linux/fs/block_dev.c, branch v4.1

direct-io: only inc/dec inode->i_dio_count for file systems

2015-04-24T19:45:28Z

do_blockdev_direct_IO() increments and decrements the inode ->i_dio_count for each IO operation. It does this to protect against truncate of a file. Block devices don't need this sort of protection. For a capable multiqueue setup, this atomic int is the only shared state between applications accessing the device for O_DIRECT, and it presents a scaling wall for that. In my testing, as much as 30% of system time is spent incrementing and decrementing this value. A mixed read/write workload improved from ~2.5M IOPS to ~9.6M IOPS, with better latencies too. Before: clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 33], 5.00th=[ 34], 10.00th=[ 34], 20.00th=[ 34], | 30.00th=[ 34], 40.00th=[ 34], 50.00th=[ 35], 60.00th=[ 35], | 70.00th=[ 35], 80.00th=[ 35], 90.00th=[ 37], 95.00th=[ 80], | 99.00th=[ 98], 99.50th=[ 151], 99.90th=[ 155], 99.95th=[ 155], | 99.99th=[ 165] After: clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 95], 5.00th=[ 108], 10.00th=[ 129], 20.00th=[ 149], | 30.00th=[ 155], 40.00th=[ 161], 50.00th=[ 167], 60.00th=[ 171], | 70.00th=[ 177], 80.00th=[ 185], 90.00th=[ 201], 95.00th=[ 270], | 99.00th=[ 390], 99.50th=[ 398], 99.90th=[ 418], 99.95th=[ 422], | 99.99th=[ 438] In other setups, Robert Elliott reported seeing good performance improvements: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/3/557 The more applications accessing the device, the worse it gets. Add a new direct-io flags, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT, which tells do_blockdev_direct_IO() that it need not worry about incrementing or decrementing the inode i_dio_count for this caller. Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Al Viro

VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations

2015-04-15T19:06:59Z

Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro

blkdev_write_iter: expand generic_file_checks() call in there

2015-04-12T02:29:48Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

lift generic_write_checks() into callers of __generic_file_write_iter()

2015-04-12T02:29:47Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

direct_IO: remove rw from a_ops->direct_IO()

2015-04-12T02:29:45Z

Now that no one is using rw, remove it completely. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Remove rw from {,__,do_}blockdev_direct_IO()

2015-04-12T02:29:44Z

Most filesystems call through to these at some point, so we'll start here. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Al Viro

make new_sync_{read,write}() static

2015-04-12T02:29:40Z

All places outside of core VFS that checked ->read and ->write for being NULL or called the methods directly are gone now, so NULL {read,write} with non-NULL {read,write}_iter will do the right thing in all cases. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: move struct kiocb to fs.h

2015-03-26T00:28:11Z

struct kiocb now is a generic I/O container, so move it to fs.h. Also do a #include diet for aio.h while we're at it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-02-12T22:13:23Z

Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe: "This contains: - A series from Christoph that cleans up and refactors various parts of the REQ_BLOCK_PC handling. Contributions in that series from Dongsu Park and Kent Overstreet as well. - CFQ: - A bug fix for cfq for realtime IO scheduling from Jeff Moyer. - A stable patch fixing a potential crash in CFQ in OOM situations. From Konstantin Khlebnikov. - blk-mq: - Add support for tag allocation policies, from Shaohua. This is a prep patch enabling libata (and other SCSI parts) to use the blk-mq tagging, instead of rolling their own. - Various little tweaks from Keith and Mike, in preparation for DM blk-mq support. - Minor little fixes or tweaks from me. - A double free error fix from Tony Battersby. - The partition 4k issue fixes from Matthew and Boaz. - Add support for zero+unprovision for blkdev_issue_zeroout() from Martin" * 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (27 commits) block: remove unused function blk_bio_map_sg block: handle the null_mapped flag correctly in blk_rq_map_user_iov blk-mq: fix double-free in error path block: prevent request-to-request merging with gaps if not allowed blk-mq: make blk_mq_run_queues() static dm: fix multipath regression due to initializing wrong request cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation block: Quiesce zeroout wrapper block: rewrite and split __bio_copy_iov() block: merge __bio_map_user_iov into bio_map_user_iov block: merge __bio_map_kern into bio_map_kern block: pass iov_iter to the BLOCK_PC mapping functions block: add a helper to free bio bounce buffer pages block: use blk_rq_map_user_iov to implement blk_rq_map_user block: simplify bio_map_kern block: mark blk-mq devices as stackable block: keep established cmd_flags when cloning into a blk-mq request block: add blk-mq support to blk_insert_cloned_request() block: require blk_rq_prep_clone() be given an initialized clone request blk-mq: add tag allocation policy ...

fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info

2015-01-20T21:03:05Z

Now that we never use the backing_dev_info pointer in struct address_space we can simply remove it and save 4 to 8 bytes in every inode. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe