<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-stable.git/block/bio.c, branch v6.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.10-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux</title>
<updated>2024-05-15T00:25:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-15T00:25:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a3d1f54d7aa4c3be2c6a10768d4ffa1dcb620da9'/>
<id>a3d1f54d7aa4c3be2c6a10768d4ffa1dcb620da9</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull btrfs updates from David Sterba:
 "This update brings a few minor performance improvements, otherwise
  there's a lot of refactoring, cleanups and other sort of not user
  visible changes.

  Performance improvements:

   - inline b-tree locking functions, improvement in metadata-heavy
     changes

   - relax locking on a range that's being reflinked, allows read
     operations to run in parallel

   - speed up NOCOW write checks (throughput +9% on a sample test)

   - extent locking ranges have been reduced in several places, namely
     around delayed ref processing

  Core:

   - more page to folio conversions:
      - relocation
      - send
      - compression
      - inline extent handling
      - super block write and wait

   - extent_map structure optimizations:
      - reduced structure size
      - code simplifications
      - add shrinker for allocated objects, the numbers can go high and
        could exhaust memory on smaller systems (reported) as they may
        not get an opportunity to be freed fast enough

   - extent locking optimizations:
      - reduce locking ranges where it does not seem to be necessary and
        are safe due to other means of synchronization
      - potential improvements due to lower contention,
        allocation/freeing and state management operations of extent
        state tracking structures

   - delayed ref cleanups and simplifications

   - updated trace points

   - improved error handling, warnings and assertions

   - cleanups and refactoring, unification of error handling paths"

* tag 'for-6.10-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: (122 commits)
  btrfs: qgroup: fix initialization of auto inherit array
  btrfs: count super block write errors in device instead of tracking folio error state
  btrfs: use the folio iterator in btrfs_end_super_write()
  btrfs: convert super block writes to folio in write_dev_supers()
  btrfs: convert super block writes to folio in wait_dev_supers()
  bio: Export bio_add_folio_nofail to modules
  btrfs: remove duplicate included header from fs.h
  btrfs: add a cached state to extent_clear_unlock_delalloc
  btrfs: push extent lock down in submit_one_async_extent
  btrfs: push lock_extent down in cow_file_range()
  btrfs: move can_cow_file_range_inline() outside of the extent lock
  btrfs: push lock_extent into cow_file_range_inline
  btrfs: push extent lock into cow_file_range
  btrfs: push extent lock into run_delalloc_cow
  btrfs: remove unlock_extent from run_delalloc_compressed
  btrfs: push extent lock down in run_delalloc_nocow
  btrfs: adjust while loop condition in run_delalloc_nocow
  btrfs: push extent lock into run_delalloc_nocow
  btrfs: push the extent lock into btrfs_run_delalloc_range
  btrfs: lock extent when doing inline extent in compression
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull btrfs updates from David Sterba:
 "This update brings a few minor performance improvements, otherwise
  there's a lot of refactoring, cleanups and other sort of not user
  visible changes.

  Performance improvements:

   - inline b-tree locking functions, improvement in metadata-heavy
     changes

   - relax locking on a range that's being reflinked, allows read
     operations to run in parallel

   - speed up NOCOW write checks (throughput +9% on a sample test)

   - extent locking ranges have been reduced in several places, namely
     around delayed ref processing

  Core:

   - more page to folio conversions:
      - relocation
      - send
      - compression
      - inline extent handling
      - super block write and wait

   - extent_map structure optimizations:
      - reduced structure size
      - code simplifications
      - add shrinker for allocated objects, the numbers can go high and
        could exhaust memory on smaller systems (reported) as they may
        not get an opportunity to be freed fast enough

   - extent locking optimizations:
      - reduce locking ranges where it does not seem to be necessary and
        are safe due to other means of synchronization
      - potential improvements due to lower contention,
        allocation/freeing and state management operations of extent
        state tracking structures

   - delayed ref cleanups and simplifications

   - updated trace points

   - improved error handling, warnings and assertions

   - cleanups and refactoring, unification of error handling paths"

* tag 'for-6.10-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: (122 commits)
  btrfs: qgroup: fix initialization of auto inherit array
  btrfs: count super block write errors in device instead of tracking folio error state
  btrfs: use the folio iterator in btrfs_end_super_write()
  btrfs: convert super block writes to folio in write_dev_supers()
  btrfs: convert super block writes to folio in wait_dev_supers()
  bio: Export bio_add_folio_nofail to modules
  btrfs: remove duplicate included header from fs.h
  btrfs: add a cached state to extent_clear_unlock_delalloc
  btrfs: push extent lock down in submit_one_async_extent
  btrfs: push lock_extent down in cow_file_range()
  btrfs: move can_cow_file_range_inline() outside of the extent lock
  btrfs: push lock_extent into cow_file_range_inline
  btrfs: push extent lock into cow_file_range
  btrfs: push extent lock into run_delalloc_cow
  btrfs: remove unlock_extent from run_delalloc_compressed
  btrfs: push extent lock down in run_delalloc_nocow
  btrfs: adjust while loop condition in run_delalloc_nocow
  btrfs: push extent lock into run_delalloc_nocow
  btrfs: push the extent lock into btrfs_run_delalloc_range
  btrfs: lock extent when doing inline extent in compression
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-throttle: remove CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW</title>
<updated>2024-05-09T15:44:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu Kuai</name>
<email>yukuai3@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-09T12:11:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bf20ab538c81bb32edab86f503fc0c55d8243bbc'/>
<id>bf20ab538c81bb32edab86f503fc0c55d8243bbc</id>
<content type='text'>
One the one hand, it's marked EXPERIMENTAL since 2017, and looks like
there are no users since then, and no testers and no developers, it's
just not active at all.

On the other hand, even if the config is disabled, there are still many
fields in throtl_grp and throtl_data and many functions that are only
used for throtl low.

At last, currently blk-throtl is initialized during disk initialization,
and destroyed during disk removal, and it exposes many functions to be
called directly from block layer.

Remove throtl low to make code much more cleaner and follow up work much
easier.

Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai &lt;yukuai3@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240509121107.3195568-2-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
One the one hand, it's marked EXPERIMENTAL since 2017, and looks like
there are no users since then, and no testers and no developers, it's
just not active at all.

On the other hand, even if the config is disabled, there are still many
fields in throtl_grp and throtl_data and many functions that are only
used for throtl low.

At last, currently blk-throtl is initialized during disk initialization,
and destroyed during disk removal, and it exposes many functions to be
called directly from block layer.

Remove throtl low to make code much more cleaner and follow up work much
easier.

Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai &lt;yukuai3@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240509121107.3195568-2-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bio: Export bio_add_folio_nofail to modules</title>
<updated>2024-05-07T19:31:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-25T16:37:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8fde439b2d77356a2e0ace70cd8e24a4a5ded352'/>
<id>8fde439b2d77356a2e0ace70cd8e24a4a5ded352</id>
<content type='text'>
Several modules use __bio_add_page() today and may need to be converted
to bio_add_folio_nofail().

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Several modules use __bio_add_page() today and may need to be converted
to bio_add_folio_nofail().

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add a bio_await_chain helper</title>
<updated>2024-05-07T13:29:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Busch</name>
<email>kbusch@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-06T04:20:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0f8e9ecc4636e3abb4f3cf1ead14c94cce7dfde8'/>
<id>0f8e9ecc4636e3abb4f3cf1ead14c94cce7dfde8</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a helper to wait for an entire chain of bios to complete.

[hch: split from a larger patch, moved and changed the name now that it
 is non-static]

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506042027.2289826-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add a helper to wait for an entire chain of bios to complete.

