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<title>block: Introduce blk_queue_flag_{set,clear,test_and_{set,clear}}()</title>
<updated>2018-03-08T21:13:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-08T01:10:04+00:00</published>
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Introduce functions that modify the queue flags and that protect
these modifications with the request queue lock. Except for moving
one wake_up_all() call from inside to outside a critical section,
this patch does not change any functionality.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Introduce functions that modify the queue flags and that protect
these modifications with the request queue lock. Except for moving
one wake_up_all() call from inside to outside a critical section,
this patch does not change any functionality.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Use the queue_flag_*() functions instead of open-coding these</title>
<updated>2018-03-08T21:13:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-08T01:10:03+00:00</published>
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Except for changing the atomic queue flag manipulations that are
protected by the queue lock into non-atomic manipulations, this
patch does not change any functionality.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Except for changing the atomic queue flag manipulations that are
protected by the queue lock into non-atomic manipulations, this
patch does not change any functionality.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: remove __bio_kmap_atomic</title>
<updated>2017-11-11T02:53:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-08T18:13:48+00:00</published>
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This helper doesn't buy us much over calling kmap_atomic directly.
In fact in the only caller it does a bit of useless work as the
caller already has the bvec at hand, and said caller would even
buggy for a multi-segment bio due to the use of this helper.

So just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This helper doesn't buy us much over calling kmap_atomic directly.
In fact in the only caller it does a bit of useless work as the
caller already has the bvec at hand, and said caller would even
buggy for a multi-segment bio due to the use of this helper.

So just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Warn if blk_queue_rq_timed_out() is called for a blk-mq queue</title>
<updated>2017-08-23T18:02:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-23T17:56:29+00:00</published>
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The timeout handler set by blk_queue_rq_timed_out() is only used
in single queue mode. Calling this function for blk-mq drivers is
wrong. Hence issue a warning if this function is called by a blk-mq
driver.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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The timeout handler set by blk_queue_rq_timed_out() is only used
in single queue mode. Calling this function for blk-mq drivers is
wrong. Hence issue a warning if this function is called by a blk-mq
driver.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: don't bother with bounce limits for make_request drivers</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T18:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-19T07:26:23+00:00</published>
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We only call blk_queue_bounce for request-based drivers, so stop messing
with it for make_request based drivers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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We only call blk_queue_bounce for request-based drivers, so stop messing
with it for make_request based drivers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flag</title>
<updated>2017-04-08T17:25:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-05T17:21:23+00:00</published>
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Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can
kill this hack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can
kill this hack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: optionally merge discontiguous discard bios into a single request</title>
<updated>2017-02-08T20:43:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-08T13:46:49+00:00</published>
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Add a new merge strategy that merges discard bios into a request until the
maximum number of discard ranges (or the maximum discard size) is reached
from the plug merging code.  I/O scheduler merging is not wired up yet
but might also be useful, although not for fast devices like NVMe which
are the only user for now.

Note that for now we don't support limiting the size of each discard range,
but if needed that can be added later.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Add a new merge strategy that merges discard bios into a request until the
maximum number of discard ranges (or the maximum discard size) is reached
from the plug merging code.  I/O scheduler merging is not wired up yet
but might also be useful, although not for fast devices like NVMe which
are the only user for now.

Note that for now we don't support limiting the size of each discard range,
but if needed that can be added later.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Use pointer to backing_dev_info from request_queue</title>
<updated>2017-02-02T15:20:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-02T14:56:50+00:00</published>
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We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from
struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info
to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional
changes in this patch.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from
struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info
to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional
changes in this patch.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T18:19:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T18:19:16+00:00</published>
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main block pull request this series. Contrary to previous
  release, I've kept the core and driver changes in the same branch. We
  always ended up having dependencies between the two for obvious
  reasons, so makes more sense to keep them together. That said, I'll
  probably try and keep more topical branches going forward, especially
  for cycles that end up being as busy as this one.

  The major parts of this pull request is:

   - Improved support for O_DIRECT on block devices, with a small
     private implementation instead of using the pig that is
     fs/direct-io.c. From Christoph.

   - Request completion tracking in a scalable fashion. This is utilized
     by two components in this pull, the new hybrid polling and the
     writeback queue throttling code.

   - Improved support for polling with O_DIRECT, adding a hybrid mode
     that combines pure polling with an initial sleep. From me.

   - Support for automatic throttling of writeback queues on the block
     side. This uses feedback from the device completion latencies to
     scale the queue on the block side up or down. From me.

   - Support from SMR drives in the block layer and for SD. From Hannes
     and Shaun.

   - Multi-connection support for nbd. From Josef.

   - Cleanup of request and bio flags, so we have a clear split between
     which are bio (or rq) private, and which ones are shared. From
     Christoph.

   - A set of patches from Bart, that improve how we handle queue
     stopping and starting in blk-mq.

   - Support for WRITE_ZEROES from Chaitanya.

   - Lightnvm updates from Javier/Matias.

   - Supoort for FC for the nvme-over-fabrics code. From James Smart.

