Currently, statistics are gathered in ~0.13s windows, and users grab the
statistics whenever they need them. This is not ideal for both in-tree
users:
1. Writeback throttling wants its own dynamically sized window of
statistics. Since the blk-stats statistics are reset after every
window and the wbt windows don't line up with the blk-stats windows,
wbt doesn't see every I/O.
2. Polling currently grabs the statistics on every I/O. Again, depending
on how the window lines up, we may miss some I/Os. It's also
unnecessary overhead to get the statistics on every I/O; the hybrid
polling heuristic would be just as happy with the statistics from the
previous full window.
This reworks the blk-stats infrastructure to be callback-based: users
register a callback that they want called at a given time with all of
the statistics from the window during which the callback was active.
Users can dynamically bucketize the statistics. wbt and polling both
currently use read vs. write, but polling can be extended to further
subdivide based on request size.
The callbacks are kept on an RCU list, and each callback has percpu
stats buffers. There will only be a few users, so the overhead on the
I/O completion side is low. The stats flushing is also simplified
considerably: since the timer function is responsible for clearing the
statistics, we don't have to worry about stale statistics.
wbt is a trivial conversion. After the conversion, the windowing problem
mentioned above is fixed.
For polling, we register an extra callback that caches the previous
window's statistics in the struct request_queue for the hybrid polling
heuristic to use.
Since we no longer have a single stats buffer for the request queue,
this also removes the sysfs and debugfs stats entries. To replace those,
we add a debugfs entry for the poll statistics.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This is an implementation detail that no-one outside of blk-stat.c uses.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of keeping two levels of indirection for requests types, fold it
all into the operations. The little caveat here is that previously
cmd_type only applied to struct request, while the request and bio op
fields were set to plain REQ_OP_READ/WRITE even for passthrough
operations.
Instead this patch adds new REQ_OP_* for SCSI passthrough and driver
private requests, althought it has to add two for each so that we
can communicate the data in/out nature of the request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This centralizes the checks for bios that needs to be go into the flush
state machine.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
No functional change in this patch, just in preparation for having
two types of tags available to the block layer for a single request.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
This adds a new block layer operation to zero out a range of
LBAs. This allows to implement zeroing for devices that don't use
either discard with a predictable zero pattern or WRITE SAME of zeroes.
The prominent example of that is NVMe with the Write Zeroes command,
but in the future, this should also help with improving the way
zeroing discards work. For this operation, suitable entry is exported in
sysfs which indicate the number of maximum bytes allowed in one
write zeroes operation by the device.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Since commit 87374179 ("block: add a proper block layer data direction
encoding") we only or the new op and flags into bi_opf in bio_set_op_attrs
instead of clearing the old value. I've not seen any breakage with the
new behavior, but it seems dangerous.
Also convert it to an inline function to make the argument passing
safer.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For legacy block, we simply track them in the request queue. For
blk-mq, we track them on a per-sw queue basis, which we can then
sum up through the hardware queues and finally to a per device
state.
The stats are tracked in, roughly, 0.1s interval windows.
Add sysfs files to display the stats.
The feature is off by default, to avoid any extra overhead. In-kernel
users of it can turn it on by setting QUEUE_FLAG_STATS in the queue
flags. We currently don't turn it on if someone just reads any of
the stats files, that is something we could add as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This adds a new request flag, REQ_BACKGROUND, that callers can use to
tell the block layer that this is background (non-urgent) IO.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Now that we have a separate header for struct bio_vec there is absolutely
no excuse for including this header from non-block I/O code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Noidle should be the default for writes as seen by all the compounds
definitions in fs.h using it. In fact only direct I/O really should
be using NODILE, so turn the whole flag around to get the defaults
right, which will make our life much easier especially onces the
WRITE_* defines go away.
This assumes all the existing "raw" users of REQ_SYNC for writes
want noidle behavior, which seems to be spot on from a quick audit.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of requiring everyone to specify the REQ_SYNC flag aѕ well.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently the block layer op_is_write, bio_data_dir and rq_data_dir
helper treat every operation that is not a READ as a data out operation.
This worked surprisingly long, but the new REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT operation
actually adds a second operation that reads data from the device.
Surprisingly nothing critical relied on this direction, but this might
be a good opportunity to properly fix this issue up.
We take a little inspiration and use the least significant bit of the
operation number to encode the data direction, which just requires us
to renumber the operations to fix this scheme.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Now that we don't need the common flags to overflow outside the range
of a 32-bit type we can encode them the same way for both the bio and
request fields. This in addition allows us to place the operation
first (and make some room for more ops while we're at it) and to
stop having to shift around the operation values.
In addition this allows passing around only one value in the block layer
instead of two (and eventuall also in the file systems, but we can do
that later) and thus clean up a lot of code.
Last but not least this allows decreasing the size of the cmd_flags
field in struct request to 32-bits. Various functions passing this
value could also be updated, but I'd like to avoid the churn for now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
A lot of the REQ_* flags are only used on struct requests, and only of
use to the block layer and a few drivers that dig into struct request
internals.
