linux.git/drivers/md/dm.h, branch v4.4.76

block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely

2015-08-13T18:31:57+00:00

As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own ->merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Cc: Alex Elder 
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" 
Acked-by: NeilBrown  (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
[dpark: also remove ->merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
 dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park 
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'dm-4.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

2015-06-26T19:35:01+00:00

Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer:
 "Apologies for not pressing this request-based DM partial completion
  issue further, it was an oversight on my part.  We'll have to get it
  fixed up properly and revisit for a future release.

   - Revert block and DM core changes the removed request-based DM's
     ability to handle partial request completions -- otherwise with the
     current SCSI LLDs these changes could lead to silent data
     corruption.

   - Fix two DM version bumps that were missing from the initial 4.2 DM
     pull request (enabled userspace lvm2 to know certain changes have
     been made)"

* tag 'dm-4.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm cache policy smq: fix "default" version to be 1.4.0
  dm: bump the ioctl version to 4.32.0
  Revert "block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones"
  Revert "dm: do not allocate any mempools for blk-mq request-based DM"

Revert "block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones"

2015-06-26T14:11:58+00:00

This reverts commit 5f1b670d0bef508a5554d92525f5f6d00d640b38.

Justification for revert as reported in this dm-devel post:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-June/msg00160.html

this change should not be pushed to mainline yet.

Firstly, Christoph has a newer version of the patch that fixes silent
data corruption problem:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-May/msg00229.html

And the new version still depends on LLDDs to always complete requests
to the end when error happens, while block API doesn't enforce such a
requirement. If the assumption is ever broken, the inconsistency between
request and bio (e.g. rq->__sector and rq->bio) will cause silent data
corruption:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-June/msg00022.html

Reported-by: Junichi Nomura 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h

2015-06-02T14:33:34+00:00

With the planned cgroup writeback support, backing-dev related
declarations will be more widely used across block and cgroup;
unfortunately, including backing-dev.h from include/linux/blkdev.h
makes cyclic include dependency quite likely.

This patch separates out backing-dev-defs.h which only has the
essential definitions and updates blkdev.h to include it.  c files
which need access to more backing-dev details now include
backing-dev.h directly.  This takes backing-dev.h off the common
include dependency chain making it a lot easier to use it across block
and cgroup.

v2: fs/fat build failure fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones

2015-05-22T14:58:57+00:00

Currently dm-multipath has to clone the bios for every request sent
to the lower devices, which wastes cpu cycles and ties down memory.

This patch instead adds a new REQ_CLONE flag that instructs req_bio_endio
to not complete bios attached to a request, which we set on clone
requests similar to bios in a flush sequence.  With this change I/O
errors on a path failure only get propagated to dm-multipath, which
can then either resubmit the I/O or complete the bios on the original
request.

I've done some basic testing of this on a Linux target with ALUA support,
and it survives path failures during I/O nicely.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

dm: add 'use_blk_mq' module param and expose in per-device ro sysfs attr

2015-04-15T16:10:17+00:00

Request-based DM's blk-mq support defaults to off; but a user can easily
change the default using the dm_mod.use_blk_mq module/boot option.

Also, you can check what mode a given request-based DM device is using
with: cat /sys/block/dm-X/dm/use_blk_mq

This change enabled further cleanup and reduced work (e.g. the
md->io_pool and md->rq_pool isn't created if using blk-mq).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: impose configurable deadline for dm_request_fn's merge heuristic

2015-04-15T16:10:15+00:00

Otherwise, for sequential workloads, the dm_request_fn can allow
excessive request merging at the expense of increased service time.

Add a per-device sysfs attribute to allow the user to control how long a
request, that is a reasonable merge candidate, can be queued on the
request queue.  The resolution of this request dispatch deadline is in
microseconds (ranging from 1 to 100000 usecs), to set a 20us deadline:
  echo 20 > /sys/block/dm-7/dm/rq_based_seq_io_merge_deadline

The dm_request_fn's merge heuristic and associated extra accounting is
disabled by default (rq_based_seq_io_merge_deadline is 0).

This sysfs attribute is not applicable to bio-based DM devices so it
will only ever report 0 for them.

By allowing a request to remain on the queue it will block others
requests on the queue.  But introducing a short dequeue delay has proven
very effective at enabling certain sequential IO workloads on really
fast, yet IOPS constrained, devices to build up slightly larger IOs --
yielding 90+% throughput improvements.  Having precise control over the
time taken to wait for larger requests to build affords control beyond
that of waiting for certain IO sizes to accumulate (which would require
a deadline anyway).  This knob will only ever make sense with sequential
IO workloads and the particular value used is storage configuration
specific.

Given the expected niche use-case for when this knob is useful it has
been deemed acceptable to expose this relatively crude method for
crafting optimal IO on specific storage -- especially given the solution
is simple yet effective.  In the context of DM multipath, it is
advisable to tune this sysfs attribute to a value that offers the best
performance for the common case (e.g. if 4 paths are expected active,
tune for that; if paths fail then performance may be slightly reduced).

Alternatives were explored to have request-based DM autotune this value
(e.g. if/when paths fail) but they were quickly deemed too fragile and
complex to warrant further design and development time.  If this problem
proves more common as faster storage emerges we'll have to look at
elevating a generic solution into the block core.

Tested-by: Shiva Krishna Merla 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: remove request-based DM queue's lld_busy_fn hook

2015-03-31T16:03:49+00:00

DM multipath is the only caller of blk_lld_busy() -- which calls a
queue's lld_busy_fn hook.  Request-based DM doesn't support stacking
multipath devices so there is no reason to register the lld_busy_fn hook
on a multipath device's queue using blk_queue_lld_busy().

As such, remove functions dm_lld_busy and dm_table_any_busy_target.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate

2015-02-09T18:06:47+00:00

Otherwise replacing the multipath target with the error target fails:
  device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type after initial table load.

The error target was mistakenly considered to be target type
DM_TYPE_REQUEST_BASED rather than DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED even if the
target it was to replace was of type DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on blk-mq devices

2015-02-09T18:06:47+00:00

For blk-mq request-based DM the responsibility of allocating a cloned
request is transfered from DM core to the target type.  Doing so
enables the cloned request to be allocated from the appropriate
blk-mq request_queue's pool (only the DM target, e.g. multipath, can
know which block device to send a given cloned request to).

Care was taken to preserve compatibility with old-style block request
completion that requires request-based DM _not_ acquire the clone
request's queue lock in the completion path.  As such, there are now 2
different request-based DM target_type interfaces:
1) the original .map_rq() interface will continue to be used for
   non-blk-mq devices -- the preallocated clone request is passed in
   from DM core.
2) a new .clone_and_map_rq() and .release_clone_rq() will be used for
   blk-mq devices -- blk_get_request() and blk_put_request() are used
   respectively from these hooks.

dm_table_set_type() was updated to detect if the request-based target is
being stacked on blk-mq devices, if so DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED is set.
DM core disallows switching the DM table's type after it is set.  This
means that there is no mixing of non-blk-mq and blk-mq devices within
the same request-based DM table.

[This patch was started by Keith and later heavily modified by Mike]

Tested-by: Bart Van Assche 
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer