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<title>Merge branch 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2015-09-11T01:56:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-11T01:56:14+00:00</published>
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Pull blk-cg updates from Jens Axboe:
 "A bit later in the cycle, but this has been in the block tree for a a
  while.  This is basically four patchsets from Tejun, that improve our
  buffered cgroup writeback.  It was dependent on the other cgroup
  changes, but they went in earlier in this cycle.

  Series 1 is set of 5 patches that has cgroup writeback updates:

   - bdi_writeback iteration fix which could lead to some wb's being
     skipped or repeated during e.g. sync under memory pressure.

   - Simplification of wb work wait mechanism.

   - Writeback tracepoints updated to report cgroup.

  Series 2 is is a set of updates for the CFQ cgroup writeback handling:

     cfq has always charged all async IOs to the root cgroup.  It didn't
     have much choice as writeback didn't know about cgroups and there
     was no way to tell who to blame for a given writeback IO.
     writeback finally grew support for cgroups and now tags each
     writeback IO with the appropriate cgroup to charge it against.

     This patchset updates cfq so that it follows the blkcg each bio is
     tagged with.  Async cfq_queues are now shared across cfq_group,
     which is per-cgroup, instead of per-request_queue cfq_data.  This
     makes all IOs follow the weight based IO resource distribution
     implemented by cfq.

     - Switched from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOWAIT as suggested by Jeff.

     - Other misc review points addressed, acks added and rebased.

  Series 3 is the blkcg policy cleanup patches:

     This patchset contains assorted cleanups for blkcg_policy methods
     and blk[c]g_policy_data handling.

     - alloc/free added for blkg_policy_data.  exit dropped.

     - alloc/free added for blkcg_policy_data.

     - blk-throttle's async percpu allocation is replaced with direct
       allocation.

     - all methods now take blk[c]g_policy_data instead of blkcg_gq or
       blkcg.

  And finally, series 4 is a set of patches cleaning up the blkcg stats
  handling:

    blkcg's stats have always been somwhat of a mess.  This patchset
    tries to improve the situation a bit.

     - The following patches added to consolidate blkcg entry point and
       blkg creation.  This is in itself is an improvement and helps
       colllecting common stats on bio issue.

     - per-blkg stats now accounted on bio issue rather than request
       completion so that bio based and request based drivers can behave
       the same way.  The issue was spotted by Vivek.

     - cfq-iosched implements custom recursive stats and blk-throttle
       implements custom per-cpu stats.  This patchset make blkcg core
       support both by default.

     - cfq-iosched and blk-throttle keep track of the same stats
       multiple times.  Unify them"

* 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (45 commits)
  blkcg: use CGROUP_WEIGHT_* scale for io.weight on the unified hierarchy
  blkcg: s/CFQ_WEIGHT_*/CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*/
  blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy
  blkcg: misc preparations for unified hierarchy interface
  blkcg: separate out tg_conf_updated() from tg_set_conf()
  blkcg: move body parsing from blkg_conf_prep() to its callers
  blkcg: mark existing cftypes as legacy
  blkcg: rename subsystem name from blkio to io
  blkcg: refine error codes returned during blkcg configuration
  blkcg: remove unnecessary NULL checks from __cfqg_set_weight_device()
  blkcg: reduce stack usage of blkg_rwstat_recursive_sum()
  blkcg: remove cfqg_stats-&gt;sectors
  blkcg: move io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats into blkcg_gq
  blkcg: make blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() to be able to index into blkcg_gq
  blkcg: make blkcg_[rw]stat per-cpu
  blkcg: add blkg_[rw]stat-&gt;aux_cnt and replace cfq_group-&gt;dead_stats with it
  blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()
  blk-throttle: improve queue bypass handling
  blkcg: move root blkg lookup optimization from throtl_lookup_tg() to __blkg_lookup()
  blkcg: inline [__]blkg_lookup()
  ...
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Pull blk-cg updates from Jens Axboe:
 "A bit later in the cycle, but this has been in the block tree for a a
  while.  This is basically four patchsets from Tejun, that improve our
  buffered cgroup writeback.  It was dependent on the other cgroup
  changes, but they went in earlier in this cycle.