   - A bunch of fixes from a whole slew of people, too many to name
     here"

* 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (182 commits)
  blk-stat: fix a few cases of missing batch flushing
  blk-flush: run the queue when inserting blk-mq flush
  elevator: make the rqhash helpers exported
  blk-mq: abstract out blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() helper
  blk-mq: add blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queue()
  block: improve handling of the magic discard payload
  blk-wbt: don't throttle discard or write zeroes
  nbd: use dev_err_ratelimited in io path
  nbd: reset the setup task for NBD_CLEAR_SOCK
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC-NVME
  nvme-fabrics: Add target support for FC transport
  nvme-fabrics: Add host support for FC transport
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport LLDD api definitions
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport FC-NVME definitions
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport error codes to nvme.h
  Add type 0x28 NVME type code to scsi fc headers
  nvme-fabrics: patch target code in prep for FC transport support
  nvme-fabrics: set sqe.command_id in core not transports
  parser: add u64 number parser
  nvme-rdma: align to generic ib_event logging helper
  ...
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main block pull request this series. Contrary to previous
  release, I've kept the core and driver changes in the same branch. We
  always ended up having dependencies between the two for obvious
  reasons, so makes more sense to keep them together. That said, I'll
  probably try and keep more topical branches going forward, especially
  for cycles that end up being as busy as this one.

  The major parts of this pull request is:

   - Improved support for O_DIRECT on block devices, with a small
     private implementation instead of using the pig that is
     fs/direct-io.c. From Christoph.

   - Request completion tracking in a scalable fashion. This is utilized
     by two components in this pull, the new hybrid polling and the
     writeback queue throttling code.

   - Improved support for polling with O_DIRECT, adding a hybrid mode
     that combines pure polling with an initial sleep. From me.

   - Support for automatic throttling of writeback queues on the block
     side. This uses feedback from the device completion latencies to
     scale the queue on the block side up or down. From me.

   - Support from SMR drives in the block layer and for SD. From Hannes
     and Shaun.

   - Multi-connection support for nbd. From Josef.

   - Cleanup of request and bio flags, so we have a clear split between
     which are bio (or rq) private, and which ones are shared. From
     Christoph.

   - A set of patches from Bart, that improve how we handle queue
     stopping and starting in blk-mq.

   - Support for WRITE_ZEROES from Chaitanya.

   - Lightnvm updates from Javier/Matias.

   - Supoort for FC for the nvme-over-fabrics code. From James Smart.

   - A bunch of fixes from a whole slew of people, too many to name
     here"

* 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (182 commits)
  blk-stat: fix a few cases of missing batch flushing
  blk-flush: run the queue when inserting blk-mq flush
  elevator: make the rqhash helpers exported
  blk-mq: abstract out blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() helper
  blk-mq: add blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queue()
  block: improve handling of the magic discard payload
  blk-wbt: don't throttle discard or write zeroes
  nbd: use dev_err_ratelimited in io path
  nbd: reset the setup task for NBD_CLEAR_SOCK
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC-NVME
  nvme-fabrics: Add target support for FC transport
  nvme-fabrics: Add host support for FC transport
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport LLDD api definitions
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport FC-NVME definitions
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport error codes to nvme.h
  Add type 0x28 NVME type code to scsi fc headers
  nvme-fabrics: patch target code in prep for FC transport support
  nvme-fabrics: set sqe.command_id in core not transports
  parser: add u64 number parser
  nvme-rdma: align to generic ib_event logging helper
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T02:55:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T00:43:26+00:00</published>
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We ran into a funky issue, where someone doing 256K buffered reads saw
128K requests at the device level.  Turns out it is read-ahead capping
the request size, since we use 128K as the default setting.  This
doesn't make a lot of sense - if someone is issuing 256K reads, they
should see 256K reads, regardless of the read-ahead setting, if the
underlying device can support a 256K read in a single command.

This patch introduces a bdi hint, io_pages.  This is the soft max IO
size for the lower level, I've hooked it up to the bdev settings here.
Read-ahead is modified to issue the maximum of the user request size,
and the read-ahead max size, but capped to the max request size on the
device side.  The latter is done to avoid reading ahead too much, if the
application asks for a huge read.  With this patch, the kernel behaves
like the application expects.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479498073-8657-1-git-send-email-axboe@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We ran into a funky issue, where someone doing 256K buffered reads saw
128K requests at the device level.  Turns out it is read-ahead capping
the request size, since we use 128K as the default setting.  This
doesn't make a lot of sense - if someone is issuing 256K reads, they
should see 256K reads, regardless of the read-ahead setting, if the
underlying device can support a 256K read in a single command.

This patch introduces a bdi hint, io_pages.  This is the soft max IO
size for the lower level, I've hooked it up to the bdev settings here.
Read-ahead is modified to issue the maximum of the user request size,
and the read-ahead max size, but capped to the max request size on the
device side.  The latter is done to avoid reading ahead too much, if the
application asks for a huge read.  With this patch, the kernel behaves
like the application expects.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479498073-8657-1-git-send-email-axboe@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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