linux/block, branch v3.1-rc9

block: Free queue resources at blk_release_queue()

2011-09-28T14:07:01Z

A kernel crash is observed when a mounted ext3/ext4 filesystem is physically removed. The problem is that blk_cleanup_queue() frees up some resources eg by calling elevator_exit(), which are not checked for in normal operation. So we should rather move these calls to the destructor function blk_release_queue() as at that point all remaining references are gone. However, in doing so we have to ensure that any externally supplied queue_lock is disconnected as the driver might free up the lock after the call of blk_cleanup_queue(), Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-cgroup: be able to remove the record of unplugged device

2011-09-21T08:22:10Z

The bug is we're not able to remove the device from blkio cgroup's per-device control files if it gets unplugged. To reproduce the bug: # mount -t cgroup -o blkio xxx /cgroup # cd /cgroup # echo "8:0 1000" > blkio.throttle.read_bps_device # unplug the device # cat blkio.throttle.read_bps_device 8:0 1000 # echo "8:0 0" > blkio.throttle.read_bps_device -bash: echo: write error: No such device After patching, the device removal will succeed. Thanks for the comments of Paul, Zefan, and Vivek. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Paul Menage Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Don't check QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP in __blk_complete_request

2011-09-14T07:31:01Z

In __blk_complete_request, we check both QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP and req->cpu to decide whether we should use req->cpu. Actually the user can also select the complete cpu by either setting BIO_CPU_AFFINE or by calling bio_set_completion_cpu. Current solution makes these 2 ways don't work any more. So we'd better just check req->cpu. Signed-off-by: Tao Ma Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: simplify force plug flush code a little bit

2011-08-24T14:04:34Z

Cleaning up the code a little bit. attempt_plug_merge() traverses the plug list anyway, we can do the request counting there, so stack size is reduced a little bit. The motivation here is I suspect if we should count the requests for each queue (task could handle multiple disks in the meantime), but my test doesn't show it's worthy doing. If somebody proves we should do it, below change will make that more easier. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: change force plug flush call order

2011-08-24T14:04:32Z

Do blk_flush_plug_list() first and then add new request aDo blk_flush_plug_list() first and then add new request aDo blk_flush_plug_list() first and then add new request at the tail. New request can't be merged to existing requests, but later new requests might be merged with this new one. If blk_flush_plug_list() is done later, the merge doesn't happen. Believe it or not, this fixes a 10% regression running sysbench workload. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Fix queue_flag update when rq_affinity goes from 2 to 1

2011-08-24T06:51:34Z

Commit 5757a6d76cdf added the QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE flag, but fails to clear that flag when the current state is '2' (SAME_COMP + SAME_FORCE) and the new state is '1' (SAME_COMP). Acked-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Roland Dreier Signed-off-by: Eric Seppanen Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: separate priority boosting from REQ_META

2011-08-23T12:50:29Z

Add a new REQ_PRIO to let requests preempt others in the cfq I/O schedule, and lave REQ_META purely for marking requests as metadata in blktrace. All existing callers of REQ_META except for XFS are updated to also set REQ_PRIO for now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2011-08-19T17:47:07Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits) Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs." block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags block: improve rq_affinity placement blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH xen/blkback: Make description more obvious. cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show() drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse bsg-lib: add module.h include cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index ...

Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."

2011-08-19T06:34:48Z

We have a kernel build regression since 3.1-rc1, which is about 10% regression. The kernel source is in an ext3 filesystem. Alex Shi bisect it to commit: commit a07405b7802691d29ab3b23bdc76ee6d006aad0b Author: Justin TerAvest Date: Sun Jul 10 22:09:19 2011 +0200 cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs. Apparently this is caused by lack metadata preemption, where ext3/ext4 do use READ_META. I didn't see a way to fix the issue, so suggest reverting the patch. This reverts commit a07405b7802691d29ab3b23bdc76ee6d006aad0b. Reported-by: Alex Shi Reported-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags

2011-08-15T19:37:25Z

Commit ae1b1539622fb46e51b4d13b3f9e5f4c713f86ae, block: reimplement FLUSH/FUA to support merge, introduced a performance regression when running any sort of fsyncing workload using dm-multipath and certain storage (in our case, an HP EVA). The test I ran was fs_mark, and it dropped from ~800 files/sec on ext4 to ~100 files/sec. It turns out that dm-multipath always advertised flush+fua support, and passed commands on down the stack, where those flags used to get stripped off. The above commit changed that behavior: static inline struct request *__elv_next_request(struct request_queue *q) { struct request *rq; while (1) { - while (!list_empty(&q->queue_head)) { + if (!list_empty(&q->queue_head)) { rq = list_entry_rq(q->queue_head.next); - if (!(rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)) || - (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH_SEQ)) - return rq; - rq = blk_do_flush(q, rq); - if (rq) - return rq; + return rq; } Note that previously, a command would come in here, have REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA set, and then get handed off to blk_do_flush: struct request *blk_do_flush(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq) { unsigned int fflags = q->flush_flags; /* may change, cache it */ bool has_flush = fflags & REQ_FLUSH, has_fua = fflags & REQ_FUA; bool do_preflush = has_flush && (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH); bool do_postflush = has_flush && !has_fua && (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FUA); unsigned skip = 0; ... if (blk_rq_sectors(rq) && !do_preflush && !do_postflush) { rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FLUSH; if (!has_fua) rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FUA; return rq; } So, the flush machinery was bypassed in such cases (q->flush_flags == 0 && rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA)). Now, however, we don't get into the flush machinery at all. Instead, __elv_next_request just hands a request with flush and fua bits set to the scsi_request_fn, even if the underlying request_queue does not support flush or fua. The agreed upon approach is to fix the flush machinery to allow stacking. While this isn't used in practice (since there is only one request-based dm target, and that target will now reflect the flush flags of the underlying device), it does future-proof the solution, and make it function as designed. In order to make this work, I had to add a field to the struct request, inside the flush structure (to store the original req->end_io). Shaohua had suggested overloading the union with rb_node and completion_data, but the completion data is used by device mapper and can also be used by other drivers. So, I didn't see a way around the additional field. I tested this patch on an HP EVA with both ext4 and xfs, and it recovers the lost performance. Comments and other testers, as always, are appreciated. Cheers, Jeff Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe