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Jens Axboe b6c46cfa31 Merge branch 'stable/for-jens-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen into for-linus
Konrad writes:

Please git pull the following branch:

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/for-jens-3.8

which has a bug-fix to the xen-blkfront and xen-blkback driver
when using the persistent mode. An issue was discovered where LVM
disks could not be read correctly and this fixes it. There
is also a change in llist.h which has been blessed by akpm.
2012-12-19 20:37:10 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 9228ff9038 Merge branch 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe:
 "Now that the core bits are in, here are the driver bits for 3.8.  The
  branch contains:

   - A huge pile of drbd bits that were dumped from the 3.7 merge
     window.  Following that, it was both made perfectly clear that
     there is going to be no more over-the-wall pulls and how the
     situation on individual pulls can be improved.

   - A few cleanups from Akinobu Mita for drbd and cciss.

   - Queue improvement for loop from Lukas.  This grew into adding a
     generic interface for waiting/checking an even with a specific
     lock, allowing this to be pulled out of md and now loop and drbd is
     also using it.

   - A few fixes for xen back/front block driver from Roger Pau Monne.

   - Partition improvements from Stephen Warren, allowing partiion UUID
     to be used as an identifier."

* 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (609 commits)
  drbd: update Kconfig to match current dependencies
  drbd: Fix drbdsetup wait-connect, wait-sync etc... commands
  drbd: close race between drbd_set_role and drbd_connect
  drbd: respect no-md-barriers setting also when changed online via disk-options
  drbd: Remove obsolete check
  drbd: fixup after wait_even_lock_irq() addition to generic code
  loop: Limit the number of requests in the bio list
  wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface
  xen-blkfront: free allocated page
  xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code
  block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
  init: reduce PARTUUID min length to 1 from 36
  block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
  cciss: use check_signature()
  cciss: cleanup bitops usage
  drbd: use copy_highpage
  drbd: if the replication link breaks during handshake, keep retrying
  drbd: check return of kmalloc in receive_uuids
  drbd: Broadcast sync progress no more often than once per second
  drbd: don't try to clear bits once the disk has failed
  ...
2012-12-17 13:39:11 -08:00
Roger Pau Monne 7dc341175a xen-blkback: implement safe iterator for the list of persistent grants
Change foreach_grant iterator to a safe version, that allows freeing
the element while iterating. Also move the free code in
free_persistent_gnts to prevent freeing the element before the rb_next
call.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-12-07 15:13:09 -05:00
Roger Pau Monne 4d4f270f18 xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code
Move the code that frees persistent grants from the red-black tree
to a function. This will make it easier for other consumers to move
this to a common place.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-11-26 14:58:11 -05:00
Roger Pau Monne cb5bd4d19b xen/blkback: persistent-grants fixes
This patch contains fixes for persistent grants implementation v2:

 * handle == 0 is a valid handle, so initialize grants in blkback
   setting the handle to BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE instead of 0. Reported
   by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.

 * new_map is a boolean, use "true" or "false" instead of 1 and 0.
   Reported by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.

 * blkfront announces the persistent-grants feature as
   feature-persistent-grants, use feature-persistent instead which is
   consistent with blkback and the public Xen headers.

 * Add a consistency check in blkfront to make sure we don't try to
   access segments that have not been set.

Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
[v1: The new_map int->bool had already been changed]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-11-04 10:35:40 -05:00
Roger Pau Monne 0a8704a51f xen/blkback: Persistent grant maps for xen blk drivers
This patch implements persistent grants for the xen-blk{front,back}
mechanism. The effect of this change is to reduce the number of unmap
operations performed, since they cause a (costly) TLB shootdown. This
allows the I/O performance to scale better when a large number of VMs
are performing I/O.

Previously, the blkfront driver was supplied a bvec[] from the request
queue. This was granted to dom0; dom0 performed the I/O and wrote
directly into the grant-mapped memory and unmapped it; blkfront then
removed foreign access for that grant. The cost of unmapping scales
badly with the number of CPUs in Dom0. An experiment showed that when
Dom0 has 24 VCPUs, and guests are performing parallel I/O to a
ramdisk, the IPIs from performing unmap's is a bottleneck at 5 guests
(at which point 650,000 IOPS are being performed in total). If more
than 5 guests are used, the performance declines. By 10 guests, only
400,000 IOPS are being performed.

This patch improves performance by only unmapping when the connection
between blkfront and back is broken.

On startup blkfront notifies blkback that it is using persistent
grants, and blkback will do the same. If blkback is not capable of
persistent mapping, blkfront will still use the same grants, since it
is compatible with the previous protocol, and simplifies the code
complexity in blkfront.

To perform a read, in persistent mode, blkfront uses a separate pool
of pages that it maps to dom0. When a request comes in, blkfront
transmutes the request so that blkback will write into one of these
free pages. Blkback keeps note of which grefs it has already
mapped. When a new ring request comes to blkback, it looks to see if
it has already mapped that page. If so, it will not map it again. If
the page hasn't been previously mapped, it is mapped now, and a record
is kept of this mapping. Blkback proceeds as usual. When blkfront is
notified that blkback has completed a request, it memcpy's from the
shared memory, into the bvec supplied. A record that the {gref, page}
tuple is mapped, and not inflight is kept.

Writes are similar, except that the memcpy is peformed from the
supplied bvecs, into the shared pages, before the request is put onto
the ring.

Blkback stores a mapping of grefs=>{page mapped to by gref} in
a red-black tree. As the grefs are not known apriori, and provide no
guarantees on their ordering, we have to perform a search
through this tree to find the page, for every gref we receive. This
operation takes O(log n) time in the worst case. In blkfront grants
are stored using a single linked list.

The maximum number of grants that blkback will persistenly map is
currently set to RING_SIZE * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, to
prevent a malicios guest from attempting a DoS, by supplying fresh
grefs, causing the Dom0 kernel to map excessively. If a guest
is using persistent grants and exceeds the maximum number of grants to
map persistenly the newly passed grefs will be mapped and unmaped.
Using this approach, we can have requests that mix persistent and
non-persistent grants, and we need to handle them correctly.
This allows us to set the maximum number of persistent grants to a
lower value than RING_SIZE * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, although
setting it will lead to unpredictable performance.

In writing this patch, the question arrises as to if the additional
cost of performing memcpys in the guest (to/from the pool of granted
pages) outweigh the gains of not performing TLB shootdowns. The answer
to that question is `no'. There appears to be very little, if any
additional cost to the guest of using persistent grants. There is
perhaps a small saving, from the reduced number of hypercalls
performed in granting, and ending foreign access.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Chick <oliver.chick@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[v1: Fixed up the misuse of bool as int]
2012-10-30 09:50:04 -04:00
Oliver Chick 1f999572f2 xen/blkback: Change xen_vbd's flush_support and discard_secure to have type unsigned int, rather than bool
Changing the type of bdev parameters to be unsigned int :1, rather than bool.
This is more consistent with the types of other features in the block drivers.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Chick <oliver.chick@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-10-30 08:37:20 +01:00
Wei Yongjun 654dbef214 xen/blkback: use kmem_cache_zalloc instead of kmem_cache_alloc/memset
Using kmem_cache_zalloc() instead of kmem_cache_alloc() and memset().

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-10-30 08:36:27 +01:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2911758f14 xen/blkback: Fix compile warning
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c:260:5: warning: symbol 'xenvbd_sysfs_addif' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c:284:6: warning: symbol 'xenvbd_sysfs_delif' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-10-30 08:32:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds f1c6872e49 Features:
* Allow a Linux guest to boot as initial domain and as normal guests
    on Xen on ARM (specifically ARMv7 with virtualized extensions).
    PV console, block and network frontend/backends are working.
 Bug-fixes:
  * Fix compile linux-next fallout.
  * Fix PVHVM bootup crashing.
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Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-arm-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen

Pull ADM Xen support from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:

  Features:
   * Allow a Linux guest to boot as initial domain and as normal guests
     on Xen on ARM (specifically ARMv7 with virtualized extensions).  PV
     console, block and network frontend/backends are working.
  Bug-fixes:
   * Fix compile linux-next fallout.
   * Fix PVHVM bootup crashing.

  The Xen-unstable hypervisor (so will be 4.3 in a ~6 months), supports
  ARMv7 platforms.

  The goal in implementing this architecture is to exploit the hardware
  as much as possible.  That means use as little as possible of PV
  operations (so no PV MMU) - and use existing PV drivers for I/Os
  (network, block, console, etc).  This is similar to how PVHVM guests
  operate in X86 platform nowadays - except that on ARM there is no need
  for QEMU.  The end result is that we share a lot of the generic Xen
  drivers and infrastructure.

