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Brian Behlendorf 36ba27e9e0 Linux 4.13 compat: bio->bi_status and blk_status_t
Commit torvalds/linux@4e4cbee9.  The bio->bi_error field was
replaced with bio->bi_status which is an enum that describes
all possible error types.

Reviewed-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #6351
2017-07-23 19:37:12 -07:00
Richard Yao bc17f1047a Enable Linux read-ahead for a single page on ZVOLs
Linux has read-ahead logic designed to accelerate sequential workloads.
ZFS has its own read-ahead logic called zprefetch that operates on both
ZVOLs and datasets. Having two prefetchers active at the same time can
cause overprefetching, which unnecessarily reduces IOPS performance on
CoW filesystems like ZFS.

Testing shows that entirely disabling the Linux prefetch results in
a significant performance penalty for reads while commensurate benefits
are seen in random writes. It appears that read-ahead benefits are
inversely proportional to random write benefits, and so a single page
of Linux-layer read-ahead appears to offer the middle ground for both
workloads.

Reviewed-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Issue #5902
2017-05-04 18:00:27 -04:00
Chunwei Chen 692e55b8fe Reinstate zvol_taskq to fix aio on zvol
Commit 37f9dac removed the zvol_taskq for processing zvol requests.
This was removed as part of switching to make_request_fn and was
motivated by a concern at the time over dispatch latency.

However, this also made all bio request synchronous, and caused
serious performance issues as the bio submitter would wait for
every bio it submitted, effectively making the IO depth 1.

This patch reinstate zvol_taskq, and to make sure overlapped I/Os
are ordered properly, we take range lock in zvol_request, and pass
it along with bio to the I/O functions zvol_{write,discard,read}.

In order to facilitate benchmarks a zvol_request_sync module
option was added to switch between sync and async request handling.
For the moment, the default behavior is synchronous but this is
likely to change pending additional testing.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Closes #5824
2017-04-26 13:54:40 -07:00
Tony Hutter 463009865f Fix harmless "BARRIER is deprecated" kernel warning on Centos 6.8
A one time warning after module load that "BARRIER is deprecated" was seen
on the heavily patched 2.6.32-642.13.1.el6.x86_64 Centos 6.8 kernel.  It seems
that kernel had both the old BARRIER and the newer FLUSH/FUA interfaces
defined.  This fixes the warning by prefering the newer FLUSH/FUA interface
if it's available.

Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Closes #5739 
Closes #5828
2017-03-08 09:20:21 -08:00
bunder2015 5fc73c46f9 Fix multi-line error messages in blkdev_compat.h
Fix multi-line error messages in blkdev_compat.h by changing
error-generating multi-line error messages to single line errors.

Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Giuseppe Di Natale <dinatale2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: bunder2015 <omfgbunder@gmail.com>
Closes #5860
2017-03-07 09:54:55 -08:00
Tim Chase a5e046eaac 4.10 compat - BIO flag changes and others
[bio] The req_op enum was changed to req_opf.  Update the "Linux 4.8 API"
autotools checks to use an int to determine whether the various REQ_OP
values are defined.  This should work properly on kernels >= 4.8.

[bio] bio_set_op_attrs() is now an inline function and can't be detected
with #ifdef.  Add a configure check to determine whether bio_set_op_attrs()
is defined.  Move the local definition of it from vdev_disk.c to
blkdev_compat.h for consistency with other related compability shims.

[bio] The read/write flags and their modifiers, including WRITE_FLUSH,
WRITE_FUA and WRITE_FLUSH_FUA have been removed from fs.h.  Add the new
bio_set_flush() compatibility wrapper to replace VDEV_WRITE_FLUSH_FUA
and set the flags appropriately for each supported kernel version.

[vfs] The generic_readlink() function has been made static.  If .readlink
in inode_operations is NULL, generic_readlink() is used.

