Return the currently active bvec segment, potentially spanning multiple
pages.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

We don't need to save the dma device as it's not used in the hot path
and hasn't in a long time. Shrink the struct nvme_queue removing this
unnecessary member.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

A negative value for the cq_vector used to mean the queue is either
disabled or a polled queue. However, we have a queue enabled flag,
so the cq_vector had been serving double duty.

Don't overload the meaning of cq_vector. Use a flag specific to the
polled queues instead.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

TP 8000 says that the use of the SUCCESS flag depends on weather the
controller support disabling sq_head pointer updates. Given that we
support it by default, makes sense that we go the extra mile to actually
use the SUCCESS flag.

When we create the C2HData PDU header, we check if sqhd_disabled is set
on our queue, if so, we set the SUCCESS flag in the PDU header and
skip sending a completion response capsule.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Oliver Smith-Denny <osmithde@cisco.com>
Tested-by: Oliver Smith-Denny <osmithde@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Update the code to use a zero-sized array instead of a pointer in
structure nvmet_fc_tgt_queue and use struct_size() in kzalloc().

Notice that one of the more common cases of allocation size calculations
is finding the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end,
along with memory for some number of elements for that array. For example:

struct foo {
	int stuff;
	struct boo entry[];
};

instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(struct boo) * count, GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now
use the new struct_size() helper:

instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Use errno_to_nvme_status to convert from a negative errno to a
nvme status field instead of going through a blk_status_t.

Also remove the pointless status variable in
nvmet_bdev_execute_write_zeroes.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>

Use le16_to_cpu instead of le16_to_cpup and le64_to_cpu instead of
le64_to_cpup. This will also align the code to nvme-core driver
convention.
Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

With the introduction of BIO_NO_PAGE_REF we've used up all available bits
in bio::bi_flags.

Convert the defines of the flags to an enum and add a BUILD_BUG_ON() call
to make sure no-one adds a new one and thus overrides the BVEC_POOL_IDX
causing crashes.
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Currently if many flush requests are submitted to an md device is quick
succession, they are serialized and can take a long to process them all.
We don't really need to call flush all those times - a single flush call
can satisfy all requests submitted before it started.
So keep track of when the current flush started and when it finished,
allow any pending flush that was requested before the flush started
to complete without waiting any more.

Test results from Xiao:

Test is done on a raid10 device which is created by 4 SSDs. The tool is
dbench.

1. The latest linux stable kernel
  Operation                Count    AvgLat    MaxLat
  --------------------------------------------------
  Deltree                    768    10.509    78.305
  Flush                  2078376     0.013    10.094
  Close                  21787697     0.019    18.821
  LockX                    96580     0.007     3.184
  Mkdir                      384     0.008     0.062
  Rename                 1255883     0.191    23.534
  ReadX                  46495589     0.020    14.230
  WriteX                 14790591     7.123    60.706
  Unlink                 5989118     0.440    54.551
  UnlockX                  96580     0.005     2.736
  FIND_FIRST             10393845     0.042    12.079
  SET_FILE_INFORMATION   2415558     0.129    10.088
  QUERY_FILE_INFORMATION 4711725     0.005     8.462
  QUERY_PATH_INFORMATION 26883327     0.032    21.715
  QUERY_FS_INFORMATION   4929409b     0.010     8.238
  NTCreateX              29660080     0.100    53.268

Throughput 1034.88 MB/sec (sync open)  128 clients  128 procs
max_latency=60.712 ms

