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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2013-10-24 09:20:05 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2013-10-25 11:56:00 +0100
commit320ae51feed5c2f13664aa05a76bec198967e04d (patch)
treead37ccbcc5ddb1c9c19e48965bf8fec1b05217dc /block/blk.h
parent1dddc01af0d42b21058e0cb9c1ca9e8d5204d9b0 (diff)
blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism
Linux currently has two models for block devices: - The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag management, timeout handling, queueing, etc. - The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack, driver generally have to manage everything themselves. With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands per device. The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent everything, and along with that we get all the problems again that the shared approach solved. This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues. We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports. blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include: - Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed tags, to enable cache hot reuse. - Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification, if a request happens to fail. - Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the desired location. - Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need to associate a request structure with some driver private command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time, and then any request handed to the driver will have the required size of memory associated with it. - Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus increases bandwidth. For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md devices (as it was originally intended). Contributions in this patch from the following people: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/blk.h')
-rw-r--r--block/blk.h17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h
index e837b8f619b7..c90e1d8f7a2b 100644
--- a/block/blk.h
+++ b/block/blk.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#define BLK_BATCH_REQ 32
extern struct kmem_cache *blk_requestq_cachep;
+extern struct kmem_cache *request_cachep;
extern struct kobj_type blk_queue_ktype;
extern struct ida blk_queue_ida;
@@ -34,14 +35,30 @@ bool __blk_end_bidi_request(struct request *rq, int error,
unsigned int nr_bytes, unsigned int bidi_bytes);
void blk_rq_timed_out_timer(unsigned long data);
+void blk_rq_check_expired(struct request *rq, unsigned long *next_timeout,
+ unsigned int *next_set);
+void __blk_add_timer(struct request *req, struct list_head *timeout_list);
void blk_delete_timer(struct request *);
void blk_add_timer(struct request *);
+
+bool bio_attempt_front_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req,
+ struct bio *bio);
+bool bio_attempt_back_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req,
+ struct bio *bio);
+bool blk_attempt_plug_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio,
+ unsigned int *request_count);
+
+void blk_account_io_start(struct request *req, bool new_io);
+void blk_account_io_completion(struct request *req, unsigned int bytes);
+void blk_account_io_done(struct request *req);
+
/*
* Internal atomic flags for request handling
*/
enum rq_atomic_flags {
REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE = 0,
+ REQ_ATOM_STARTED,
};
/*