  Series 1 is set of 5 patches that has cgroup writeback updates:

   - bdi_writeback iteration fix which could lead to some wb's being
     skipped or repeated during e.g. sync under memory pressure.

   - Simplification of wb work wait mechanism.

   - Writeback tracepoints updated to report cgroup.

  Series 2 is is a set of updates for the CFQ cgroup writeback handling:

     cfq has always charged all async IOs to the root cgroup.  It didn't
     have much choice as writeback didn't know about cgroups and there
     was no way to tell who to blame for a given writeback IO.
     writeback finally grew support for cgroups and now tags each
     writeback IO with the appropriate cgroup to charge it against.

     This patchset updates cfq so that it follows the blkcg each bio is
     tagged with.  Async cfq_queues are now shared across cfq_group,
     which is per-cgroup, instead of per-request_queue cfq_data.  This
     makes all IOs follow the weight based IO resource distribution
     implemented by cfq.

     - Switched from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOWAIT as suggested by Jeff.

     - Other misc review points addressed, acks added and rebased.

  Series 3 is the blkcg policy cleanup patches:

     This patchset contains assorted cleanups for blkcg_policy methods
     and blk[c]g_policy_data handling.

     - alloc/free added for blkg_policy_data.  exit dropped.

     - alloc/free added for blkcg_policy_data.

     - blk-throttle's async percpu allocation is replaced with direct
       allocation.

     - all methods now take blk[c]g_policy_data instead of blkcg_gq or
       blkcg.

  And finally, series 4 is a set of patches cleaning up the blkcg stats
  handling:

    blkcg's stats have always been somwhat of a mess.  This patchset
    tries to improve the situation a bit.

     - The following patches added to consolidate blkcg entry point and
       blkg creation.  This is in itself is an improvement and helps
       colllecting common stats on bio issue.

     - per-blkg stats now accounted on bio issue rather than request
       completion so that bio based and request based drivers can behave
       the same way.  The issue was spotted by Vivek.

     - cfq-iosched implements custom recursive stats and blk-throttle
       implements custom per-cpu stats.  This patchset make blkcg core
       support both by default.

     - cfq-iosched and blk-throttle keep track of the same stats
       multiple times.  Unify them"

* 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (45 commits)
  blkcg: use CGROUP_WEIGHT_* scale for io.weight on the unified hierarchy
  blkcg: s/CFQ_WEIGHT_*/CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*/
  blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy
  blkcg: misc preparations for unified hierarchy interface
  blkcg: separate out tg_conf_updated() from tg_set_conf()
  blkcg: move body parsing from blkg_conf_prep() to its callers
  blkcg: mark existing cftypes as legacy
  blkcg: rename subsystem name from blkio to io
  blkcg: refine error codes returned during blkcg configuration
  blkcg: remove unnecessary NULL checks from __cfqg_set_weight_device()
  blkcg: reduce stack usage of blkg_rwstat_recursive_sum()
  blkcg: remove cfqg_stats-&gt;sectors
  blkcg: move io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats into blkcg_gq
  blkcg: make blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() to be able to index into blkcg_gq
  blkcg: make blkcg_[rw]stat per-cpu
  blkcg: add blkg_[rw]stat-&gt;aux_cnt and replace cfq_group-&gt;dead_stats with it
  blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()
  blk-throttle: improve queue bypass handling
  blkcg: move root blkg lookup optimization from throtl_lookup_tg() to __blkg_lookup()
  blkcg: inline [__]blkg_lookup()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2015-09-03T19:28:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-03T19:28:30+00:00</published>
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Pull ext3 removal, quota &amp; udf fixes from Jan Kara:
 "The biggest change in the pull is the removal of ext3 filesystem
  driver (~28k lines removed).  Ext4 driver is a full featured
  replacement these days and both RH and SUSE use it for several years
  without issues.  Also there are some workarounds in VM &amp; block layer
  mainly for ext3 which we could eventually get rid of.

