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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
7be421510b trace: Remove unused trace_array_cpu parameter
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05 14:35:47 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
268ccda0cb trace: assign defaults at register_ftrace_event
Impact: simplification of tracers

As all tracers are doing this we might as well do it in
register_ftrace_event and save one branch each time we call these
callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05 14:35:46 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
ae7462b4f1 trace: make the trace_event callbacks return enum print_line_t
As they actually all return these enumerators.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-04 20:48:39 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d9793bd801 trace: judicious error checking of trace_seq results
Impact: bugfix and cleanup

Some callsites were returning either TRACE_ITER_PARTIAL_LINE if the
trace_seq routines (trace_seq_printf, etc) returned 0 meaning its buffer
was full, or zero otherwise.

But...

/* Return values for print_line callback */
enum print_line_t {
        TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE = 0,    /* Retry after flushing the seq */
        TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED      = 1,
        TRACE_TYPE_UNHANDLED    = 2     /* Relay to other output functions */
};

In other cases the return value was not being relayed at all.

Most of the time it didn't hurt because the page wasn't get filled, but
for correctness sake, handle the return values everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-04 20:48:30 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
939b366977 blktrace: fix coding style in recent patches
Impact: cleanup

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-03 16:21:34 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
08a06b83ff blkftrace: binary tracing, synthesizing old format
Impact: new feature

With this and a blkrawverify modified not to verify the sequence numbers
we can start using the userspace tools to verify that the data produced
with the ftrace plugin works as expected.

Example:

[root@f10-1 ~]# echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
[root@f10-1 ~]# echo bin > /d/tracing/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# echo blk > /d/tracing/current_tracer
[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /d/tracing/trace_pipe > sda1.blktrace.0
^C
[root@f10-1 ~]# ./blkrawverify --noseq sda1
Verifying sda1
    CPU 0
Wrote output to sda1.verify.out
[root@f10-1 ~]# cat sda1.verify.out

---------------
Verifying sda1
    ---------------------
    Summary for cpu 0:
          1349 valid +          0 invalid (100.0%) processed

[root@f10-1 ~]#

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-03 14:03:53 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2c9b238eb3 trace: Change struct trace_event callbacks parameter list
Impact: API change

The trace_seq and trace_entry are in trace_iterator, where there are
more fields that may be needed by tracers, so just pass the
tracer_iterator as is already the case for struct tracer->print_line.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-03 14:03:52 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
dc573f9b20 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/kmemtrace' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-02-03 06:25:38 +01:00
Jens Axboe
fb8ec18c31 block: fix oops in blk_queue_io_stat()
Some initial probe requests don't have disk->queue mapped yet, so we
can't rely on a non-NULL queue in blk_queue_io_stat(). Wrap it in
blk_do_io_stat().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-02-02 08:42:32 +01:00
Divyesh Shah
3a9a3f6cc5 cfq-iosched: Allow RT requests to pre-empt ongoing BE timeslice
This patch adds the ability to pre-empt an ongoing BE timeslice when a RT
request is waiting for the current timeslice to complete. This reduces the
wait time to disk for RT requests from an upper bound of 4 (current value
of cfq_quantum) to 1 disk request.

Applied Jens' suggeested changes to avoid the rb lookup and use !cfq_class_rt()
and retested.

Latency(secs) for the RT task when doing sequential reads from 10G file.
                       | only RT | RT + BE | RT + BE + this patch
small (512 byte) reads | 143     | 163     | 145
large (1Mb) reads      | 142     | 158     | 146

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:47:33 +01:00
Jens Axboe
bc58ba9468 block: add sysfs file for controlling io stats accounting
This allows us to turn off disk stat accounting completely, for the cases
where the 0.5-1% reduction in system time is important.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:38 +01:00
Jens Axboe
cec0707e40 block: silently error an unsupported barrier bio
This fixes a "regression" from 2.6.28, where the barrier probes that file
systems may do would trigger additional end request warnings in dmesg.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:37 +01:00
Theodore Ts'o
dbdac9b71d block: Fix documentation for blkdev_issue_flush()
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:37 +01:00
Jens Axboe
213d9417fe block: seperate bio/request unplug and sync bits
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:37 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
1308835fff block: export SSD/non-rotational queue flag through sysfs
For some devices (i.e. CFA ATA) we can't reliably detect whether
the device is of rotational or non-rotational type so we need to
leave the final decision about this setting to the user-space.

As a bonus do a minor CodingStyle fixup in queue_nomerges_store().

Suggested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:37 +01:00
Jens Axboe
f48fc4d32e block: get rid of the manual directory counting in blktrace
It can result in a stuck blktrace system, if --kill is used.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:36 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
322316385d block: Allow empty integrity profile
Allow a block device to allocate and register an integrity profile
without providing a template.  This allows DM to preallocate a profile
to avoid deadlocks during table reconfiguration.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:36 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
700a3dcb90 blktrace: Use tracing_reset_online_cpus
Impact: cleanup

Use tracing_reset_online_cpus instead of open coding it.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-29 14:28:30 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
32c0bd9624 blktrace: the ftrace interface needs CONFIG_TRACING
Impact: build fix

Also mention in the help text that blktrace now can be used using
the ftrace interface.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-27 14:30:36 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
157f9c00e8 tracing/blktrace: fix up checkpatch reported problems in ftrace plugin patch
Also make sure sparse (make C=2 block/blktrace.o) is happy too.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-26 18:30:01 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
c71a896154 blktrace: add ftrace plugin
Impact: New way of using the blktrace infrastructure

This drops the requirement of userspace utilities to use the blktrace
facility.

Configuration is done thru sysfs, adding a "trace" directory to the
partition directory where blktrace can be enabled for the associated
request_queue.

The same filters present in the IOCTL interface are present as sysfs
device attributes.

The /sys/block/sdX/sdXN/trace/enable file allows tracing without any
filters.

The other files in this directory: pid, act_mask, start_lba and end_lba
can be used with the same meaning as with the IOCTL interface.

Using the sysfs interface will only setup the request_queue->blk_trace
fields, tracing will only take place when the "blk" tracer is selected
via the ftrace interface, as in the following example:

To see the trace, one can use the /d/tracing/trace file or the
/d/tracign/trace_pipe file, with semantics defined in the ftrace
documentation in Documentation/ftrace.txt.

[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491224:   8,1    A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491227:   8,1    Q   R 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491236:   8,1    G  RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491239:   8,1    P  NS [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491242:   8,1    I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491251:   8,1    D  WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491610:   8,1    U  WS [kjournald] 1
          <idle>-0     [000]  3046.511914:   8,1    C  RS 6367 + 8 [6367]
[root@f10-1 ~]#

The default line context (prefix) format is the one described in the ftrace
documentation, with the blktrace specific bits using its existing format,
described in blkparse(8).

If one wants to have the classic blktrace formatting, this is possible by
using:

[root@f10-1 ~]# echo blk_classic > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
  8,1    0  3046.491224   305  A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304
  8,1    0  3046.491227   305  Q   R 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491236   305  G  RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491239   305  P  NS [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491242   305  I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491251   305  D  WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491610   305  U  WS [kjournald] 1
  8,1    0  3046.511914     0  C  RS 6367 + 8 [6367]
[root@f10-1 ~]#

Using the ftrace standard format allows more flexibility, such
as the ability of asking for backtraces via trace_options:

[root@f10-1 ~]# echo noblk_classic > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# echo stacktrace > /t/trace_options

[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826779:   8,1    A WBS 6375 + 8 <- (8,1) 6312
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826782:
 <= submit_bio
 <= submit_bh
 <= sync_dirty_buffer
 <= journal_commit_transaction
 <= kjournald
 <= kthread
 <= child_rip
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826836:   8,1    Q   R 6375 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826837:
 <= generic_make_request
 <= submit_bio
 <= submit_bh
 <= sync_dirty_buffer
 <= journal_commit_transaction
 <= kjournald
 <= kthread

Please read the ftrace documentation to use aditional, standardized
tracing filters such as /d/tracing/trace_cpumask, etc.

