Add the BIO_ORDERED flag for struct bio and update bio clients to use it.
The barrier semantics of bioq_insert_tail() were broken in two ways:
o In bioq_disksort(), an added bio could be inserted at the head of
the queue, even when a barrier was present, if the sort key for
the new entry was less than that of the last queued barrier bio.
o The last_offset used to generate the sort key for newly queued bios
did not stay at the position of the barrier until either the
barrier was de-queued, or a new barrier (which updates last_offset)
was queued. When a barrier is in effect, we know that the disk
will pass through the barrier position just before the
"blocked bios" are released, so using the barrier's offset for
last_offset is the optimal choice.
sys/geom/sched/subr_disk.c:
sys/kern/subr_disk.c:
o Update last_offset in bioq_insert_tail().
o Only update last_offset in bioq_remove() if the removed bio is
at the head of the queue (typically due to a call via
bioq_takefirst()) and no barrier is active.
o In bioq_disksort(), if we have a barrier (insert_point is non-NULL),
set prev to the barrier and cur to it's next element. Now that
last_offset is kept at the barrier position, this change isn't
strictly necessary, but since we have to take a decision branch
anyway, it does avoid one, no-op, loop iteration in the while
loop that immediately follows.
o In bioq_disksort(), bypass the normal sort for bios with the
BIO_ORDERED attribute and instead insert them into the queue
with bioq_insert_tail(). bioq_insert_tail() not only gives
the desired command order during insertion, but also provides
barrier semantics so that commands disksorted in the future
cannot pass the just enqueued transaction.
sys/sys/bio.h:
Add BIO_ORDERED as bit 4 of the bio_flags field in struct bio.
sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c
Use an ordered command for SCSI/ATA-NCQ commands issued in
response to bios with the BIO_ORDERED flag set.
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c
Use an ordered tag when issuing a synchronize cache command.
Wrap some lines to 80 columns.
sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/vdev_geom.c
sys/geom/geom_io.c
Mark bios with the BIO_FLUSH command as BIO_ORDERED.
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
MFC after: 1 month
in a device independent manner. Also include an example anticipatory
scheduler, gsched_rr, which gives very nice performance improvements
in presence of competing random access patterns.
This is joint work with Fabio Checconi, developed last year
and presented at BSDCan 2009. You can find details in the
README file or at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/geom_sched/