[zol typo] Completely unrelated to 4.10 compat, fix a typo in the check
for REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE so that the proper macro is defined:

    s/HAVE_REQ_OP_SECURE_DISCARD/HAVE_REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE/

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes #5499
2016-12-30 16:03:59 -06:00
Hajo Möller e02aaf17f1 Fix lookup_bdev() on Ubuntu
Ubuntu added support for checking inode permissions to lookup_bdev() in kernel
commit 193fb6a2c94fab8eb8ce70a5da4d21c7d4023bee (merged in 4.4.0-6.21).
Upstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1636517

This patch adds a test for Ubuntu's variant of lookup_bdev() to configure and
calls the function in the correct way.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Hajo Möller <dasjoe@gmail.com>
Closes #5336
2016-10-26 10:30:43 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 6eb73b0046 Reorder HAVE_BIO_RW_* checks
The HAVE_BIO_RW_* #ifdef's must appear before REQ_* #ifdef's
in the bio_is_flush() and bio_is_discard() macros.  Linux 2.6.32
era kernels defined both of values and the HAVE_BIO_RW_* must be
used in this case.  This resulted in a panic in zconfig test 5.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Closes #4951
Closes #4959
2016-08-12 09:17:40 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf cf41432c70 Linux 4.8 compat: Fix removal of bio->bi_rw member
All users of bio->bi_rw have been replaced with compatibility wrappers.
This allows the kernel specific logic to be abstracted away, and for
each of the supported cases to be documented with the wrapper.  The
updated interfaces are as follows:

* void blk_queue_set_write_cache(struct request_queue *, bool, bool)
* boolean_t bio_is_flush(struct bio *)
* boolean_t bio_is_fua(struct bio *)
* boolean_t bio_is_discard(struct bio *)
* boolean_t bio_is_secure_erase(struct bio *)
* VDEV_WRITE_FLUSH_FUA

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Closes #4951
2016-08-11 11:19:34 -07:00
Chunwei Chen 3b86aeb295 Linux 4.8 compat: REQ_OP and bio_set_op_attrs()
New REQ_OP_* definitions have been introduced to separate the
WRITE, READ, and DISCARD operations from the flags.  This included
changing the encoding of bi_rw.  It places REQ_OP_* in high order
bits and other stuff in low order bits.  This encoding is done
through the new helper function bio_set_op_attrs.  For complete
details refer to:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f215082
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4e1b2d5

Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4892
Closes #4899
2016-07-29 14:48:19 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 76e5f6fe10 Linux 4.8 compat: REQ_PREFLUSH
The REQ_FLUSH flag was renamed REQ_PREFLUSH to avoid confusion with
REQ_OP_FLUSH.  See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/28a8f0d3
for complete details.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #4892
Issue #4899
2016-07-29 14:48:09 -07:00
Chunwei Chen 68e8f59afb Linux 4.7 compat: replace blk_queue_flush with blk_queue_write_cache
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #4665
2016-05-20 11:08:55 -07:00
Chunwei Chen 2727b9d3b6 Use uio for zvol_{read,write}
Since uio now supports bvec, we can convert bio into uio and reuse
dmu_{read,write}_uio. This way, we can remove some duplicate code.

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4078
2015-12-15 16:21:43 -08:00
Lukas Wunner 784a7fe5d9 Linux 4.3 compat: bio_end_io_t / BIO_UPTODATE
Commit torvalds/linux@4246a0b63b
("block: add a bi_error field to struct bio") dropped the error
argument from bio_endio in favor of newly introduced bio->bi_error.
This also replaces bio->bi_flags value BIO_UPTODATE.

