Hello, Jens, James, Jeff and Bartlomiej.
This is the sixth posting of blk ordered reimplementation. The last
posting was on 17th, Nov.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113224210310915&w=2
Changes from the previous post are...
1. Proxy requests (pre_flush_rq, bar_rq and post_flush_rq) are inlined
into request_queue such that blk_queue_ordered doesn't have to
allocate when changing ordered mode. This change removes @gfp_mask
argument from blk_queue_ordered. Also, there's no need to reset
ordered to NONE when a device goes offline anymore. So, changes to
to ->remove or ->release callbacks are gone.
2. blk_queue_ordered() does not synchronize using queuelock.
Synchronization is now the caller's responsibility. It's still
perfectly safe to call blk_queue_ordered() without any
synchronization. The worst that can happen is wrong ordered
sequence issued around the call.
3. Note that queuelock is not enough for proper ordered-mode change
synchronization. Currently, there's no block driver which requires
this. Drivers either don't change ordered mode during operation or
doesn't properly synchronize configuration changes in the first
place (IDE).
This change removes for blk_queue_ordered_locked() function.
4. IDE ordered/fua support has been updated. As IDE supports dynamic
configuration change from EH and user input, ordered/fua settings
should also be changed accordingly. New IDE HL driver callback
->protocol_changed is implmemented and used to properly configure
ordered mode on configuration changes.
Jens, #1 and #2 are changes to core ordered code but they are quite
simple changes. There shouldn't be any behavior change.
Bartlomiej, IDE ordered/fua support is now splitted over three patches
08-ide-update-ordered, 09-ide-add-protocol_changed and
10-ide-add-fua-support. I think #08 should be okay, but if you don't
like #09 and #10, we can skip them for now. So....
If #09 and #10 are ack'd, we can push all patches into -mm. If #09
and #10 are nack'd, we can push all patches except the two into -mm.
Thanks.
[ Start of patch descriptions ]
01_blk_add-uptodate-to-end_that_request_last.patch
: add @uptodate to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn()
Add @uptodate argument to end_that_request_last() and @error
to rq_end_io_fn(). There's no generic way to pass error code
to request completion function, making generic error handling
of non-fs request difficult (rq->errors is driver-specific and
each driver uses it differently). This patch adds @uptodate
to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn().
For fs requests, this doesn't really matter, so just using the
same uptodate argument used in the last call to
end_that_request_first() should suffice. IMHO, this can also
help the generic command-carrying request Jens is working on.
02_blk_implement-init_request_from_bio.patch
: separate out bio init part from __make_request
Separate out bio initialization part from __make_request. It
will be used by the following blk_ordered_reimpl.
03_blk_reimplement-ordered.patch
: reimplement handling of barrier request
Reimplement handling of barrier requests.
* Flexible handling to deal with various capabilities of
target devices.
* Retry support for falling back.
* Tagged queues which don't support ordered tag can do ordered.
04_blk_scsi-update-ordered.patch
: update SCSI to use new blk_ordered
All ordered request related stuff delegated to HLD. Midlayer
now doens't deal with ordered setting or prepare_flush
callback. sd.c updated to deal with blk_queue_ordered
setting. Currently, ordered tag isn't used as SCSI midlayer
cannot guarantee request ordering.
05_blk_scsi-add-fua-support.patch
: add FUA support to SCSI disk
Add FUA support to SCSI disk.
06_blk_libata-update-ordered.patch
: update libata to use new blk_ordered
Reflect changes in SCSI midlayer and updated to use new
ordered request implementation
07_blk_libata-add-fua-support.patch
: add FUA support to libata
Add FUA support to libata.
08_blk_ide-update-ordered.patch
: update IDE to use new blk_ordered
Update IDE to use new blk_ordered. This change makes the
following behavior changes.
* Partial completion of the barrier request is handled as
failure of the whole ordered sequence. No more partial
completion for barrier requests.
* Any failure of pre or post flush request results in failure
of the whole ordered sequence.
So, successfully completed ordered sequence guarantees that
all requests prior to the barrier made to physical medium and,
then, the while barrier request made to the physical medium.
09_blk_ide-add-protocol_changed.patch
: implement ide_driver_t->protocol_changed callback
This patch implements protocol_changed callback for IDE HL
drivers. The callback is called whenever transfer protocol
changes (DMA / multisector PIO / PIO). The callback is
sometimes with context and sometimes without, sometimes with
queuelock, sometimes not. So, actual callbacks should be
written carefully.
To hook dma setting changes, this function implements
ide_dma_on() and ide_dma_off_quietly() which notifies protocl
change and calls low level driver callback. __ide_dma_off()
is renamed to ide_dma_off() for consistency. All dma on/off
operations must be done by using these wrapper functions.
10_blk_ide-add-fua-support.patch
: add FUA support to IDE
Add FUA support to IDE. IDE FUA support makes use of
->protocol_changed callback to correctly adjust FUA setting
according to transfer protocol change.
11_blk_add-barrier-doc.patch
: I/O barrier documentation
I/O barrier documentation
[ End of patch descriptions ]
--
tejun
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