[hch: split from a larger patch, moved and changed the name now that it
 is non-static]

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506042027.2289826-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add a bio_chain_and_submit helper</title>
<updated>2024-05-07T13:29:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-06T04:20:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=81c2168c229bab0665e862937bb476f18cff056d'/>
<id>81c2168c229bab0665e862937bb476f18cff056d</id>
<content type='text'>
This is basically blk_next_bio just with the bio allocation moved
to the caller to allow for more flexible bio handling in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506042027.2289826-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This is basically blk_next_bio just with the bio allocation moved
to the caller to allow for more flexible bio handling in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506042027.2289826-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Introduce zone write plugging</title>
<updated>2024-04-17T14:44:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>dlemoal@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-08T01:41:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=dd291d77cc90eb6a86e9860ba8e6e38eebd57d12'/>
<id>dd291d77cc90eb6a86e9860ba8e6e38eebd57d12</id>
<content type='text'>
Zone write plugging implements a per-zone "plug" for write operations
to control the submission and execution order of write operations to
sequential write required zones of a zoned block device. Per-zone
plugging guarantees that at any time there is at most only one write
request per zone being executed. This mechanism is intended to replace
zone write locking which implements a similar per-zone write throttling
at the scheduler level, but is implemented only by mq-deadline.

Unlike zone write locking which operates on requests, zone write
plugging operates on BIOs. A zone write plug is simply a BIO list that
is atomically manipulated using a spinlock and a kblockd submission
work. A write BIO to a zone is "plugged" to delay its execution if a
write BIO for the same zone was already issued, that is, if a write
request for the same zone is being executed. The next plugged BIO is
unplugged and issued once the write request completes.

This mechanism allows to:
 - Untangle zone write ordering from block IO schedulers. This allows
   removing the restriction on using mq-deadline for writing to zoned
   block devices. Any block IO scheduler, including "none" can be used.
 - Zone write plugging operates on BIOs instead of requests. Plugged
   BIOs waiting for execution thus do not hold scheduling tags and thus
   are not preventing other BIOs from executing (reads or writes to
   other zones). Depending on the workload, this can significantly
   improve the device use (higher queue depth operation) and
   performance.
 - Both blk-mq (request based) zoned devices and BIO-based zoned devices
   (e.g.  device mapper) can use zone write plugging. It is mandatory
   for the former but optional for the latter. BIO-based drivers can
   use zone write plugging to implement write ordering guarantees, or
   the drivers can implement their own if needed.
 - The code is less invasive in the block layer and is mostly limited to
   blk-zoned.c with some small changes in blk-mq.c, blk-merge.c and
   bio.c.

Zone write plugging is implemented using struct blk_zone_wplug. This
structure includes a spinlock, a BIO list and a work structure to
handle the submission of plugged BIOs. Zone write plugs structures are
managed using a per-disk hash table.

Plugging of zone write BIOs is done using the function
blk_zone_write_plug_bio() which returns false if a BIO execution does
not need to be delayed and true otherwise. This function is called
from blk_mq_submit_bio() after a BIO is split to avoid large BIOs
spanning multiple zones which would cause mishandling of zone write
plugs. This ichange enables by default zone write plugging for any mq
request-based block device. BIO-based device drivers can also use zone
write plugging by expliclty calling blk_zone_write_plug_bio() in their
-&gt;submit_bio method. For such devices, the driver must ensure that a
BIO passed to blk_zone_write_plug_bio() is already split and not
straddling zone boundaries.

Only write and write zeroes BIOs are plugged. Zone write plugging does
not introduce any significant overhead for other operations. A BIO that
is being handled through zone write plugging is flagged using the new
BIO flag BIO_ZONE_WRITE_PLUGGING. A request handling a BIO flagged with
this new flag is flagged with the new RQF_ZONE_WRITE_PLUGGING flag.
The completion of BIOs and requests flagged trigger respectively calls
to the functions blk_zone_write_bio_endio() and
blk_zone_write_complete_request(). The latter function is used to
trigger submission of the next plugged BIO using the zone plug work.
blk_zone_write_bio_endio() does the same for BIO-based devices.
This ensures that at any time, at most one request (blk-mq devices) or
one BIO (BIO-based devices) is being executed for any zone. The
handling of zone write plugs using a per-zone plug spinlock maximizes
parallelism and device usage by allowing multiple zones to be writen
simultaneously without lock contention.

