zvol: Support blk-mq for better performance

Add support for the kernel's block multiqueue (blk-mq) interface in
the zvol block driver.  blk-mq creates multiple request queues on
different CPUs rather than having a single request queue.  This can
improve zvol performance with multithreaded reads/writes.

This implementation uses the blk-mq interfaces on 4.13 or newer
kernels.  Building against older kernels will fall back to the
older BIO interfaces.

Note that you must set the `zvol_use_blk_mq` module param to
enable the blk-mq API.  It is disabled by default.

In addition, this commit lets the zvol blk-mq layer process whole
`struct request` IOs at a time, rather than breaking them down
into their individual BIOs.  This reduces dbuf lock contention
and overhead versus the legacy zvol submit_bio() codepath.

	sequential dd to one zvol, 8k volblocksize, no O_DIRECT:

	legacy submit_bio()     292MB/s write  453MB/s read
	this commit             453MB/s write  885MB/s read

It also introduces a new `zvol_blk_mq_chunks_per_thread` module
parameter. This parameter represents how many volblocksize'd chunks
to process per each zvol thread.  It can be used to tune your zvols
for better read vs write performance (higher values favor write,
lower favor read).

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Tony Nguyen <tony.nguyen@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Closes #13148
Issue #12483
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Tony Hutter
2022-06-09 07:10:38 -07:00
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@@ -2248,9 +2248,74 @@ for each I/O submitter.
When unset, requests are handled asynchronously by a thread pool.
The number of requests which can be handled concurrently is controlled by
.Sy zvol_threads .
.Sy zvol_request_sync
is ignored when running on a kernel that supports block multiqueue
.Pq Li blk-mq .
.
.It Sy zvol_threads Ns = Ns Sy 32 Pq uint
Max number of threads which can handle zvol I/O requests concurrently.
.It Sy zvol_threads Ns = Ns Sy 0 Pq uint
The number of system wide threads to use for processing zvol block IOs.
If
.Sy 0
(the default) then internally set
.Sy zvol_threads
to the number of CPUs present or 32 (whichever is greater).
.
.It Sy zvol_blk_mq_threads Ns = Ns Sy 0 Pq uint
The number of threads per zvol to use for queuing IO requests.
This parameter will only appear if your kernel supports
.Li blk-mq
and is only read and assigned to a zvol at zvol load time.
If
.Sy 0
(the default) then internally set
.Sy zvol_blk_mq_threads
to the number of CPUs present.
.
.It Sy zvol_use_blk_mq Ns = Ns Sy 0 Ns | Ns 1 Pq uint
Set to
.Sy 1
to use the
.Li blk-mq
API for zvols.
Set to
.Sy 0
(the default) to use the legacy zvol APIs.
This setting can give better or worse zvol performance depending on
the workload.
This parameter will only appear if your kernel supports
.Li blk-mq
and is only read and assigned to a zvol at zvol load time.
.
.It Sy zvol_blk_mq_blocks_per_thread Ns = Ns Sy 8 Pq uint
If
.Sy zvol_use_blk_mq
is enabled, then process this number of
.Sy volblocksize Ns -sized blocks per zvol thread.
This tunable can be use to favor better performance for zvol reads (lower
values) or writes (higher values).
If set to
.Sy 0 ,
then the zvol layer will process the maximum number of blocks
per thread that it can.
This parameter will only appear if your kernel supports
.Li blk-mq
and is only applied at each zvol's load time.
.
.It Sy zvol_blk_mq_queue_depth Ns = Ns Sy 0 Pq uint
The queue_depth value for the zvol
.Li blk-mq
interface.
This parameter will only appear if your kernel supports
.Li blk-mq
and is only applied at each zvol's load time.
If
.Sy 0
(the default) then use the kernel's default queue depth.
Values are clamped to the kernel's
.Dv BLKDEV_MIN_RQ
and
.Dv BLKDEV_MAX_RQ Ns / Ns Dv BLKDEV_DEFAULT_RQ
limits.
.
.It Sy zvol_volmode Ns = Ns Sy 1 Pq uint
Defines zvol block devices behaviour when