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2008-10-09block: add lld busy state exporting interfaceKiyoshi Ueda
This patch adds an new interface, blk_lld_busy(), to check lld's busy state from the block layer. blk_lld_busy() calls down into low-level drivers for the checking if the drivers set q->lld_busy_fn() using blk_queue_lld_busy(). This resolves a performance problem on request stacking devices below. Some drivers like scsi mid layer stop dispatching request when they detect busy state on its low-level device like host/target/device. It allows other requests to stay in the I/O scheduler's queue for a chance of merging. Request stacking drivers like request-based dm should follow the same logic. However, there is no generic interface for the stacked device to check if the underlying device(s) are busy. If the request stacking driver dispatches and submits requests to the busy underlying device, the requests will stay in the underlying device's queue without a chance of merging. This causes performance problem on burst I/O load. With this patch, busy state of the underlying device is exported via q->lld_busy_fn(). So the request stacking driver can check it and stop dispatching requests if busy. The underlying device driver must return the busy state appropriately: 1: when the device driver can't process requests immediately. 0: when the device driver can process requests immediately, including abnormal situations where the device driver needs to kill all requests. Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: unify request timeout handlingJens Axboe
Right now SCSI and others do their own command timeout handling. Move those bits to the block layer. Instead of having a timer per command, we try to be a bit more clever and simply have one per-queue. This avoids the overhead of having to tear down and setup a timer for each command, so it will result in a lot less timer fiddling. Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: kmalloc args reversed, small function definition fixesHarvey Harrison
Noticed by sparse: block/blk-softirq.c:156:12: warning: symbol 'blk_softirq_init' was not declared. Should it be static? block/genhd.c:583:28: warning: function 'bdget_disk' with external linkage has definition block/genhd.c:659:17: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types) block/genhd.c:659:17: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] size block/genhd.c:659:17: got restricted gfp_t block/genhd.c:659:29: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types) block/genhd.c:659:29: expected restricted gfp_t [usertype] flags block/genhd.c:659:29: got unsigned int block: kmalloc args reversed Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: add support for IO CPU affinityJens Axboe
This patch adds support for controlling the IO completion CPU of either all requests on a queue, or on a per-request basis. We export a sysfs variable (rq_affinity) which, if set, migrates completions of requests to the CPU that originally submitted it. A bio helper (bio_set_completion_cpu()) is also added, so that queuers can ask for completion on that specific CPU. In testing, this has been show to cut the system time by as much as 20-40% on synthetic workloads where CPU affinity is desired. This requires a little help from the architecture, so it'll only work as designed for archs that are using the new generic smp helper infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Add some block/ source files to the kernel-api docbook. Fix kernel-doc ↵Randy Dunlap
notation in them as needed. Fix changed function parameter names. Fix typos/spellos. In comments, change REQ_SPECIAL to REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL and REQ_BLOCK_PC to REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Add 'discard' request handlingDavid Woodhouse
Some block devices benefit from a hint that they can forget the contents of certain sectors. Add basic support for this to the block core, along with a 'blkdev_issue_discard()' helper function which issues such requests. The caller doesn't get to provide an end_io functio, since blkdev_issue_discard() will automatically split the request up into multiple bios if appropriate. Neither does the function wait for completion -- it's expected that callers won't care about when, or even _if_, the request completes. It's only a hint to the device anyway. By definition, the file system doesn't _care_ about these sectors any more. [With feedback from OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> and Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-04block: add blk_queue_update_dma_padFUJITA Tomonori
This adds blk_queue_update_dma_pad to prevent LLDs from overwriting the dma pad mask wrongly (we added blk_queue_update_dma_alignment due to the same reason). This also converts libata to use blk_queue_update_dma_pad instead of blk_queue_dma_pad. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-14Remove blkdev warning triggered by using mdNeil Brown
As setting and clearing queue flags now requires that we hold a spinlock on the queue, and as blk_queue_stack_limits is called without that lock, get the lock inside blk_queue_stack_limits. For blk_queue_stack_limits to be able to find the right lock, each md personality needs to set q->queue_lock to point to the appropriate lock. Those personalities which didn't previously use a spin_lock, us q->__queue_lock. So always initialise that lock when allocated. With this in place, setting/clearing of the QUEUE_FLAG_PLUGGED bit will no longer cause warnings as it will be clear that the proper lock is held. Thanks to Dan Williams for review and fixing the silly bugs. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01block: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison
__FUNCTION__ is gcc specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29block: make queue flags non-atomicNick Piggin
We can save some atomic ops in the IO path, if we clearly define the rules of how to modify the queue flags. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29unexport blk_max_pfnAdrian Bunk
blk_max_pfn can now be unexported. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-02Fix bounce setting for 64-bitAndrea Arcangeli
Looking a bit closer into this regression the reason this can't be right is that dma_addr common default is BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH and most machines have less than 4G. So if you do: if (b_pfn <= (min_t(u64, 0xffffffff, BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH) >> PAGE_SHIFT)) dma = 1 that will translate to: if (BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH <= BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH) dma = 1 So for 99% of hardware this will trigger unnecessary GFP_DMA allocations and isa pooling operations. Also note how the 32bit code still does b_pfn < blk_max_low_pfn. I guess this is what you were looking after. I didn't verify but as far as I can tell, this will stop the regression with isa dma operations at boot for 99% of blkdev/memory combinations out there and I guess this fixes the setups with >4G of ram and 32bit pci cards as well (this also retains symmetry with the 32bit code). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-03-04block: remove extern on function definitionHarvey Harrison
Intoduced between 2.6.25-rc2 and -rc3 block/blk-settings.c:319:12: warning: function 'blk_queue_dma_drain' with external linkage has definition Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-03-04Fix DMA access of block device in 64-bit kernel on some non-x86 systems with ↵Yang Shi
4GB or upper 4GB memory For some non-x86 systems with 4GB or upper 4GB memory, we need increase the range of addresses that can be used for direct DMA in 64-bit kernel. Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-03-04block: separate out padding from alignmentTejun Heo
Block layer alignment was used for two different purposes - memory alignment and padding. This causes problems in lower layers because drivers which only require memory alignment ends up with adjusted rq->data_len. Separate out padding such that padding occurs iff driver explicitly requests it. Tomo: restorethe code to update bio in blk_rq_map_user introduced by the commit 40b01b9bbdf51ae543a04744283bf2d56c4a6afa according to padding alignment. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-03-04block: fix kernel-docbook parameters and filesRandy Dunlap
kernel-doc for block/: - add missing parameters - fix one function's parameter list (remove blank line) - add 2 source files to docbook for non-exported kernel-doc functions Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-19block: implement request_queue->dma_drain_neededTejun Heo
Draining shouldn't be done for commands where overflow may indicate data integrity issues. Add dma_drain_needed callback to request_queue. Drain buffer is appened iff this function returns non-zero. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-19make blk_settings_init() staticAdrian Bunk
blk_settings_init() can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>
2008-02-01block: make core bits checkpatch compliantJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29block: continue ll_rw_blk.c splitupJens Axboe
Adds files for barrier handling, rq execution, io context handling, mapping data to requests, and queue settings. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>