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2012-03-20block: remove ioc_*_changed()Tejun Heo
After the previous patch to cfq, there's no ioc_get_changed() user left. This patch yanks out ioc_{ioprio|cgroup|get}_changed() and all related stuff. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06block: add io_context->active_refTejun Heo
Currently ioc->nr_tasks is used to decide two things - whether an ioc is done issuing IOs and whether it's shared by multiple tasks. This patch separate out the first into ioc->active_ref, which is acquired and released using {get|put}_io_context_active() respectively. This will be used to associate bio's with a given task. This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06block: ioc_task_link() can't failTejun Heo
ioc_task_link() is used to share %current's ioc on clone. If %current->io_context is set, %current is guaranteed to have refcount on the ioc and, thus, ioc_task_link() can't fail. Replace error checking in ioc_task_link() with WARN_ON_ONCE() and make it just increment refcount and nr_tasks. -v2: Description typo fix (Vivek). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-15block: exit_io_context() should call elevator_exit_icq_fn()Tejun Heo
While updating locking, b2efa05265 "block, cfq: unlink cfq_io_context's immediately" moved elevator_exit_icq_fn() invocation from exit_io_context() to the final ioc put. While this doesn't cause catastrophic failure, it effectively removes task exit notification to elevator and cause noticeable IO performance degradation with CFQ. On task exit, CFQ used to immediately expire the slice if it was being used by the exiting task as no more IO would be issued by the task; however, after b2efa05265, the notification is lost and disk could sit idle needlessly, leading to noticeable IO performance degradation for certain workloads. This patch renames ioc_exit_icq() to ioc_destroy_icq(), separates elevator_exit_icq_fn() invocation into ioc_exit_icq() and invokes it from exit_io_context(). ICQ_EXITED flag is added to avoid invoking the callback more than once for the same icq. Walking icq_list from ioc side and invoking elevator callback requires reverse double locking. This may be better implemented using RCU; unfortunately, using RCU isn't trivial. e.g. RCU protection would need to cover request_queue and queue_lock switch on cleanup makes grabbing queue_lock from RCU unsafe. Reverse double locking should do, at least for now. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-and-bisected-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <CANejiEVzs=pUhQSTvUppkDcc2TNZyfohBRLygW5zFmXyk5A-xQ@mail.gmail.com> Tested-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-15block: replace icq->changed with icq->flagsTejun Heo
icq->changed was used for ICQ_*_CHANGED bits. Rename it to flags and access it under ioc->lock instead of using atomic bitops. ioc_get_changed() is added so that the changed part can be fetched and cleared as before. icq->flags will be used to carry other flags. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Tested-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-07block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context()Tejun Heo
put_io_context() performed a complex trylock dancing to avoid deferring ioc release to workqueue. It was also broken on UP because trylock was always assumed to succeed which resulted in unbalanced preemption count. While there are ways to fix the UP breakage, even the most pathological microbench (forced ioc allocation and tight fork/exit loop) fails to show any appreciable performance benefit of the optimization. Strip it out. If there turns out to be workloads which are affected by this change, simpler optimization from the discussion thread can be applied later. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1328514611.21268.66.camel@sli10-conroe> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block, cfq: move icq creation and rq->elv.icq association to block coreTejun Heo
Now block layer knows everything necessary to create and associate icq's with requests. Move ioc_create_icq() to blk-ioc.c and update get_request() such that, if elevator_type->icq_size is set, requests are automatically associated with their matching icq's before elv_set_request(). io_context reference is also managed by block core on request alloc/free. * Only ioprio/cgroup changed handling remains from cfq_get_cic(). Collapsed into cfq_set_request(). * This removes queue kicking on icq allocation failure (for now). As icq allocation failure is rare and the only effect of queue kicking achieved was possibily accelerating queue processing, this change shouldn't be noticeable. There is a larger underlying problem. Unlike request allocation, icq allocation is not guaranteed to succeed eventually after retries. The number of icq is unbound and thus mempool can't be the solution either. This effectively adds allocation dependency on memory free path and thus possibility of deadlock. This usually wouldn't happen because icq allocation is not a hot path and, even when the condition triggers, it's highly unlikely that none of the writeback workers already has icq. However, this is still possible especially if elevator is being switched under high memory pressure, so we better get it fixed. Probably the only solution is just bypassing elevator and appending to dispatch queue on any elevator allocation failure. * Comment added to explain how icq's are managed and synchronized. This completes cleanup of io_context interface. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.cTejun Heo