  Details on how to compile/boot/etc are available at this Wiki:

    http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARMv7_with_Virtualization_Extensions

  and this blog has links to a technical discussion/presentations on the
  overall architecture:

    http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/09/21/xensummit-sessions-new-pvh-virtualisation-mode-for-arm-cortex-a15arm-servers-and-x86/

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-arm-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: (21 commits)
  xen/xen_initial_domain: check that xen_start_info is initialized
  xen: mark xen_init_IRQ __init
  xen/Makefile: fix dom-y build
  arm: introduce a DTS for Xen unprivileged virtual machines
  MAINTAINERS: add myself as Xen ARM maintainer
  xen/arm: compile netback
  xen/arm: compile blkfront and blkback
  xen/arm: implement alloc/free_xenballooned_pages with alloc_pages/kfree
  xen/arm: receive Xen events on ARM
  xen/arm: initialize grant_table on ARM
  xen/arm: get privilege status
  xen/arm: introduce CONFIG_XEN on ARM
  xen: do not compile manage, balloon, pci, acpi, pcpu and cpu_hotplug on ARM
  xen/arm: Introduce xen_ulong_t for unsigned long
  xen/arm: Xen detection and shared_info page mapping
  docs: Xen ARM DT bindings
  xen/arm: empty implementation of grant_table arch specific functions
  xen/arm: sync_bitops
  xen/arm: page.h definitions
  xen/arm: hypercalls
  ...
2012-10-07 07:13:01 +09:00
Stefano Stabellini 2fc136eecd xen/m2p: do not reuse kmap_op->dev_bus_addr
If the caller passes a valid kmap_op to m2p_add_override, we use
kmap_op->dev_bus_addr to store the original mfn, but dev_bus_addr is
part of the interface with Xen and if we are batching the hypercalls it
might not have been written by the hypervisor yet. That means that later
on Xen will write to it and we'll think that the original mfn is
actually what Xen has written to it.

Rather than "stealing" struct members from kmap_op, keep using
page->index to store the original mfn and add another parameter to
m2p_remove_override to get the corresponding kmap_op instead.
It is now responsibility of the caller to keep track of which kmap_op
corresponds to a particular page in the m2p_override (gntdev, the only
user of this interface that passes a valid kmap_op, is already doing that).

CC: stable@kernel.org
Reported-and-Tested-By: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-09-12 11:21:40 -04:00
Stefano Stabellini e79affc3f2 xen/arm: compile blkfront and blkback
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-08-08 17:21:14 +00:00
Jens Axboe 987751719b Merge branch 'stable/for-jens-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen into for-linus 2012-06-13 21:19:06 +02:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 8c9ce606a6 xen/blkback: Copy id field when doing BLKIF_DISCARD.
We weren't copying the id field so when we sent the response
back to the frontend (especially with a 64-bit host and 32-bit
guest), we ended up using a random value. This lead to the
frontend crashing as it would try to pass to __blk_end_request_all
a NULL 'struct request' (b/c it would use the 'id' to find the
proper 'struct request' in its shadow array) and end up crashing:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000e4
IP: [<c0646d4c>] __blk_end_request_all+0xc/0x40
.. snip..
EIP is at __blk_end_request_all+0xc/0x40
.. snip..
 [<ed95db72>] blkif_interrupt+0x172/0x330 [xen_blkfront]

This fixes the bug by passing in the proper id for the response.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824641

CC: stable@kernel.org
Tested-by: William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-05-30 17:20:04 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk a71e23d992 xen/blkback: Fix warning error.
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c: In function 'xen_blkbk_discard':
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c:419:4: warning: passing argument 1 of 'dev_warn' makes pointer from integer without a cast
+[enabled by default]
include/linux/device.h:894:5: note: expected 'const struct device *' but argument is of type 'long int'

It is unclear how that mistake made it in. It surely is wrong.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-04-18 15:54:08 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 3389bb8bf7 xen/blkback: Make optional features be really optional.
They were using the xenbus_dev_fatal() function which would
change the state of the connection immediately. Which is not
what we want when we advertise optional features.

So make 'feature-discard','feature-barrier','feature-flush-cache'
optional.

Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
[v1: Made the discard function void and static]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-03-24 10:04:36 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 4dae76705f xen/blkback: Squash the discard support for 'file' and 'phy' type.
The only reason for the distinction was for the special case of
'file' (which is assumed to be loopback device), was to reach inside
the loopback device, find the underlaying file, and call fallocate on it.
Fortunately "xen-blkback: convert hole punching to discard request on
loop devices" removes that use-case and we now based the discard
support based on blk_queue_discard(q) and extract all appropriate
parameters from the 'struct request_queue'.

CC: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
[v1: Dropping pointless initializer and keeping blank line]
[v2: Remove the kfree as it is not used anymore]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-03-24 10:04:35 -04:00
Daniel De Graaf b2167ba6dd xen/blkback: Enable blkback on HVM guests
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-03-20 12:52:41 +01:00
Daniel De Graaf 4f14faaab4 xen/blkback: use grant-table.c hypercall wrappers
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-03-20 12:52:41 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 16008d6416 Merge branch 'for-3.3/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.3/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  mtip32xx: do rebuild monitoring asynchronously
  xen-blkfront: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array
  mtip32xx: uninitialized variable in mtip_quiesce_io()
  mtip32xx: updates based on feedback
  xen-blkback: convert hole punching to discard request on loop devices
  xen/blkback: Move processing of BLKIF_OP_DISCARD from dispatch_rw_block_io
  xen/blk[front|back]: Enhance discard support with secure erasing support.
  xen/blk[front|back]: Squash blkif_request_rw and blkif_request_discard together
  mtip32xx: update to new ->make_request() API
  mtip32xx: add module.h include to avoid conflict with moduleh tree
  mtip32xx: mark a few more items static
  mtip32xx: ensure that all local functions are static
  mtip32xx: cleanup compat ioctl handling
  mtip32xx: fix warnings/errors on 32-bit compiles
  block: Add driver for Micron RealSSD pcie flash cards
2012-01-15 12:48:41 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 90160371b3 Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/for-linus-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: (37 commits)
  xen/pciback: Expand the warning message to include domain id.
  xen/pciback: Fix "device has been assigned to X domain!" warning
  xen/pciback: Move the PCI_DEV_FLAGS_ASSIGNED ops to the "[un|]bind"
  xen/xenbus: don't reimplement kvasprintf via a fixed size buffer
  xenbus: maximum buffer size is XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX
  xen/xenbus: Reject replies with payload > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX.
  Xen: consolidate and simplify struct xenbus_driver instantiation
  xen-gntalloc: introduce missing kfree
  xen/xenbus: Fix compile error - missing header for xen_initial_domain()
  xen/netback: Enable netback on HVM guests
  xen/grant-table: Support mappings required by blkback
  xenbus: Use grant-table wrapper functions
  xenbus: Support HVM backends
  xen/xenbus-frontend: Fix compile error with randconfig
  xen/xenbus-frontend: Make error message more clear
  xen/privcmd: Remove unused support for arch specific privcmp mmap
  xen: Add xenbus_backend device
  xen: Add xenbus device driver
  xen: Add privcmd device driver
  xen/gntalloc: fix reference counts on multi-page mappings
  ...
2012-01-10 10:09:59 -08:00
Jan Beulich 73db144b58 Xen: consolidate and simplify struct xenbus_driver instantiation
The 'name', 'owner', and 'mod_name' members are redundant with the
identically named fields in the 'driver' sub-structure. Rather than
switching each instance to specify these fields explicitly, introduce
a macro to simplify this.

Eliminate further redundancy by allowing the drvname argument to
DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() to be blank (in which case the first entry from
the ID table will be used for .driver.name).

Also eliminate the questionable xenbus_register_{back,front}end()
wrappers - their sole remaining purpose was the checking of the
'owner' field, proper setting of which shouldn't be an issue anymore
when the macro gets used.

v2: Restore DRV_NAME for the driver name in xen-pciback.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-01-04 17:01:17 -05:00
Justin P. Mattock 42b2aa86c6 treewide: Fix typos in various parts of the kernel, and fix some comments.
The below patch fixes some typos in various parts of the kernel, as well as fixes some comments.
Please let me know if I missed anything, and I will try to get it changed and resent.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-12-02 14:57:31 +01:00
Li Dongyang ae18be11b5 xen-blkback: convert hole punching to discard request on loop devices
As of dfaa2ef68e, loop devices support
discard request now. We could just issue a discard request, and
the loop driver will punch the hole for us, so we don't need to touch
the internals of loop device and punch the hole ourselves, Thanks.

V0->V1: rebased on devel/for-jens-3.3

Signed-off-by: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-11-18 13:28:05 -05:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 421463526f xen/blkback: Move processing of BLKIF_OP_DISCARD from dispatch_rw_block_io
.. and move it to its own function that will deal with the
discard operation.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-11-18 13:28:03 -05:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 5ea4298669 xen/blk[front|back]: Enhance discard support with secure erasing support.
Part of the blkdev_issue_discard(xx) operation is that it can also
issue a secure discard operation that will permanantly remove the
sectors in question. We advertise that we can support that via the
'discard-secure' attribute and on the request, if the 'secure' bit
is set, we will attempt to pass in REQ_DISCARD | REQ_SECURE.

CC: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
[v1: Used 'flag' instead of 'secure:1' bit]
[v2: Use 'reserved' uint8_t instead of adding a new value]
[v3: Check for nseg when mapping instead of operation]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-11-18 13:28:01 -05:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 97e36834f5 xen/blk[front|back]: Squash blkif_request_rw and blkif_request_discard together
In a union type structure to deal with the overlapping
attributes in a easier manner.

