded to 512 bytes and that size is being used to read it in from the metadata device into one preallocated page. Reading or writing this on a 512-byte sector device works fine but on a 4096-byte sector device this fails. Set the dm-raid superblock's size to the logical block size of the metadata device, because IO at that size is guaranteed too work. Also add a size check to avoid silent partial metadata loss in case the superblock should ever grow past the logical block size or PAGE_SIZE. [includes pointer math fix from Dan Carpenter] Reported-by:
"Liuhua Wang" <lwang@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 17 Oct, 2014 1 commit
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Mikulas Patocka authored
The shrinker uses gfp flags to indicate what kind of operation can the driver wait for. If __GFP_IO flag is present, the driver can wait for block I/O operations, if __GFP_FS flag is present, the driver can wait on operations involving the filesystem. dm-bufio tested for __GFP_IO. However, dm-bufio can run on a loop block device that makes calls into the filesystem. If __GFP_IO is present and __GFP_FS isn't, dm-bufio could still block on filesystem operations if it runs on a loop block device. The change from __GFP_IO to __GFP_FS supposedly fixes one observed (though unreproducible) deadlock involving dm-bufio and loop device. Signed-off-by:
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 11 Oct, 2014 1 commit
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Pavitra Kumar authored
Fix a potential struct stripe_c leak that would occur if the chunk_size exceeded the maximum allowed by dm_set_target_max_io_len (UINT_MAX). However, in practice there is no possibility of this occuring given that chunk_size is of type uint32_t. But it is good to fix this to future-proof in case dm_set_target_max_io_len's implementation were to change. Signed-off-by:
Pavitra Kumar <pavitrak@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 06 Oct, 2014 9 commits
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Alexey Khoroshilov authored
If cn_add_callback() fails in dm_ulog_tfr_init(), it does not deallocate prealloced memory but calls cn_del_callback(). Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by:
Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> Reviewed-by:
Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mikulas Patocka authored
When __scan frees the required number of buffer entries that the shrinker requested (nr_to_scan becomes zero) it must return. Before this fix the __scan code exited only the inner loop and continued in the outer loop -- which could result in reduced performance due to extra buffers being freed (e.g. unnecessarily evicted thinp metadata needing to be synchronously re-read into bufio's cache). Also, move dm_bufio_cond_resched to __scan's inner loop, so that iterating the bufio client's lru lists doesn't result in scheduling latency. Reported-by:
Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Thornber authored
The 'last_accessed' member of the dm_buffer structure was only set when the the buffer was created. This led to each buffer being discarded after dm_bufio_max_age time even if it was used recently. In practice this resulted in all thinp metadata being evicted soon after being read -- this is particularly problematic for metadata intensive workloads like multithreaded small random IO. 'last_accessed' is now updated each time the buffer is moved to the head of the LRU list, so the buffer is now properly discarded if it was not used in dm_bufio_max_age time. Signed-off-by:
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Heinz Mauelshagen authored
In case of RAID levels 4, 5 and 6 we have to verify each RAID members' ability to zero data on discards to avoid stripe data corruption -- if discard_zeroes_data is not set for each RAID member discard support must be disabled. But given the uncertainty of whether or not a RAID member properly supports zeroing data on discard we require the user to explicitly allow discard support on RAID levels 4, 5, and 6 by setting a dm-raid module paramter, e.g.: dm-raid.devices_handle_discard_safely=Y Otherwise, discards could cause data corruption on RAID4/5/6. Signed-off-by:
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Heinz Mauelshagen authored
Discard support is not enabled for RAID levels 4, 5, and 6 at this time due to concerns about unreliable discard_zeroes_data support on some hardware. Otherwise, discards could cause stripe data corruption (classic example of bad apples spoiling the bunch). Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Marzinski authored
