From 383f8790c2094cc26ed16776a0874a6718ef2efb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Snitzer Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:43:43 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] DM has always advertised both REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA flush capabilities regardless of whether or not a given DM device's underlying devices also advertised a need for them. Block's flush-merge changes from 2.6.39 have proven to be more costly for DM devices. Performance regressions have been reported even when DM's underlying devices do not advertise that they have a write cache. Fix the performance regressions by configuring a DM device's flushing capabilities based on those of the underlying devices' capabilities. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/md/dm.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c index 259ce99302fc..986b8754bb08 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c @@ -1248,9 +1248,45 @@ static void dm_table_set_integrity(struct dm_table *t) blk_get_integrity(template_disk)); } +static int device_flush_capable(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev, + sector_t start, sector_t len, void *data) +{ + unsigned flush = (*(unsigned *)data); + struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(dev->bdev); + + return q && (q->flush_flags & flush); +} + +static bool dm_table_supports_flush(struct dm_table *t, unsigned flush) +{ + struct dm_target *ti; + unsigned i = 0; + + /* + * Require at least one underlying device to support flushes. + * t->devices includes internal dm devices such as mirror logs + * so we need to use iterate_devices here, which targets + * supporting flushes must provide. + */ + while (i < dm_table_get_num_targets(t)) { + ti = dm_table_get_target(t, i++); + + if (!ti->num_flush_requests) + continue; + + if (ti->type->iterate_devices && + ti->type->iterate_devices(ti, device_flush_capable, &flush)) + return 1; + } + + return 0; +} + void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q, struct queue_limits *limits) { + unsigned flush = 0; + /* * Copy table's limits to the DM device's request_queue */ @@ -1261,6 +1297,13 @@ void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q, else queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, q); + if (dm_table_supports_flush(t, REQ_FLUSH)) { + flush |= REQ_FLUSH; + if (dm_table_supports_flush(t, REQ_FUA)) + flush |= REQ_FUA; + } + blk_queue_flush(q, flush); + dm_table_set_integrity(t); /* diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c index 1000eaf984ef..52b39f335bb3 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c @@ -1808,7 +1808,6 @@ static void dm_init_md_queue(struct mapped_device *md) blk_queue_make_request(md->queue, dm_request); blk_queue_bounce_limit(md->queue, BLK_BOUNCE_ANY); blk_queue_merge_bvec(md->queue, dm_merge_bvec); - blk_queue_flush(md->queue, REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA); } /* -- 2.39.5