Suggested-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-11-18 13:27:59 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 06d381484f Merge branch 'stable/vmalloc-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/vmalloc-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  net: xen-netback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
  block: xen-blkback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
  xen: use generic functions instead of xen_{alloc, free}_vm_area()
2011-11-06 18:31:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3d0a8d10cf Merge branch 'for-3.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (30 commits)
  virtio-blk: use ida to allocate disk index
  hpsa: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump
  cciss: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump
  xen/blkback: Fix two races in the handling of barrier requests.
  xen/blkback: Check for proper operation.
  xen/blkback: Fix the inhibition to map pages when discarding sector ranges.
  xen/blkback: Report VBD_WSECT (wr_sect) properly.
  xen/blkback: Support 'feature-barrier' aka old-style BARRIER requests.
  xen-blkfront: plug device number leak in xlblk_init() error path
  xen-blkfront: If no barrier or flush is supported, use invalid operation.
  xen-blkback: use kzalloc() in favor of kmalloc()+memset()
  xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments
  xen-blkfront: fix a deadlock while handling discard response
  xen-blkfront: Handle discard requests.
  xen-blkback: Implement discard requests ('feature-discard')
  xen-blkfront: add BLKIF_OP_DISCARD and discard request struct
  drivers/block/loop.c: remove unnecessary bdev argument from loop_clr_fd()
  drivers/block/loop.c: emit uevent on auto release
  drivers/block/cpqarray.c: use pci_dev->revision
  loop: always allow userspace partitions and optionally support automatic scanning
  ...

Fic up trivial header file includsion conflict in drivers/block/loop.c
2011-11-04 17:22:14 -07:00
David Vrabel 2d073846b8 block: xen-blkback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
The xenbus module provides xenbus_map_ring_valloc() and
xenbus_map_ring_vfree().  Use these to map the ring pages granted by
the frontend.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-10-26 10:02:35 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 59e5253417 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (59 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: linux-m32r is moderated for non-subscribers
  linux@lists.openrisc.net is moderated for non-subscribers
  Drop default from "DM365 codec select" choice
  parisc: Kconfig: cleanup Kernel page size default
  Kconfig: remove redundant CONFIG_ prefix on two symbols
  cris: remove arch/cris/arch-v32/lib/nand_init.S
  microblaze: add missing CONFIG_ prefixes
  h8300: drop puzzling Kconfig dependencies
  MAINTAINERS: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au is moderated for non-subscribers
  tty: drop superfluous dependency in Kconfig
  ARM: mxc: fix Kconfig typo 'i.MX51'
  Fix file references in Kconfig files
  aic7xxx: fix Kconfig references to READMEs
  Fix file references in drivers/ide/
  thinkpad_acpi: Fix printk typo 'bluestooth'
  bcmring: drop commented out line in Kconfig
  btmrvl_sdio: fix typo 'btmrvl_sdio_sd6888'
  doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fix
  CIFS: Don't free volume_info->UNC until we are entirely done with it.
  treewide: Correct spelling of successfully in comments
  ...
2011-10-25 12:11:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 31018acd4c Merge branches 'stable/bug.fixes-3.2' and 'stable/mmu.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/bug.fixes-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/p2m/debugfs: Make type_name more obvious.
  xen/p2m/debugfs: Fix potential pointer exception.
  xen/enlighten: Fix compile warnings and set cx to known value.
  xen/xenbus: Remove the unnecessary check.
  xen/irq: If we fail during msi_capability_init return proper error code.
  xen/events: Don't check the info for NULL as it is already done.
  xen/events: BUG() when we can't allocate our event->irq array.

* 'stable/mmu.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen: Fix selfballooning and ensure it doesn't go too far
  xen/gntdev: Fix sleep-inside-spinlock
  xen: modify kernel mappings corresponding to granted pages
  xen: add an "highmem" parameter to alloc_xenballooned_pages
  xen/p2m: Use SetPagePrivate and its friends for M2P overrides.
  xen/p2m: Make debug/xen/mmu/p2m visible again.
  Revert "xen/debug: WARN_ON when identity PFN has no _PAGE_IOMAP flag set."
2011-10-25 09:17:47 +02:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 6927d92091 xen/blkback: Fix two races in the handling of barrier requests.
There are two windows of opportunity to cause a race when
processing a barrier request. This patch fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-10-17 14:28:57 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk dda1852802 xen/blkback: Check for proper operation.
The patch titled: "xen/blkback: Fix the inhibition to map pages
when discarding sector ranges." had the right idea except that
it used the wrong comparison operator. It had == instead of !=.

This fixes the bug where all (except discard) operations would
have been ignored.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-10-14 12:29:55 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 64391b2536 xen/blkback: Fix the inhibition to map pages when discarding sector ranges.
The 'operation' parameters are the ones provided to the bio layer while
the req->operation are the ones passed in between the backend and
frontend. We used the wrong 'operation' value to squash the
call to map pages when processing the discard operation resulting
in an hypercall that did nothing. Lets guard against going in the
mapping function by checking for the proper operation type.