Until this change, when loading a new DM table, DM core would re-open all of the devices in the DM table. Now, DM core will avoid redundant device opens (and closes when destroying the old table) if the old table already has a device open using the same mode. This is achieved by managing reference counts on the table_devices that DM core now stores in the mapped_device structure (rather than in the dm_table structure). So a mapped_device's active and inactive dm_tables' dm_dev lists now just point to the dm_devs stored in the mapped_device's table_devices list. This improvement in DM core's device reference counting has the side-effect of fixing a long-standing limitation of the multipath target: a DM multipath table couldn't include any paths that were unusable (failed). For example: if all paths have failed and you add a new, working, path to the table; you can't use it since the table load would fail due to it still containing failed paths. Now a re-load of a multipath table can include failed devices and when those devices become active again they can be used instantly. The device list code in dm.c isn't a straight copy/paste from the code in dm-table.c, but it's very close (aside from some variable renames). One subtle difference is that find_table_device for the tables_devices list will only match devices with the same name and mode. This is because we don't want to upgrade a device's mode in the active table when an inactive table is loaded. Access to the mapped_device structure's tables_devices list requires a mutex (tables_devices_lock), so that tables cannot be created and destroyed concurrently. Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Marzinski authored
'queue_io' is set so that IO is queued while paths are being initialized. Clear queue_io in __choose_pgpath if there are no valid paths, since there are obviously no paths that can be initialized. Otherwise IOs to the device will back up. Signed-off-by:
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Junichi Nomura authored
Since DM core uses bio_clone_fast() for both bio-based and request-based DM devices there is no need for DM's bioset to have a bvec mempool. With this patch, on arch with 4KB page for example, memory usage will be reduced by 64KB for each bio-based DM device and 1MB for each request-based DM device. For example, when you create 10,000 bio-based DM devices and 1,000 request-based DM devices, memory usage of biovec under no load is: # grep biovec /proc/slabinfo biovec-256 418068 418068 4096 ... biovec-128 0 0 2048 ... biovec-64 0 0 1024 ... biovec-16 0 0 256 ... With this patch series applied, the usage becomes: # grep biovec /proc/slabinfo biovec-256 116 116 4096 ... biovec-128 0 0 2048 ... biovec-64 0 0 1024 ... biovec-16 0 0 256 ... So 4096 * (418068 - 116) = 1.6GB of memory is saved in this example. Signed-off-by:
Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by:
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Junichi Nomura authored
alloc_tio() uses bio_alloc_bioset() to allocate a clone-bio for a bio. alloc_tio() takes the number of bvecs to allocate for the clone-bio. However, with v3.14's immutable biovec changes DM now uses __bio_clone_fast() and no longer needs to allocate bvecs. In practice, the 'nr_iovecs' passed to alloc_tio() is always effectively 0. __clone_and_map_simple_bio() looked like it was passing non-zero nr_iovecs, but its value was always within the range of inline bvecs and no allocation actually happened. If allocation happened, the BUG_ON() in __bio_clone_fast() would've triggered. Remove the nr_iovecs parameter from alloc_tio() to prevent possible future bio_alloc_bioset() mis-use of a new bioset interface that will no longer allow bvecs to be allocated. Also fix extra whitespace before the __bio_clone_fast() call in __clone_and_map_simple_bio(). Signed-off-by:
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- 03 Oct, 2014 2 commits
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Junichi Nomura authored
Users of bio_clone_fast() do not want bios with their own bvecs. Allocating a bvec mempool as part of the bioset intended for such users is a waste of memory. bioset_create_nobvec() creates a bioset that doesn't have the bvec mempool. Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Junichi Nomura authored
Request cloning clones bios in the request to track the completion of each bio. For that purpose, we can use bio_clone_fast() instead of bio_clone() to avoid unnecessary allocation and copy of bvecs. This patch reduces memory footprint of request-based device-mapper (about 1-4KB for each request) and is a preparation for further reduction of memory usage by removing unused bvec mempool. Signed-off-by:
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- 01 Oct, 2014 1 commit
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Hannes Reinecke authored
The rq_complete tracepoint was never issued for empty requests, causing the resulting blktrace information to never show any completion for those request. Signed-off-by:
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Acked-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 30 Sep, 2014 1 commit
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Martin K. Petersen authored
A set of flags introduced in the block layer enable better control over how protection information is handled. These flags are useful for both error injection and data recovery purposes. Checking can be enabled and disabled for controller and disk, and the guard tag format is now a per-I/O property. Update sd_protect_op to communicate the relevant information to the low-level device driver via a set of flags in scsi_cmnd. Signed-off-by:
Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com> Acked-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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- 27 Sep, 2014 14 commits
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The kernel used to contain two functions for length-delimited, case-insensitive string comparison, strnicmp with correct semantics and a slightly buggy strncasecmp. The latter is the POSIX name, so strnicmp was renamed to strncasecmp, and strnicmp made into a wrapper for the new strncasecmp to avoid breaking existing users. To allow the compat wrapper strnicmp to be removed at some point in the future, and to avoid the extra indirection cost, do s/strnicmp/strncasecmp/g. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
