While the autoexpand property may seem like a small feature it
depends on a significant amount of system infrastructure. Enough
of that infrastructure is now in place that with a few modifications
for Linux it can be supported.
Auto-expand works as follows; when a block device is modified
(re-sized, closed after being open r/w, etc) a change uevent is
generated for udev. The ZED, which is monitoring udev events,
passes the change event along to zfs_deliver_dle() if the disk
or partition contains a zfs_member as identified by blkid.
From here the device is matched against all imported pool vdevs
using the vdev_guid which was read from the label by blkid. If
a match is found the ZED reopens the pool vdev. This re-opening
is important because it allows the vdev to be briefly closed so
the disk partition table can be re-read. Otherwise, it wouldn't
be possible to report the maximum possible expansion size.
Finally, if the property autoexpand=on a vdev expansion will be
attempted. After performing some sanity checks on the disk to
verify that it is safe to expand, the primary partition (-part1)
will be expanded and the partition table updated. The partition
is then re-opened (again) to detect the updated size which allows
the new capacity to be used.
In order to make all of the above possible the following changes
were required:
* Updated the zpool_expand_001_pos and zpool_expand_003_pos tests.
These tests now create a pool which is layered on a loopback,
scsi_debug, and file vdev. This allows for testing of non-
partitioned block device (loopback), a partition block device
(scsi_debug), and a file which does not receive udev change
events. This provided for better test coverage, and by removing
the layering on ZFS volumes there issues surrounding layering
one pool on another are avoided.
* zpool_find_vdev_by_physpath() updated to accept a vdev guid.
This allows for matching by guid rather than path which is a
more reliable way for the ZED to reference a vdev.
* Fixed zfs_zevent_wait() signal handling which could result
in the ZED spinning when a signal was not handled.
* Removed vdev_disk_rrpart() functionality which can be abandoned
in favor of kernel provided blkdev_reread_part() function.
* Added a rwlock which is held as a writer while a disk is being
reopened. This is important to prevent errors from occurring
for any configuration related IOs which bypass the SCL_ZIO lock.
The zpool_reopen_007_pos.ksh test case was added to verify IO
error are never observed when reopening. This is not expected
to impact IO performance.
Additional fixes which aren't critical but were discovered and
resolved in the course of developing this functionality.
* Added PHYS_PATH="/dev/zvol/dataset" to the vdev configuration for
ZFS volumes. This is as good as a unique physical path, while the
volumes are not used in the test cases anymore for other reasons
this improvement was included.
Reviewed by: Richard Elling <Richard.Elling@RichardElling.com>
Signed-off-by: Sara Hartse <sara.hartse@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#120Closes#2437Closes#5771Closes#7366Closes#7582Closes#7629
The blk_queue_stackable() function was replaced in the 4.14 kernel
by queue_is_rq_based(), commit torvalds/linux@5fdee212. This change
resulted in the default elevator being used which can negatively
impact performance.
Rather than adding additional compatibility code to detect the
new interface unconditionally attempt to set the elevator. Since
we expect this to fail for block devices without an elevator the
error message has been moved in to zfs_dbgmsg().
Finally, it was observed that the elevator_change() was removed
from the 4.12 kernel, commit torvalds/linux@c033269. Update the
comment to clearly specify which are expected to export the
elevator_change() symbol.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#7645
Added support for the bops->check_events() interface which was
added in the 2.6.38 kernel to replace bops->media_changed().
Fully implementing this functionality allows the volume resize
code to rely on revalidate_disk(), which is the preferred
mechanism, and removes the need to use check_disk_size_change().
In order for bops->check_events() to lookup the zvol_state_t
stored in the disk->private_data the zvol_state_lock needs to
be held. Since the check events interface may poll the mutex
has been converted to a rwlock for better concurrently. The
rwlock need only be taken as a writer in the zvol_free() path
when disk->private_data is set to NULL.