CC: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-10-13 09:48:38 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 5c62cb4860 xen/blkback: Report VBD_WSECT (wr_sect) properly.
We did not increment the amount of sectors written to disk
b/c we tested for the == WRITE which is incorrect - as the
operations are more of WRITE_FLUSH, WRITE_ODIRECT. This patch
fixes it by doing a & WRITE check.

CC: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Andy Burns <xen.lists@burns.me.uk>
Suggested-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-10-13 09:48:37 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 29bde09378 xen/blkback: Support 'feature-barrier' aka old-style BARRIER requests.
We emulate the barrier requests by draining the outstanding bio's
and then sending the WRITE_FLUSH command. To drain the I/Os
we use the refcnt that is used during disconnect to wait for all
the I/Os before disconnecting from the frontend. We latch on its
value and if it reaches either the threshold for disconnect or when
there are no more outstanding I/Os, then we have drained all I/Os.

Suggested-by: Christopher Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-10-13 09:48:36 -04:00
Jan Beulich 8e6dc6fe51 xen-blkback: use kzalloc() in favor of kmalloc()+memset()
This fixes the problem of three of those four memset()-s having
improper size arguments passed: Sizeof a pointer-typed expression
returns the size of the pointer, not that of the pointed to data.

It also reverts using kmalloc() instead of kzalloc() for the allocation
of the pending grant handles array, as that array gets fully
initialized in a subsequent loop.

Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-10-13 09:48:34 -04:00
Joe Jin c555aab97d xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments
This patch fixes belows:

1. Fix code style issue.
2. Fix incorrect functions name in comments.

Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-10-13 09:48:33 -04:00
Li Dongyang b3cb0d6adc xen-blkback: Implement discard requests ('feature-discard')
..aka ATA TRIM/SCSI UNMAP command to be passed through the frontend
and used as appropiately by the backend. We also advertise
certain granulity parameters to the frontend so it can plug them in.
If the backend is a realy device - we just end up using
'blkdev_issue_discard' while for loopback devices - we just punch
a hole in the image file.

Signed-off-by: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
[v1: Fixed up pr_debug and commit description]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-10-13 09:48:30 -04:00
Stefano Stabellini 0930bba674 xen: modify kernel mappings corresponding to granted pages
If we want to use granted pages for AIO, changing the mappings of a user
vma and the corresponding p2m is not enough, we also need to update the
kernel mappings accordingly.
Currently this is only needed for pages that are created for user usages
through /dev/xen/gntdev. As in, pages that have been in use by the
kernel and use the P2M will not need this special mapping.
However there are no guarantees that in the future the kernel won't
start accessing pages through the 1:1 even for internal usage.

In order to avoid the complexity of dealing with highmem, we allocated
the pages lowmem.
We issue a HYPERVISOR_grant_table_op right away in
m2p_add_override and we remove the mappings using another
HYPERVISOR_grant_table_op in m2p_remove_override.
Considering that m2p_add_override and m2p_remove_override are called
once per page we use multicalls and hypercall batching.

Use the kmap_op pointer directly as argument to do the mapping as it is
guaranteed to be present up until the unmapping is done.
Before issuing any unmapping multicalls, we need to make sure that the
mapping has already being done, because we need the kmap->handle to be
set correctly.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
[v1: Removed GRANT_FRAME_BIT usage]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-09-29 10:32:58 -04:00
Jesper Juhl e5de063016 Remove unneeded version.h includes from drivers/block/
It was pointed out by 'make versioncheck' that some includes of
linux/version.h are not needed in drivers/block/.
This patch removes them.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-09-15 14:57:06 +02:00
Jens Axboe 89c63a8ef3 Merge branch 'stable/for-jens' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen into for-linus 2011-08-23 15:09:13 +02:00
Joe Jin 1bc05b0ae6 xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments
This patch fixes belows:

1. Fix code style issue.
2. Fix incorrect functions name in comments.

Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-08-22 11:35:36 -04:00
Joe Jin 6f5986bce5 xen-blkback: Don't disconnect backend until state switched to XenbusStateClosed.
When do block-attach/block-detach test with below steps, umount hangs
in the guest. Furthermore shutdown ends up being stuck when umounting file-systems.

1. start guest.
2. attach new block device by xm block-attach in Dom0.
3. mount new disk in guest.
4. execute xm block-detach to detach the block device in dom0 until timeout
5. Any request to the disk will hung.

Root cause:
This issue is caused when setting backend device's state to
'XenbusStateClosing', which sends to the frontend the XenbusStateClosing
notification. When frontend receives the notification it tries to release
the disk in blkfront_closing(), but at that moment the disk is still in use
by guest, so frontend refuses to close. Specifically it sets the disk state to
XenbusStateClosing and sends the notification to backend - when backend receives the
event, it disconnects the vbd from real device, and sets the vbd device state to
XenbusStateClosing. The backend disconnects the real device/file, and any IO
requests to the disk in guest will end up in ether, leaving disk DEAD and set to
XenbusStateClosing. When the guest wants to disconnect the disk, umount will
hang on blkif_release()->xlvbd_release_gendisk() as it is unable to send any IO
to the disk, which prevents clean system shutdown.

Solution:
Don't disconnect backend until frontend state switched to XenbusStateClosed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Annie Li <annie.li@oracle.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
[v1: Modified description a bit]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-08-22 11:35:35 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 8ded371f81 Merge branch 'for-3.1/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.1/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  cciss: do not attempt to read from a write-only register
  xen/blkback: Add module alias for autoloading
  xen/blkback: Don't let in-flight requests defer pending ones.
  bsg: fix address space warning from sparse
  bsg: remove unnecessary conditional expressions
  bsg: fix bsg_poll() to return POLLOUT properly
2011-07-25 10:38:18 -07:00
Bastian Blank a7e9357f10 xen/blkback: Add module alias for autoloading
Add xen-backend:vbd module alias to the xen-blkback module. This allows
automatic loading of the module.

Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-06-30 12:48:25 -04:00
Daniel Stodden b4726a9df2 xen/blkback: Don't let in-flight requests defer pending ones.
Running RING_FINAL_CHECK_FOR_REQUESTS from make_response is a bad
idea. It means that in-flight I/O is essentially blocking continued
batches. This essentially kills throughput on frontends which unplug
(or even just notify) early and rightfully assume addtional requests
will be picked up on time, not synchronously.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
[v1: Rebased and fixed compile problems]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-06-30 12:48:06 -04:00
Joe Perches 08b8bfc1c6 xen: Add __attribute__((format(printf... where appropriate
Use the compiler to verify printf formats and arguments.

Fix fallout.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-06-30 12:14:40 -04:00
Dan Carpenter 9b83c77121 xen/blkback: potential null dereference in error handling
blkbk->pending_pages can be NULL here so I added a check for it.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
[v1: Redid the loop a bit]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-06-01 09:28:21 -04:00
Laszlo Ersek 6464920a6e xen/blkback: don't call vbd_size() if bd_disk is NULL
...because vbd_size() dereferences bd_disk if bd_part is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek<lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-06-01 09:28:20 -04:00
Jan Beulich 8ab521506c xen/blkback: don't fail empty barrier requests
The sector number on empty barrier requests may (will?) be -1, which,
given that it's being treated as unsigned 64-bit quantity, will almost
always exceed the actual (virtual) disk's size.

Inspired by Konrad's "When writting barriers set the sector number to
zero...".

While at it also add overflow checking to the math in vbd_translate().

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-18 11:28:16 -04:00
Laszlo Ersek 496b318eb6 xen/blkback: fix xenbus_transaction_start() hang caused by double xenbus_transaction_end()
vbd_resize() up_read()'s xs_state.suspend_mutex twice in a row via double
xenbus_transaction_end() calls. The next down_read() in
xenbus_transaction_start() (at eg. the next resize attempt) hangs.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618317

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-13 09:45:40 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 5185432277 xen/blkback: Align the tabs on the structure.
The recent changes caused this field of the structure to be offset a bit.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 18:02:28 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk cca537af7d xen/blkback: if log_stats is enabled print out the data.
And not depend on the driver being built with -DDEBUG flag.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 17:55:54 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 5a577e3872 xen/blkback: Add the prefix XEN in the common.h.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 17:55:53 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 3d814731ba xen/blkback: Prefix 'vbd' with 'xen' in structs and functions.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 17:55:52 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 30fd150202 xen/blkback: Change structure name blkif_st to xen_blkif.
No need for that '_st' and xen_blkif is more apt.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 17:55:51 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 325a648604 xen/blkback: Remove the unused typedefs.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 17:55:50 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 452a6b2bb6 xen/blkback: Move include/xen/blkif.h into drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
Not point of the blkif.h file. It is not used by the frontend.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 17:55:49 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk b0f801273f xen/blkback: Fixing some more of the cleanpatch.pl warnings.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 17:55:48 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 03e0edf946 xen/blkback: Checkpatch.pl recommend against multiple assigments.
CHECK: multiple assignments should be avoided