With kmem_cache managed by blk-ioc, io_cq exit/release can be moved to blk-ioc too. The odd ->io_cq->exit/release() callbacks are replaced with elevator_ops->elevator_exit_icq_fn() with unlinking from both ioc and q, and freeing automatically handled by blk-ioc. The elevator operation only need to perform exit operation specific to the elevator - in cfq's case, exiting the cfqq's. Also, clearing of io_cq's on q detach is moved to block core and automatically performed on elevator switch and q release. Because the q io_cq points to might be freed before RCU callback for the io_cq runs, blk-ioc code should remember to which cache the io_cq needs to be freed when the io_cq is released. New field io_cq->__rcu_icq_cache is added for this purpose. As both the new field and rcu_head are used only after io_cq is released and the q/ioc_node fields aren't, they are put into unions. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block, cfq: reorganize cfq_io_context into generic and cfq specific partsTejun Heo
Currently io_context and cfq logics are mixed without clear boundary. Most of io_context is independent from cfq but cfq_io_context handling logic is dispersed between generic ioc code and cfq. cfq_io_context represents association between an io_context and a request_queue, which is a concept useful outside of cfq, but it also contains fields which are useful only to cfq. This patch takes out generic part and put it into io_cq (io context-queue) and the rest into cfq_io_cq (cic moniker remains the same) which contains io_cq. The following changes are made together. * cfq_ttime and cfq_io_cq now live in cfq-iosched.c. * All related fields, functions and constants are renamed accordingly. * ioc->ioc_data is now "struct io_cq *" instead of "void *" and renamed to icq_hint. This prepares for io_context API cleanup. Documentation is currently sparse. It will be added later. Changes in this patch are mechanical and don't cause functional change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block, cfq: kill cic->keyTejun Heo
Now that lazy paths are removed, cfqd_dead_key() is meaningless and cic->q can be used whereever cic->key is used. Kill cic->key. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block, cfq: unlink cfq_io_context's immediatelyTejun Heo
cic is association between io_context and request_queue. A cic is linked from both ioc and q and should be destroyed when either one goes away. As ioc and q both have their own locks, locking becomes a bit complex - both orders work for removal from one but not from the other. Currently, cfq tries to circumvent this locking order issue with RCU. ioc->lock nests inside queue_lock but the radix tree and cic's are also protected by RCU allowing either side to walk their lists without grabbing lock. This rather unconventional use of RCU quickly devolves into extremely fragile convolution. e.g. The following is from cfqd going away too soon after ioc and q exits raced. general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU 2 Modules linked in: [ 88.503444] Pid: 599, comm: hexdump Not tainted 3.1.0-rc10-work+ #158 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81397628>] [<ffffffff81397628>] cfq_exit_single_io_context+0x58/0xf0 ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff81395a4a>] call_for_each_cic+0x5a/0x90 [<ffffffff81395ab5>] cfq_exit_io_context+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffff81389130>] exit_io_context+0x100/0x140 [<ffffffff81098a29>] do_exit+0x579/0x850 [<ffffffff81098d5b>] do_group_exit+0x5b/0xd0 [<ffffffff81098de7>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 [<ffffffff81b02f2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b The only real hot path here is cic lookup during request initialization and avoiding extra locking requires very confined use of RCU. This patch makes cic removal from both ioc and request_queue perform double-locking and unlink immediately. * From q side, the change is almost trivial as ioc->lock nests inside queue_lock. It just needs to grab each ioc->lock as it walks cic_list and unlink it. * From ioc side, it's a bit more difficult because of inversed lock order. ioc needs its lock to walk its cic_list but can't grab the matching queue_lock and needs to perform unlock-relock dancing. Unlinking is now wholly done from put_io_context() and fast path is optimized by using the queue_lock the caller already holds, which is by far the most common case. If the ioc accessed multiple devices, it tries with trylock. In unlikely cases of fast path failure, it falls back to full double-locking dance from workqueue. Double-locking isn't the prettiest thing in the world but it's *far* simpler and more understandable than RCU trick without adding any meaningful overhead. This still leaves a lot of now unnecessary RCU logics. Future patches will trim them. -v2: Vivek pointed out that cic->q was being dereferenced after cic->release() was called. Updated to use local variable @this_q instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block, cfq: move ioc ioprio/cgroup changed handling to cicTejun Heo
ioprio/cgroup change was handled by marking the changed state in ioc and, on the following access to the ioc, performing RCU-protected iteration through all cic's grabbing the matching queue_lock. This patch moves the changed state to each cic. When ioprio or cgroup changes, the respective bit is set on all cic's of the ioc and when each of those cic (not ioc) is accessed, change is applied for that specific ioc-queue pair. This also fixes the following two race conditions between setting and clearing of changed states. * Missing barrier between assign/load of ioprio and ioprio_changed allowed applying old ioprio. * Change requests could happen between application of change and clearing of changed variables. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block, cfq: misc updates to cfq_io_contextTejun Heo
Make the following changes to prepare for ioc/cic management cleanup. * Add cic->q so that ioc can determine the associated queue without querying cfq. This will eventually replace ->key. * Factor out cfq_release_cic() from cic_free_func(). This function assumes that the caller handled locking. * Rename __cfq_exit_single_io_context() to cfq_exit_cic() and make it take only @cic. * Restructure cfq_cic_link() for future updates. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block: make ioc get/put interface more conventional and fix race on alloctionTejun Heo
Ignoring copy_io() during fork, io_context can be allocated from two places - current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio(). The former is always called from local task while the latter can be called from different task. The synchornization between them are peculiar and dubious. * current_io_context() doesn't grab task_lock() and assumes that if it saw %NULL ->io_context, it would stay that way until allocation and assignment is complete. It has smp_wmb() between alloc/init and assignment. * set_task_ioprio() grabs task_lock() for assignment and does smp_read_barrier_depends() between "ioc = task->io_context" and "if (ioc)". Unfortunately, this doesn't achieve anything - the latter is not a dependent load of the former. ie, if ioc itself were being dereferenced "ioc->xxx", it would mean something (not sure what tho) but as the code currently stands, the dependent read barrier is noop. As only one of the the two test-assignment sequences is task_lock() protected, the task_lock() can't do much about race between the two. Nothing prevents current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio() allocating its own ioc for the same task and overwriting the other's. Also, set_task_ioprio() can race with exiting task and create a new ioc after exit_io_context() is finished. ioc get/put doesn't have any reason to be complex. The only hot path is accessing the existing ioc of %current, which is simple to achieve given that ->io_context is never destroyed as long as the task is alive. All other paths can happily go through task_lock() like all other task sub structures without impacting anything. This patch updates ioc get/put so that it becomes more conventional. * alloc_io_context() is replaced with get_task_io_context(). This is the only interface which can acquire access to ioc of another task. On return, the caller has an explicit reference to the object which should be put using put_io_context() afterwards. * The functionality of current_io_context() remains the same but when creating a new ioc, it shares the code path with get_task_io_context() and always goes through task_lock(). * get_io_context() now means incrementing ref on an ioc which the caller already has access to (be that an explicit refcnt or implicit %current one). * PF_EXITING inhibits creation of new io_context and once exit_io_context() is finished, it's guaranteed that both ioc acquisition functions return %NULL. * All users are updated. Most are trivial but smp_read_barrier_depends() removal from cfq_get_io_context() needs a bit of explanation. I suppose the original intention was to ensure ioc->ioprio is visible when set_task_ioprio() allocates new io_context and installs it; however, this wouldn't have worked because set_task_ioprio() doesn't have wmb between init and install. There are other problems with this which will be fixed in another patch. * While at it, use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1 for wildcard node specification. -v2: Vivek spotted contamination from debug patch. Removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block: misc ioc cleanupsTejun Heo
* int return from put_io_context() wasn't used by anybody. Make it return void like other put functions and docbook-fy the function comment. * Reorder dummy declarations for !CONFIG_BLOCK case a bit. * Make alloc_ioc_context() use __GFP_ZERO allocation, take init out of if block and drop 0'ing. * Docbook-fy current_io_context() comment. This patch doesn't introduce any functional change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-07-12CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate structShaohua Li
Move the variables to do think time check to a sepatate struct. This is to prepare adding think time check for service tree and group. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-11block: remove unused copy_io_context()Jens Axboe
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-19kernel: __rcu annotationsArnd Bergmann
This adds annotations for RCU operations in core kernel components Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-05-24cfq-iosched: remove dead_key from cfq_io_contextKonstantin Khlebnikov
Remove ->dead_key field from cfq_io_context to shrink its size to 128 bytes. (64 bytes for 32-bit hosts) Use lower bit in ->key as dead-mark, instead of moving key to separate field. After this for dead cfq_io_context we got cic->key != cfqd automatically. Thus, io_context's last-hit cache should work without changing. Now to check ->key for non-dead state compare it with cfqd, instead of checking ->key for non-null value as it was before. Plus remove obsolete race protection in cfq_cic_lookup. This race gone after v2.6.24-1728-g4ac845a Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-12cgroups: blkio subsystem as moduleBen Blum