Zone write plugging ignores flush BIOs without data. Hovever, any flush
BIO that has data is always plugged so that the write part of the flush
sequence is serialized with other regular writes.

Given that any BIO handled through zone write plugging will be the only
BIO in flight for the target zone when it is executed, the unplugging
and submission of a BIO will have no chance of successfully merging with
plugged requests or requests in the scheduler. To overcome this
potential performance degradation, blk_mq_submit_bio() calls the
function blk_zone_write_plug_attempt_merge() to try to merge other
plugged BIOs with the one just unplugged and submitted. Successful
merging is signaled using blk_zone_write_plug_bio_merged(), called from
bio_attempt_back_merge(). Furthermore, to avoid recalculating the number
of segments of plugged BIOs to attempt merging, the number of segments
of a plugged BIO is saved using the new struct bio field
__bi_nr_segments. To avoid growing the size of struct bio, this field is
added as a union with the bio_cookie field. This is safe to do as
polling is always disabled for plugged BIOs.

When BIOs are plugged in a zone write plug, the device request queue
usage counter is always incremented. This reference is kept and reused
for blk-mq devices when the plugged BIO is unplugged and submitted
again using submit_bio_noacct_nocheck(). For this case, the unplugged
BIO is already flagged with BIO_ZONE_WRITE_PLUGGING and
blk_mq_submit_bio() proceeds directly to allocating a new request for
the BIO, re-using the usage reference count taken when the BIO was
plugged. This extra reference count is dropped in
blk_zone_write_plug_attempt_merge() for any plugged BIO that is
successfully merged. Given that BIO-based devices will not take this
path, the extra reference is dropped after a plugged BIO is unplugged
and submitted.

Zone write plugs are dynamically allocated and managed using a hash
table (an array of struct hlist_head) with RCU protection.
A zone write plug is allocated when a write BIO is received for the
zone and not freed until the zone is fully written, reset or finished.
To detect when a zone write plug can be freed, the write state of each
zone is tracked using a write pointer offset which corresponds to the
offset of a zone write pointer relative to the zone start. Write
operations always increment this write pointer offset. Zone reset
operations set it to 0 and zone finish operations set it to the zone
size.

If a write error happens, the wp_offset value of a zone write plug may
become incorrect and out of sync with the device managed write pointer.
This is handled using the zone write plug flag BLK_ZONE_WPLUG_ERROR.
The function blk_zone_wplug_handle_error() is called from the new disk
zone write plug work when this flag is set. This function executes a
report zone to update the zone write pointer offset to the current
value as indicated by the device. The disk zone write plug work is
scheduled whenever a BIO flagged with BIO_ZONE_WRITE_PLUGGING completes
with an error or when bio_zone_wplug_prepare_bio() detects an unaligned
write. Once scheduled, the disk zone write plugs work keeps running
until all zone errors are handled.

To match the new data structures used for zoned disks, the function
disk_free_zone_bitmaps() is renamed to the more generic
disk_free_zone_resources(). The function disk_init_zone_resources() is
also introduced to initialize zone write plugs resources when a gendisk
is allocated.

In order to guarantee that the user can simultaneously write up to a
number of zones equal to a device max active zone limit or max open zone
limit, zone write plugs are allocated using a mempool sized to the
maximum of these 2 device limits. For a device that does not have
active and open zone limits, 128 is used as the default mempool size.

If a change to the device active and open zone limits is detected, the
disk mempool is resized when blk_revalidate_disk_zones() is executed.

This commit contains contributions from Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Hans Holmberg &lt;hans.holmberg@wdc.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dennis Maisenbacher &lt;dennis.maisenbacher@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408014128.205141-8-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Zone write plugging implements a per-zone "plug" for write operations
to control the submission and execution order of write operations to
sequential write required zones of a zoned block device. Per-zone
plugging guarantees that at any time there is at most only one write
request per zone being executed. This mechanism is intended to replace
zone write locking which implements a similar per-zone write throttling
at the scheduler level, but is implemented only by mq-deadline.