bio_endio was a 3 argument function until Linux 2.6.24, which made it
a 2 argument function, and now the prototype has changed yet again to
a 1 argument function. Support for pre 2.6.24 kernels was already
dropped with 37f9dac592 ("zvol processing should use struct bio")
which assumed the 2 argument version in zvol_request(). Remaining code
to support the 3 argument version is hereby removed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Issue #3799
2015-09-25 12:44:54 -07:00
Richard Yao 8198d18ca7 Reintroduce IO accounting on zvols on Linux 3.19+
zfsonlinux/zfs@e20cd6f7a8 caused us to
lose IO accounting on zvols. When I originally wrote that last year, the
symbols we needed to maintain IO accounting were GPL exported, but
torvalds/linux@394ffa503b provided
suitable symbols for restoring this functionality 4 months later.  We
can call them to restore the IO accounting on Linux 3.19 and later as
well as any older kernels where that patch is backported.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3741
2015-09-09 09:29:24 -07:00
Richard Yao 7d6e2adb4e Remove blk_rq_bytes()/blk_rq_sectors autotools checks
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
2015-09-04 15:37:24 -04:00
Richard Yao f952eaa7ec Remove blk_rq_pos() autotools check
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
2015-09-04 15:37:24 -04:00
Richard Yao f8c56b405d Remove blk_fetch_request() autotools check
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
2015-09-04 15:37:24 -04:00
Richard Yao e8c6be131c Remove blk_requeue_request() autotools check
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
2015-09-04 15:37:24 -04:00
Richard Yao dd6f9fe61b Remove blk_end_request() autotools check.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
2015-09-04 15:37:24 -04:00
Richard Yao 65f340e725 Remove rq_is_sync() autotools check
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
2015-09-04 15:37:24 -04:00
Richard Yao 9ddf9b8e15 Remove rq_for_each_segment() autotools check
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
2015-09-04 15:37:24 -04:00
Richard Yao 37f9dac592 zvol processing should use struct bio
Internally, zvols are files exposed through the block device API. This
is intended to reduce overhead when things require block devices.
However, the ZoL zvol code emulates a traditional block device in that
it has a top half and a bottom half. This is an unnecessary source of
overhead that does not exist on any other OpenZFS platform does this.
This patch removes it. Early users of this patch reported double digit
performance gains in IOPS on zvols in the range of 50% to 80%.

Comments in the code suggest that the current implementation was done to
obtain IO merging from Linux's IO elevator. However, the DMU already
does write merging while arc_read() should implicitly merge read IOs
because only 1 thread is permitted to fetch the buffer into ARC. In
addition, commercial ZFSOnLinux distributions report that regular files
are more performant than zvols under the current implementation, and the
main consumers of zvols are VMs and iSCSI targets, which have their own
elevators to merge IOs.

Some minor refactoring allows us to register zfs_request() as our
->make_request() handler in place of the generic_make_request()
function. This eliminates the layer of code that broke IO requests on
zvols into a top half and a bottom half. This has several benefits:

1. No per zvol spinlocks.
2. No redundant IO elevator processing.
3. Interrupts are disabled only when actually necessary.
4. No redispatching of IOs when all taskq threads are busy.
5. Linux's page out routines will properly block.
6. Many autotools checks become obsolete.

An unfortunate consequence of eliminating the layer that
generic_make_request() is that we no longer calls the instrumentation
hooks for block IO accounting. Those hooks are GPL-exported, so we
cannot call them ourselves and consequently, we lose the ability to do
IO monitoring via iostat.  Since zvols are internally files mapped as
block devices, this should be okay. Anyone who is willing to accept the
performance penalty for the block IO layer's accounting could use the
loop device in between the zvol and its consumer. Alternatively, perf
and ftrace likely could be used. Also, tools like latencytop will still
work. Tools such as latencytop sometimes provide a better view of
performance bottlenecks than the traditional block IO accounting tools
do.

Lastly, if direct reclaim occurs during spacemap loading and swap is on
a zvol, this code will deadlock. That deadlock could already occur with
sync=always on zvols. Given that swap on zvols is not yet production
ready, this is not a blocker.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
2015-09-04 15:30:24 -04:00
Richard Yao 782b2c326e VDEV_REQ_FUA should be mapped to REQ_FUA
Pre-2.6.37 kernels support REQ_FUA in request flags, but not in BIO
flags. zvols are the only consumer of VDEV_REQ_FUA and since they are
passed requests, they should be obey the REQ_FUA flag like later
kernels. This optimization will only matter on 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 because
the zvol rework changes things to use bio, where we no longer are able
to distinguish on earlier kernels

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
2015-09-02 12:39:08 -04:00
Richard Yao 97771edaca Remove blk_queue_io_opt() autotools check
This is needed for supporting kernels earlier than 2.6.30. Support for
those kernels was dropped, so we can safely remove this check.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-09-01 09:33:18 -07:00
Richard Yao 3c119330a6 Remove blk_queue_physical_block_size() autotools check
This is needed for supporting kernels earlier than 2.6.30. Support for
those kernels was dropped, so we can safely remove this check.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-09-01 09:33:18 -07:00
Tim Chase e48533383b Linux 2.6.36 compat, use REQ_FAILFAST_MASK and remove pre-2.6.36 support
Commit f4af6bb783 which added support
for REQ_FAILFAST_MASK but the new autoconf test didn't use the same
preprocessor macro name as the code did.