2. With patch1 "Revert "MD: fix lock contention for flush bios""
  Operation                Count    AvgLat    MaxLat
  --------------------------------------------------
  Deltree                    256     8.326    36.761
  Flush                   693291     3.974   180.269
  Close                  7266404     0.009    36.929
  LockX                    32160     0.006     0.840
  Mkdir                      128     0.008     0.021
  Rename                  418755     0.063    29.945
  ReadX                  15498708     0.007     7.216
  WriteX                 4932310    22.482   267.928
  Unlink                 1997557     0.109    47.553
  UnlockX                  32160     0.004     1.110
  FIND_FIRST             3465791     0.036     7.320
  SET_FILE_INFORMATION    805825     0.015     1.561
  QUERY_FILE_INFORMATION 1570950     0.005     2.403
  QUERY_PATH_INFORMATION 8965483     0.013    14.277
  QUERY_FS_INFORMATION   1643626     0.009     3.314
  NTCreateX              9892174     0.061    41.278

Throughput 345.009 MB/sec (sync open)  128 clients  128 procs
max_latency=267.939 m

3. With patch1 and patch2
  Operation                Count    AvgLat    MaxLat
  --------------------------------------------------
  Deltree                    768     9.570    54.588
  Flush                  2061354     0.666    15.102
  Close                  21604811     0.012    25.697
  LockX                    95770     0.007     1.424
  Mkdir                      384     0.008     0.053
  Rename                 1245411     0.096    12.263
  ReadX                  46103198     0.011    12.116
  WriteX                 14667988     7.375    60.069
  Unlink                 5938936     0.173    30.905
  UnlockX                  95770     0.005     4.147
  FIND_FIRST             10306407     0.041    11.715
  SET_FILE_INFORMATION   2395987     0.048     7.640
  QUERY_FILE_INFORMATION 4672371     0.005     9.291
  QUERY_PATH_INFORMATION 26656735     0.018    19.719
  QUERY_FS_INFORMATION   4887940     0.010     7.654
  NTCreateX              29410811     0.059    28.551

Throughput 1026.21 MB/sec (sync open)  128 clients  128 procs
max_latency=60.075 ms

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19+
Tested-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

This reverts commit 5a409b4f.

This patch has two problems.

1/ it make multiple calls to submit_bio() from inside a make_request_fn.
 The bios thus submitted will be queued on current->bio_list and not
 submitted immediately.  As the bios are allocated from a mempool,
 this can theoretically result in a deadlock - all the pool of requests
 could be in various ->bio_list queues and a subsequent mempool_alloc
 could block waiting for one of them to be released.

2/ It aims to handle a case when there are many concurrent flush requests.
  It handles this by submitting many requests in parallel - all of which
  are identical and so most of which do nothing useful.
  It would be more efficient to just send one lower-level request, but
  allow that to satisfy multiple upper-level requests.

Fixes: 5a409b4f ("MD: fix lock contention for flush bios")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19+
Tested-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Changing state from check_state_check_result to
check_state_compute_result not only is unsafe but also doesn't
appear to serve a valid purpose.  A raid6 check should only be
pushing out extra writes if doing repair and a mis-match occurs.
The stripe dev management will already try and do repair writes
for failing sectors.

This patch makes the raid6 check_state_check_result handling
work more like raid5's.  If somehow too many failures for a
check, just quit the check operation for the stripe.  When any
checks pass, don't try and use check_state_compute_result for
a purpose it isn't needed for and is unsafe for.  Just mark the
stripe as in sync for passing its parity checks and let the
stripe dev read/write code and the bad blocks list do their
job handling I/O errors.

Repro steps from Xiao:

These are the steps to reproduce this problem:
1. redefined OPT_MEDIUM_ERR_ADDR to 12000 in scsi_debug.c
2. insmod scsi_debug.ko dev_size_mb=11000  max_luns=1 num_tgts=1
3. mdadm --create /dev/md127 --level=6 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sde1 /dev/sde2 /dev/sde3 /dev/sde5 /dev/sde6
sde is the disk created by scsi_debug
4. echo "2" >/sys/module/scsi_debug/parameters/opts
5. raid-check

It panic:
[ 4854.730899] md: data-check of RAID array md127
[ 4854.857455] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.859246] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.860694] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.862207] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2d 88 00 04 00 00
[ 4854.864196] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 11656 flags 0
[ 4854.867409] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.869469] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.871206] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.872858] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2e e0 00 00 08 00
[ 4854.874587] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 12000 flags 4000
[ 4854.876456] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.878552] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.880278] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.881846] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2e e8 00 00 08 00
[ 4854.883691] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 12008 flags 4000
[ 4854.893927] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.896002] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.897561] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.899110] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2e e0 00 00 10 00
[ 4854.900989] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 12000 flags 0
[ 4854.902757] md/raid:md127: read error NOT corrected!! (sector 9952 on sdr1).
[ 4854.904375] md/raid:md127: read error NOT corrected!! (sector 9960 on sdr1).
[ 4854.906201] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 4854.907341] kernel BUG at drivers/md/raid5.c:4190!

raid5.c:4190 above is this BUG_ON:

    handle_parity_checks6()
        ...
        BUG_ON(s->uptodate < disks - 1); /* We don't need Q to recover */

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.16+
OriginalAuthor: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Tested-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Jeffy <djeffery@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nigel Croxon <ncroxon@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

loop is one block device, for any bio submitted to this device,
the upper layer does guarantee that pages added to loop's bio won't
go away when the bio is in-flight.

So mark loop's bvec as ITER_BVEC_FLAG_NO_REF then get_page/put_page
can be saved for serving loop's IO.

Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Now both passthrough and FS IO have supported multi-page bvec, and
bvec merging has been handled actually when adding page to bio, then
adjacent bvecs won't be mergeable any more if they belong to same bio.

So only try to merge bvecs if they are from different bios.

Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Inside __blk_segment_map_sg(), page sized bvec mapping is optimized
a bit with one standalone branch.

So reuse __blk_bvec_map_sg() to do that.

Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

The argument of 'request_queue' isn't used by __blk_bvec_map_sg(),
so remove it.

Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Now block IO stack is basically ready for supporting multi-page bvec,
however it isn't enabled on passthrough IO.

One reason is that passthrough IO is dispatched to LLD directly and bio
split is bypassed, so the bio has to be built correctly for dispatch to
LLD from the beginning.

Implement multi-page support for passthrough IO by limitting each bvec
as block device's segment and applying all kinds of queue limit in
blk_add_pc_page(). Then we don't need to calculate segments any more for
passthrough IO any more, turns out code is simplified much.

Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

When the added page is merged to last same page in bio_add_pc_page(),
the user may need to put this page for avoiding page leak.

bio_map_user_iov() needs this kind of handling, and now it deals with
it by itself in hack style.

Moves the handling of put page into __bio_add_pc_page(), so
bio_map_user_iov() may be simplified a bit, and maybe more users
can benefit from this change.

Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Now the check for deciding if one page is mergeable to current bvec
becomes a bit complicated, and we need to reuse the code before
adding pc page.

So move the check in one dedicated helper.

No function change.

Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

REQ_PC is out of date, so replace it with passthrough IO.

Also remove the local variable of 'prev' since we can reuse
the top local variable of 'bvec'.

No function change.

Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

For normal filesystem IO, each page is added via blk_add_page(),
in which bvec(page) merge has been handled already, and basically
not possible to merge two adjacent bvecs in one bio.

So not try to merge two adjacent bvecs in blk_queue_split().

Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

XEN has special page merge requirement, see xen_biovec_phys_mergeable().
We can't merge pages into one bvec simply for XEN.

So move XEN's specific check on page merge into __bio_try_merge_page(),
then abvoid to break XEN by multi-page bvec.

Cc: ris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

xen_biovec_phys_mergeable() only needs .bv_page of the 2nd bio bvec
for checking if the two bvecs can be merged, so pass page to
xen_biovec_phys_mergeable() directly.

No function change.

Cc: ris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

The loop driver always declares the rotational flag of its device as
rotational, even when the device of the mapped file is nonrotational,
as is the case with SSDs or on tmpfs. This can confuse filesystem tools
which are SSD-aware; in my case I frequently forget to tell mkfs.btrfs
that my loop device on tmpfs is nonrotational, and that I really don't
need any automatic metadata redundancy.

