Re: [RFC 3/3] dm: add support for IO polling

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 02:54:20PM +0800, Jeffle Xu wrote:
> Design of cookie is initially constrained as a per-bio concept. It
> dosn't work well when bio-split needed, and it is really an issue when
> adding support of iopoll for dm devices.
> 
> The current algorithm implementation is simple. The returned cookie of
> dm device is actually not used since it is just the cookie of one of
> the cloned bios. Polling of dm device is actually polling on all
> hardware queues (in poll mode) of all underlying target devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-core.h  |  1 +
>  drivers/md/dm-table.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/md/dm.c       | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 70 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-core.h b/drivers/md/dm-core.h
> index d522093cb39d..f18e066beffe 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-core.h
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-core.h
> @@ -187,4 +187,5 @@ extern atomic_t dm_global_event_nr;
>  extern wait_queue_head_t dm_global_eventq;
>  void dm_issue_global_event(void);
>  
> +int dm_io_poll(struct request_queue *q, blk_qc_t cookie);
>  #endif
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> index ce543b761be7..634b79842519 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> @@ -1809,6 +1809,31 @@ static bool dm_table_requires_stable_pages(struct dm_table *t)
>  	return false;
>  }
>  
> +static int device_not_support_poll(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev,
> +					   sector_t start, sector_t len, void *data)
> +{
> +	struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(dev->bdev);
> +
> +	return q && !(q->queue_flags & QUEUE_FLAG_POLL);
> +}
> +
> +bool dm_table_supports_poll(struct dm_table *t)
> +{
> +	struct dm_target *ti;
> +	unsigned int i;
> +
> +	/* Ensure that all targets support DAX. */
> +	for (i = 0; i < dm_table_get_num_targets(t); i++) {
> +		ti = dm_table_get_target(t, i);
> +
> +		if (!ti->type->iterate_devices ||
> +		    ti->type->iterate_devices(ti, device_not_support_poll, NULL))
> +			return false;
> +	}
> +
> +	return true;
> +}
> +
>  void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q,
>  			       struct queue_limits *limits)
>  {
> @@ -1901,6 +1926,11 @@ void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q,
>  #endif
>  
>  	blk_queue_update_readahead(q);
> +
> +	if (dm_table_supports_poll(t)) {
> +		q->poll_fn = dm_io_poll;
> +		blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_POLL, q);
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  unsigned int dm_table_get_num_targets(struct dm_table *t)
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
> index c18fc2548518..4eceaf87ffd4 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
> @@ -1666,6 +1666,45 @@ static blk_qc_t dm_submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +static int dm_poll_one_dev(struct request_queue *q, blk_qc_t cookie)
> +{
> +	/* Iterate polling on all polling queues for mq device */
> +	if (queue_is_mq(q)) {
> +		struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
> +		int i, ret = 0;
> +
> +		if (!percpu_ref_tryget(&q->q_usage_counter))
> +			return 0;
> +
> +		queue_for_each_poll_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i) {
> +			ret += q->mq_ops->poll(hctx);
> +		}

IMO, this way may not be accepted from performance viewpoint, .poll()
often requires per-hw-queue lock. So in case of > 1 io thread,
contention/cache ping-pong on hw queue resource can be very serious.

I guess you may have to find one way to pass correct cookie to ->poll().


Thanks,
Ming




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