The effect is that FAILFAST mode has not been enabled for ZoL in any
post-2.6.35 kernel.

Retire the HAVE_BIO_RW_FAILFAST interface used in pre-2.6.28 kernels.

Raise an error condition if the FAILFAST interface can't be detected.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@onlight.com
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3386
2015-05-11 15:07:00 -07:00
Chunwei Chen b761912b34 Linux 3.14 compat: rq_for_each_segment in dmu_req_copy
rq_for_each_segment changed from taking bio_vec * to taking bio_vec.
We provide rq_for_each_segment4 which takes both.

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #2124
2014-04-10 14:28:51 -07:00
Chunwei Chen d4541210f3 Linux 3.14 compat: Immutable biovec changes in vdev_disk.c
bi_sector, bi_size and bi_idx are moved from bio to bio->bi_iter.
This patch creates BIO_BI_*(bio) macros to hide the differences.

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #2124
2014-04-10 14:28:38 -07:00
Michael Kjorling d1d7e2689d cstyle: Resolve C style issues
The vast majority of these changes are in Linux specific code.
They are the result of not having an automated style checker to
validate the code when it was originally written.  Others were
caused when the common code was slightly adjusted for Linux.

This patch contains no functional changes.  It only refreshes
the code to conform to style guide.

Everyone submitting patches for inclusion upstream should now
run 'make checkstyle' and resolve any warning prior to opening
a pull request.  The automated builders have been updated to
fail a build if when 'make checkstyle' detects an issue.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1821
2013-12-18 16:46:35 -08:00
Ying Zhu 6822a0d058 Fix compile warning on 32-bit systems
The definition of zfs_vdev_holder casts VDEV_HOLDER into a function pointer
passing to linux kernel's block layer function blkdev_get_by_path.
However current VDEV_HOLDER is defined to be wider than 32 bits and the compiler
warns about potential overflows. Instead of specifying different values for 32-bit and
64-bit systems using ifdefs, choose the common factor 32-bit addresses.
Redefine VDEV_HOLDER to 0x2401de7("zholder") here.

Signed-off-by: Ying Zhu <casualfisher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1520
2013-06-19 17:11:55 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 8128bd89fb Fix hot spares
The issue with hot spares in ZoL is because it opens all leaf
vdevs exclusively (O_EXCL).  On Linux, exclusive opens cause
subsequent exclusive opens to fail with EBUSY.

This could be resolved by not opening any of the devices
exclusively, which is what Illumos does, but the additional
protection offered by exclusive opens is desirable.  It cleanly
prevents you from accidentally adding an in-use non-ZFS device
to your pool.

To fix this we very slightly relaxed the usage of O_EXCL in
the following ways.

1) Functions which open the device but only read had the
   O_EXCL flag removed and were updated to use O_RDONLY.

2) A common holder was added to the vdev disk code.  This
   allow the ZFS code to internally open the device multiple
   times but non-ZFS callers may not.

3) An exception was added to make_disks() for hot spare when
   creating partition tables.  For hot spare devices which
   are already opened exclusively we skip creating the partition
   table because this must already have been done when the disk
   was originally added as a hot spare.

Additional minor changes include fixing check_in_use() to use
a partition instead of a slice suffix.  And is_spare() was moved
above make_disks() to avoid adding a forward reference.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #250
2013-03-01 13:31:02 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 2b7ab9d4d9 Linux 2.6.26 compat, lookup_bdev()
It's doubtful many people were impacted by this but commit 6c28567
accidentally broke ZFS builds for 2.6.26 and earlier kernels.  This
commit depends on the lookup_bdev() function which exists in 2.6.26
but wasn't exported until 2.6.27.