Unlike zone write locking which operates on requests, zone write
plugging operates on BIOs. A zone write plug is simply a BIO list that
is atomically manipulated using a spinlock and a kblockd submission
work. A write BIO to a zone is "plugged" to delay its execution if a
write BIO for the same zone was already issued, that is, if a write
request for the same zone is being executed. The next plugged BIO is
unplugged and issued once the write request completes.

This mechanism allows to:
 - Untangle zone write ordering from block IO schedulers. This allows
   removing the restriction on using mq-deadline for writing to zoned
   block devices. Any block IO scheduler, including "none" can be used.
 - Zone write plugging operates on BIOs instead of requests. Plugged
   BIOs waiting for execution thus do not hold scheduling tags and thus
   are not preventing other BIOs from executing (reads or writes to
   other zones). Depending on the workload, this can significantly
   improve the device use (higher queue depth operation) and
   performance.
 - Both blk-mq (request based) zoned devices and BIO-based zoned devices
   (e.g.  device mapper) can use zone write plugging. It is mandatory
   for the former but optional for the latter. BIO-based drivers can
   use zone write plugging to implement write ordering guarantees, or
   the drivers can implement their own if needed.
 - The code is less invasive in the block layer and is mostly limited to
   blk-zoned.c with some small changes in blk-mq.c, blk-merge.c and
   bio.c.

Zone write plugging is implemented using struct blk_zone_wplug. This
structure includes a spinlock, a BIO list and a work structure to
handle the submission of plugged BIOs. Zone write plugs structures are
managed using a per-disk hash table.

Plugging of zone write BIOs is done using the function
blk_zone_write_plug_bio() which returns false if a BIO execution does
not need to be delayed and true otherwise. This function is called
from blk_mq_submit_bio() after a BIO is split to avoid large BIOs
spanning multiple zones which would cause mishandling of zone write
plugs. This ichange enables by default zone write plugging for any mq
request-based block device. BIO-based device drivers can also use zone
write plugging by expliclty calling blk_zone_write_plug_bio() in their
-&gt;submit_bio method. For such devices, the driver must ensure that a
BIO passed to blk_zone_write_plug_bio() is already split and not
straddling zone boundaries.

Only write and write zeroes BIOs are plugged. Zone write plugging does
not introduce any significant overhead for other operations. A BIO that
is being handled through zone write plugging is flagged using the new
BIO flag BIO_ZONE_WRITE_PLUGGING. A request handling a BIO flagged with
this new flag is flagged with the new RQF_ZONE_WRITE_PLUGGING flag.
The completion of BIOs and requests flagged trigger respectively calls
to the functions blk_zone_write_bio_endio() and
blk_zone_write_complete_request(). The latter function is used to
trigger submission of the next plugged BIO using the zone plug work.
blk_zone_write_bio_endio() does the same for BIO-based devices.
This ensures that at any time, at most one request (blk-mq devices) or
one BIO (BIO-based devices) is being executed for any zone. The
handling of zone write plugs using a per-zone plug spinlock maximizes
parallelism and device usage by allowing multiple zones to be writen
simultaneously without lock contention.

Zone write plugging ignores flush BIOs without data. Hovever, any flush
BIO that has data is always plugged so that the write part of the flush
sequence is serialized with other regular writes.

Given that any BIO handled through zone write plugging will be the only
BIO in flight for the target zone when it is executed, the unplugging
and submission of a BIO will have no chance of successfully merging with
plugged requests or requests in the scheduler. To overcome this
potential performance degradation, blk_mq_submit_bio() calls the
function blk_zone_write_plug_attempt_merge() to try to merge other
plugged BIOs with the one just unplugged and submitted. Successful
merging is signaled using blk_zone_write_plug_bio_merged(), called from
bio_attempt_back_merge(). Furthermore, to avoid recalculating the number
of segments of plugged BIOs to attempt merging, the number of segments
of a plugged BIO is saved using the new struct bio field
__bi_nr_segments. To avoid growing the size of struct bio, this field is
added as a union with the bio_cookie field. This is safe to do as
polling is always disabled for plugged BIOs.