The T10 Protection Information format is also used by some devices that do not go through the SCSI layer (virtual block devices, NVMe). Relocate the relevant functions to a block layer library that can be used without involving SCSI. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
We'd occasionally merge requests with conflicting integrity flags. Introduce a merge helper which checks that the requests have compatible integrity payloads. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
Make the choice of checksum a per-I/O property by introducing a flag that can be inspected by the SCSI layer. There are several reasons for this: 1. It allows us to switch choice of checksum without unloading and reloading the HBA driver. 2. During error recovery we need to be able to tell the HBA that checksums read from disk should not be verified and converted to IP checksums. 3. For error injection purposes we need to be able to write a bad guard tag to storage. Since the storage device only supports T10 CRC we need to be able to disable IP checksum conversion on the HBA. Signed-off-by: -
Martin K. Petersen authored
Move flags affecting the integrity code out of the bio bi_flags and into the block integrity payload. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
So far we have relied on the app tag size to determine whether a disk has been formatted with T10 protection information or not. However, not all target devices provide application tag storage. Add a flag to the block integrity profile that indicates whether the disk has been formatted with protection information. Signed-off-by:
Sagi Grimberg <sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
Add a BLK_ prefix to the integrity profile flags. Also rename the flags to be more consistent with the generate/verify terminology in the rest of the integrity code. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
Instead of the "operate" parameter we pass in a seed value and a pointer to a function that can be used to process the integrity metadata. The generation function is changed to have a return value to fit into this scheme. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
Now that the protection interval has been detached from the sector size we need to be able to handle sizes that are different from 4K and 512. Make the interval calculation generic. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
The protection interval is not necessarily tied to the logical block size of a block device. Stop using the terms "sector" and "sectors". Going forward we will use the term "seed" to describe the initial reference tag value for a given I/O. "Interval" will be used to describe the portion of the data buffer that a given piece of protection information is associated with. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
bip_buf is not really needed so we can remove it. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
None of the filesystems appear interested in using the integrity tagging feature. Potentially because very few storage devices actually permit using the application tag space. Remove the tagging functions. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
For commands like REQ_COPY we need a way to pass extra information along with each bio. Like integrity metadata this information must be available at the bottom of the stack so bi_private does not suffice. Rename the existing bi_integrity field to bi_special and make it a union so we can have different bio extensions for each class of command. We previously used bi_integrity != NULL as a way to identify whether a bio had integrity metadata or not. Introduce a REQ_INTEGRITY to be the indicator now that bi_special can contain different things. In addition, bio_integrity(bio) will now return a pointer to the integrity payload (when applicable). Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
bdev_integrity_enabled() is only used by bio_integrity_enabled(). Combine these two functions. Signed-off-by:
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- 25 Sep, 2014 1 commit
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Ming Lei authored
This patch supports to run one single flush machinery for each blk-mq dispatch queue, so that: - current init_request and exit_request callbacks can cover flush request too, then the buggy copying way of initializing flush request's pdu can be fixed - flushing performance gets improved in case of multi hw-queue In fio sync write test over virtio-blk(4 hw queues, ioengine=sync, iodepth=64, numjobs=4, bs=4K), it is observed that througput gets increased a lot over my test environment: - throughput: +70% in case of virtio-blk over null_blk - throughput: +30% in case of virtio-blk over SSD image The multi virtqueue feature isn't merged to QEMU yet, and patches for the feature can be found in below tree: git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ming/qemu.git v2.1.0-mq.4 And simply passing 'num_queues=4 vectors=5' should be enough to enable multi queue(quad queue) feature for QEMU virtio-blk. Suggested-by:
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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