- 03 Dec, 2009 1 commit
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Martin K. Petersen authored
The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device prior to putting metadata down. However, not all devices return zeroed blocks after a discard. Some drives return stale data, potentially containing old superblocks. It is therefore important to know whether discarded blocks are properly zeroed. Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether zeroes are returned after a discard operation. Implement a block level interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and queried via a new block device ioctl. Signed-off-by:
Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- 30 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Jens Axboe authored
This reverts commit 3586e917. Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> correctly points out, that we need consistency of rb_key offset across groups. This means we cannot properly use the per-service_tree service count. Revert this change. Signed-off-by:
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- 26 Nov, 2009 9 commits
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Corrado Zoccolo authored
Idling logic was disabled in some corner cases, leading to unfair share for noidle queues. * the idle timer was not armed if there were other requests in the driver. unfortunately, those requests could come from other workloads, or queues for which we don't enable idling. So we will check only pending requests from the active queue * rq_noidle check on no-idle queue could disable the end of tree idle if the last completed request was rq_noidle. Now, we will disable that idle only if all the queues served in the no-idle tree had rq_noidle requests. Reported-by:
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Acked-by:
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Corrado Zoccolo authored
Seeky sync queues with large depth can gain unfairly big share of disk time, at the expense of other seeky queues. This patch ensures that idling will be enabled for queues with I/O depth at least 4, and small think time. The decision to enable idling is sticky, until an idle window times out without seeing a new request. The reasoning behind the decision is that, if an application is using large I/O depth, it is already optimized to make full utilization of the hardware, and therefore we reserve a slice of exclusive use for it. Reported-by:
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Corrado Zoccolo authored
An incoming no-idle queue should preempt the active no-idle queue only if the active queue is idling due to service tree empty. Previous code was buggy in two ways: * it relied on service_tree field to be set on the active queue, while it is not set when the code is idling for a new request * it didn't check for the service tree empty condition, so could lead to LIFO behaviour if multiple queues with depth > 1 were preempting each other on an non-NCQ device. Reported-by:
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Corrado Zoccolo authored
CFQ's detection of queueing devices initially assumes a queuing device and detects if the queue depth reaches a certain threshold. However, it will reconsider this choice periodically. Unfortunately, if device is considered not queuing, CFQ will force a unit queue depth for some workloads, thus defeating the detection logic. This leads to poor performance on queuing hardware, since the idle window remains enabled. Given this premise, switching to hw_tag = 0 after we have proved at least once that the device is NCQ capable is not a good choice. The new detection code starts in an indeterminate state, in which CFQ behaves as if hw_tag = 1, and then, if for a long observation period we never saw large depth, we switch to hw_tag = 0, otherwise we stick to hw_tag = 1, without reconsidering it again. Signed-off-by:
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Vivek Goyal authored
There seems to be a regression in direct write path due to following commit in for-2.6.33 branch of block tree. commit 1af60fbd Author: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Date: Fri Oct 2 18:56:53 2009 -0400 block: get rid of the WRITE_ODIRECT flag Marking direct writes as WRITE_SYNC_PLUG instead of WRITE_ODIRECT, sets the NOIDLE flag in bio and hence in request. This tells CFQ to not expect more request from the queue and not idle on it (despite the fact that queue's think time is less and it is not seeky). So direct writers lose big time when competing with sequential readers. Using fio, I have run one direct writer and two sequential readers and following are the results with 2.6.32-rc7 kernel and with for-2.6.33 branch. Test ==== 1 direct writer and 2 sequential reader running simultaneously. [global] directory=/mnt/sdc/fio/ runtime=10 [seqwrite] rw=write size=4G direct=1 [seqread] rw=read size=2G numjobs=2 2.6.32-rc7 ========== direct writes: aggrb=2,968KB/s readers : aggrb=101MB/s for-2.6.33 branch ================= direct write: aggrb=19KB/s readers aggrb=137MB/s This patch brings back the WRITE_ODIRECT flag, with the difference that we don't set the BIO_RW_UNPLUG flag so that device is not unplugged after submission of request and an explicit unplug from submitter is required. That way we fix the jeff's issue of not enough merging taking place in aio path as well as make sure direct writes get their fair share. After the fix ============= for-2.6.33 + fix ---------------- direct writes: aggrb=2,728KB/s reads: aggrb=103MB/s Thanks Vivek Signed-off-by:
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Corrado Zoccolo authored
cfq_should_idle returns false for no-idle queues that are not the last, so the control flow will never reach the removed code in a state that satisfies the if condition. The unreachable code was added to emulate previous cfq behaviour for non-NCQ rotational devices. My tests show that even without it, the performances and fairness are comparable with previous cfq, thanks to the fact that all seeky queues are grouped together, and that we idle at the end of the tree. Signed-off-by:
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Ilya Loginov authored
Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request. So, this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from the dcache or with dcache aliases. The patch fixes this. The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which flush_dcache_page() is a no-op. Every architecture was provided with this flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is equal 1 or do nothing otherwise. See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion on LKML for more information. Signed-off-by:
Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk> Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by:
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Gui Jianfeng authored
For the moment, different workload cfq queues are put into different service trees. But CFQ still uses "busy_queues" to estimate rb_key offset when inserting a cfq queue into a service tree. I think this isn't appropriate, and it should make use of service tree count to do this estimation. This patch is for for-2.6.33 branch. Signed-off-by:
Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 25 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Philipp Reisner authored
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Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by:
Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
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- 24 Nov, 2009 4 commits
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Philipp Reisner authored
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Philipp Reisner authored
Since 8.3.3 we fail to do the resync when a partial resynch is not possible, but a full synch is necessary. This regression was introduced with 7101539930c0a89146959e7a39c09ad9c3516434 Signed-off-by:
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Lars Ellenberg authored
Otherwise the 'state fixup' in the receiver will change to Unconnected, but the receiver will terminate itself, and any attempt at 'down'ing that drbd later will block forever. see also Bugz. #259 Signed-off-by:
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Lars Ellenberg authored
this is uncritical, as we still also serialize in userland, but to correctly serialize on the CONFIG_PENDING bit, it must be wait_event(state_wait, \!test_and_set_bit) Signed-off-by:
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- 23 Nov, 2009 4 commits
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Alex Chiang authored
A recent commit broke the ia64 build: Author: Don Brace <brace@beardog.cce.hp.com> Date: Thu Nov 12 12:50:01 2009 -0600 cciss: Add enhanced scatter-gather support. because of this hunk: --- a/drivers/block/cciss.h +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.h +struct Cmd_sg_list { + SGDescriptor_struct *sgchain; + dma64_addr_t sg_chain_dma; + int chain_block_size; +}; The issue is that dma64_addr_t isn't #define'd on ia64. The way that we're using Cmd_sg_list.sg_chain_dma is to hold an address returned from pci_map_single(). + temp64.val = pci_map_single(h->pdev, + h->cmd_sg_list[c->cmdindex]->sgchain, + len, dir); + + h->cmd_sg_list[c->cmdindex]->sg_chain_dma = temp64.val; pci_map_single() returns a dma_addr_t too. This code will still work even on a 32-bit x86 build, where dma_addr_t is defined to be a u32 because it will simply be promoted to the __u64 that temp64.val is defined as. Thus, declaring Cmd_sg_list.sg_chain_dma as dma_addr_t is safe. Cc: Don Brace <brace@beardog.cce.hp.com> Cc: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by:Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
On driver unload, only free up the extra scatter gather data if they were allocated in the first place (the controller supports it) and don't forget to free up the sg_cmd_list array of pointers. Signed-off-by:
Don Brace <brace@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by:
Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Karel Zak authored
The size of EFI GPT header is not static, but whole sector is allocated for the header. The HeaderSize field must be greater than 92 (= sizeof(struct gpt_header) and must be less than or equal to the logical block size. It means we have to read whole sector with the header, because the header crc32 checksum is calculated according to HeaderSize. For more details see UEFI standard (version 2.3, May 2009): - 5.3.1 GUID Format overview, page 93 - Table 13. GUID Partition Table Header, page 96 Signed-off-by:
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Karel Zak authored
Currently, kernel uses strictly 512-byte sectors for EFI GPT parsing. That's wrong. UEFI standard (version 2.3, May 2009, 5.3.1 GUID Format overview, page 95) defines that LBA is always based on the logical block size. It means bdev_logical_block_size() (aka BLKSSZGET) for Linux. This patch removes static sector size from EFI GPT parser. The problem is reproducible with the latest GNU Parted: # modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=50 sector_size=4096 # ./parted /dev/sdb print Model: Linux scsi_debug (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 52.4MB Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 24.6kB 3002kB 2978kB primary 2 3002kB 6001kB 2998kB primary 3 6001kB 9003kB 3002kB primary # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb # dmesg | tail -1 sdb: unknown partition table <---- !!! with this patch: # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb # dmesg | tail -1 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 Signed-off-by:
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- 13 Nov, 2009 11 commits
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
cciss: Fix weird usage of ENXIO in cciss_scsi.c Signed-off-by:
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Don Brace authored
cciss: Add enhanced scatter-gather support. For controllers which supported, more than 512 scatter-gather elements per command may be used, and the max transfer size can be increased to 8192 blocks. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
cciss: Do not automatically rescan on UNIT ATTENTION/LUN DATA CHANGED There are problems with doing this. If, say, several logical drives are deleted at once, several such UNIT ATTENTIONS will be encountered, often during the rescan triggered by the first such UNIT ATTENTION. The block layer may be in the midst of trying to add logical drives which were just deleted (resulting in the subsequent UNIT ATTENTION(s).) Making the rescan code robust enough to tolerate this kind of thing is too complicated for the moment. So, for now, we just don't do it. Note: This UNIT ATTENTION/LUN DATA CHANGED situation only occurs on the MSA2012. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
cciss: Remove unnecessary check in scan_thread Signed-off-by:
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
cciss: fix typo that causes scsi status to be lost. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
cciss: remove sendcmd() as it is no longer used. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
cciss: clean up code in cciss_shutdown. Send the flush cache command down with interrupts still enabled, and do not do DMA from the stack. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
cciss: Remove the "withirq" parameter from various functions where possible Signed-off-by:
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
cciss: Retry driver initiated cmds with unit attention condition Signed-off-by:
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
cciss: Fix problem with remove_from_scan_list that on driver unload it doesn't remove the controller from the scan list correctly if the controller is currently being scanned for new devices. Signed-off-by:
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Alex Chiang authored
cciss: Make device attributes static Cc: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 11 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Randy Dunlap authored
Use HZ-independent calculation of milliseconds. Add jiffies.h where it was missing since functions or macros from it are used. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 10 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Martin K. Petersen authored
While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often have allocation blocks that are bigger. Allow the discard granularity and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to handle them. Signed-off-by:
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- 08 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Corrado Zoccolo authored
Cfq has a bug in computation of next_rq, that affects transition between multiple sequential request streams in a single queue (e.g.: two sequential buffered writers of the same priority), causing the alternation between the two streams for a transient period. 8,0 1 18737 0.260400660 5312 D W 141653311 + 256 8,0 1 20839 0.273239461 5400 D W 141653567 + 256 8,0 1 20841 0.276343885 5394 D W 142803919 + 256 8,0 1 20843 0.279490878 5394 D W 141668927 + 256 8,0 1 20845 0.292459993 5400 D W 142804175 + 256 8,0 1 20847 0.295537247 5400 D W 141668671 + 256 8,0 1 20849 0.298656337 5400 D W 142804431 + 256 8,0 1 20851 0.311481148 5394 D W 141668415 + 256 8,0 1 20853 0.314421305 5394 D W 142804687 + 256 8,0 1 20855 0.318960112 5400 D W 142804943 + 256 The fix makes sure that the next_rq is computed from the last dispatched request, and not affected by merging. 8,0 1 37776 4.305161306 0 D W 141738087 + 256 8,0 1 37778 4.308298091 0 D W 141738343 + 256 8,0 1 37780 4.312885190 0 D W 141738599 + 256 8,0 1 37782 4.315933291 0 D W 141738855 + 256 8,0 1 37784 4.319064459 0 D W 141739111 + 256 8,0 1 37786 4.331918431 5672 D W 142803007 + 256 8,0 1 37788 4.334930332 5672 D W 142803263 + 256 8,0 1 37790 4.337902723 5672 D W 142803519 + 256 8,0 1 37792 4.342359774 5672 D W 142803775 + 256 8,0 1 37794 4.345318286 0 D W 142804031 + 256 Signed-off-by:
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- 04 Nov, 2009 6 commits
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Philipp Reisner authored
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Lars Ellenberg authored
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Philipp Reisner authored
When there are many blocks on the fly (ua), and the AL gets into "starving" mode (random IO, scattered all over the device), and the connections gets interrupted, the receiver thread deadlocks in the drbd_disconnect() code path. Affected are only nodes in Primary role. The bug triggers most likely on system that mirror over "long distances" Regression introduced shortly before 8.3.3 with git commit 31e0f1250f174ac1ee317f360943a0159e19edc8 Signed-off-by:
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Philipp Reisner authored
When IO gets frozen due to a broken fence-peer script, the user should be able to thaw IO by the resume-io command. Signed-off-by:
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Lars Ellenberg authored
To check wether we are truncating a very large device due to limited meta data space, we need to check the ll_dev size. Also improve the printk to suggest "flexible" or "internal". Signed-off-by:
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