The availability of the function isn't critical so a wrapper is
introduced which returns ERR_PTR(-ENOTSUP) when the function isn't
defined.  This will have the effect of causing zvol_is_zvol() to
always fail for 2.6.26 kernels.  This in turn means vdevs will
always get opened concurrently which is good for normal usage.
This will only become an issue if your using a zvol as a vdev in
another pool.  In which case you really should be using a newer
kernel anyway.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1205
2013-01-28 15:35:00 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 2404b01499 Improve AF hard disk detection
Use the bdev_physical_block_size() interface to determine the
minimize write size which can be issued without incurring a
read-modify-write operation.  This is used to set the ashift
correctly to prevent a performance penalty when using AF hard
disks.

Unfortunately, this interface isn't entirely reliable because
it's not uncommon for disks to misreport this value.  For this
reason you may still need to manually set your ashift with:

  zpool create -o ashift=12 ...

The solution to this in the upstream Illumos source was to add
a white list of known offending drives.  Maintaining such a list
will be a burden, but it still may be worth doing if we can
detect a large number of these drives.  This should be considered
as future work.

Reported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #916
2012-11-15 11:06:14 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf cda4db408c Revert "Improve AF hard disk detection"
This reverts commit 395350c85d which
accidentally introduced issue #955.

Pools using AF drives which were originally created with a sector
size of 512 bytes will now be correctly detected to have physical
sector size of 4096.  This is desirable for a new pool, however for
an existing pool abruptly changing the sector size causes problems.

For this reason, this change is being reverted until the additional
logic can be added to detect the existing pool case.  Existing
pools must use the ashift size stored in the label regardless of
what the disk reports.  This is critical for compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #955
2012-09-11 16:33:49 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 395350c85d Improve AF hard disk detection
Use the bdev_physical_block_size() interface to determine the
minimize write size which can be issued without incurring a
read-modify-write operation.  This is used to set the ashift
correctly to prevent a performance penalty when using AF hard
disks.

Unfortunately, this interface isn't entirely reliable because
it's not uncommon for disks to misreport this value.  For this
reason you may still need to manually set your ashift with:

  zpool create -o ashift=12 ...

The solution to this in the upstream Illumos source was to add
a while list of known offending drives.  Maintaining such a list
will be a burden, but it still may be worth doing if we can
detect a large number of these drives.  This should be considered
as future work.

Reported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #916
2012-09-04 15:35:32 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps ee5fd0bb80 Set zvol discard_granularity to the volblocksize.
Currently, zvols have a discard granularity set to 0, which suggests to
the upper layer that discard requests of arbirarily small size and
alignment can be made efficiently.

In practice however, ZFS does not handle unaligned discard requests
efficiently: indeed, it is unable to free a part of a block. It will
write zeros to the specified range instead, which is both useless and
inefficient (see dnode_free_range).

With this patch, zvol block devices expose volblocksize as their discard
granularity, so the upper layer is aware that it's not supposed to send
discard requests smaller than volblocksize.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #862
2012-08-07 14:55:31 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps 30930fba21 Add support for DISCARD to ZVOLs.
DISCARD (REQ_DISCARD, BLKDISCARD) is useful for thin provisioning.
It allows ZVOL clients to discard (unmap, trim) block ranges from
a ZVOL, thus optimizing disk space usage by allowing a ZVOL to
shrink instead of just grow.

We can't use zfs_space() or zfs_freesp() here, since these functions
only work on regular files, not volumes. Fortunately we can use the
low-level function dmu_free_long_range() which does exactly what we
want.

Currently the discard operation is not added to the log. That's not
a big deal since losing discard requests cannot result in data
corruption. It would however result in disk space usage higher than
it should be. Thus adding log support to zvol_discard() is probably
a good idea for a future improvement.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-09 16:19:38 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps 34037afe24 Improve ZVOL queue behavior.
The Linux block device queue subsystem exposes a number of configurable
settings described in Linux block/blk-settings.c. The defaults for these
settings are tuned for hard drives, and are not optimized for ZVOLs. Proper
configuration of these options would allow upper layers (I/O scheduler) to
take better decisions about write merging and ordering.

Detailed rationale:

 - max_hw_sectors is set to unlimited (UINT_MAX). zvol_write() is able to
   handle writes of any size, so there's no reason to impose a limit. Let the
   upper layer decide.

 - max_segments and max_segment_size are set to unlimited. zvol_write() will
   copy the requests' contents into a dbuf anyway, so the number and size of
   the segments are irrelevant. Let the upper layer decide.

 - physical_block_size and io_opt are set to the ZVOL's block size. This
   has the potential to somewhat alleviate issue #361 for ZVOLs, by warning
   the upper layers that writes smaller than the volume's block size will be
   slow.

 - The NONROT flag is set to indicate this isn't a rotational device.
   Although the backing zpool might be composed of rotational devices, the
   resulting ZVOL often doesn't exhibit the same behavior due to the COW
   mechanisms used by ZFS. Setting this flag will prevent upper layers from
   making useless decisions (such as reordering writes) based on incorrect
   assumptions about the behavior of the ZVOL.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps b18019d2d8 Fix synchronicity for ZVOLs.
zvol_write() assumes that the write request must be written to stable storage
if rq_is_sync() is true. Unfortunately, this assumption is incorrect. Indeed,
"sync" does *not* mean what we think it means in the context of the Linux
block layer. This is well explained in linux/fs.h:

    WRITE:       A normal async write. Device will be plugged.
    WRITE_SYNC:  Synchronous write. Identical to WRITE, but passes down
                 the hint that someone will be waiting on this IO
                 shortly.
    WRITE_FLUSH: Like WRITE_SYNC but with preceding cache flush.
    WRITE_FUA:   Like WRITE_SYNC but data is guaranteed to be on
                 non-volatile media on completion.

In other words, SYNC does not *mean* that the write must be on stable storage
on completion. It just means that someone is waiting on us to complete the
write request. Thus triggering a ZIL commit for each SYNC write request on a
ZVOL is unnecessary and harmful for performance. To make matters worse, ZVOL
users have no way to express that they actually want data to be written to
stable storage, which means the ZIL is broken for ZVOLs.

The request for stable storage is expressed by the FUA flag, so we must
commit the ZIL after the write if the FUA flag is set. In addition, we must
commit the ZIL before the write if the FLUSH flag is set.

Also, we must inform the block layer that we actually support FLUSH and FUA.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 96801d2906 Linux 2.6.37 compat, WRITE_FLUSH_FUA
The WRITE_FLUSH, WRITE_FUA, and WRITE_FLUSH_FUA flags have been
introduced as a replacement for WRITE_BARRIER.  This was done
to allow richer semantics to be expressed to the block layer.
It is the block layers responsibility to choose the correct way
to implement these semantics.

This change simply updates the bio's to use the new kernel API
which should be absolutely safe.  However, since ZFS depends
entirely on this working as designed for correctness we do
want to be careful.

Closes #281
2011-06-17 14:37:26 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 3517f0b7e9 Linux 2.6.27 compat, blk_queue_stackable()
The blk_queue_stackable() queue flag was added in 2.6.27 to handle dm
stacking drivers.  Prior to this request stacking drivers were detected
by checking (q->request_fn == NULL), for earlier kernels we revert to
this legacy behavior.
2011-03-22 12:15:54 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 45066d1f20 Linux 2.6.38 compat, blkdev_get_by_path()
The open_bdev_exclusive() function has been replaced (again) by the
more generic blkdev_get_by_path() function.  Additionally, the
counterpart function close_bdev_exclusive() has been replaced by
blkdev_put().  Because these functions are more generic versions
of the functions they replaced the compatibility macro must add
the FMODE_EXCL mask to ensure they are exclusive.

Closes #114
2011-02-23 12:29:38 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 61e909608d Linux 2.6.x compat, blkdev_compat.h
For legacy reasons the zvol.c and vdev_disk.c Linux compatibility
code ended up in sys/blkdev.h and sys/vdev_disk.h headers.  While
there are worse places for this code to live it should be in a
linux/blkdev_compat.h header.  This change moves this block device
Linux compatibility code in to the linux/blkdev_compat.h header
and updates all the correct #include locations.  This is not a
functional change or bug fix, it is just code cleanup.
2011-02-23 12:29:38 -08:00