linux/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c, branch v4.5

bcache: Change refill_dirty() to always scan entire disk if necessary

2015-12-31T03:23:16Z

Previously, it would only scan the entire disk if it was starting from the very start of the disk - i.e. if the previous scan got to the end. This was broken by refill_full_stripes(), which updates last_scanned so that refill_dirty was never triggering the searched_from_start path. But if we change refill_dirty() to always scan the entire disk if necessary, regardless of what last_scanned was, the code gets cleaner and we fix that bug too. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code

2015-08-13T18:31:40Z

The bcache driver has always accepted arbitrarily large bios and split them internally. Now that every driver must accept arbitrarily large bios this code isn't nessecary anymore. Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet [dpark: add more description in commit message] Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park Signed-off-by: Ming Lin Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

2015-07-29T14:55:15Z

Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO: (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds of error returns. So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: fix uninterruptible sleep in writeback thread

2014-08-04T22:23:03Z

There were two issues here: - writeback thread did not start until the device first became dirty - writeback thread used uninterruptible sleep once running Without this patch I see kernel warnings printed and a load average of 1.52 after booting my test VM. With this patch the warnings are gone and the load average is near 0.00 as expected. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into for-3.14/core

2013-12-31T16:51:02Z

Needed to bring blk-mq uptodate, since changes have been going in since for-3.14/core was established. Fixup merge issues related to the immutable biovec changes. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Conflicts: block/blk-flush.c fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c fs/btrfs/extent_io.c fs/btrfs/scrub.c fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c

bcache: New writeback PD controller

2013-12-16T22:22:59Z

The old writeback PD controller could get into states where it had throttled all the way down and take way too long to recover - it was too complicated to really understand what it was doing. This rewrites a good chunk of it to hopefully be simpler and make more sense, and it also pays more attention to units which should make the behaviour a bit easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

bcache: Use uninterruptible sleep in writeback

2013-12-16T22:04:57Z

We're just waiting on kthread_should_stop(), nothing else, so interruptible sleep was wrong here. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

bcache: kthread don't set writeback task to INTERUPTIBLE

2013-12-16T22:04:57Z

at the beginning (schedule_timout_interuptible) and others do his on their own This prevents wrong load average calculation (load of 1 per thread) Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

block: Abstract out bvec iterator

2013-11-24T06:33:47Z

Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames things. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Lars Ellenberg Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Yehuda Sadeh Cc: Sage Weil Cc: Alex Elder Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Joshua Morris Cc: Philip Kelleher Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Benny Halevy Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Chris Mason Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: Jaegeuk Kim Cc: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Joern Engel Cc: Prasad Joshi Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Ben Myers Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Len Brown Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Guo Chao Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Asai Thambi S P Cc: Selvan Mani Cc: Sam Bradshaw Cc: Wei Yongjun Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Ian Campbell Cc: Sebastian Ott Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Peng Tao Cc: Andy Adamson Cc: fanchaoting Cc: Jie Liu Cc: Sunil Mushran Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Namjae Jeon Cc: Pankaj Kumar Cc: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Mel Gorman 6

bcache: Fix sysfs splat on shutdown with flash only devs

2013-11-11T05:56:41Z

Whoops. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet