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Ed Cashin ca47bbd93c aoe: update copyright date
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:08:05 -07:00
Ed Cashin 8030d34397 aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel
Some users have a large AoE target while others like to use many AoE
targets at the same time.  In the latter case, there is an opportunity to
greatly improve aggregate throughput by allowing different threads to
complete the I/O associated with each target.  For 36 targets, 4 KiB read
throughput roughly doubles, for example, with these changes in place.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:08:05 -07:00
Kees Cook f170168b9a drivers: avoid parsing names as kthread_run() format strings
Calling kthread_run with a single name parameter causes it to be handled
as a format string. Many callers are passing potentially dynamic string
content, so use "%s" in those cases to avoid any potential accidents.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:07:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ebb3727779 Merge branch 'for-3.10/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "It might look big in volume, but when categorized, not a lot of
  drivers are touched.  The pull request contains:

   - mtip32xx fixes from Micron.

   - A slew of drbd updates, this time in a nicer series.

   - bcache, a flash/ssd caching framework from Kent.

   - Fixes for cciss"

* 'for-3.10/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (66 commits)
  bcache: Use bd_link_disk_holder()
  bcache: Allocator cleanup/fixes
  cciss: bug fix to prevent cciss from loading in kdump crash kernel
  cciss: add cciss_allow_hpsa module parameter
  drivers/block/mg_disk.c: add CONFIG_PM_SLEEP to suspend/resume functions
  mtip32xx: Workaround for unaligned writes
  bcache: Make sure blocksize isn't smaller than device blocksize
  bcache: Fix merge_bvec_fn usage for when it modifies the bvm
  bcache: Correctly check against BIO_MAX_PAGES
  bcache: Hack around stuff that clones up to bi_max_vecs
  bcache: Set ra_pages based on backing device's ra_pages
  bcache: Take data offset from the bdev superblock.
  mtip32xx: mtip32xx: Disable TRIM support
  mtip32xx: fix a smatch warning
  bcache: Disable broken btree fuzz tester
  bcache: Fix a format string overflow
  bcache: Fix a minor memory leak on device teardown
  bcache: Documentation updates
  bcache: Use WARN_ONCE() instead of __WARN()
  bcache: Add missing #include <linux/prefetch.h>
  ...
2013-05-08 11:51:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4de13d7aa8 Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.

 - Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
   bypass operation.

 - Fix for the hang on exceeded rq->datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
   discard bios.

 - Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
   workqueue mechanism.

 - Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
   tree.

 - A few random fixes.

* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
  relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
  partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
  fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
  block: fix max discard sectors limit
  blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
  Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
  writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
  writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
  writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
  aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
  bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
  block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
  block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
  block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
  block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
  bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
  raid1: use bio_copy_data()
  pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
  pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
  block: Add bio_copy_data()
  ...
2013-05-08 10:13:35 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 91c5746425 aoe: reserve enough headroom on skbs
Some network drivers use a non default hard_header_len

Transmitted skb should take into account dev->hard_header_len, or risk
crashes or expensive reallocations.

In the case of aoe, lets reserve MAX_HEADER bytes.

David reported a crash in defxx driver, solved by this patch.

Reported-by: David Oostdyk <daveo@ll.mit.edu>
Tested-by: David Oostdyk <daveo@ll.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-28 14:29:47 -04:00
Jens Axboe 2124469efa aoe: get rid of cached bv variable in bufinit()
Less error prone if we just kill it, it's only used once
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-25 15:27:26 -06:00
Kent Overstreet f1fb3449ef aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
Commit 4f2ac93c17 (block: Remove bi_idx
references) accidently removed the bit that set bv - readd that.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-25 13:46:14 -06:00
Kent Overstreet 4f2ac93c17 block: Remove bi_idx references
For immutable bvecs, all bi_idx usage needs to be audited - so here
we're removing all the unnecessary uses.

Most of these are places where it was being initialized on a bio that
was just allocated, a few others are conversions to standard macros.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-23 14:15:31 -07:00
Ed Cashin bf29754ae8 aoe: identify source of runt AoE packets
This change only affects experimental AoE storage networks.

It modifies the console message about runt packets detected so that the
AoE major and minor addresses of the AoE target that generated the runt
are mentioned.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:26 -08:00
Ed Cashin c450ba0fc1 aoe: allow user to disable target failure timeout
With this change, the aoe driver treats the value zero as special for
the aoe_deadsecs module parameter.  Normally, this value specifies the
number of seconds during which the driver will continue to attempt
retransmits to an unresponsive AoE target.  After aoe_deadsecs has
elapsed, the aoe driver marks the aoe device as "down" and fails all
I/O.

The new meaning of an aoe_deadsecs of zero is for the driver to
retransmit commands indefinitely.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:25 -08:00
Ed Cashin 71114ec45f aoe: use dynamic number of remote ports for AoE storage target
Many AoE targets have four or fewer network ports, but some existing
storage devices have many, and the AoE protocol sets no limit.

This patch allows the use of more than eight remote MAC addresses per AoE
target, while reducing the amount of memory used by the aoe driver in
cases where there are many AoE targets with fewer than eight MAC addresses
each.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:25 -08:00
Ed Cashin bbb44e30d0 aoe: improve handling of misbehaving network paths
An AoE target can have multiple network ports used for AoE, and in the
aoe driver, those are tracked by the aoetgt struct.  These changes allow
the aoe driver to handle network paths, or aoetgts, that are not working
well, compared to the others.

Paths that do not get responses despite the retransmission of AoE
commands are marked as "tainted", and non-tainted paths are preferred.

Meanwhile, the aoe driver attempts to "probe" the tainted path in the
background by issuing reads of LBA 0 that are padded out to full
(possibly jumbo-frame) size.  If the probes get responses, then the path
is "redeemed", and its taint is removed.

This mechanism has been shown to be helpful in transparently handling
and recovering from real-world network "brown outs" in ways that the
earlier "shoot the help-needing target in the head" mechanism could not.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:25 -08:00
Ed Cashin 60116cf773 aoe: remove call to request handler from I/O completion
There is no need to call the request handler function in the I/O
completion routine.  The user impact of not doing it is a more "nice" aoe
driver that is less susceptible to causing soft lockups.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:25 -08:00
Ed Cashin 7b6ccc5f97 aoe: increase default cap on outstanding AoE commands in the network
The aoe driver will never be waiting for more than aoe_maxout AoE
commands from a given remote network port on an AoE target.  Increasing
the cap increases performance.  Users can tighten the setting to reduce
the amount of memory used for handling AoE traffic or the network
bandwidth used for AoE.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:25 -08:00
Ed Cashin fe7252bf51 aoe: copy fallback timing information on destination failover
Commit f3b8e07af774 ("aoe: commands in retransmit queue use new
destination on failure") omits the copying of the coarse-grained time
when an AoE command was sent during the failover from one destination
MAC address on the AoE target to another.

The coarse-grained timing is only used when the system time changes or
an unlikely length of time has passed since the sending of the AoE
command.  Users will not be impacted unless their system clock is very
inaccurate or something unusual (e.g., 10 GbE link reset) happens during
the period when the aoe driver is handling the failure of a port on the
AoE target.  Being effected will mean that an AoE target could be
considered "down" too eagerly.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:24 -08:00
Ed Cashin 3fc9b03248 aoe: commands in retransmit queue use new destination on failure
When one remote MAC address isn't working as a destination for AoE
commands, the frames used to track information associated with the AoE
commands are moved to a new aoetgt (defined by the tuple of {AoE major,
AoE minor, target MAC address}).

This patch makes sure that the frames on the queue for retransmits that
need to be done are updated to use the new destination, so that
retransmits will be sent through a working network path.

Without this change, packets on the retransmit queue will be needlessly
retransmitted to the unresponsive destination MAC, possibly causing
premature target failure before there's time for the retransmit timer to
run again, decide to retransmit again, and finally update the destination
to a working MAC address on the AoE target.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:24 -08:00
Ed Cashin 5f0c9c48e7 aoe: use high-resolution RTTs with fallback to low-res
These changes improve the accuracy of the decision about whether it's time
to retransmit an AoE command by using the microsecond-resolution
gettimeofday instead of jiffies.

Because the system time can jump suddenly, the decision reverts to using
jiffies if the high-resolution time difference is relatively large.
Otherwise the AoE targets could be considered failed inappropriately.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:24 -08:00
Ed Cashin 0d555ecfa4 aoe: manipulate aoedev network stats under lock
With this bugfix in place the calculation of the criterion for "lateness"
is performed under lock.  Without the lock, there is a chance that one of
the non-atomic operations performed on the round trip time statistics
could be incomplete, such that an incorrect lateness criterion would be
calculated.

Without this change, the effect of the bug would be rare unecessary but
benign retransmissions.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:24 -08:00
Ed Cashin 2292a7e109 aoe: err device: include MAC addresses for unexpected responses
The /dev/etherd/err character device provides low-level information about
normal but sometimes interesting AoE command retransmits and "unexpected
responses", i.e., responses for packets that have already been
retransmitted.

This change adds MAC addresses to the messages about unexpected responses,
so that when they occur, it's more easy to determine the network paths to
which they belong.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:24 -08:00
Ed Cashin 3a0c40d2d2 aoe: improve network congestion handling
The aoe driver already had some congestion handling, but it was limited in
its ability to cope with the kind of congestion that can arise on more
complex networks such as those involving paths through multiple ethernet
switches.

Some of the lessons from TCP's history of development can be applied to
improving the congestion control and avoidance on AoE storage networks.
These changes use familar concepts from Van Jacobson's "Congestion
Avoidance and Control" paper from '88, without adding significant
overhead.

This patch depends on an upcoming patch that covers the failover case when
AoE commands being retransmitted are transferred from one retransmit queue
to another.  Another upcoming patch increases the timing accuracy.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:24 -08:00
Ed Cashin 667be1e757 aoe: provide ATA identify device content to user on request
Make the aoe driver follow expected behavior when the user uses ioctl to
get the ATA device identify information, allowing access to model, serial
number, etc.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:24 -08:00
Ed Cashin a04b41cd2c aoe: whitespace cleanup
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:24 -08:00
Ed Cashin d437962504 aoe: cleanup: remove unused ata_scnt function
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:24 -08:00
Ed Cashin 1b8a1636ce aoe: update cap on outstanding commands based on config query response
The ATA over Ethernet config query response contains a "buffer count"
field reflecting the AoE target's capacity to buffer incoming AoE
commands.

By taking the current value of this field into accound, we increase
performance throughput or avoid network congestion, when the value
has increased or decreased, respectively.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:23 -08:00
Ed Cashin 11cfb6ff73 aoe: avoid running request handler on plugged queue
Calling the request handler directly on a plugged queue defeats
the performance improvements provided by the plugging mechanism.
Use the __blk_run_queue function instead of calling the request
handler directly, so that we don't interfere with the block
layer's ability to plug the queue.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-11-23 14:32:55 +01:00
Ed Cashin 7159e969d1 aoe: update and specify AoE address guards and error messages
In general, specific is better when it comes to messages about AoE usage
problems.  Also, explicit checks for the AoE broadcast addresses are
added.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:29 +09:00
Ed Cashin 0c96621458 aoe: support more AoE addresses with dynamic block device minor numbers
The ATA over Ethernet protocol uses a major (shelf) and minor (slot)
address to identify a particular storage target.  These changes remove an
artificial limitation the aoe driver imposes on the use of AoE addresses.
For example, without these changes, the slot address has a maximum of 15,
but users commonly use slot numbers much greater than that.

The AoE shelf and slot address space is often used sparsely.  Instead of
using a static mapping between AoE addresses and the block device minor
number, the block device minor numbers are now allocated on demand.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:28 +09:00
Ed Cashin fea05a26c3 aoe: update copyright year in touched files
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:28 +09:00
Ed Cashin b21faa25c6 aoe: remove unused code and add cosmetic improvements
This change removes some unused code and attempts to increase code
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:27 +09:00
Ed Cashin 1b86fda9ad aoe: increase net_device reference count while using it
This change eliminates the danger that the user could rmmod the driver for
a network interface that is being used for AoE by the aoe driver.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:27 +09:00
Ed Cashin 64a80f5ac7 aoe: associate frames with the AoE storage target
In the driver code, "target" and aoetgt refer to a particular remote
interface on the AoE storage target.  The latter is identified by its AoE
major and minor addresses.  Commands that are being sent to an AoE storage
target {major, minor} can be sent or retransmitted to any of the remote
MAC addresses associated with the AoE storage target.

That is, frames are naturally associated with not an aoetgt (AoE major,
AoE minor, remote MAC address) but an aoedev (AoE major, AoE minor).
Making the code reflect that reality simplifies the driver, especially
when the path to a remote MAC address becomes unusable.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:27 +09:00
Ed Cashin 6583303c5e aoe: disallow unsupported AoE minor addresses
A guard is inserted to prevent AoE minor addresses (slot addresses) higher
than 15 to be used, as they are not yet supported by the driver.

There is a change coming that will allow the aoe driver to overcome this
limit by using system device minor numbers dynamically, but until then,
this guard prevents unexpected targets from being used by the driver when
AoE targets with high minor numbers are on the AoE network.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:26 +09:00
Ed Cashin d54d35ac66 aoe: failover remote interface based on aoe_deadsecs parameter
The aoe_deadsecs module parameter allows the user to specify a hard limit
on the number of seconds an AoE command can be retransmitted before the
AoE block device is considered to have failed.

Using aoe_deadsecs to determine the time we try using a different remote
interface helps to ensure that the hard limit is not reached before we've
tried to recover by sending to a different remote port.

As a data storage target, the AoE target is unambiguously identified by
its {major, minor} AoE address tuple, and an AoE target can have multiple
MAC addresses.  However, note that "target" in the driver code and
comments means a {major, minor, MAC address} tuple, as in "somewhere to
send packets".

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:26 +09:00
Ed Cashin 3f0f013374 aoe: use packets that work with the smallest-MTU local interface
Users with several network interfaces dedicated to AoE generally do not
configure them to support different-sized AoE data payloads on purpose.

For a given AoE target, there will be a set of local network interfaces
that can reach it.  Using only the payload that will fit in the
smallest-sized MTU of all those local interfaces greatly simplifies the
driver, especially in failure scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:25 +09:00
Ed Cashin eb086ec596 aoe: use a kernel thread for transmissions
The dev_queue_xmit function needs to have interrupts enabled, so the most
simple way to get the locking right but still fulfill that requirement is
to use a process that can call dev_queue_xmit serially over queued
transmissions.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:25 +09:00
Ed Cashin 69cf2d85de aoe: become I/O request queue handler for increased user control
To allow users to choose an elevator algorithm for their particular
workloads, change from a make_request-style driver to an
I/O-request-queue-handler-style driver.

We have to do a couple of things that might be surprising.  We manipulate
the page _count directly on the assumption that we still have no guarantee
that users of the block layer are prohibited from submitting bios
containing pages with zero reference counts.[1] If such a prohibition now
exists, I can get rid of the _count manipulation.

Just as before this patch, we still keep track of the sk_buffs that the
network layer still hasn't finished yet and cap the resources we use with
a "pool" of skbs.[2]

Now that the block layer maintains the disk stats, the aoe driver's
diskstats function can go away.

1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/1/374
2. https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/6/241

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:25 +09:00
Ed Cashin 896831f590 aoe: kernel thread handles I/O completions for simple locking
Make the frames the aoe driver uses to track the relationship between bios
and packets more flexible and detached, so that they can be passed to an
"aoe_ktio" thread for completion of I/O.

The frames are handled much like skbs, with a capped amount of
preallocation so that real-world use cases are likely to run smoothly and
degenerate gracefully even under memory pressure.

Decoupling I/O completion from the receive path and serializing it in a
process makes it easier to think about the correctness of the locking in
the driver, especially in the case of a remote MAC address becoming
unusable.

[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: cleanup an allocation a bit]
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:24 +09:00
Ed Cashin 3d5b06051c aoe: for performance support larger packet payloads
tAdd adds the ability to work with large packets composed of a number of
segments, using the scatter gather feature of the block layer (biovecs)
and the network layer (skb frag array).  The motivation is the performance
gained by using a packet data payload greater than a page size and by
using the network card's scatter gather feature.

Users of the out-of-tree aoe driver already had these changes, but since
early 2011, they have complained of increased memory utilization and
higher CPU utilization during heavy writes.[1] The commit below appears
related, as it disables scatter gather on non-IP protocols inside the
harmonize_features function, even when the NIC supports sg.

  commit f01a5236bd
  Author: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
  Date:   Sun Jan 9 06:23:31 2011 +0000

      net offloading: Generalize netif_get_vlan_features().

With that regression in place, transmits always linearize sg AoE packets,
but in-kernel users did not have this patch.  Before 2.6.38, though, these
changes were working to allow sg to increase performance.

1. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg15184.html

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:24 +09:00
Ed Cashin 8babe8cc65 aoe: assert AoE packets marked as requiring no checksum
In order for the network layer to see that AoE requires
no checksumming in a generic way, the packets must be
marked as requiring no checksum, so we make this requirement
explicit with the assertion.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-20 22:23:40 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 840a185ddd aoe: remove dev_base_lock use from aoecmd_cfg_pkts()
dev_base_lock is the legacy way to lock the device list, and is planned
to disappear. (writers hold RTNL, readers hold RCU lock)

Convert aoecmd_cfg_pkts() to RCU locking.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-08 13:50:07 -08:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Andrew Morton 6ec1480d85 aoe: switch to the new bio_flush_dcache_pages() interface
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-22 09:12:48 +01:00
Peter Horton 0a1f127a05 aoe: prevent cache aliases
Prevent the AoE block driver from creating cache aliases of page cache
pages on machines with virtually indexed caches.

Building kernels on an AT91SAM9G20 board without this patch fails with
segmentation faults after a couple of passes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Horton <zero@colonel-panic.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-01 16:32:20 -08:00
David S. Miller 438263ac58 aoe: Remove superfluous clearing of skb fields in new_skb().
This code uses alloc_skb() which clears them out for us.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 17:09:44 -07:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 04b3ab52a0 aoe: WIN_* -> ATA_CMD_*
* Use ATA_CMD_* defines instead of WIN_* ones.

* Include <linux/ata.h> directly instead of through <linux/hdreg.h>.

Cc: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-04-01 21:42:24 +02:00
Harvey Harrison 411c41eea5 aoe: remove private mac address format function
Add %pm to omit the colons when printing a mac address.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 00:40:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4dd9ec4946 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1075 commits)
  myri10ge: update driver version number to 1.4.3-1.369
  r8169: add shutdown handler
  r8169: preliminary 8168d support
  r8169: support additional 8168cp chipset
  r8169: change default behavior for mildly identified 8168c chipsets
  r8169: add a new 8168cp flavor
  r8169: add a new 8168c flavor (bis)
  r8169: add a new 8168c flavor
  r8169: sync existing 8168 device hardware start sequences with vendor driver
  r8169: 8168b Tx performance tweak
  r8169: make room for more specific 8168 hardware start procedure
  r8169: shuffle some registers handling around (8168 operation only)
  r8169: new phy init parameters for the 8168b
  r8169: update phy init parameters
  r8169: wake up the PHY of the 8168
  af_key: fix SADB_X_SPDDELETE response
  ath9k: Fix return code when ath9k_hw_setpower() fails on reset
  ath9k: remove nasty FAIL macro from ath9k_hw_reset()
  gre: minor cleanups in netlink interface
  gre: fix copy and paste error
  ...
2008-10-11 09:33:18 -07:00
Tejun Heo 074a7aca7a block: move stats from disk to part0
Move stats related fields - stamp, in_flight, dkstats - from disk to
part0 and unify stat handling such that...

* part_stat_*() now updates part0 together if the specified partition
  is not part0.  ie. part_stat_*() are now essentially all_stat_*().

* {disk|all}_stat_*() are gone.

* part_round_stats() is updated similary.  It handles part0 stats
  automatically and disk_round_stats() is killed.

* part_{inc|dec}_in_fligh() is implemented which automatically updates
  part0 stats for parts other than part0.

* disk_map_sector_rcu() is updated to return part0 if no part matches.
  Combined with the above changes, this makes NULL special case
  handling in callers unnecessary.

* Separate stats show code paths for disk are collapsed into part
  stats show code paths.

* Rename disk_stat_lock/unlock() to part_stat_lock/unlock()

While at it, reposition stat handling macros a bit and add missing
parentheses around macro parameters.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo 80795aefb7 block: move capacity from disk to part0
Move disk->capacity to part0->nr_sects and convert all users who
directly accessed the field to use {get|set}_capacity().  This is done
early to allow the __dev field to be moved.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:07 +02:00