When BIOs are plugged in a zone write plug, the device request queue
usage counter is always incremented. This reference is kept and reused
for blk-mq devices when the plugged BIO is unplugged and submitted
again using submit_bio_noacct_nocheck(). For this case, the unplugged
BIO is already flagged with BIO_ZONE_WRITE_PLUGGING and
blk_mq_submit_bio() proceeds directly to allocating a new request for
the BIO, re-using the usage reference count taken when the BIO was
plugged. This extra reference count is dropped in
blk_zone_write_plug_attempt_merge() for any plugged BIO that is
successfully merged. Given that BIO-based devices will not take this
path, the extra reference is dropped after a plugged BIO is unplugged
and submitted.

Zone write plugs are dynamically allocated and managed using a hash
table (an array of struct hlist_head) with RCU protection.
A zone write plug is allocated when a write BIO is received for the
zone and not freed until the zone is fully written, reset or finished.
To detect when a zone write plug can be freed, the write state of each
zone is tracked using a write pointer offset which corresponds to the
offset of a zone write pointer relative to the zone start. Write
operations always increment this write pointer offset. Zone reset
operations set it to 0 and zone finish operations set it to the zone
size.

If a write error happens, the wp_offset value of a zone write plug may
become incorrect and out of sync with the device managed write pointer.
This is handled using the zone write plug flag BLK_ZONE_WPLUG_ERROR.
The function blk_zone_wplug_handle_error() is called from the new disk
zone write plug work when this flag is set. This function executes a
report zone to update the zone write pointer offset to the current
value as indicated by the device. The disk zone write plug work is
scheduled whenever a BIO flagged with BIO_ZONE_WRITE_PLUGGING completes
with an error or when bio_zone_wplug_prepare_bio() detects an unaligned
write. Once scheduled, the disk zone write plugs work keeps running
until all zone errors are handled.

To match the new data structures used for zoned disks, the function
disk_free_zone_bitmaps() is renamed to the more generic
disk_free_zone_resources(). The function disk_init_zone_resources() is
also introduced to initialize zone write plugs resources when a gendisk
is allocated.

In order to guarantee that the user can simultaneously write up to a
number of zones equal to a device max active zone limit or max open zone
limit, zone write plugs are allocated using a mempool sized to the
maximum of these 2 device limits. For a device that does not have
active and open zone limits, 128 is used as the default mempool size.

If a change to the device active and open zone limits is detected, the
disk mempool is resized when blk_revalidate_disk_zones() is executed.

This commit contains contributions from Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Hans Holmberg &lt;hans.holmberg@wdc.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dennis Maisenbacher &lt;dennis.maisenbacher@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408014128.205141-8-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.9/block-20240310' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux</title>
<updated>2024-03-11T18:43:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-11T18:43:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1ddeeb2a058d7b2a58ed9e820396b4ceb715d529'/>
<id>1ddeeb2a058d7b2a58ed9e820396b4ceb715d529</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - MD pull requests via Song:
      - Cleanup redundant checks (Yu Kuai)
      - Remove deprecated headers (Marc Zyngier, Song Liu)
      - Concurrency fixes (Li Lingfeng)
      - Memory leak fix (Li Nan)
      - Refactor raid1 read_balance (Yu Kuai, Paul Luse)
      - Clean up and fix for md_ioctl (Li Nan)
      - Other small fixes (Gui-Dong Han, Heming Zhao)
      - MD atomic limits (Christoph)

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
      - RDMA target enhancements (Max)
      - Fabrics fixes (Max, Guixin, Hannes)
      - Atomic queue_limits usage (Christoph)
      - Const use for class_register (Ricardo)
      - Identification error handling fixes (Shin'ichiro, Keith)

 - Improvement and cleanup for cached request handling (Christoph)

 - Moving towards atomic queue limits. Core changes and driver bits so
   far (Christoph)

 - Fix UAF issues in aoeblk (Chun-Yi)

 - Zoned fix and cleanups (Damien)

