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2011-04-07Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6: Fix common misspellings
2011-04-05blk-throttle: don't call xchg on boolAndreas Schwab
xchg does not work portably with smaller than 32bit types. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-22blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changedVivek Goyal
Lina reported that if throttle limits are initially very high and then dropped, then no new bio might be dispatched for a long time. And the reason being that after dropping the limits we don't reset the existing slice and do the rate calculation with new low rate and account the bios dispatched at high rate. To fix it, reset the slice upon rate change. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/10/298 Another problem with very high limit is that we never queued the bio on throtl service tree. That means we kept on extending the group slice but never trimmed it. Fix that also by regulary trimming the slice even if bio is not being queued up. Reported-by: Lina Lu <lulina_nuaa@foxmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/stack-plug' into for-2.6.39/coreJens Axboe
Conflicts: block/blk-core.c block/blk-flush.c drivers/md/raid1.c drivers/md/raid10.c drivers/md/raid5.c fs/nilfs2/btnode.c fs/nilfs2/mdt.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10blk-throttle: Use blk_plug in throttle dispatchVivek Goyal
Use plug in throttle dispatch also as we are dispatching a bunch of bios in throttle context and some of them might merge. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10block: remove per-queue pluggingJens Axboe
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging, and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that. So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07blk-throttle: Some cleanups and race fixes in limit update codeVivek Goyal
When throttle group limits are updated through cgroups, a thread is woken up to process these updates. While reviewing that code, oleg noted couple of race conditions existed in the code and he also suggested that code can be simplified. This patch fixes the races simplifies the code based on Oleg's suggestions: - Use xchg(). - Introduced a common function throtl_update_blkio_group_common() which is shared now by all iops/bps update functions. Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Fixed a merge issue, throtl_schedule_delayed_work() takes throtl_data as the argument now, not the queue. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07blk-throttle: process limit change only through one functionVivek Goyal
With the help of cgroup interface one can go and upate the bps/iops limits of existing group. Once the limits are udpated, a thread is woken up to see if some blocked group needs recalculation based on new limits and needs to be requeued. There was also a piece of code where I was checking for group limit update when a fresh bio comes in. This patch gets rid of that piece of code and keeps processing the limit change at one place throtl_process_limit_change(). It just keeps the code simple and easy to understand. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of ../linux-2.6-block into block-for-2.6.39/coreTejun Heo
This merge creates two set of conflicts. One is simple context conflicts caused by removal of throtl_scheduled_delayed_work() in for-linus and removal of throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() in for-2.6.39/core. The other is caused by commit 255bb490c8 (block: blk-flush shouldn't call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue()) in for-linus crashing with FLUSH reimplementation in for-2.6.39/core. The conflict isn't trivial but the resolution is straight-forward. * __blk_run_queue() calls in flush_end_io() and flush_data_end_io() should be called with @force_kblockd set to %true. * elv_insert() in blk_kick_flush() should use %ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE. Both changes are to avoid invoking ->request_fn() directly from request completion path and closely match the changes in the commit 255bb490c8. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-03-02block: Move blk_throtl_exit() call to blk_cleanup_queue()Vivek Goyal
Move blk_throtl_exit() in blk_cleanup_queue() as blk_throtl_exit() is written in such a way that it needs queue lock. In blk_release_queue() there is no gurantee that ->queue_lock is still around. Initially blk_throtl_exit() was in blk_cleanup_queue() but Ingo reported one problem. https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/23/86 And a quick fix moved blk_throtl_exit() to blk_release_queue(). commit 7ad58c028652753814054f4e3ac58f925e7343f4 Author: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Date: Sat Oct 23 20:40:26 2010 +0200 block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle code This patch reverts above change and does not try to shutdown the throtl work in blk_sync_queue(). By avoiding call to throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() from blk_sync_queue(), we should also avoid the problem reported by Ingo. blk_sync_queue() seems to be used only by md driver and it seems to be using it to make sure q->unplug_fn is not called as md registers its own unplug functions and it is about to free up the data structures used by unplug_fn(). Block throttle does not call back into unplug_fn() or into md. So there is no need to cancel blk throttle work. In fact I think cancelling block throttle work is bad because it might happen that some bios are throttled and scheduled to be dispatched later with the help of pending work and if work is cancelled, these bios might never be dispatched. Block layer also uses blk_sync_queue() during blk_cleanup_queue() and blk_release_queue() time. That should be safe as we are also calling blk_throtl_exit() which should make sure all the throttling related data structures are cleaned up. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01blk-throttle: Do not use kblockd workqueue for throtl workVivek Goyal
o Dominik Klein reported a system hang issue while doing some blkio throttling testing. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/173 o Some tracing revealed that CFQ was not dispatching any more jobs as queue unplug was not happening. And queue unplug was not happening because unplug work was not being called as there was one throttling work on same cpu which as not finished yet. And throttling work had not finished as it was tyring to dispatch a bio to CFQ but all the request descriptors were consume to it was put to sleep. o So basically it is a cyclic dependecny between CFQ unplug work and throtl dispatch work. Tejun suggested that use separate workqueue for such cases. o This patch uses a separate workqueue for throttle related work and does not rely on kblockd workqueue anymore. Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Dominik Klein <dk@in-telegence.net> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-19blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root groupVivek Goyal
o Jeff Moyer was doing some testing on a RAM backed disk and blkiocg_lookup_group() showed up high overhead after memcpy(). Similarly somebody else reported that blkiocg_lookup_group() is eating 6% extra cpu. Though looking at the code I can't think why the overhead of this function is so high. One thing is that it is called with very high frequency (once for every IO). o For lot of folks blkio controller will be compiled in but they might not have actually created cgroups. Hence optimize the case of root cgroup where we can avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() if IO is happening in root group (common case). Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-01blk-throttle: Correct the placement of smp_rmb()Vivek Goyal
o I was discussing what are the variable being updated without spin lock and why do we need barriers and Oleg pointed out that location of smp_rmb() should be between read of td->limits_changed and tg->limits_changed. This patch fixes it. o Following is one possible sequence of events. Say cpu0 is executing throtl_update_blkio_group_read_bps() and cpu1 is executing throtl_process_limit_change(). cpu0 cpu1 tg->limits_changed = true; smp_mb__before_atomic_inc(); atomic_inc(&td->limits_changed); if (!atomic_read(&td->limits_changed)) return; if (tg->limits_changed) do_something; If cpu0 has updated tg->limits_changed and td->limits_changed, we want to make sure that if update to td->limits_changed is visible on cpu1, then update to tg->limits_changed should also be visible. Oleg pointed out to ensure that we need to insert an smp_rmb() between td->limits_changed read and tg->limits_changed read. o I had erroneously put smp_rmb() before atomic_read(&td->limits_changed). This patch fixes it. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-01blk-throttle: Trim/adjust slice_end once a bio has been dispatchedVivek Goyal
o During some testing I did following and noticed throttling stops working. - Put a very low limit on a cgroup, say 1 byte per second. - Start some reads, this will set slice_end to a very high value. - Change the limit to higher value say 1MB/s - Now IO unthrottles and finishes as expected. - Try to do the read again but IO is not limited to 1MB/s as expected. o What is happening. - Initially low value of limit sets slice_end to a very high value. - During updation of limit, slice_end is not being truncated. - Very high value of slice_end leads to keeping the existing slice valid for a very long time and new slice does not start. - tg_may_dispatch() is called in blk_throtle_bio(), and trim_slice() is not called in this path. So slice_start is some old value and practically we are able to do huge amount of IO. o There are many ways it can be fixed. I have fixed it by trying to adjust/cleanup slice_end in trim_slice(). Generally we extend slices if bio is big and can't be dispatched in one slice. After dispatch of bio, readjust the slice_end to make sure we don't end up with huge values. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-15blk-throttle: Fix calculation of max number of WRITES to be dispatchedVivek Goyal
o Currently we try to dispatch more READS and less WRITES (75%, 25%) in one dispatch round. ummy pointed out that there is a bug in max_nr_writes calculation. This patch fixes it. Reported-by: ummy y <yummylln@yahoo.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-01blkio-throttle: Fix possible multiplication overflow in iops calculationsVivek Goyal
o User can specify max iops value of 32bit (UINT_MAX), through cgroup interface. If a user has specified say 4294967294 (UNIT_MAX - 2), then on 32bit platform, following multiplication can overflow. io_allowed = (tg->iops[rw] * jiffy_elapsed_rnd) o Explicitly cast the multiplication to 64bit and then perform division and then check whether result is still great then UNINT_MAX. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-01blkio-throttle: There is no need to convert jiffies to milli secondsVivek Goyal
o Do not convert jiffies to mili seconds as it is not required. Just work with jiffies and HZ. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-01blkio-throttle: Fix link failure failure on i386Vivek Goyal
o Randy Dunlap reported following linux-next failure. This patch fixes it. on i386: blk-throttle.c:(.text+0x1abb8): undefined reference to `__udivdi3' blk-throttle.c:(.text+0x1b1dc): undefined reference to `__udivdi3' o bytes_per_second interface is 64bit and I was continuing to do 64 bit division even on 32bit platform without help of special macros/functions hence the failure. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-01blkio: Recalculate the throttled bio dispatch time upon throttle limit changeVivek Goyal
o Currently any cgroup throttle limit changes are processed asynchronousy and the change does not take affect till a new bio is dispatched from same group. o It might happen that a user sets a redicuously low limit on throttling. Say 1 bytes per second on reads. In such cases simple operations like mount a disk can wait for a very long time. o Once bio is throttled, there is no easy way to come out of that wait even if user increases the read limit later. o This patch fixes it. Now if a user changes the cgroup limits, we recalculate the bio dispatch time according to new limits. o Can't take queueu lock under blkcg_lock, hence after the change I wake up the dispatch thread again which recalculates the time. So there are some variables being synchronized across two threads without lock and I had to make use of barriers. Hoping I have used barriers correctly. Any review of memory barrier code especially will help. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-01blkio: Add root group to td->tg_listVivek Goyal
o Currently all the dynamically allocated groups, except root grp is added to td->tg_list. This was not a problem so far but in next patch I will travel through td->tg_list to process any updates of limits on the group. If root group is not in tg_list, then root group's updates are not processed. o It is better to root group also to tg_list instead of doing special processing for it during limit updates. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-16blkio: Implementation of IOPS limit logicVivek Goyal
o core logic of implementing IOPS throttling. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-16blkio: Core implementation of throttle policyVivek Goyal
o Actual implementation of throttling policy in block layer. Currently it implements READ and WRITE bytes per second throttling logic. IOPS throttling comes in later patches. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>