linux-stable.git/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c, branch linux-4.5.y

drbd: fix "endless" transfer log walk in protocol A

2015-11-25T16:22:03+00:00

Don't remember a DRBD request as ack_pending, if it is not.

In protocol A, we usually clear RQ_NET_PENDING at the same time we set
RQ_NET_SENT, so when deciding to remember it as ack_pending,
mod_rq_state needs to look at the current request state,
not at the previous state before the current modification was applied.

This should prevent advance_conn_req_ack_pending() from walking the full
transfer log just to find NULL in protocol A, which would cause serious
performance degradation with many "in-flight" requests, e.g. when
working via DRBD-proxy, or with a huge bandwidth-delay product.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

drbd: Create a dedicated workqueue for sending acks on the control connection

2015-11-25T16:22:01+00:00

The intention is to reduce CPU utilization. Recent measurements
unveiled that the current performance bottleneck is CPU utilization
on the receiving node. The asender thread became CPU limited.

One of the main points is to eliminate the idr_for_each_entry() loop
from the sending acks code path.

One exception in that is sending back ping_acks. These stay
in the ack-receiver thread. Otherwise the logic becomes too
complicated for no added value.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

drbd: improve network timeout detection

2015-11-25T16:22:01+00:00

Don't blame the peer for being unresponsive,
if we did not even ask the question yet.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

drbd: Fix spurious disk-timeout

2015-11-25T16:22:01+00:00

(You should not use disk-timeout anyways,
 see the man page for why...)

We add incoming requests to the tail of some ring list.
On local completion, requests are removed from that list.
The timer looks only at the head of that ring list,
so is supposed to only see the oldest request.
All protected by a spinlock.

The request object is created with timestamps zeroed out.
The timestamp was only filled in just before the actual submit.
But to actually submit the request, we need to give up the spinlock.

If you are unlucky, there is no older still pending request, the timer
looks at a new request with timestamp still zero (before it even was
submitted), and 0 + timeout is most likely older than "now".

Better assign the timestamp right when we put the
request object on said ring list.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

drbd: De-inline drbd_should_do_remote() and drbd_should_send_out_of_sync()

2015-11-25T16:22:00+00:00

There is no need to have these two as inline functions.  In addition,
drbd_should_send_out_of_sync() is only used in a single place, anyway.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: change ->make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookie

2015-11-07T17:40:46+00:00

No functional changes in this patch, but it prepares us for returning
a more useful cookie related to the IO that was queued up.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Keith Busch

block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely

2015-08-13T18:31:57+00:00

As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own ->merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Cc: Alex Elder 
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" 
Acked-by: NeilBrown  (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
[dpark: also remove ->merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
 dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park 
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

2015-08-13T18:31:33+00:00

The way the block layer is currently written, it goes to great lengths
to avoid having to split bios; upper layer code (such as bio_add_page())
checks what the underlying device can handle and tries to always create
bios that don't need to be split.

But this approach becomes unwieldy and eventually breaks down with
stacked devices and devices with dynamic limits, and it adds a lot of
complexity. If the block layer could split bios as needed, we could
eliminate a lot of complexity elsewhere - particularly in stacked
drivers. Code that creates bios can then create whatever size bios are
convenient, and more importantly stacked drivers don't have to deal with
both their own bio size limitations and the limitations of the
(potentially multiple) devices underneath them.  In the future this will
let us delete merge_bvec_fn and a bunch of other code.

We do this by adding calls to blk_queue_split() to the various
make_request functions that need it - a few can already handle arbitrary
size bios. Note that we add the call _after_ any call to
blk_queue_bounce(); this means that blk_queue_split() and
blk_recalc_rq_segments() don't need to be concerned with bouncing
affecting segment merging.

Some make_request_fn() callbacks were simple enough to audit and verify
they don't need blk_queue_split() calls. The skipped ones are:

 * nfhd_make_request (arch/m68k/emu/nfblock.c)
 * axon_ram_make_request (arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c)
 * simdisk_make_request (arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c)
 * brd_make_request (ramdisk - drivers/block/brd.c)
 * mtip_submit_request (drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c)
 * loop_make_request
 * null_queue_bio
 * bcache's make_request fns

Some others are almost certainly safe to remove now, but will be left
for future patches.

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Ming Lei 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Geoff Levand 
Cc: Jim Paris 
Cc: Philip Kelleher 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Nitin Gupta 
Cc: Oleg Drokin 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Acked-by: NeilBrown  (for the 'md/md.c' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
[dpark: skip more mq-based drivers, resolve merge conflicts, etc.]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park 
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

2015-07-29T14:55:15+00:00

Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block, drbd: fix drbd_req_new() initialization

2015-03-25T02:00:16+00:00

mempool_alloc() does not support __GFP_ZERO since elements may come from
memory that has already been released by mempool_free().

Remove __GFP_ZERO from mempool_alloc() in drbd_req_new() and properly
initialize it to 0.

Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe