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>
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 0a8da96..f26ec20f 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <linux/major.h>
#include <linux/genhd.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/llist.h>
#include <linux/timer.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
@@ -94,10 +95,17 @@
* as well!
*/
struct request {
- struct list_head queuelist;
- struct call_single_data csd;
+ union {
+ struct list_head queuelist;
+ struct llist_node ll_list;
+ };
+ union {
+ struct call_single_data csd;
+ struct work_struct mq_flush_data;
+ };
struct request_queue *q;
+ struct blk_mq_ctx *mq_ctx;
u64 cmd_flags;
enum rq_cmd_type_bits cmd_type;
@@ -213,6 +221,8 @@
#include <linux/elevator.h>
+struct blk_queue_ctx;
+
typedef void (request_fn_proc) (struct request_queue *q);
typedef void (make_request_fn) (struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio);
typedef int (prep_rq_fn) (struct request_queue *, struct request *);
@@ -311,6 +321,18 @@
dma_drain_needed_fn *dma_drain_needed;
lld_busy_fn *lld_busy_fn;
+ struct blk_mq_ops *mq_ops;
+
+ unsigned int *mq_map;
+
+ /* sw queues */
+ struct blk_mq_ctx *queue_ctx;
+ unsigned int nr_queues;
+
+ /* hw dispatch queues */
+ struct blk_mq_hw_ctx **queue_hw_ctx;
+ unsigned int nr_hw_queues;
+
/*
* Dispatch queue sorting
*/
@@ -359,6 +381,11 @@
*/
struct kobject kobj;
+ /*
+ * mq queue kobject
+ */
+ struct kobject mq_kobj;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME
struct device *dev;
int rpm_status;
@@ -423,7 +450,13 @@
unsigned long flush_pending_since;
struct list_head flush_queue[2];
struct list_head flush_data_in_flight;
- struct request flush_rq;
+ union {
+ struct request flush_rq;
+ struct {
+ spinlock_t mq_flush_lock;
+ struct work_struct mq_flush_work;
+ };
+ };
struct mutex sysfs_lock;
@@ -435,14 +468,14 @@
struct bsg_class_device bsg_dev;
#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
- struct list_head all_q_node;
-#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
/* Throttle data */
struct throtl_data *td;
#endif
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
+ wait_queue_head_t mq_freeze_wq;
+ struct percpu_counter mq_usage_counter;
+ struct list_head all_q_node;
};
#define QUEUE_FLAG_QUEUED 1 /* uses generic tag queueing */
@@ -465,6 +498,7 @@
#define QUEUE_FLAG_SECDISCARD 17 /* supports SECDISCARD */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE 18 /* force complete on same CPU */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD 19 /* queue tear-down finished */
+#define QUEUE_FLAG_INIT_DONE 20 /* queue is initialized */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT ((1 << QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT) | \
(1 << QUEUE_FLAG_STACKABLE) | \
@@ -537,6 +571,7 @@
#define blk_queue_dying(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DYING, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_dead(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_bypass(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS, &(q)->queue_flags)
+#define blk_queue_init_done(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_INIT_DONE, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_nomerges(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_noxmerges(q) \
test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, &(q)->queue_flags)
@@ -1011,6 +1046,7 @@
struct blk_plug {
unsigned long magic; /* detect uninitialized use-cases */
struct list_head list; /* requests */
+ struct list_head mq_list; /* blk-mq requests */
struct list_head cb_list; /* md requires an unplug callback */
};
#define BLK_MAX_REQUEST_COUNT 16
@@ -1048,7 +1084,10 @@
{
struct blk_plug *plug = tsk->plug;
- return plug && (!list_empty(&plug->list) || !list_empty(&plug->cb_list));
+ return plug &&
+ (!list_empty(&plug->list) ||
+ !list_empty(&plug->mq_list) ||
+ !list_empty(&plug->cb_list));
}
/*
@@ -1323,6 +1362,7 @@
struct work_struct;
int kblockd_schedule_work(struct request_queue *q, struct work_struct *work);
+int kblockd_schedule_delayed_work(struct request_queue *q, struct delayed_work *dwork, unsigned long delay);
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
/*