This patch adds a new req_flags_t rq_flags field to struct request for
them, and thus dramatically shrinks the number of common requests. It
also removes the unfortunate situation where we have to fit the fields
from the same enum into 32 bits for struct bio and 64 bits for
struct request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
It's the last bio-only REQ_* flag, and we have space for it in the bio
bi_flags field.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The information that am I/O is a read-ahead can be useful for drivers.
In fact the NVMe driver already checks it, even if it won't ever be set
at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
So move it into the common setion of the request flags.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Define REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT and REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET for handling zones of
host-managed and host-aware zoned block devices. With with these two
new operations, the total number of operations defined reaches 8 and
still fits with the 3 bits definition of REQ_OP_BITS.
Signed-off-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Since REQ_OP_BITS == 3 and __REQ_NR_BITS == 30 it is not that hard
to pass an op_flags argument to bio_set_op_attrs() that is larger
than the number of bits reserved for the op_flags argument. Complain
if this happens. Additionally, ensure that negative arguments trigger
a complaint (1 << ... is signed while 1U << ... is unsigned; adding
0U to an integer expression causes it to be promoted to an unsigned
type).
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Introduce the bio_flags() macro. Ensure that the second argument of
bio_set_op_attrs() only contains flags and no operation. This patch
does not change any functionality.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> (maintainer:BTRFS FILE SYSTEM)
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> (maintainer:BTRFS FILE SYSTEM)
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Make it clear that the sizeof(unsigned int) expression in BIO_OP_SHIFT
refers to the bi_opf member of struct bio.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Since commit 63a4cc2486, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower
portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that
old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely
going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger,
rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break
at compile time instead of at runtime.
No intended functional changes in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Commit abf545484d changed it from an 'rw' flags type to the
newer ops based interface, but now we're effectively leaking
some bdev internals to the rest of the kernel. Since we only
care about whether it's a read or a write at that level, just
pass in a bool 'is_write' parameter instead.
Then we can also move op_is_write() and friends back under
CONFIG_BLOCK protection.
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The rw_page users were not converted to use bio/req ops. As a result
bdev_write_page is not passing down REQ_OP_WRITE and the IOs will
be sent down as reads.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Fixes: 4e1b2d52a8 ("block, fs, drivers: remove REQ_OP compat defs and related code")
Modified by me to:
1) Drop op_flags passing into ->rw_page(), as we don't use it.
2) Make op_is_write() and friends safe to use for !CONFIG_BLOCK
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
"This branch also contains core changes. I've come to the conclusion
that from 4.9 and forward, I'll be doing just a single branch. We
often have dependencies between core and drivers, and it's hard to
always split them up appropriately without pulling core into drivers
when that happens.
That said, this contains:
- separate secure erase type for the core block layer, from
Christoph.
- set of discard fixes, from Christoph.
- bio shrinking fixes from Christoph, as a followup up to the
op/flags change in the core branch.
- map and append request fixes from Christoph.
- NVMeF (NVMe over Fabrics) code from Christoph. This is pretty
exciting!
- nvme-loop fixes from Arnd.
- removal of ->driverfs_dev from Dan, after providing a
device_add_disk() helper.
- bcache fixes from Bhaktipriya and Yijing.
- cdrom subchannel read fix from Vchannaiah.
- set of lightnvm updates from Wenwei, Matias, Johannes, and Javier.
- set of drbd updates and fixes from Fabian, Lars, and Philipp.
- mg_disk error path fix from Bart.
- user notification for failed device add for loop, from Minfei.
- NVMe in general:
+ NVMe delay quirk from Guilherme.
+ SR-IOV support and command retry limits from Keith.
+ fix for memory-less NUMA node from Masayoshi.
+ use UINT_MAX for discard sectors, from Minfei.
+ cancel IO fixes from Ming.
+ don't allocate unused major, from Neil.
+ error code fixup from Dan.
+ use constants for PSDT/FUSE from James.
+ variable init fix from Jay.
+ fabrics fixes from Ming, Sagi, and Wei.
+ various fixes"
* 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (115 commits)
nvme/pci: Provide SR-IOV support
nvme: initialize variable before logical OR'ing it
block: unexport various bio mapping helpers
scsi/osd: open code blk_make_request
target: stop using blk_make_request
block: simplify and export blk_rq_append_bio
block: ensure bios return from blk_get_request are properly initialized
virtio_blk: use blk_rq_map_kern
memstick: don't allow REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests
block: shrink bio size again
block: simplify and cleanup bvec pool handling
block: get rid of bio_rw and READA
block: don't ignore -EOPNOTSUPP blkdev_issue_write_same
block: introduce BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO to fix zeroout
NVMe: don't allocate unused nvme_major
nvme: avoid crashes when node 0 is memoryless node.
nvme: Limit command retries
loop: Make user notify for adding loop device failed
nvme-loop: fix nvme-loop Kconfig dependencies
nvmet: fix return value check in nvmet_subsys_alloc()
...
The recent ops split grew the bio by adding the new ioprio field.
Shrink it again by using a 16-bit field for the bi_flags value and
filling the holes near the beginning of the structure.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of a flag and an index just make sure an index of 0 means
no need to free the bvec array. Also move the constants related
to the bvec pools together and use a consistent naming scheme for
them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch moves 'struct bio_vec' and 'struct bvec_iter'
into 'include/linux/bvec.h', then always include this header
into 'include/linux/blk_types.h'.
With this change, both 'struct bvec_iter' and bvec iterator
helpers don't depend on CONFIG_BLOCK any more, then we can
use bvec iterator to implement iterate_bvec(): lib/iov_iter.c.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of overloading the discard support with the REQ_SECURE flag.
Use the opportunity to rename the queue flag as well, and remove the
dead checks for this flag in the RAID 1 and RAID 10 drivers that don't
claim support for secure erase.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
To avoid confusion between REQ_OP_FLUSH, which is handled by
request_fn drivers, and upper layers requesting the block layer
perform a flush sequence along with possibly a WRITE, this patch
renames REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This adds a REQ_OP_FLUSH operation that is sent to request_fn
based drivers by the block layer's flush code, instead of
sending requests with the request->cmd_flags REQ_FLUSH bit set.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch drops the compat definition of req_op where it matches
the rq_flag_bits definitions, and drops the related old and compat
code that allowed users to set either the op or flags for the operation.
We also then store the operation in the bi_rw/cmd_flags field similar
to how we used to store the bio ioprio where it sat in the upper bits
of the field.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We don't need bi_rw to be so large on 64 bit archs, so
reduce it to unsigned int.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
In the next patch, we move drop the compat code and make
the op a separate value that is hidden in bi_rw. To give
the op and rq bits flags room to grow this moves prio to
its own field.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The following patches separate the operation (WRITE, READ, DISCARD,
etc) from the rq_flag_bits flags. This patch adds definitions for
request/bio operations (REQ_OPs) and adds request/bio accessors to
get/set the op.
In this patch the REQ_OPs match the REQ rq_flag_bits ones
for compat reasons while all the code is converted to use the
op accessors in the set. In the last patches the op will become a
number and the accessors and helpers in this patch will be dropped
or updated.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
bio might have NOMERGE flag set, for example blk_queue_split sets it.
When we initiate request, copy this flag too.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This was added for the 'magic' AEN requests in the NVMe driver that never
return. We now handle them purely inside the driver and don't need this
core hack any more.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
No functional changes in this patch, but it prepares us for returning
a more useful cookie related to the IO that was queued up.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Pull ext3 removal, quota & udf fixes from Jan Kara:
"The biggest change in the pull is the removal of ext3 filesystem
driver (~28k lines removed). Ext4 driver is a full featured
replacement these days and both RH and SUSE use it for several years
without issues. Also there are some workarounds in VM & block layer
mainly for ext3 which we could eventually get rid of.
Other larger change is addition of proper error handling for
dquot_initialize(). The rest is small fixes and cleanups"
[ I wasn't convinced about the ext3 removal and worried about things
falling through the cracks for legacy users, but ext4 maintainers
piped up and were all unanimously in favor of removal, and maintaining
all legacy ext3 support inside ext4. - Linus ]
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
udf: Don't modify filesystem for read-only mounts
quota: remove an unneeded condition
ext4: memory leak on error in ext4_symlink()
mm/Kconfig: NEED_BOUNCE_POOL: clean-up condition
ext4: Improve ext4 Kconfig test
block: Remove forced page bouncing under IO
fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver
doc: Update doc about journalling layer
jfs: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
reiserfs: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
ocfs2: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
ext4: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
ext2: Handle error from dquot_initalize()
quota: Propagate error from ->acquire_dquot()
Commit bcf2843b3f8f added ->bi_error to cleanup the error passing
for struct bio, but that ended up adding 4 bytes and a 4 byte hole
to the size of struct bio. For a clean config, that bumped it from
128 bytes, to 136 bytes, on x86-64.
The ->bi_flags member is currently an unsigned long, but it fits
easily within an int. Change it to an unsigned int, adjust the
the pool offset code, and move ->bi_error into the new hole. Then
we end up with a 128 byte bio again.
Change the bio flag set/clear to use cmpxchg to ensure we don't
lose any flags when manipulating them.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Some places use helpers now, others don't. We only have the 'is set'
helper, add helpers for setting and clearing flags too.
It was a bit of a mess of atomic vs non-atomic access. With
BIO_UPTODATE gone, we don't have any risk of concurrent access to the
flags. So relax the restriction and don't make any of them atomic. The
flags that do have serialization issues (reffed and chained), we
already handle those separately.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:
(1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
(2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback
The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.
So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
JBD layer wrote back data buffers without setting PageWriteback bit.
Thus standard mechanism for guaranteeing stable pages under IO did not
work. Since JBD is gone now and there is no other user of the
functionality, just remove it.
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
This reverts commit 5f1b670d0b.
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 <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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 <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Various previous patches removed bits and left holes, collapse them
all. Leave the reset start bit where it is, we don't need to change
that.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>