Modify the Block I/O cgroup subsystem to be able to be built as a module. As the CFQ disk scheduler optionally depends on blk-cgroup, config options in block/Kconfig, block/Kconfig.iosched, and block/blk-cgroup.h are enhanced to support the new module dependency. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-26block: remove padding from io_context on 64bit buildsRichard Kennedy
On 64 bit builds when CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=n (the default) this removes 8 bytes of padding from structure io_context and drops its size from 72 to 64 bytes, so needing one fewer cachelines and allowing more objects per slab in it's kmem_cache. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> ---- patch against 2.6.33 compiled & test on x86_64 AMDX2 regards Richard Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-11block: removed unused as_io_contextKirill Afonshin
It isn't used anymore, since AS was deleted. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IOLouis Rilling
With CLONE_IO, parent's io_context->nr_tasks is incremented, but never decremented whenever copy_process() fails afterwards, which prevents exit_io_context() from calling IO schedulers exit functions. Give a task_struct to exit_io_context(), and call exit_io_context() instead of put_io_context() in copy_process() cleanup path. Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Introduce blkio controller cgroup interfaceVivek Goyal
o This is basic implementation of blkio controller cgroup interface. This is the common interface visible to user space and should be used by different IO control policies as we implement those. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-26cfq: calculate the seek_mean per cfq_queue not per cfq_io_contextJeff Moyer
async cfq_queue's are already shared between processes within the same priority, and forthcoming patches will change the mapping of cic to sync cfq_queue from 1:1 to 1:N. So, calculate the seekiness of a process based on the cfq_queue instead of the cfq_io_context. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-31io context: fix ref countingLi Zefan
Commit d9c7d394a8ebacb60097b192939ae9f15235225e ("block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow") mistakenly changed atomic_inc(&ioc->nr_tasks) to atomic_long_inc(&ioc->refcount). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-10block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflowNikanth Karthikesan
Currently io_context has an atomic_t(32-bit) as refcount. In the case of cfq, for each device against whcih a task does I/O, a reference to the io_context would be taken. And when there are multiple process sharing io_contexts(CLONE_IO) would also have a reference to the same io_context. Theoretically the possible maximum number of processes sharing the same io_context + the number of disks/cfq_data referring to the same io_context can overflow the 32-bit counter on a very high-end machine. Even though it is an improbable case, let us make it atomic_long_t. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03block: blkdev.h cleanup, move iocontext stuff to iocontext.hJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-15io context: increment task attachment count in ioc_task_link()Jens Axboe
Thanks to Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> for reporting this. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-02cfq-iosched: fix rcu freeing of cfq io contextsFabio Checconi
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is not a direct substitute for normal call_rcu() freeing, since it'll page freeing but NOT object freeing. So change cfq to do the freeing on its own. Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-19cfq-iosched: add hlist for browsing parallel to the radix treeJens Axboe
It's cumbersome to browse a radix tree from start to finish, especially since we modify keys when a process exits. So add a hlist for the single purpose of browsing over all known cfq_io_contexts, used for exit, io prio change, etc. This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9948 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-28block: cfq: make the io contect sharing locklessJens Axboe
The io context sharing introduced a per-ioc spinlock, that would protect the cfq io context lookup. That is a regression from the original, since we never needed any locking there because the ioc/cic were process private. The cic lookup is changed from an rbtree construct to a radix tree, which we can then use RCU to make the reader side lockless. That is the performance critical path, modifying the radix tree is only done on process creation (when that process first does IO, actually) and on process exit (if that process has done IO). As it so happens, radix trees are also much faster for this type of lookup where the key is a pointer. It's a very sparse tree. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-28io context sharing: preliminary supportJens Axboe
Detach task state from ioc, instead keep track of how many processes are accessing the ioc. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-28ioprio: move io priority from task_struct to io_contextJens Axboe
This is where it belongs and then it doesn't take up space for a process that doesn't do IO. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>