linux-stable.git/drivers/block/nbd.c, branch v3.10

nbd: increase default and max request sizes

2013-05-01T00:04:07+00:00

Raise the default max request size for nbd to 128KB (from 127KB) to get it
4KB aligned.  This patch also allows the max request size to be increased
(via /sys/block/nbd/queue/max_sectors_kb) to 32MB.

The patch makes nbd network traffic more efficient by:
- reducing request fragmentation (4KB alignment)
- reducing the number of requests (fewer round trips, less network overhead)

Especially in high latency networks, larger request size can make a dramatic

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements 
Signed-off-by: Michal Belczyk 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nbd: fix sparse warning

2013-02-28T03:10:22+00:00

I just fixed this in "drivers/block/rbd.c" and I noticed that
"drivers/block/nbd.c" has the same problem.  Fix a warning issued by
sparse by adding some lockdep annotations to indicate the queue lock gets
dropped (because it's held when do_nbd_request() is called) and
re-acquired within the function.

Signed-off-by: Alex Elder 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nbd: show read-only state in sysfs

2013-02-28T03:10:22+00:00

Pass the read-only flag to set_device_ro, so that it will be visible to
the block layer and in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Cc: Alex Bligh 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nbd: fsync and kill block device on shutdown

2013-02-28T03:10:22+00:00

There are two problems with shutdown in the NBD driver.

1: Receiving the NBD_DISCONNECT ioctl does not sync the filesystem.

   This patch adds the sync operation into __nbd_ioctl()'s
   NBD_DISCONNECT handler.  This is useful because BLKFLSBUF is restricted
   to processes that have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and the NBD client may not
   possess it (fsync of the block device does not sync the filesystem,
   either).

2: Once we clear the socket we have no guarantee that later reads will
   come from the same backing storage.

   The patch adds calls to kill_bdev() in __nbd_ioctl()'s socket
   clearing code so the page cache is cleaned, lest reads that hit on the
   page cache will return stale data from the previously-accessible disk.

Example:

    # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sr0
    # file -s /dev/nbd0
    /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.
    # qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
    # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sda
    # file -s /dev/nbd0
    /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.

While /dev/sda has:

    # file -s /dev/sda
    /dev/sda: x86 boot sector; etc.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Acked-by: Paul Clements 
Cc: Alex Bligh 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nbd: support FLUSH requests

2013-02-28T03:10:22+00:00

Currently, the NBD device does not accept flush requests from the Linux
block layer.  If the NBD server opened the target with neither O_SYNC nor
O_DSYNC, however, the device will be effectively backed by a writeback
cache.  Without issuing flushes properly, operation of the NBD device will
not be safe against power losses.

The NBD protocol has support for both a cache flush command and a FUA
command flag; the server will also pass a flag to note its support for
these features.  This patch adds support for the cache flush command and
flag.  In the kernel, we receive the flags via the NBD_SET_FLAGS ioctl,
and map NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH to the argument of blk_queue_flush.  When the
flag is active the block layer will send REQ_FLUSH requests, which we
translate to NBD_CMD_FLUSH commands.

FUA support is not included in this patch because all free software
servers implement it with a full fdatasync; thus it has no advantage over
supporting flush only.  Because I [Paolo] cannot really benchmark it in a
realistic scenario, I cannot tell if it is a good idea or not.  It is also
not clear if it is valid for an NBD server to support FUA but not flush.
The Linux block layer gives a warning for this combination, the NBD
protocol documentation says nothing about it.

The patch also fixes a small problem in the handling of flags: nbd->flags
must be cleared at the end of NBD_DO_IT, but the driver was not doing
that.  The bug manifests itself as follows.  Suppose you two different
client/server pairs to start the NBD device.  Suppose also that the first
client supports NBD_SET_FLAGS, and the first server sends
NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH; the second pair instead does neither of these two
things.  Before this patch, the second invocation of NBD_DO_IT will use a
stale value of nbd->flags, and the second server will issue an error every
time it receives an NBD_CMD_FLUSH command.

This bug is pre-existing, but it becomes much more important after this
patch; flush failures make the device pretty much unusable, unlike

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh 
Acked-by: Paul Clements 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

new helper: file_inode(file)

2013-02-23T04:31:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

nbd: handle discard requests

2012-10-05T18:05:24+00:00

Add discard support to nbd.  If the nbd-server supports discard, it will
send NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM to the client.  The client will then set the flag
in the kernel via NBD_SET_FLAGS, which tells the kernel to enable discards
for the device (QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD).

If discard support is enabled, then when the nbd client system receives a
discard request, this will be passed along to the nbd-server.  When the
discard request is received by the nbd-server, it will perform:

	fallocate(.. FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE ..)

To punch a hole in the backend storage, which is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nbd: add set flags ioctl

2012-10-05T18:05:23+00:00

Add a set-flags ioctl, allowing various option flags to be set on an nbd
device.  This allows the nbd-client to set the device flags (to enable
read-only mode, or enable discard support, etc.).

Flags are typically specified by the nbd-server.  During the negotiation
phase of the nbd connection, the server sends its flags to the client.
The client then uses NBD_SET_FLAGS to inform the kernel of the options.

Also included is a one-line fix to debug output for the set-timeout ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nbd: clear waiting_queue on shutdown

2012-09-17T22:00:37+00:00

Fix a serious but uncommon bug in nbd which occurs when there is heavy
I/O going to the nbd device while, at the same time, a failure (server,
network) or manual disconnect of the nbd connection occurs.

There is a small window between the time that the nbd_thread is stopped
and the socket is shutdown where requests can continue to be queued to
nbd's internal waiting_queue.  When this happens, those requests are
never completed or freed.

The fix is to clear the waiting_queue on shutdown of the nbd device, in
the same way that the nbd request queue (queue_head) is already being
cleared.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-3.6/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2012-08-01T16:06:47+00:00

Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:

 - Making the plugging support for drivers a bit more sane from Neil.
   This supersedes the plugging change from Shaohua as well.

 - The usual round of drbd updates.

 - Using a tail add instead of a head add in the request completion for
   ndb, making us find the most completed request more quickly.

 - A few floppy changes, getting rid of a duplicated flag and also
   running the floppy init async (since it takes forever in boot terms)
   from Andi.

* 'for-3.6/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  floppy: remove duplicated flag FD_RAW_NEED_DISK
  blk: pass from_schedule to non-request unplug functions.
  block: stack unplug
  blk: centralize non-request unplug handling.
  md: remove plug_cnt feature of plugging.
  block/nbd: micro-optimization in nbd request completion
  drbd: announce FLUSH/FUA capability to upper layers
  drbd: fix max_bio_size to be unsigned
  drbd: flush drbd work queue before invalidate/invalidate remote
  drbd: fix potential access after free
  drbd: call local-io-error handler early
  drbd: do not reset rs_pending_cnt too early
  drbd: reset congestion information before reporting it in /proc/drbd
  drbd: report congestion if we are waiting for some userland callback
  drbd: differentiate between normal and forced detach
  drbd: cleanup, remove two unused global flags
  floppy: Run floppy initialization asynchronous