- 29 Dec, 2008 32 commits
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Jens Axboe authored
The mm->ioctx_list is currently protected by a reader-writer lock, so we always grab that lock on the read side for doing ioctx lookups. As the workload is extremely reader biased, turn this into an rcu hlist so we can make lookup_ioctx() lockless. Get rid of the rwlock and use a spinlock for providing update side exclusion. There's usually only 1 entry on this list, so it doesn't make sense to look into fancier data structures. Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
When we go and allocate a bio for IO, we actually do two allocations. One for the bio itself, and one for the bi_io_vec that holds the actual pages we are interested in. This feature inlines a definable amount of io vecs inside the bio itself, so we eliminate the bio_vec array allocation for IO's up to a certain size. It defaults to 4 vecs, which is typically 16k of IO. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Instead of having a global bio slab cache, add a reference to one in each bio_set that is created. This allows for personalized slabs in each bio_set, so that they can have bios of different sizes. This means we can personalize the bios we return. File systems may want to embed the bio inside another structure, to avoid allocation more items (and stuffing them in ->bi_private) after the get a bio. Or we may want to embed a number of bio_vecs directly at the end of a bio, to avoid doing two allocations to return a bio. This is now possible. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
In preparation for adding differently sized bios. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
We only very rarely need the mempool backing, so it makes sense to get rid of all but one of the mempool in a bio_set. So keep the largest bio_vec count mempool so we can always honor the largest allocation, and "upgrade" callers that fail. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
We just want to hand the first bits of IO to the device as fast as possible. Gains a few percent on the IOPS rate. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Empty barrier on write-through (or no cache) w/ ordered tag has no command to execute and without any command to execute ordered tag is never issued to the device and the ordering is never achieved. Force draining for such cases. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Empty barrier required special handling in __elv_next_request() to complete it without letting the low level driver see it. With previous changes, barrier code is now flexible enough to skip the BAR step using the same barrier sequence selection mechanism. Drop the special handling and mask off q->ordered from start_ordered(). Remove blk_empty_barrier() test which now has no user. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Barrier completion had the following assumptions. * start_ordered() couldn't finish the whole sequence properly. If all actions are to be skipped, q->ordseq is set correctly but the actual completion was never triggered thus hanging the barrier request. * Drain completion in elv_complete_request() assumed that there's always at least one request in the queue when drain completes. Both assumptions are true but these assumptions need to be removed to improve empty barrier implementation. This patch makes the following changes. * Make start_ordered() use blk_ordered_complete_seq() to mark skipped steps complete and notify __elv_next_request() that it should fetch the next request if the whole barrier has completed inside start_ordered(). * Make drain completion path in elv_complete_request() check whether the queue is empty. Empty queue also indicates drain completion. * While at it, convert 0/1 return from blk_do_ordered() to false/true. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
In all barrier sequences, the barrier write itself was always assumed to be issued and thus didn't have corresponding control flag. This patch adds QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_BAR and unify action mask handling in start_ordered() such that any barrier action can be skipped. This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
* Because barrier mode can be changed dynamically, whether barrier is supported or not can be determined only when actually issuing the barrier and there is no point in checking it earlier. Drop barrier support check in generic_make_request() and __make_request(), and update comment around the support check in blk_do_ordered(). * There is no reason to check discard support in both generic_make_request() and __make_request(). Drop the check in __make_request(). While at it, move error action block to the end of the function and add unlikely() to q existence test. * Barrier request, be it empty or not, is never passed to low level driver and thus it's meaningless to try to copy back req->sector to bio->bi_sector on error. In addition, the notion of failed sector doesn't make any sense for empty barrier to begin with. Drop the code block from __end_that_request_first(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Separate out ordering type (drain,) and action masks (preflush, postflush, fua) from visible ordering mode selectors (QUEUE_ORDERED_*). Ordering types are now named QUEUE_ORDERED_BY_* while action masks are named QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_*. This change is necessary to add QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_BAR and make it optional to improve empty barrier implementation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Richard Kennedy authored
Remove 8 bytes of padding from struct bio which also removes 16 bytes from struct bio_pair to make it 248 bytes. bio_pair then fits into one fewer cache lines & into a smaller slab. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Cheng Renquan authored
After many improvements on kblockd_flush_work, it is now identical to cancel_work_sync, so a direct call to cancel_work_sync is suggested. The only difference is that cancel_work_sync is a GPL symbol, so no non-GPL modules anymore. Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Keith Mannthey authored
Allow the scsi request REQ_QUIET flag to be propagated to the buffer file system layer. The basic ideas is to pass the flag from the scsi request to the bio (block IO) and then to the buffer layer. The buffer layer can then suppress needless printks. This patch declutters the kernel log by removed the 40-50 (per lun) buffer io error messages seen during a boot in my multipath setup . It is a good chance any real errors will be missed in the "noise" it the logs without this patch. During boot I see blocks of messages like " __ratelimit: 211 callbacks suppressed Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242847 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 1 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242878 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242872 " in my logs. My disk environment is multipath fiber channel using the SCSI_DH_RDAC code and multipathd. This topology includes an "active" and "ghost" path for each lun. IO's to the "ghost" path will never complete and the SCSI layer, via the scsi device handler rdac code, quick returns the IOs to theses paths and sets the REQ_QUIET scsi flag to suppress the scsi layer messages. I am wanting to extend the QUIET behavior to include the buffer file system layer to deal with these errors as well. I have been running this patch for a while now on several boxes without issue. A few runs of bonnie++ show no noticeable difference in performance in my setup. Thanks for John Stultz for the quiet_error finalization. Submitted-by: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Wu Fengguang authored
There's no need to take queue_lock or kernel_lock when modifying bdi->ra_pages. So remove them. Also remove out of date comment for queue_max_sectors_store(). Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Nikanth Karthikesan authored
The drivers/block/ll_rw_block.c has been split and organized in the block/ directory, and also drivers/block/elevator.c has been moved to the block/ directory. Update Documentation/block/biodoc.txt accordingly Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Qinghuang Feng authored
There is no argument named @tags in blk_init_tags, remove its' comment. Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
This both cleans up the code and also helps detect the spurious case of a command attempted being removed from a queue it doesn't belong to. Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Nikanth Karthikesan authored
When taking recursive faults in do_exit, if the io_context is not null, exit_io_context() is being called. But it might decrement the refcount more than once. It is better to leave this task alone. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Marcin Slusarz authored
1. kmalloc 192 bytes in dvd_read_bca (which is inlined into dvd_read_struct) 2. Pass struct packet_command to all dvd_read_* functions. Checkstack output: Before: mmc_ioctl_dvd_read_struct: 280 After: mmc_ioctl_dvd_read_struct: 56 Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Marcin Slusarz authored
Checkstack output: Before: mmc_ioctl: 584 After: mmc_ioctl_dvd_read_struct: 280 mmc_ioctl_cdrom_subchannel: 152 mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_data: 120 mmc_ioctl_cdrom_volume: 104 mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_audio: 104 (mmc_ioctl is inlined into cdrom_ioctl - 104 bytes) Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Milton Miller authored
Convert the timeout ioctl scalling to use the clock_t functions which are much more accurate with some USER_HZ vs HZ combinations. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
For sync IO, we'll often do them serialized. This means we'll be touching the queue timer for every IO, as opposed to only occasionally like we do for queued IO. Instead of deleting the timer when the last request is removed, just let continue running. If a new request comes up soon we then don't have to readd the timer again. If no new requests arrive, the timer will expire without side effect later. This improves high iops sync IO by ~1%. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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malahal@us.ibm.com authored
Now the rq->deadline can't be zero if the request is in the timeout_list, so there is no need to have next_set. There is no need to access a request's deadline field if blk_rq_timed_out is called on it. Signed-off-by: Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao authored
Xen's blkfront sets noop as the default I/O scheduler at initialization time to avoid elevator overheads such as idling, but with the advent of basic disk profiling capabilities this is not necessary anymore. We should just tell the block layer that we are a paravirt front-end driver and the elevator will automatically make the necessary adjustments. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao authored
As a paravirt front-end driver, virtio_blk is not a rotational device so we want do avoid idling in AS/CFQ. Tell the block layer about this. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao authored