  Other larger change is addition of proper error handling for
  dquot_initialize().  The rest is small fixes and cleanups"

[ I wasn't convinced about the ext3 removal and worried about things
  falling through the cracks for legacy users, but ext4 maintainers
  piped up and were all unanimously in favor of removal, and maintaining
  all legacy ext3 support inside ext4.   - Linus ]

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  udf: Don't modify filesystem for read-only mounts
  quota: remove an unneeded condition
  ext4: memory leak on error in ext4_symlink()
  mm/Kconfig: NEED_BOUNCE_POOL: clean-up condition
  ext4: Improve ext4 Kconfig test
  block: Remove forced page bouncing under IO
  fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver
  doc: Update doc about journalling layer
  jfs: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  reiserfs: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  ocfs2: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  ext4: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  ext2: Handle error from dquot_initalize()
  quota: Propagate error from -&gt;acquire_dquot()
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Pull ext3 removal, quota &amp; udf fixes from Jan Kara:
 "The biggest change in the pull is the removal of ext3 filesystem
  driver (~28k lines removed).  Ext4 driver is a full featured
  replacement these days and both RH and SUSE use it for several years
  without issues.  Also there are some workarounds in VM &amp; block layer
  mainly for ext3 which we could eventually get rid of.

  Other larger change is addition of proper error handling for
  dquot_initialize().  The rest is small fixes and cleanups"

[ I wasn't convinced about the ext3 removal and worried about things
  falling through the cracks for legacy users, but ext4 maintainers
  piped up and were all unanimously in favor of removal, and maintaining
  all legacy ext3 support inside ext4.   - Linus ]

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  udf: Don't modify filesystem for read-only mounts
  quota: remove an unneeded condition
  ext4: memory leak on error in ext4_symlink()
  mm/Kconfig: NEED_BOUNCE_POOL: clean-up condition
  ext4: Improve ext4 Kconfig test
  block: Remove forced page bouncing under IO
  fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver
  doc: Update doc about journalling layer
  jfs: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  reiserfs: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  ocfs2: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  ext4: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  ext2: Handle error from dquot_initalize()
  quota: Propagate error from -&gt;acquire_dquot()
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.3/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2015-09-02T20:22:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-02T20:22:38+00:00</published>
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Pull SG updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains a set of scatter-gather related changes/fixes for 4.3:

   - Add support for limited chaining of sg tables even for
     architectures that do not set ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN.  From Christoph.

   - Add sg chain support to target_rd.  From Christoph.

   - Fixup open coded sg-&gt;page_link in crypto/omap-sham.  From
     Christoph.

   - Fixup open coded crypto -&gt;page_link manipulation.  From Dan.

   - Also from Dan, automated fixup of manual sg_unmark_end()
     manipulations.

   - Also from Dan, automated fixup of open coded sg_phys()
     implementations.

   - From Robert Jarzmik, addition of an sg table splitting helper that
     drivers can use"

* 'for-4.3/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  lib: scatterlist: add sg splitting function
  scatterlist: use sg_phys()
  crypto/omap-sham: remove an open coded access to -&gt;page_link
  scatterlist: remove open coded sg_unmark_end instances
  crypto: replace scatterwalk_sg_chain with sg_chain
  target/rd: always chain S/G list
  scatterlist: allow limited chaining without ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
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Pull SG updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains a set of scatter-gather related changes/fixes for 4.3:

   - Add support for limited chaining of sg tables even for
     architectures that do not set ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN.  From Christoph.

   - Add sg chain support to target_rd.  From Christoph.

   - Fixup open coded sg-&gt;page_link in crypto/omap-sham.  From
     Christoph.

   - Fixup open coded crypto -&gt;page_link manipulation.  From Dan.

   - Also from Dan, automated fixup of manual sg_unmark_end()
     manipulations.