See also /d/tracing/trace_mark to add comments in the trace stream,
that is equivalent to the /d/block/sdaN/msg interface.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-26 14:40:53 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
2150edc6c5 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (57 commits)
  jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs
  ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
  block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
  ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "
  ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem
  ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
  jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC
  jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message
  ext4: Add markers for better debuggability
  ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
  ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems
  ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
  ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache
  ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation
  ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used
  ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
  ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()
  ext4: code cleanup
  ...
2009-01-08 17:14:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cd764695b6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (45 commits)
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.03.00-k1.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add ISP81XX support.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Use proper request/response queues with MQ instantiations.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct MQ-chain information retrieval during a firmware dump.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Collapse EFT/FCE copy procedures during a firmware dump.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't pollute kernel logs with ZIO/RIO status messages.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't fallback to interrupt-polling during re-initialization with MSI-X enabled.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Remove support for reading/writing HW-event-log.
  [SCSI] cxgb3i: add missing include
  [SCSI] scsi_lib: fix DID_RESET status problems
  [SCSI] fc transport: restore missing dev_loss_tmo callback to LLDD
  [SCSI] aha152x_cs: Fix regression that keeps driver from using shared interrupts
  [SCSI] sd: Correctly handle 6-byte commands with DIX
  [SCSI] sd: DIF: Fix tagging on platforms with signed char
  [SCSI] sd: DIF: Show app tag on error
  [SCSI] Fix error handling for DIF/DIX
  [SCSI] scsi_lib: don't decrement busy counters when inserting commands
  [SCSI] libsas: fix test for negative unsigned and typos
  [SCSI] a2091, gvp11: kill warn_unused_result warnings
  [SCSI] fusion: Move a dereference below a NULL test
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict due to moving the async part of sd_probe
around in the async probes vs using dev_set_name() in naming.
2009-01-08 16:27:31 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o
4d783b093c block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-06 15:16:33 -05:00
Kay Sievers
3ada8b7e98 block: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06 10:44:43 -08:00
FUJITA Tomonori
97ae77a1cd [SCSI] block: make blk_rq_map_user take a NULL user-space buffer for WRITE
The commit 818827669d (block: make
blk_rq_map_user take a NULL user-space buffer) extended
blk_rq_map_user to accept a NULL user-space buffer with a READ
command. It was necessary to convert sg to use the block layer mapping
API.

This patch extends blk_rq_map_user again for a WRITE command. It is
necessary to convert st and osst drivers to use the block layer
apping API.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 11:10:35 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori
56c451f4b5 [SCSI] block: fix the partial mappings with struct rq_map_data
This fixes bio_copy_user_iov to properly handle the partial mappings
with struct rq_map_data (which only sg uses for now but st and osst
will shortly). It adds the offset member to struct rq_map_data and
changes blk_rq_map_user to update it so that bio_copy_user_iov can add
an appropriate page frame via bio_add_pc_page().

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 11:10:08 -06:00
Rusty Russell
2ca1a61583 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
2008-12-31 23:05:57 +10:30
Rusty Russell
33edcf133b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-12-30 08:02:35 +10:30
Jens Axboe
62c1fe9d9f cfq-iosched: fix race between exiting queue and exiting task
Original patch from Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>

When a queue exits the queue lock is taken and cfq_exit_queue() would free all
the cic's associated with the queue.

But when a task exits, cfq_exit_io_context() gets cic one by one and then
locks the associated queue to call __cfq_exit_single_io_context. It looks like
between getting a cic from the ioc and locking the queue, the queue might have
exited on another cpu.

Fix this by rechecking the cfq_io_context queue key inside the queue lock
again, and not calling into __cfq_exit_single_io_context() if somebody
beat us to it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
Jens Axboe
b3a6ffe16b Get rid of CONFIG_LSF
We have two seperate config entries for large devices/files. One
is CONFIG_LBD that guards just the devices, the other is CONFIG_LSF
that handles large files. This doesn't make a lot of sense, you typically
want both or none. So get rid of CONFIG_LSF and change CONFIG_LBD wording
to indicate that it covers both.

Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Roel Kluin
3c18ce71af block: make blk_softirq_init() static
Sparse asked whether these could be static.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
FUJITA Tomonori
18af8b2ca3 block: use min_not_zero in blk_queue_stack_limits
zero is invalid for max_phys_segments, max_hw_segments, and
max_segment_size. It's better to use use min_not_zero instead of
min. min() works though (because the commit 0e435ac makes sure that
these values are set to the default values, non zero, if a queue is
initialized properly).

With this patch, blk_queue_stack_limits does the almost same thing
that dm's combine_restrictions_low() does. I think that it's easy to
remove dm's combine_restrictions_low.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe
a6f23657d3 block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup
disk_map_sector_rcu() returns a partition from a sector offset,
which we use for IO statistics on a per-partition basis. The
lookup itself is an O(N) list lookup, where N is the number of
partitions. This actually hurts performance quite a bit, even
on the lower end partitions. On higher numbered partitions,
it can get pretty bad.

Solve this by adding a one-hit cache for partition lookup.
This makes the lookup O(1) for the case where we do most IO to
one partition. Even for mixed partition workloads, amortized cost
is pretty close to O(1) since the natural IO batching makes the
one-hit cache last for lots of IOs.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe
30e0dc28bf cfq-iosched: remove limit of dispatch depth of max 4 times quantum
This basically limits the hardware queue depth to 4*quantum at any
point in time, which is 16 with the default settings. As CFQ uses
other means to shrink the hardware queue when necessary in the first
place, there's really no need for this extra heuristic. Additionally,
it ends up hurting performance in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe
b374d18a4b block: get rid of elevator_t typedef
Just use struct elevator_queue everywhere instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
Jens Axboe
a31a97381c block: don't use plugging on SSD devices
We just want to hand the first bits of IO to the device as fast
as possible. Gains a few percent on the IOPS rate.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
a185eb4bc8 block: fix empty barrier on write-through w/ ordered tag
Empty barrier on write-through (or no cache) w/ ordered tag has no
command to execute and without any command to execute ordered tag is
never issued to the device and the ordering is never achieved.  Force
draining for such cases.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
58eea927d2 block: simplify empty barrier implementation
Empty barrier required special handling in __elv_next_request() to
complete it without letting the low level driver see it.

With previous changes, barrier code is now flexible enough to skip the
BAR step using the same barrier sequence selection mechanism.  Drop
the special handling and mask off q->ordered from start_ordered().

Remove blk_empty_barrier() test which now has no user.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
8f11b3e99a block: make barrier completion more robust
Barrier completion had the following assumptions.

* start_ordered() couldn't finish the whole sequence properly.  If all
  actions are to be skipped, q->ordseq is set correctly but the actual
  completion was never triggered thus hanging the barrier request.

* Drain completion in elv_complete_request() assumed that there's
  always at least one request in the queue when drain completes.

Both assumptions are true but these assumptions need to be removed to
improve empty barrier implementation.  This patch makes the following
changes.

* Make start_ordered() use blk_ordered_complete_seq() to mark skipped
  steps complete and notify __elv_next_request() that it should fetch
  the next request if the whole barrier has completed inside
  start_ordered().

* Make drain completion path in elv_complete_request() check whether
  the queue is empty.  Empty queue also indicates drain completion.

* While at it, convert 0/1 return from blk_do_ordered() to false/true.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
f671620e7d block: make every barrier action optional
In all barrier sequences, the barrier write itself was always assumed
to be issued and thus didn't have corresponding control flag.  This
patch adds QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_BAR and unify action mask handling in
start_ordered() such that any barrier action can be skipped.