 - s390 dasd cleanups and fixes (Jan, Miroslav)

 - Block issue timestamp caching (me)

 - noio scope guarding for zoned IO (Johannes)

 - block/nvme PI improvements (Kanchan)

 - Ability to terminate long running discard loop (Keith)

 - bdev revalidation fix (Li)

 - Get rid of old nr_queues hack for kdump kernels (Ming)

 - Support for async deletion of ublk (Ming)

 - Improve IRQ bio recycling (Pavel)

 - Factor in CPU capacity for remote vs local completion (Qais)

 - Add shared_tags configfs entry for null_blk (Shin'ichiro

 - Fix for a regression in page refcounts introduced by the folio
   unification (Tony)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups (Arnd, Colin, John, Kunwu, Li, Navid,
   Ricardo, Roman, Tang, Uwe)

* tag 'for-6.9/block-20240310' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (221 commits)
  block: partitions: only define function mac_fix_string for CONFIG_PPC_PMAC
  block/swim: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  cdrom: gdrom: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  block: remove disk_stack_limits
  md: remove mddev-&gt;queue
  md: don't initialize queue limits
  md/raid10: use the atomic queue limit update APIs
  md/raid5: use the atomic queue limit update APIs
  md/raid1: use the atomic queue limit update APIs
  md/raid0: use the atomic queue limit update APIs
  md: add queue limit helpers
  md: add a mddev_is_dm helper
  md: add a mddev_add_trace_msg helper
  md: add a mddev_trace_remap helper
  bcache: move calculation of stripe_size and io_opt into bcache_device_init
  virtio_blk: Do not use disk_set_max_open/active_zones()
  aoe: fix the potential use-after-free problem in aoecmd_cfg_pkts
  block: move capacity validation to blkpg_do_ioctl()
  block: prevent division by zero in blk_rq_stat_sum()
  drbd: atomically update queue limits in drbd_reconsider_queue_parameters
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - MD pull requests via Song:
      - Cleanup redundant checks (Yu Kuai)
      - Remove deprecated headers (Marc Zyngier, Song Liu)
      - Concurrency fixes (Li Lingfeng)
      - Memory leak fix (Li Nan)
      - Refactor raid1 read_balance (Yu Kuai, Paul Luse)
      - Clean up and fix for md_ioctl (Li Nan)
      - Other small fixes (Gui-Dong Han, Heming Zhao)
      - MD atomic limits (Christoph)

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
      - RDMA target enhancements (Max)
      - Fabrics fixes (Max, Guixin, Hannes)
      - Atomic queue_limits usage (Christoph)
      - Const use for class_register (Ricardo)
      - Identification error handling fixes (Shin'ichiro, Keith)

 - Improvement and cleanup for cached request handling (Christoph)

 - Moving towards atomic queue limits. Core changes and driver bits so
   far (Christoph)

 - Fix UAF issues in aoeblk (Chun-Yi)

 - Zoned fix and cleanups (Damien)

 - s390 dasd cleanups and fixes (Jan, Miroslav)

 - Block issue timestamp caching (me)

 - noio scope guarding for zoned IO (Johannes)

 - block/nvme PI improvements (Kanchan)

 - Ability to terminate long running discard loop (Keith)

 - bdev revalidation fix (Li)

 - Get rid of old nr_queues hack for kdump kernels (Ming)

 - Support for async deletion of ublk (Ming)

 - Improve IRQ bio recycling (Pavel)

 - Factor in CPU capacity for remote vs local completion (Qais)

 - Add shared_tags configfs entry for null_blk (Shin'ichiro

 - Fix for a regression in page refcounts introduced by the folio
   unification (Tony)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups (Arnd, Colin, John, Kunwu, Li, Navid,
   Ricardo, Roman, Tang, Uwe)

* tag 'for-6.9/block-20240310' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (221 commits)
  block: partitions: only define function mac_fix_string for CONFIG_PPC_PMAC
  block/swim: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  cdrom: gdrom: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  block: remove disk_stack_limits
  md: remove mddev-&gt;queue
  md: don't initialize queue limits
  md/raid10: use the atomic queue limit update APIs
  md/raid5: use the atomic queue limit update APIs
  md/raid1: use the atomic queue limit update APIs
  md/raid0: use the atomic queue limit update APIs
  md: add queue limit helpers
  md: add a mddev_is_dm helper
  md: add a mddev_add_trace_msg helper
  md: add a mddev_trace_remap helper
  bcache: move calculation of stripe_size and io_opt into bcache_device_init
  virtio_blk: Do not use disk_set_max_open/active_zones()
  aoe: fix the potential use-after-free problem in aoecmd_cfg_pkts
  block: move capacity validation to blkpg_do_ioctl()
  block: prevent division by zero in blk_rq_stat_sum()
  drbd: atomically update queue limits in drbd_reconsider_queue_parameters
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Fix page refcounts for unaligned buffers in __bio_release_pages()</title>
<updated>2024-03-06T15:26:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Battersby</name>
<email>tonyb@cybernetics.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-29T18:08:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=38b43539d64b2fa020b3b9a752a986769f87f7a6'/>
<id>38b43539d64b2fa020b3b9a752a986769f87f7a6</id>
<content type='text'>
Fix an incorrect number of pages being released for buffers that do not
start at the beginning of a page.

Fixes: 1b151e2435fc ("block: Remove special-casing of compound pages")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby &lt;tonyb@cybernetics.com&gt;
Tested-by: Greg Edwards &lt;gedwards@ddn.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/86e592a9-98d4-4cff-a646-0c0084328356@cybernetics.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Fix an incorrect number of pages being released for buffers that do not
start at the beginning of a page.

Fixes: 1b151e2435fc ("block: Remove special-casing of compound pages")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby &lt;tonyb@cybernetics.com&gt;
Tested-by: Greg Edwards &lt;gedwards@ddn.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/86e592a9-98d4-4cff-a646-0c0084328356@cybernetics.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: io wait hang check helper</title>
<updated>2024-02-24T19:46:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Busch</name>
<email>kbusch@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-23T15:59:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0eb4db4706603db09644ec3bc9bb0d63ea5d326c'/>
<id>0eb4db4706603db09644ec3bc9bb0d63ea5d326c</id>
<content type='text'>
This is the same in two places, and another will be added soon. Create a
helper for it.

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240223155910.3622666-4-kbusch@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This is the same in two places, and another will be added soon. Create a
helper for it.

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240223155910.3622666-4-kbusch@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: optimise in irq bio put caching</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T17:18:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-07T14:14:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e516c3fc6c182736aec5418a73f15199640491e2'/>
<id>e516c3fc6c182736aec5418a73f15199640491e2</id>
<content type='text'>
When enlisting a bio into -&gt;free_list_irq we protect the list by
disabling irqs. It's likely they're already disabled and performance of
local_irq_{save,restore}() is decent, but it's not zero cost.

Let's only use the irq cache when when we're serving a hard irq, which
allows to remove local_irq_{save,restore}(), and fall back to bio_free()
in all left cases.

Profiles indicate that the bio_put() cost is reduced by ~3.5 times
(1.76% -&gt; 0.49%), and total throughput of a CPU bound benchmark improve
by around 1% (t/io_uring with high QD and several drives).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/36d207540b7046c653cc16e5ff08fe7234b19f81.1707314970.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
When enlisting a bio into -&gt;free_list_irq we protect the list by
disabling irqs. It's likely they're already disabled and performance of
local_irq_{save,restore}() is decent, but it's not zero cost.

Let's only use the irq cache when when we're serving a hard irq, which
allows to remove local_irq_{save,restore}(), and fall back to bio_free()
in all left cases.

Profiles indicate that the bio_put() cost is reduced by ~3.5 times
(1.76% -&gt; 0.49%), and total throughput of a CPU bound benchmark improve
by around 1% (t/io_uring with high QD and several drives).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/36d207540b7046c653cc16e5ff08fe7234b19f81.1707314970.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