   - Also from Dan, automated fixup of open coded sg_phys()
     implementations.

   - From Robert Jarzmik, addition of an sg table splitting helper that
     drivers can use"

* 'for-4.3/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  lib: scatterlist: add sg splitting function
  scatterlist: use sg_phys()
  crypto/omap-sham: remove an open coded access to -&gt;page_link
  scatterlist: remove open coded sg_unmark_end instances
  crypto: replace scatterwalk_sg_chain with sg_chain
  target/rd: always chain S/G list
  scatterlist: allow limited chaining without ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2015-09-02T20:10:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-02T20:10:25+00:00</published>
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Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This first core part of the block IO changes contains:

   - Cleanup of the bio IO error signaling from Christoph.  We used to
     rely on the uptodate bit and passing around of an error, now we
     store the error in the bio itself.

   - Improvement of the above from myself, by shrinking the bio size
     down again to fit in two cachelines on x86-64.

   - Revert of the max_hw_sectors cap removal from a revision again,
     from Jeff Moyer.  This caused performance regressions in various
     tests.  Reinstate the limit, bump it to a more reasonable size
     instead.

   - Make /sys/block/&lt;dev&gt;/queue/discard_max_bytes writeable, by me.
     Most devices have huge trim limits, which can cause nasty latencies
     when deleting files.  Enable the admin to configure the size down.
     We will look into having a more sane default instead of UINT_MAX
     sectors.

   - Improvement of the SGP gaps logic from Keith Busch.

   - Enable the block core to handle arbitrarily sized bios, which
     enables a nice simplification of bio_add_page() (which is an IO hot
     path).  From Kent.

   - Improvements to the partition io stats accounting, making it
     faster.  From Ming Lei.

   - Also from Ming Lei, a basic fixup for overflow of the sysfs pending
     file in blk-mq, as well as a fix for a blk-mq timeout race
     condition.

   - Ming Lin has been carrying Kents above mentioned patches forward
     for a while, and testing them.  Ming also did a few fixes around
     that.

   - Sasha Levin found and fixed a use-after-free problem introduced by
     the bio-&gt;bi_error changes from Christoph.

   - Small blk cgroup cleanup from Viresh Kumar"

* 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  blk: Fix bio_io_vec index when checking bvec gaps
  block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits mask
  block: bump BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS to 2560
  Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap"
  blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request
  blk-mq: fix buffer overflow when reading sysfs file of 'pending'
  Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios
  block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()
  fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec
  block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely
  md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev()
  md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read
  block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}
  btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls
  bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code
  block: simplify bio_add_page()
  block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
  blk-cgroup: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
  block: don't access bio-&gt;bi_error after bio_put()
  block: shrink struct bio down to 2 cache lines again
  ...
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Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This first core part of the block IO changes contains:

   - Cleanup of the bio IO error signaling from Christoph.  We used to
     rely on the uptodate bit and passing around of an error, now we
     store the error in the bio itself.

   - Improvement of the above from myself, by shrinking the bio size
     down again to fit in two cachelines on x86-64.

   - Revert of the max_hw_sectors cap removal from a revision again,
     from Jeff Moyer.  This caused performance regressions in various
     tests.  Reinstate the limit, bump it to a more reasonable size
     instead.

   - Make /sys/block/&lt;dev&gt;/queue/discard_max_bytes writeable, by me.
     Most devices have huge trim limits, which can cause nasty latencies
     when deleting files.  Enable the admin to configure the size down.
     We will look into having a more sane default instead of UINT_MAX
     sectors.

   - Improvement of the SGP gaps logic from Keith Busch.

   - Enable the block core to handle arbitrarily sized bios, which
     enables a nice simplification of bio_add_page() (which is an IO hot
     path).  From Kent.

   - Improvements to the partition io stats accounting, making it
     faster.  From Ming Lei.

   - Also from Ming Lei, a basic fixup for overflow of the sysfs pending
     file in blk-mq, as well as a fix for a blk-mq timeout race
     condition.

   - Ming Lin has been carrying Kents above mentioned patches forward
     for a while, and testing them.  Ming also did a few fixes around
     that.

   - Sasha Levin found and fixed a use-after-free problem introduced by
     the bio-&gt;bi_error changes from Christoph.

   - Small blk cgroup cleanup from Viresh Kumar"

* 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  blk: Fix bio_io_vec index when checking bvec gaps
  block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits mask
  block: bump BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS to 2560
  Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap"
  blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request
  blk-mq: fix buffer overflow when reading sysfs file of 'pending'
  Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios
  block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()
  fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec
  block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely
  md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev()
  md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read
  block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}
  btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls
  bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code
  block: simplify bio_add_page()
  block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
  blk-cgroup: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
  block: don't access bio-&gt;bi_error after bio_put()
  block: shrink struct bio down to 2 cache lines again
  ...
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<entry>
<title>blk: Fix bio_io_vec index when checking bvec gaps</title>
<updated>2015-09-01T17:04:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Busch</name>
<email>keith.busch@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-01T16:46:44+00:00</published>
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Corrects a coding error from earlier patch.

Reported by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 03100aada96f ("block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits mask")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Corrects a coding error from earlier patch.

Reported by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 03100aada96f ("block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits mask")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<title>block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits mask</title>
<updated>2015-08-19T21:26:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Busch</name>
<email>keith.busch@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-19T21:24:05+00:00</published>
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The SG_GAPS queue flag caused checks for bio vector alignment against
PAGE_SIZE, but the device may have different constraints. This patch
adds a queue limits so a driver with such constraints can set to allow
requests that would have been unnecessarily split. The new gaps check
takes the request_queue as a parameter to simplify the logic around
invoking this function.

This new limit makes the queue flag redundant, so removing it and
all usage. Device-mappers will inherit the correct settings through
blk_stack_limits().

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The SG_GAPS queue flag caused checks for bio vector alignment against
PAGE_SIZE, but the device may have different constraints. This patch
adds a queue limits so a driver with such constraints can set to allow
requests that would have been unnecessarily split. The new gaps check
takes the request_queue as a parameter to simplify the logic around
invoking this function.

This new limit makes the queue flag redundant, so removing it and
all usage. Device-mappers will inherit the correct settings through
blk_stack_limits().

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blkcg: use CGROUP_WEIGHT_* scale for io.weight on the unified hierarchy</title>
<updated>2015-08-18T22:49:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-18T21:55:36+00:00</published>
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cgroup is trying to make interface consistent across different
controllers.  For weight based resource control, the knob should have
the range [1, 10000] and default to 100.  This patch updates
cfq-iosched so that the weight range conforms.  The internal
calculations have enough range and the widening of the weight range
shouldn't cause any problem.

* blkcg_policy-&gt;cpd_bind_fn() is added.  If present, this is invoked
  when blkcg is attached to a hierarchy.

* cfq_cpd_init() is updated to use the new default value on the
  unified hierarchy.

* cfq_cpd_bind() callback is implemented to clear per-blkg configs and
  apply the default config matching the hierarchy type.

* cfqd-&gt;root_group-&gt;[leaf_]weight initialization in cfq_init_queue()
  is moved into !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED block.  cfq_cpd_bind() is
  now responsible for initializing the initial weights when blkcg is
  enabled.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arianna Avanzini &lt;avanzini.arianna@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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cgroup is trying to make interface consistent across different
controllers.  For weight based resource control, the knob should have
the range [1, 10000] and default to 100.  This patch updates
cfq-iosched so that the weight range conforms.  The internal
calculations have enough range and the widening of the weight range
shouldn't cause any problem.

* blkcg_policy-&gt;cpd_bind_fn() is added.  If present, this is invoked
  when blkcg is attached to a hierarchy.

* cfq_cpd_init() is updated to use the new default value on the
  unified hierarchy.

* cfq_cpd_bind() callback is implemented to clear per-blkg configs and
  apply the default config matching the hierarchy type.