The attached patch fixes this by introspecting the rotational flag of the
mapped file's underlying block device, if it exists. If the mapped file's
filesystem has no associated block device - as is the case on e.g. tmpfs -
we assume nonrotational storage. If there is a better way to identify such
non-devices I'd love to hear them.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: holger@applied-asynchrony.com
Signed-off-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gordon <bmgordon@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

The execution time of BFQ has been slightly lowered. Report the new
execution time in BFQ documentation.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

bfq saves the state of a queue each time a merge occurs, to be
able to resume such a state when the queue is associated again
with its original process, on a split.

Unfortunately bfq does not save & restore also the weight of the
queue. If the weight is not correctly resumed when the queue is
recycled, then the weight of the recycled queue could differ
from the weight of the original queue.

This commit adds the missing save & resume of the weight.
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Francesco Pollicino <fra.fra.800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

The function "bfq_log_bfqq" prints the pid of the process
associated with the queue passed as input.

Unfortunately, if the queue is shared, then more than one process
is associated with the queue. The pid that gets printed in this
case is the pid of one of the associated processes.
Which process gets printed depends on the exact sequence of merge
events the queue underwent. So printing such a pid is rather
useless and above all is often rather confusing because it
reports a random pid between those of the associated processes.

This commit addresses this issue by printing SHARED instead of a pid
if the queue is shared.
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Francesco Pollicino <fra.fra.800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

If many bfq_queues belonging to the same group happen to be created
shortly after each other, then the processes associated with these
queues have typically a common goal. In particular, bursts of queue
creations are usually caused by services or applications that spawn
many parallel threads/processes. Examples are systemd during boot, or
git grep. If there are no other active queues, then, to help these
processes get their job done as soon as possible, the best thing to do
is to reach a high throughput. To this goal, it is usually better to
not grant either weight-raising or device idling to the queues
associated with these processes. And this is exactly what BFQ
currently does.

There is however a drawback: if, in contrast, some other queues are
already active, then the newly created queues must be protected from
the I/O flowing through the already existing queues. In this case, the
best thing to do is the opposite as in the other case: it is much
better to grant weight-raising and device idling to the newly-created
queues, if they deserve it. This commit addresses this issue by doing
so if there are already other active queues.

This change also helps eliminating false positives, which occur when
the newly-created queues do not belong to an actual large burst of
creations, but some background task (e.g., a service) happens to
trigger the creation of new queues in the middle, i.e., very close to
when the victim queues are created. These false positive may cause
total loss of control on process latencies.
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Sync random I/O is likely to be confused with soft real-time I/O,
because it is characterized by limited throughput and apparently
isochronous arrival pattern. To avoid false positives, this commits
prevents bfq_queues containing only random (seeky) I/O from being
tagged as soft real-time.
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

To boost throughput with a set of processes doing interleaved I/O
(i.e., a set of processes whose individual I/O is random, but whose
merged cumulative I/O is sequential), BFQ merges the queues associated
with these processes, i.e., redirects the I/O of these processes into a
common, shared queue. In the shared queue, I/O requests are ordered by
their position on the medium, thus sequential I/O gets dispatched to
the device when the shared queue is served.

Queue merging costs execution time, because, to detect which queues to
merge, BFQ must maintain a list of the head I/O requests of active
queues, ordered by request positions. Measurements showed that this
costs about 10% of BFQ's total per-request processing time.

Request processing time becomes more and more critical as the speed of
the underlying storage device grows. Yet, fortunately, queue merging
is basically useless on the very devices that are so fast to make
request processing time critical. To reach a high throughput, these
devices must have many requests queued at the same time. But, in this
configuration, the internal scheduling algorithms of these devices do
also the job of queue merging: they reorder requests so as to obtain
as much as possible a sequential I/O pattern. As a consequence, with
processes doing interleaved I/O, the throughput reached by one such
device is likely to be the same, with and without queue merging.

In view of this fact, this commit disables queue merging, and all
related housekeeping, for non-rotational devices with internal
queueing. The total, single-lock-protected, per-request processing
time of BFQ drops to, e.g., 1.9 us on an Intel Core i7-2760QM@2.40GHz
(time measured with simple code instrumentation, and using the
throughput-sync.sh script of the S suite [1], in performance-profiling
mode). To put this result into context, the total,
single-lock-protected, per-request execution time of the lightest I/O
scheduler available in blk-mq, mq-deadline, is 0.7 us (mq-deadline is
~800 LOC, against ~10500 LOC for BFQ).

Disabling merging provides a further, remarkable benefit in terms of
throughput. Merging tends to make many workloads artificially more
uneven, mainly because of shared queues remaining non empty for
incomparably more time than normal queues. So, if, e.g., one of the
queues in a set of merged queues has a higher weight than a normal
queue, then the shared queue may inherit such a high weight and, by
staying almost always active, may force BFQ to perform I/O plugging
most of the time. This evidently makes it harder for BFQ to let the
device reach a high throughput.

As a practical example of this problem, and of the benefits of this
commit, we measured again the throughput in the nasty scenario
considered in previous commit messages: dbench test (in the Phoronix
suite), with 6 clients, on a filesystem with journaling, and with the
journaling daemon enjoying a higher weight than normal processes. With
this commit, the throughput grows from ~150 MB/s to ~200 MB/s on a
PLEXTOR PX-256M5 SSD. This is the same peak throughput reached by any
of the other I/O schedulers. As such, this is also likely to be the
maximum possible throughput reachable with this workload on this
device, because I/O is mostly random, and the other schedulers
basically just pass I/O requests to the drive as fast as possible.

[1] https://github.com/Algodev-github/STested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: Francesco Pollicino <fra.fra.800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alessio Masola <alessio.masola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

The processes associated with a bfq_queue, say Q, may happen to
generate their cumulative I/O at a lower rate than the rate at which
the device could serve the same I/O. This is rather probable, e.g., if
only one process is associated with Q and the device is an SSD. It
results in Q becoming often empty while in service. If BFQ is not
allowed to switch to another queue when Q becomes empty, then, during
the service of Q, there will be frequent "service holes", i.e., time
intervals during which Q gets empty and the device can only consume
the I/O already queued in its hardware queues. This easily causes
considerable losses of throughput.

To counter this problem, BFQ implements a request injection mechanism,
which tries to fill the above service holes with I/O requests taken
from other bfq_queues. The hard part in this mechanism is finding the
right amount of I/O to inject, so as to both boost throughput and not
break Q's bandwidth and latency guarantees. To this goal, the current
version of this mechanism measures the bandwidth enjoyed by Q while it
is being served, and tries to inject the maximum possible amount of
extra service that does not cause Q's bandwidth to decrease too
much.

This solution has an important shortcoming. For bandwidth measurements
to be stable and reliable, Q must remain in service for a much longer
time than that needed to serve a single I/O request. Unfortunately,
this does not hold with many workloads. This commit addresses this
issue by changing the way the amount of injection allowed is
dynamically computed. It tunes injection as a function of the service
times of single I/O requests of Q, instead of Q's
bandwidth. Single-request service times are evidently meaningful even
if Q gets very few I/O requests completed while it is in service.

As a testbed for this new solution, we measured the throughput reached
by BFQ for one of the nastiest workloads and configurations for this
scheduler: the workload generated by the dbench test (in the Phoronix
suite), with 6 clients, on a filesystem with journaling, and with the
journaling daemon enjoying a higher weight than normal processes.
With this commit, the throughput grows from ~100 MB/s to ~150 MB/s on
a PLEXTOR PX-256M5.
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: Francesco Pollicino <fra.fra.800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

In most cases, it is detrimental for throughput to plug I/O dispatch
when the in-service bfq_queue becomes temporarily empty (plugging is
performed to wait for the possible arrival, soon, of new I/O from the
in-service queue). There is however a case where plugging is needed
for service guarantees. If a bfq_queue, say Q, has a higher weight
than some other active bfq_queue, and is sync, i.e., contains sync
I/O, then, to guarantee that Q does receive a higher share of the
throughput than other lower-weight queues, it is necessary to plug I/O
dispatch when Q remains temporarily empty while being served.

