With new ZFS prefetcher improvements it is no longer needed to fully
serialize reads to reach decent prediction hit rate. Softer variant
only creates small time window to reduce races instead of completely
blocking following reads while previous is running. It much less
hurts the performance in case of prediction miss.
MFC after: 1 month
- Move ctl_get_cmd_entry() calls from every OOA traversal to when
the requests first inserted, storing seridx in struct ctl_scsiio.
- Move some checks out of the loop in ctl_check_ooa().
- Replace checks for errors that can not happen with asserts.
- Transpose ctl_serialize_table, so that any OOA traversal accessed
only one row (cache line). Compact it from enum to uint8_t.
- Optimize static branch predictions in hottest places.
Due to O(n) nature on deep LUN queues this can be the hottest code
path in CTL, and additional 20% of IOPS I see in some 4KB I/O tests
are good to have in reserve. About 50% of CPU time here according
to the profiles is now spent in two memory accesses per traversed
request in OOA.
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Make frontends call unified CTL core method ctl_datamove_done()
to report move completion. It allows to reduce code duplication
in differerent backends by accounting DMA time in common code.
- Add to ctl_datamove_done() and be_move_done() callback samethr
argument, reporting whether the callback is called in the same
context as ctl_datamove(). It allows for some cases like iSCSI
write with immediate data or camsim frontend write save one context
switch, since we know that the context is sleepable.
- Remove data_move_done() methods from struct ctl_backend_driver,
unused since forever.
MFC after: 1 month
Switch OOA queue from TAILQ to LIST and change its direction, so that
we traverse it forward, not backward. There is only one place where
we really need other direction, and it is not critical.
Use STAILQ_REMOVE_HEAD() instead of STAILQ_REMOVE() in backends.
Replace few impossible conditions with assertions.
MFC after: 1 month
Introduce new CTL core KPI ctl_run(), preprocessing I/Os in the caller
context instead of scheduling another thread just for that. This call
may sleep, that is not acceptable for some frontends like the original
CAM/FC one, but iSCSI already has separate sleepable per-connection RX
threads, and another thread scheduling is mostly just a waste of time.
IOCTL frontend actually waits for the I/O completion in the caller
thread, so the use of another thread for this has even less sense.
With this change I can measure ~5% IOPS improvement on 4KB iSCSI I/Os
to ZFS.
MFC after: 1 month
SAM-3 specification introduced concept of Task Priority, that was renamed
to Command Priority in SAM-4, and supported by all modern SCSI transports.
It provides 15 levels of relative priorities: 1 - highest, 15 - lowest and
0 - default. SAT specification for SATA devices translates priorities 1-3
into NCQ high priority.
This change adds new "priority" field into empty spots of struct ccb_scsiio
and struct ccb_accept_tio of CAM and struct ctl_scsiio of CTL. Respective
support is added into iscsi(4), isp(4), mpr(4), mps(4) and ocs_fc(4) drivers
for both initiator and where applicable target roles. Minimal support was
added to CTL to receive the priority value from different frontends, pass it
between HA controllers and report in few places.
This patch does not add consumers of this functionality, so nothing should
really change yet, since the field is still set to 0 (default) on initiator
and not actively used on target. Those are to be implemented separately.
I've confirmed priority working on WD Red SATA disks connected via mpr(4)
and properly transferred to CTL target via iscsi(4), isp(4) and ocs_fc(4).
While there, added missing tag_action support to ocs_fc(4) initiator role.
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
It allows to report to initiator LU identifying information, preset via
"ident_info" and "text_ident_info" options.
Unfortunately it is impossible to implement SET IDENTIFYING INFORMATION,
since we have no persistent storage it requires, so the information is
read-only for initiator and has to be set out-of-band.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
- Make ctl_add_lun() synchronous. Asynchronous addition was used by
Copan's proprietary code long ago and never for upstream FreeBSD.
- Move LUN enable/disable calls from backends to CTL core.
- Serialize LUN modification and partially removal to avoid double frees.
- Slightly unify backends code.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
r357614 added CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT to make it easier to find nodes that are
still not MPSAFE (or already are but aren’t properly marked).
Use it in preparation for a general review of all nodes.
This is non-functional change that adds annotations to SYSCTL_NODE and
SYSCTL_PROC nodes using one of the soon-to-be-required flags.
Mark all obvious cases as MPSAFE. All entries that haven't been marked
as MPSAFE before are by default marked as NEEDGIANT
Approved by: kib (mentor, blanket)
Commented by: kib, gallatin, melifaro
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23718
If not limited by write_same_max_lba option, split operation into several
2^^31 blocks chunks in a loop. For large disks it may take a while, so
setting write_same_max_lba may be useful to avoid timeouts.
While there, fix build with CAM_CTL_DEBUG.
MFC after: 2 weeks
The values to report can be set via LUN options. It can be useful for
testing, and also required for Drive Maintenance 2016 feature set.
MFC after: 2 weeks
CTL implements all defined feature sets except Drive Maintenance 2016,
which is not very applicable to such a virtual device, and implemented
only partially now. But may be it could be fixed later at least for
completeness.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Since in most configurations CTL serves as network service, we found
that this change improves local system interactivity under heavy load.
Priority of main threads is set slightly higher then worker taskqueues
to make them quickly sort incoming requests not creating bottlenecks,
while plenty of worker taskqueues should be less sensitive to latency.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Replace long per-LUN queue of blocked commands, scanned on each command
completion and sometimes even twice, causing up to O(n^^2) processing cost,
by much shorter per-command blocked queues, scanned only when respective
command completes, and check only commands before the previous blocker,
reducing cost to O(n).
While there, unblock aborted commands to make them "complete" ASAP to be
removed from the OOA queue and so not waste time ordering other commands
against them. Aborted commands that were not sent to execution yet should
have no visible side effects, so this is safe and easy optimization now,
comparing to commands already in processing, which are a still pain.
Together those two optimizations should fix quite pathological case, when
due to backend slowness CTL accumulated many thousands of blocked requests,
partially aborted by initiator and so supposedly not even existing, but
still wasting CTL CPU time.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
- Collapse original_sc and serializing_sc fields into one, since they
are never used simultanously, we have only one local I/O and one remote.
- Move remote_sglist and local_sglist fields into CTL_PRIV_BACKEND,
since they are used only on Originating SC in XFER mode, where requests
don't ever reach backends, so we can reuse backend's private storage.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
It was not only disabled for quite a while, but also appeared to be broken
at r325517, when maximum number of ports was made configurable.
MFC after: 1 week
Somehow this was working even after PTI in, at least on amd64, and got
broken by something only very recently.
Reviewed by: araujo
Approved by: re (gjb)
- Remove unused or dead store variable
- Remove unused function ctl_copyin_alloc
- Add missing curly brackets, this seems a regression in r287720
Reviewed by: jhibbits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15383
ioctl frontend ports.
This revision introduces two changes to CTL:
- Changes the way options are passed to CTL_LUN_REQ and CTL_PORT_REQ ioctls.
Removes ctl_be_arg structure and associated logic and replaces it with
nv(3)-based logic for passing in and out arguments.
- Allows creating multiple ioctl frontend ports using either ctladm(8) or
ctld(8).
New frontend ports are represented by /dev/cam/ctl<pp>.<vp> nodes, eg /dev/cam/ctl5.3.
Those device nodes respond only to CTL_IO ioctl.
New command-line options for ctladm:
# creates new ioctl frontend port with using free pp and vp=0
ctladm port -c
# creates new ioctl frontend port with pp=10 and vp=0
ctladm port -c -O pp=10
# creates new ioctl frontend port with pp=11 and vp=12
ctladm port -c -O pp=11 -O vp=12
# removes port with number 4 (it's a "targ_port" number, not pp number)
ctladm port -r -p 4
New syntax for ctl.conf:
target ... {
port ioctl/<pp>
...
}
target ... {
port ioctl/<pp>/<vp>
...
Note: Most of this work was made by jceel@, thank you.
Submitted by: jceel
Reworked by: myself
Reviewed by: mav (earlier versions and recently during the rework)
Obtained from: FreeNAS and TrueOS
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9299
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
The biggest change is that ctl_remove_initiator() now generates I_T NEXUS
LOSS event, cleaning part of LUs state related to the initiator.
MFC after: 2 weeks
This code was disabled due to its high memory usage. But now we need this
functionality for cfumass(4) frontend, since USB MS BBB transport does not
support autosense.
MFC after: 2 weeks
sys/cam/ctl/ctl.c:
In ctl_datamove(), inside CTL_IO_DELAY, add a lun variable and fill
it in before trying to dereference it.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
It is only a first step and not perfect, but better then nothing.
The main blocker is CAM target frontend, that can not be unloaded,
since CAM does not have mechanism to unregister periph driver now.
MFC after: 2 weeks
This field has no practical use and never readed. Initiators already
receive respective residual size from frontends. Removed field had
different semantics, which looks useless, and was never passed through
by any frontend.
While there, fix kern_data_resid field support in case of HA, missed in
r312291.
MFC after: 13 days
It seems like kern_data_resid was never really implemented. This change
finally does it. Now frontends update this field while transferring data,
while CTL/backends getting it can more flexibly handle the result.
At this point behavior should not change significantly, still reporting
errors on write overrun, but that may be changed later, if we decide so.
CAM target frontend still does not properly handle overruns due to CAM API
limitations. We may need to add some fields to struct ccb_accept_tio to
pass information about initiator requested transfer size(s).
MFC after: 2 weeks
Instead of collecting statistics for each combination of ports and logical
units, that consumed ~45KB per LU with present number of ports, collect
separate statistics for every port and every logical unit separately, that
consume only 176 bytes per each single LU/port. This reduces struct
ctl_lun size down to just 6KB.
Also new IOCTL API/ABI does not hardcode number of LUs/ports, and should
allow handling of very large quantities.
MFC after: 2 weeks (probably keeping old API enabled for some time)
This array takes 64KB of RAM now, that was more then half of struct ctl_lun
size. If at some point we support more ports, this may need another tune.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Since I/Os are allocates from per-port pools, make allocations store
pointer to CTL softc there, and use it where needed instead of global.
- Created bunch of helper macros to access LUN, port and CTL softc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