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 17:55:47 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk b9fc02968c xen/blkback: Fix spelling mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 16:43:21 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 68c88dd7d3 xen/blkback: Move blkif_get_x86_[32|64]_req to common.h in block/xen-blkback dir.
From the blkif.h header, which was exposed to the frontend.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 16:43:20 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 72468bfcb8 xen/blkback: Removing the debug_lvl option.
It is not really used for anything.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 16:43:20 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 22b20f2dff xen/blkback: Use the DRV_PFX in the pr_.. macros.
To make it easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 16:43:12 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 1afbd730a3 xen/blkback: Make the DPRINTK uniform.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 16:42:51 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ebe8190659 xen/blkback: Change printk/DPRINTK to pr_.. type variant.
And also make them uniform and prefix the message with 'xen-blkback'.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-12 16:42:31 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 01f37f2d53 xen/blkback: Fixed up comments and converted spaces to tabs.
Suggested-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-11 15:57:09 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 3d68b39926 xen/blkback: Fix up some of the comments.
They had the wrong data or were in the wrong spot.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-05 13:43:26 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk fc53bf757e xen/blkback: Squash the checking for operation into dispatch_rw_block_io
We do a check for the operations right before calling dispatch_rw_block_io.
And then we do the same check in dispatch_rw_block_io. This patch
squashes those checks into the 'dispatch_rw_block_io' function.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-05 13:43:25 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 24f567f952 xen/blkback: Add support for BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE and drop BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER.
We drop the support for 'feature-barrier' and add in the support
for the 'feature-flush-cache' if the real backend storage supports
flushing.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-05 13:43:24 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk a19be5f0f0 Revert "xen/blkback: Move the plugging/unplugging to a higher level."
This reverts commit 97961ef46b b/c
we lose about 15% performance if we do the unplugging and the
end of the reading the ring buffer.
2011-04-27 12:40:11 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 013c3ca184 xen/blkback: Stick REQ_SYNC on WRITEs to deal with CFQ I/O scheduler.
If one runs a simple fio request with random read/write with a
20%/80% ratio, the numbers are incredibly bad when using the CFQ scheduler.

IOmeter       |       |      |          |
64K, randrw   |  NOOP | CFQ  | deadline |
randrwmix=80  |       |      |          |
--------------+-------+------+----------+
blkback       |103/27 |32/10 | 102/27   |
--------------+-------+------+----------+
QEMU qdisk    |103/27 |102/27| 102/27   |

The problem as explained by Vivek Goyal was:

".. that difference is that sync vs async requests. In the case of
a kernel thread submitting IO, [..] all the WRITES might be being
considered as async and will go in a different queue. If you mix those
with some READS, they are always sync and will go in differnet queue.
In presence of sync queue, CFQ will idle and choke up WRITES in
an attempt to improve latencies of READs.

In case of AIO [note: this is what QEMU qdisk is doing] , [..]
it is direct IO and both READS and WRITES will be considered SYNC
and will go in a single queue and no choking of WRITES will take place."

The solution is quite simple, tack on REQ_SYNC (which is
what the WRITE_ODIRECT macro points to) and the numbers go
back up.

Suggested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-04-26 16:24:18 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 97961ef46b xen/blkback: Move the plugging/unplugging to a higher level.
We used to the plug/unplug on the submit_bio. But that means
if within a stream of WRITE, WRITE, WRITE,...,WRITE we have
one READ, it could stall the pipeline (as the 'submio_bio'
could trigger the unplug_fnc to be called and stall/sync
when doing the READ). Instead we want to move the unplugging
when the whole (or as a much as possible) ring buffer has been
processed. This also eliminates us doing plug/unplug for
each request.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-04-26 13:01:32 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 8b6bf747d7 xen/blkback: Prefix exposed functions with xen_
And also shorten the name if it has blkback to blkbk.

This results in the symbol table (if compiled in the kernel)
to be much shorter, prettier,  and also easier to search for.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-04-20 11:58:03 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 42c7841d17 xen-blkback: Inline some of the functions that were moved from vbd/interface.c
Shuffling code around.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-04-20 11:58:02 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 6cd0388cd6 xen-blkback: Remove from the copyright notice the address.
There is no need for it, as the address is updated constatly
in the root of the Linux kernel.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-04-20 11:58:01 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ee9ff8537e xen/blkback: Squash vbd.c,interface.c in blkback.c and xenbus.c respectivly.
Daniel Stodden suggested to eliminate vbd.c and interface.c, inlining the
critical bits where they belong, respectively.

Leaving only blkback.c for the data- and xenbus.c for the control path.

Suggested-by:  Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-04-20 11:57:59 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk dfc07b13dc xen/blkback: Move it from drivers/xen to drivers/block
.. and modify the Makefile and Kconfig files appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-04-18 14:30:26 -04:00