For this reason, BFQ performs I/O plugging when some active bfq_queue
has a higher weight than some other active bfq_queue. But this is
unnecessarily overkill. In fact, if the in-service bfq_queue actually
has a weight lower than or equal to the other queues, then the queue
*must not* be guaranteed a higher share of the throughput than the
other queues. So, not plugging I/O cannot cause any harm to the
queue. And can boost throughput.

Taking advantage of this fact, this commit does not plug I/O for sync
bfq_queues with a weight lower than or equal to the weights of the
other queues. Here is an example of the resulting throughput boost
with the dbench workload, which is particularly nasty for BFQ. With
the dbench test in the Phoronix suite, BFQ reaches its lowest total
throughput with 6 clients on a filesystem with journaling, in case the
journaling daemon has a higher weight than normal processes. Before
this commit, the total throughput was ~80 MB/sec on a PLEXTOR PX-256M5,
after this commit it is ~100 MB/sec.
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

If a sync bfq_queue has a higher weight than some other queue, and
remains temporarily empty while in service, then, to preserve the
bandwidth share of the queue, it is necessary to plug I/O dispatching
until a new request arrives for the queue. In addition, a timeout
needs to be set, to avoid waiting for ever if the process associated
with the queue has actually finished its I/O.

Even with the above timeout, the device is however not fed with new
I/O for a while, if the process has finished its I/O. If this happens
often, then throughput drops and latencies grow. For this reason, the
timeout is kept rather low: 8 ms is the current default.

Unfortunately, such a low value may cause, on the opposite end, a
violation of bandwidth guarantees for a process that happens to issue
new I/O too late. The higher the system load, the higher the
probability that this happens to some process. This is a problem in
scenarios where service guarantees matter more than throughput. One
important case are weight-raised queues, which need to be granted a
very high fraction of the bandwidth.

To address this issue, this commit lower-bounds the plugging timeout
for weight-raised queues to 20 ms. This simple change provides
relevant benefits. For example, on a PLEXTOR PX-256M5S, with which
gnome-terminal starts in 0.6 seconds if there is no other I/O in
progress, the same applications starts in
- 0.8 seconds, instead of 1.2 seconds, if ten files are being read
  sequentially in parallel
- 1 second, instead of 2 seconds, if, in parallel, five files are
  being read sequentially, and five more files are being written
  sequentially
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Replace BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED_ENABLED with CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED.
Code under these ifdefs never worked, something might be broken.

Fixes: 0471559c ("block, bfq: add/remove entity weights correctly")
Fixes: 73d58118 ("block, bfq: consider also ioprio classes in symmetry detection")
Reviewed-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "A collection of x86 and ARM bugfixes, and some improvements to
  documentation.

  On top of this, a cleanup of kvm_para.h headers, which were exported
  by some architectures even though they not support KVM at all. This is
  responsible for all the Kbuild changes in the diffstat"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (28 commits)
  Documentation: kvm: clarify KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
  KVM: doc: Document the life cycle of a VM and its resources
  KVM: selftests: complete IO before migrating guest state
  KVM: selftests: disable stack protector for all KVM tests
  KVM: selftests: explicitly disable PIE for tests
  KVM: selftests: assert on exit reason in CR4/cpuid sync test
  KVM: x86: update %rip after emulating IO
  x86/kvm/hyper-v: avoid spurious pending stimer on vCPU init
  kvm/x86: Move MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES to array emulated_msrs
  KVM: x86: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES on AMD hosts
  kvm: don't redefine flags as something else
  kvm: mmu: Used range based flushing in slot_handle_level_range
  KVM: export <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h> iif KVM is supported
  KVM: x86: remove check on nr_mmu_pages in kvm_arch_commit_memory_region()
  kvm: nVMX: Add a vmentry check for HOST_SYSENTER_ESP and HOST_SYSENTER_EIP fields
  KVM: SVM: Workaround errata#1096 (insn_len maybe zero on SMAP violation)
  KVM: Reject device ioctls from processes other than the VM's creator
  KVM: doc: Fix incorrect word ordering regarding supported use of APIs
  KVM: x86: fix handling of role.cr4_pae and rename it to 'gpte_size'
  KVM: nVMX: Do not inherit quadrant and invalid for the root shadow EPT
  ...

Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A pile of x86 updates:

   - Prevent exceeding he valid physical address space in the /dev/mem
     limit checks.

   - Move all header content inside the header guard to prevent compile
     failures.

   - Fix the bogus __percpu annotation in this_cpu_has() which makes
     sparse very noisy.

   - Disable switch jump tables completely when retpolines are enabled.

   - Prevent leaking the trampoline address"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/realmode: Make set_real_mode_mem() static inline
  x86/cpufeature: Fix __percpu annotation in this_cpu_has()
  x86/mm: Don't exceed the valid physical address space
  x86/retpolines: Disable switch jump tables when retpolines are enabled
  x86/realmode: Don't leak the trampoline kernel address
  x86/boot: Fix incorrect ifdeffery scope
  x86/resctrl: Remove unused variable

Pull perf tooling fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Core libraries:
   - Fix max perf_event_attr.precise_ip detection.
   - Fix parser error for uncore event alias
   - Fixup ordering of kernel maps after obtaining the main kernel map
     address.

  Intel PT:
   - Fix TSC slip where A TSC packet can slip past MTC packets so that
     the timestamp appears to go backwards.
   - Fixes for exported-sql-viewer GUI conversion to python3.

  ARM coresight:
   - Fix the build by adding a missing case value for enumeration value
     introduced in newer library, that now is the required one.

  tool headers:
   - Syncronize kernel headers with the kernel, getting new io_uring and
     pidfd_send_signal syscalls so that 'perf trace' can handle them"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf pmu: Fix parser error for uncore event alias
  perf scripts python: exported-sql-viewer.py: Fix python3 support
  perf scripts python: exported-sql-viewer.py: Fix never-ending loop
  perf machine: Update kernel map address and re-order properly
  tools headers uapi: Sync powerpc's asm/kvm.h copy with the kernel sources
  tools headers: Update x86's syscall_64.tbl and uapi/asm-generic/unistd
  tools headers uapi: Update drm/i915_drm.h
  tools arch x86: Sync asm/cpufeatures.h with the kernel sources
  tools headers uapi: Sync linux/fcntl.h to get the F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE addition
  tools headers uapi: Sync asm-generic/mman-common.h and linux/mman.h
  perf evsel: Fix max perf_event_attr.precise_ip detection
  perf intel-pt: Fix TSC slip
  perf cs-etm: Add missing case value

Pull CPU hotplug fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Two SMT/hotplug related fixes:

   - Prevent crash when HOTPLUG_CPU is disabled and the CPU bringup
     aborts. This is triggered with the 'nosmt' command line option, but
     can happen by any abort condition. As the real unplug code is not
     compiled in, prevent the fail by keeping the CPU in zombie state.

   - Enforce HOTPLUG_CPU for SMP on x86 to avoid the above situation
     completely. With 'nosmt' being a popular option it's required to
     unplug the half brought up sibling CPUs (due to the MCE wreckage)
     completely"

* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/smp: Enforce CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU when SMP=y
  cpu/hotplug: Prevent crash when CPU bringup fails on CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n

Pull locking fixlet from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Trivial update to the maintainers file"

* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  MAINTAINERS: Remove deleted file from futex file pattern