We do a check for the operations right before calling dispatch_rw_block_io.
And then we do the same check in dispatch_rw_block_io. This patch
squashes those checks into the 'dispatch_rw_block_io' function.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
We drop the support for 'feature-barrier' and add in the support
for the 'feature-flush-cache' if the real backend storage supports
flushing.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
If one runs a simple fio request with random read/write with a
20%/80% ratio, the numbers are incredibly bad when using the CFQ scheduler.
IOmeter | | | |
64K, randrw | NOOP | CFQ | deadline |
randrwmix=80 | | | |
--------------+-------+------+----------+
blkback |103/27 |32/10 | 102/27 |
--------------+-------+------+----------+
QEMU qdisk |103/27 |102/27| 102/27 |
The problem as explained by Vivek Goyal was:
".. that difference is that sync vs async requests. In the case of
a kernel thread submitting IO, [..] all the WRITES might be being
considered as async and will go in a different queue. If you mix those
with some READS, they are always sync and will go in differnet queue.
In presence of sync queue, CFQ will idle and choke up WRITES in
an attempt to improve latencies of READs.
In case of AIO [note: this is what QEMU qdisk is doing] , [..]
it is direct IO and both READS and WRITES will be considered SYNC
and will go in a single queue and no choking of WRITES will take place."
The solution is quite simple, tack on REQ_SYNC (which is
what the WRITE_ODIRECT macro points to) and the numbers go
back up.
Suggested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
We used to the plug/unplug on the submit_bio. But that means
if within a stream of WRITE, WRITE, WRITE,...,WRITE we have
one READ, it could stall the pipeline (as the 'submio_bio'
could trigger the unplug_fnc to be called and stall/sync
when doing the READ). Instead we want to move the unplugging
when the whole (or as a much as possible) ring buffer has been
processed. This also eliminates us doing plug/unplug for
each request.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
And also shorten the name if it has blkback to blkbk.
This results in the symbol table (if compiled in the kernel)
to be much shorter, prettier, and also easier to search for.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
There is no need for it, as the address is updated constatly
in the root of the Linux kernel.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Daniel Stodden suggested to eliminate vbd.c and interface.c, inlining the
critical bits where they belong, respectively.
Leaving only blkback.c for the data- and xenbus.c for the control path.
Suggested-by: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
In commit 95a0f10cdd ("drbd: store in-core bitmap little endian,
regardless of architecture") drbd had made the sane choice to use
little-endian bitmap functions everywhere. However, it used the
horrible old functions names from <asm-generic/bitops/le.h>, that were
never really meant to be exported.
In the meantime, things got cleaned up, and in commit c4945b9ed4
("asm-generic: rename generic little-endian bitops functions") we
renamed the LE bitops to something sane, exactly so that they could be
used in random code without people gouging their eyes out when seeing
the crazy jumble of letters that were the old internal names.
As a result the drbd thing merged cleanly (commit 8d49a77568: "Merge
branch 'for-2.6.39/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block"),
since there was no data conflict - but the end result obviously doesn't
actually compile.
Reported-and-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-2.6.39/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (122 commits)
cciss: fix lost command issue
drbd: need include for bitops functions declarations
Revert "cciss: Add missing allocation in scsi_cmd_stack_setup and corresponding deallocation"
cciss: fix missed command status value CMD_UNABORTABLE
cciss: remove unnecessary casts
cciss: Mask off error bits of c->busaddr in cmd_special_free when calling pci_free_consistent
cciss: Inform controller we are using 32-bit tags.
cciss: hoist tag masking out of loop
cciss: Add missing allocation in scsi_cmd_stack_setup and corresponding deallocation
cciss: export resettable host attribute
drbd: drop code present under #ifdef which is relevant to 2.6.28 and below
drbd: Fixed handling of read errors on a 'VerifyS' node
drbd: Fixed handling of read errors on a 'VerifyT' node
drbd: Implemented real timeout checking for request processing time
drbd: Remove unused function atodb_endio()
drbd: improve log message if received sector offset exceeds local capacity
drbd: kill dead code
drbd: don't BUG_ON, if bio_add_page of a single page to an empty bio fails
drbd: Removed left over, now wrong comments
drbd: serialize admin requests for new verify run with pending bitmap io
...
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
...
Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
Under certain workloads a command may seem to get lost. IOW, the Smart Array
thinks all commands have been completed but we still have commands in our
completion queue. This may lead to system instability, filesystems going
read-only, or even panics depending on the affected filesystem. We add an
extra read to force the write to complete.
Testing shows this extra read avoids the problem.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client:
rbd: use watch/notify for changes in rbd header
libceph: add lingering request and watch/notify event framework
rbd: update email address in Documentation
ceph: rename dentry_release -> d_release, fix comment
ceph: add request to the tail of unsafe write list
ceph: remove request from unsafe list if it is canceled/timed out
ceph: move readahead default to fs/ceph from libceph
ceph: add ino32 mount option
ceph: update common header files
ceph: remove debugfs debug cruft
libceph: fix osd request queuing on osdmap updates
ceph: preserve I_COMPLETE across rename
libceph: Fix base64-decoding when input ends in newline.
Send notifications when we change the rbd header (e.g. create a snapshot)
and wait for such notifications. This allows synchronizing the snapshot
creation between different rbd clients/rools.
Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (47 commits)
doc: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU doesn't exist anymore
Update cpuset info & webiste for cgroups
dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected
arch/arm/Kconfig: remove one to many l's in the word.
asm-generic/user.h: Fix spelling in comment
drm: fix printk typo 'sracth'
Remove one to many n's in a word
Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt: fixing link to genromfs
drivers:scsi Change printk typo initate -> initiate
serial, pch uart: Remove duplicate inclusion of linux/pci.h header
fs/eventpoll.c: fix spelling
mm: Fix out-of-date comments which refers non-existent functions
drm: Fix printk typo 'failled'
coh901318.c: Change initate to initiate.
mbox-db5500.c Change initate to initiate.
edac: correct i82975x error-info reported
edac: correct i82975x mci initialisation
edac: correct commented info
fs: update comments to point correct document
target: remove duplicate include of target/target_core_device.h from drivers/target/target_core_hba.c
...
Trivial conflict in fs/eventpoll.c (spelling vs addition)
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k:
m68k/block: amiflop - Remove superfluous amiga_chip_alloc() cast
m68k/atari: ARAnyM - Add support for network access
m68k/atari: ARAnyM - Add support for console access
m68k/atari: ARAnyM - Add support for block access
m68k/atari: Initial ARAnyM support
m68k: Kconfig - Remove unneeded "default n"
m68k: Makefiles - Change to new flags variables
m68k/amiga: Reclaim Chip RAM for PPC exception handlers
m68k: Allow all kernel traps to be handled via exception fixups
m68k: Use base_trap_init() to initialize vectors
m68k: Add helper function handle_kernel_fault()
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1480 commits)
bonding: enable netpoll without checking link status
xfrm: Refcount destination entry on xfrm_lookup
net: introduce rx_handler results and logic around that
bonding: get rid of IFF_SLAVE_INACTIVE netdev->priv_flag
bonding: wrap slave state work
net: get rid of multiple bond-related netdevice->priv_flags
bonding: register slave pointer for rx_handler
be2net: Bump up the version number
be2net: Copyright notice change. Update to Emulex instead of ServerEngines
e1000e: fix kconfig for crc32 dependency
netfilter ebtables: fix xt_AUDIT to work with ebtables
xen network backend driver
bonding: Improve syslog message at device creation time
bonding: Call netif_carrier_off after register_netdevice
bonding: Incorrect TX queue offset
net_sched: fix ip_tos2prio
xfrm: fix __xfrm_route_forward()
be2net: Fix UDP packet detected status in RX compl
Phonet: fix aligned-mode pipe socket buffer header reserve
netxen: support for GbE port settings
...
Fix up conflicts in drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c
with the staging updates.
amiga_chip_alloc() returns a void *, so we don't need a cast.
Also clean up coding style while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm:
xen: suspend: remove xen_hvm_suspend
xen: suspend: pull pre/post suspend hooks out into suspend_info
xen: suspend: move arch specific pre/post suspend hooks into generic hooks
xen: suspend: refactor non-arch specific pre/post suspend hooks
xen: suspend: add "arch" to pre/post suspend hooks
xen: suspend: pass extra hypercall argument via suspend_info struct
xen: suspend: refactor cancellation flag into a structure
xen: suspend: use HYPERVISOR_suspend for PVHVM case instead of open coding
xen: switch to new schedop hypercall by default.
xen: use new schedop interface for suspend
xen: do not respond to unknown xenstore control requests
xen: fix compile issue if XEN is enabled but XEN_PVHVM is disabled
xen: PV on HVM: support PV spinlocks and IPIs
xen: make the ballon driver work for hvm domains
xen-blkfront: handle Xen major numbers other than XENVBD
xen: do not use xen_info on HVM, set pv_info name to "Xen HVM"
xen: no need to delay xen_setup_shutdown_event for hvm guests anymore
* 'stable/ia64' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen: ia64 build broken due to "xen: switch to new schedop hypercall by default."
* 'stable/blkfront-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen: Union the blkif_request request specific fields
* 'stable/cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen: annotate functions which only call into __init at start of day
xen p2m: annotate variable which appears unused
xen: events: mark cpu_evtchn_mask_p as __refdata
This reverts commit 978eb516a4.
The commit was broken, relying on other changes that have not been
committed yet.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
and fix a nearby typo, "do" that should have been "due"
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Controller will DMA only 32-bits of the tag per command
on completion if it knows we are only using 32-bit tags.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
In process_nonindexed_cmd, hoist figuring of masked tag out of loop since
it is the same throughout.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This bit got lost somewhere along the way. Without this, panic.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This attribute, requested by Redhat, allows kexec-tools to know
whether the controller can honor the reset_devices kernel parameter
and actually reset the controller. For kdump to work properly it
is necessary that the reset_devices parameter be honored. This
attribute enables kexec-tools to warn the user if they attempt to
designate a non-resettable controller as the dump device.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