The configure checks for the block_device_operations structure
were consolidated in a single kernel-block-device-operations.m4
file.
The ZFS_AC_KERNEL_BDEV_BLOCK_DEVICE_OPERATIONS configure checks
and assoicated dead code was removed. This interface was added
to the 2.6.28 kernel which predates the oldest supported 2.6.32
kernel and will therefore always be available.
Updated maximum Linux version in META file. The 4.17 kernel
was released on 2018-06-03 and ZoL is compatible with the
finalized kernel.
Reviewed-by: Boris Protopopov <boris.protopopov@actifio.com>
Reviewed-by: Sara Hartse <sara.hartse@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#7611
Minimal changes required to integrate the SPL sources in to the
ZFS repository build infrastructure and packaging.
Build system and packaging:
* Renamed SPL_* autoconf m4 macros to ZFS_*.
* Removed redundant SPL_* autoconf m4 macros.
* Updated the RPM spec files to remove SPL package dependency.
* The zfs package obsoletes the spl package, and the zfs-kmod
package obsoletes the spl-kmod package.
* The zfs-kmod-devel* packages were updated to add compatibility
symlinks under /usr/src/spl-x.y.z until all dependent packages
can be updated. They will be removed in a future release.
* Updated copy-builtin script for in-kernel builds.
* Updated DKMS package to include the spl.ko.
* Updated stale AUTHORS file to include all contributors.
* Updated stale COPYRIGHT and included the SPL as an exception.
* Renamed README.markdown to README.md
* Renamed OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE to LICENSE.
* Renamed DISCLAIMER to NOTICE.
Required code changes:
* Removed redundant HAVE_SPL macro.
* Removed _BOOT from nvpairs since it doesn't apply for Linux.
* Initial header cleanup (removal of empty headers, refactoring).
* Remove SPL repository clone/build from zimport.sh.
* Use of DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE and DEFINE_SPINLOCK removed due
to build issues when forcing C99 compilation.
* Replaced legacy ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE.
* Include needed headers for `current` and `EXPORT_SYMBOL`.
Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Olaf Faaland <faaland1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
TEST_ZIMPORT_SKIP="yes"
Closes#7556
The HAVE_BLK_QUEUE_WRITE_CACHE_GPL_ONLY case was overlooked in
the original 10f88c5c commit because blk_queue_write_cache()
was available for the in-kernel builds.
Update the blk_queue_flag_{set,clear} wrappers to call the locked
versions to avoid confusion. This is safe for all existing callers.
The blk_queue_set_write_cache() function has been updated to use
these wrappers. This means setting/clearing both QUEUE_FLAG_WC
and QUEUE_FLAG_FUA is no longer atomic but this only done early
in zvol_alloc() prior to any requests so there is no issue.
Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Giuseppe Di Natale <dinatale2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Kash Pande <kash@tripleback.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#7428Closes#7431
As of https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fb6d47a, get_disk()
is now get_disk_and_module(). Add a configure check to determine
if we need to use get_disk_and_module().
Reviewed-by: loli10K <ezomori.nozomu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Di Natale <dinatale2@llnl.gov>
Closes#7264
generic_start_io_acct/generic_end_io_acct in the master
branch of the linux kernel requires that the request_queue
be provided.
Move the logic from freemem in the spl to arc_free_memory
in arc.c. Do this so we can take advantage of global_page_state
interface checks in zfs.
Upstream kernel replaced struct block_device with
struct gendisk in struct bio. Determine if the
function bio_set_dev exists during configure
and have zfs use that if it exists.
bio_set_dev https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/74d4699
global_node_page_state https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/75ef718
io acct https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d62e26b
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Di Natale <dinatale2@llnl.gov>
Closes#6635
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
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
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
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#5739Closes#5828
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
[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
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
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#4951Closes#4959
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
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/f215082https://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#4892Closes#4899
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
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
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
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
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>
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>
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>
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>
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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>
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>
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>
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
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.