* cfqd-&gt;root_group-&gt;[leaf_]weight initialization in cfq_init_queue()
  is moved into !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED block.  cfq_cpd_bind() is
  now responsible for initializing the initial weights when blkcg is
  enabled.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arianna Avanzini &lt;avanzini.arianna@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blkcg: s/CFQ_WEIGHT_*/CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*/</title>
<updated>2015-08-18T22:49:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-18T21:55:35+00:00</published>
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blkcg is gonna switch to cgroup common weight range as defined by
CGROUP_WEIGHT_* on the unified hierarchy.  In preparation, rename
CFQ_WEIGHT_* constants to CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arianna Avanzini &lt;avanzini.arianna@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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blkcg is gonna switch to cgroup common weight range as defined by
CGROUP_WEIGHT_* on the unified hierarchy.  In preparation, rename
CFQ_WEIGHT_* constants to CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arianna Avanzini &lt;avanzini.arianna@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy</title>
<updated>2015-08-18T22:49:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-18T21:55:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2ee867dcfa2eaef1063b686da55c35878b2da4a2'/>
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blkcg interface grew to be the biggest of all controllers and
unfortunately most inconsistent too.  The interface files are
inconsistent with a number of cloes duplicates.  Some files have
recursive variants while others don't.  There's distinction between
normal and leaf weights which isn't intuitive and there are a lot of
stat knobs which don't make much sense outside of debugging and expose
too much implementation details to userland.

In the unified hierarchy, everything is always hierarchical and
internal nodes can't have tasks rendering the two structural issues
twisting the current interface.  The interface has to be updated in a
significant anyway and this is a good chance to revamp it as a whole.
This patch implements blkcg interface for the unified hierarchy.

* (from a previous patch) blkcg is identified by "io" instead of
  "blkio" on the unified hierarchy.  Given that the whole interface is
  updated anyway, the rename shouldn't carry noticeable conversion
  overhead.

* The original interface consisted of 27 files is replaced with the
  following three files.

  blkio.stat	: per-blkcg stats
  blkio.weight	: per-cgroup and per-cgroup-queue weight settings
  blkio.max	: per-cgroup-queue bps and iops max limits

Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt updated accordingly.

v2: blkcg_policy-&gt;dfl_cftypes wasn't removed on
    blkcg_policy_unregister() corrupting the cftypes list.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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blkcg interface grew to be the biggest of all controllers and
unfortunately most inconsistent too.  The interface files are
inconsistent with a number of cloes duplicates.  Some files have
recursive variants while others don't.  There's distinction between
normal and leaf weights which isn't intuitive and there are a lot of
stat knobs which don't make much sense outside of debugging and expose
too much implementation details to userland.

In the unified hierarchy, everything is always hierarchical and
internal nodes can't have tasks rendering the two structural issues
twisting the current interface.  The interface has to be updated in a
significant anyway and this is a good chance to revamp it as a whole.
This patch implements blkcg interface for the unified hierarchy.

* (from a previous patch) blkcg is identified by "io" instead of
  "blkio" on the unified hierarchy.  Given that the whole interface is
  updated anyway, the rename shouldn't carry noticeable conversion
  overhead.

* The original interface consisted of 27 files is replaced with the
  following three files.

  blkio.stat	: per-blkcg stats
  blkio.weight	: per-cgroup and per-cgroup-queue weight settings
  blkio.max	: per-cgroup-queue bps and iops max limits

Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt updated accordingly.

v2: blkcg_policy-&gt;dfl_cftypes wasn't removed on
    blkcg_policy_unregister() corrupting the cftypes list.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blkcg: misc preparations for unified hierarchy interface</title>
<updated>2015-08-18T22:49:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-18T21:55:33+00:00</published>
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* Export blkg_dev_name()

* Drop unnecessary @cft from __cfq_set_weight().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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* Export blkg_dev_name()

* Drop unnecessary @cft from __cfq_set_weight().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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