This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
a7384677b2 block: remove duplicate or unused barrier/discard error paths
* Because barrier mode can be changed dynamically, whether barrier is
  supported or not can be determined only when actually issuing the
  barrier and there is no point in checking it earlier.  Drop barrier
  support check in generic_make_request() and __make_request(), and
  update comment around the support check in blk_do_ordered().

* There is no reason to check discard support in both
  generic_make_request() and __make_request().  Drop the check in
  __make_request().  While at it, move error action block to the end
  of the function and add unlikely() to q existence test.

* Barrier request, be it empty or not, is never passed to low level
  driver and thus it's meaningless to try to copy back req->sector to
  bio->bi_sector on error.  In addition, the notion of failed sector
  doesn't make any sense for empty barrier to begin with.  Drop the
  code block from __end_that_request_first().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Tejun Heo
313e42999d block: reorganize QUEUE_ORDERED_* constants
Separate out ordering type (drain,) and action masks (preflush,
postflush, fua) from visible ordering mode selectors
(QUEUE_ORDERED_*).  Ordering types are now named QUEUE_ORDERED_BY_*
while action masks are named QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_*.

This change is necessary to add QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_BAR and make it
optional to improve empty barrier implementation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Cheng Renquan
64d01dc9e1 block: use cancel_work_sync() instead of kblockd_flush_work()
After many improvements on kblockd_flush_work, it is now identical to
cancel_work_sync, so a direct call to cancel_work_sync is suggested.

The only difference is that cancel_work_sync is a GPL symbol,
so no non-GPL modules anymore.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Keith Mannthey
08bafc0341 block: Supress Buffer I/O errors when SCSI REQ_QUIET flag set
Allow the scsi request REQ_QUIET flag to be propagated to the buffer
file system layer. The basic ideas is to pass the flag from the scsi
request to the bio (block IO) and then to the buffer layer.  The buffer
layer can then suppress needless printks.

This patch declutters the kernel log by removed the 40-50 (per lun)
buffer io error messages seen during a boot in my multipath setup . It
is a good chance any real errors will be missed in the "noise" it the
logs without this patch.

During boot I see blocks of messages like
"
__ratelimit: 211 callbacks suppressed
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242847
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242878
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242872
"
in my logs.

My disk environment is multipath fiber channel using the SCSI_DH_RDAC
code and multipathd.  This topology includes an "active" and "ghost"
path for each lun. IO's to the "ghost" path will never complete and the
SCSI layer, via the scsi device handler rdac code, quick returns the IOs
to theses paths and sets the REQ_QUIET scsi flag to suppress the scsi
layer messages.

 I am wanting to extend the QUIET behavior to include the buffer file
system layer to deal with these errors as well. I have been running this
patch for a while now on several boxes without issue.  A few runs of
bonnie++ show no noticeable difference in performance in my setup.

Thanks for John Stultz for the quiet_error finalization.

Submitted-by:  Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Wu Fengguang
7c239517d9 block: don't take lock on changing ra_pages
There's no need to take queue_lock or kernel_lock when modifying
bdi->ra_pages. So remove them. Also remove out of date comment for
queue_max_sectors_store().

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Qinghuang Feng
c6a06f707c block/blk-tag.c: cleanup kernel-doc
There is no argument named @tags in blk_init_tags,
remove its' comment.

Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Milton Miller
2b91bafcc0 scsi-ioctl: use clock_t <> jiffies
Convert the timeout ioctl scalling to use the clock_t functions
which are much more accurate with some USER_HZ vs HZ combinations.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
Jens Axboe
70ed28b92a block: leave the request timeout timer running even on an empty list
For sync IO, we'll often do them serialized. This means we'll be touching
the queue timer for every IO, as opposed to only occasionally like we
do for queued IO. Instead of deleting the timer when the last request
is removed, just let continue running. If a new request comes up soon
we then don't have to readd the timer again. If no new requests arrive,
the timer will expire without side effect later.

This improves high iops sync IO by ~1%.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
Jens Axboe
65d3618ccf block: add comment in blk_rq_timed_out() about why next can not be 0
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00