As is the case with SSD devices, we do not want to idle in AS/CFQ when the block device is a paravirt front-end driver. This patch adds a flag (QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT) which should be used by front-end drivers such as virtio_blk and xen-blkfront to indicate a paravirtualized device. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (144 commits) powerpc/44x: Support 16K/64K base page sizes on 44x powerpc: Force memory size to be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE powerpc/32: Wire up the trampoline code for kdump powerpc/32: Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at 32M powerpc/32: Allow __ioremap on RAM addresses for kdump kernel powerpc/32: Setup OF properties for kdump powerpc/32/kdump: Implement crash_setup_regs() using ppc_save_regs() powerpc: Prepare xmon_save_regs for use with kdump powerpc: Remove default kexec/crash_kernel ops assignments powerpc: Make default kexec/crash_kernel ops implicit powerpc: Setup OF properties for ppc32 kexec powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug powerpc: Fix KVM build on ppc440 powerpc/cell: add QPACE as a separate Cell platform powerpc/cell: fix build breakage with CONFIG_SPUFS disabled powerpc/mpc5200: fix error paths in PSC UART probe function powerpc/mpc5200: add rts/cts handling in PSC UART driver powerpc/mpc5200: Make PSC UART driver update serial errors counters powerpc/mpc5200: Remove obsolete code from mpc5200 MDIO driver powerpc/mpc5200: Add MDMA/UDMA support to MPC5200 ATA driver ... Fix trivial conflict in drivers/char/Makefile as per Paul's directions
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Stephen Rothwell authored
Commit 908a7a16 ("net: Remove unused netdev arg from some NAPI interfaces") missed two spots. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stephen Rothwell authored
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 28 Dec, 2008 8 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: smackfs: check for allocation failures in smk_set_access()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-nextLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (25 commits) allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko kbuild: simplify use of genksyms kernel-doc: check for extra kernel-doc notations kbuild: add headerdep used to detect inclusion cycles in header files kbuild: fix string equality testing in tags.sh kbuild: fix make tags/cscope kbuild: fix make incompatibility kbuild: remove TAR_IGNORE setlocalversion: add git-svn support setlocalversion: print correct subversion revision scripts: improve the decodecode script scripts/package: allow custom options to rpm genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes genksyms: track symbol checksum changes tags and cscope support really belongs in a shell script kconfig: fix options to check-lxdialog.sh kbuild: gen_init_cpio expands shell variables in file names remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig kbuild: teach mkmakfile to be silent ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-nvramLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-nvram: [PATCH] nvram - convert PRINT_PROC to seq_file [PATCH] nvram - CodingStyle
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James Morris authored
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Ilya Yanok authored
This adds support for 16k and 64k page sizes on PowerPC 44x processors. The PGDIR table is much smaller than a page when using 16k or 64k pages (512 and 32 bytes respectively) so we allocate the PGDIR with kzalloc() instead of __get_free_pages(). One PTE table covers rather a large memory area when using 16k or 64k pages (32MB or 512MB respectively), so we can easily put FIXMAP and PKMAP in the area covered by one PTE table. Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Panfilov <pvr@emcraft.com> Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com> Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Hollis Blanchard authored
Ensure that total memory size is page-aligned, because otherwise mark_bootmem() gets upset. This error case was triggered by using 64 KiB pages in the kernel while arch/powerpc/boot/4xx.c arbitrarily reduced the amount of memory by 4096 (to work around a chip bug that affects the last 256 bytes of physical memory). Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68kLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k: m68k: use the new byteorder headers fbcon: Protect free_irq() by MACH_IS_ATARI check fbcon: remove broken mac vbl handler m68k: fix trigraph ignored warning in setox.S macfb annotations and compiler warning fix m68k: mac baboon interrupt enable/disable m68k: machw.h cleanup m68k: Mac via cleanup and commentry m68k: Reinstate mac rtc
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits) net: Allow dependancies of FDDI & Tokenring to be modular. igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled. net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes. gro: Fix potential use after free sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues 802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header 802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer 802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer 802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system 802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool 802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool 802.3ad: make ntt bool ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools. ... Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
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