[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH V4 2/3] xen-blkfront: teach blkfront driver to handle discard requests

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:33:27PM +0800, Li Dongyang wrote:
> Hi, Konrad
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:39:09PM +0800, Li Dongyang wrote:
> >> The blkfront driver now will read discard related nodes from xenstore,
> >> and set up the request queue, then we can forward the
> >> discard requests to backend driver.
> >
> >
> > A better description is as follow:
> >
> > xen-blkfront: Handle discard requests.
> >
> >    If the backend advertises 'feature-discard', then interrogate
> >    the backend for alignment, granularity, and max discard block size.
> >    Setup the request queue with the appropiate values and send the
> >    discard operation as required.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |  111 
> >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >>  1 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> >> index 9ea8c25..86e2c63 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> >> @@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ struct blkfront_info
> >>       unsigned long shadow_free;
> >>       unsigned int feature_flush;
> >>       unsigned int flush_op;
> >> +     unsigned int feature_discard;
> >> +     unsigned int discard_granularity;
> >> +     unsigned int discard_alignment;
> >>       int is_ready;
> >>  };
> >>
> >> @@ -302,29 +305,36 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
> >>               ring_req->operation = info->flush_op;
> >>       }
> >>
> >> -     ring_req->nr_segments = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req, info->sg);
> >> -     BUG_ON(ring_req->nr_segments > BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
> >> +     if (unlikely(req->cmd_flags & REQ_DISCARD)) {
> >> +             /* id, sector_number and handle are set above. */
> >> +             ring_req->operation = BLKIF_OP_DISCARD;
> >> +             ring_req->nr_segments = 0;
> >> +             ring_req->u.discard.nr_sectors = blk_rq_sectors(req);
> >> +     } else {
> >> +             ring_req->nr_segments = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req, info->sg);
> >> +             BUG_ON(ring_req->nr_segments > 
> >> BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
> >>
> >> -     for_each_sg(info->sg, sg, ring_req->nr_segments, i) {
> >> -             buffer_mfn = pfn_to_mfn(page_to_pfn(sg_page(sg)));
> >> -             fsect = sg->offset >> 9;
> >> -             lsect = fsect + (sg->length >> 9) - 1;
> >> -             /* install a grant reference. */
> >> -             ref = gnttab_claim_grant_reference(&gref_head);
> >> -             BUG_ON(ref == -ENOSPC);
> >> +             for_each_sg(info->sg, sg, ring_req->nr_segments, i) {
> >> +                     buffer_mfn = pfn_to_mfn(page_to_pfn(sg_page(sg)));
> >> +                     fsect = sg->offset >> 9;
> >> +                     lsect = fsect + (sg->length >> 9) - 1;
> >> +                     /* install a grant reference. */
> >> +                     ref = gnttab_claim_grant_reference(&gref_head);
> >> +                     BUG_ON(ref == -ENOSPC);
> >>
> >> -             gnttab_grant_foreign_access_ref(
> >> -                             ref,
> >> -                             info->xbdev->otherend_id,
> >> -                             buffer_mfn,
> >> -                             rq_data_dir(req) );
> >> -
> >> -             info->shadow[id].frame[i] = mfn_to_pfn(buffer_mfn);
> >> -             ring_req->u.rw.seg[i] =
> >> -                             (struct blkif_request_segment) {
> >> -                                     .gref       = ref,
> >> -                                     .first_sect = fsect,
> >> -                                     .last_sect  = lsect };
> >> +                     gnttab_grant_foreign_access_ref(
> >> +                                     ref,
> >> +                                     info->xbdev->otherend_id,
> >> +                                     buffer_mfn,
> >> +                                     rq_data_dir(req));
> >> +
> >> +                     info->shadow[id].frame[i] = mfn_to_pfn(buffer_mfn);
> >> +                     ring_req->u.rw.seg[i] =
> >> +                                     (struct blkif_request_segment) {
> >> +                                             .gref       = ref,
> >> +                                             .first_sect = fsect,
> >> +                                             .last_sect  = lsect };
> >> +             }
> >>       }
> >>
> >>       info->ring.req_prod_pvt++;
> >> @@ -399,6 +409,7 @@ wait:
> >>  static int xlvbd_init_blk_queue(struct gendisk *gd, u16 sector_size)
> >>  {
> >>       struct request_queue *rq;
> >> +     struct blkfront_info *info = gd->private_data;
> >>
> >>       rq = blk_init_queue(do_blkif_request, &blkif_io_lock);
> >>       if (rq == NULL)
> >> @@ -406,6 +417,13 @@ static int xlvbd_init_blk_queue(struct gendisk *gd, 
> >> u16 sector_size)
> >>
> >>       queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT, rq);
> >>
> >> +     if (info->feature_discard) {
> >> +             queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, rq);
> >> +             blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(rq, get_capacity(gd));
> >
> > This is not correct. I took a look at the SCSI support for this
> > ('sd_config_discard') and if you look there carefully you will see that
> > the value can be 64KB for example.
> >
> > You need to provide a mechanism similar to 'discard-*' to fetch that data
> > from the backend.
> >
> >> +             rq->limits.discard_granularity = info->discard_granularity;
> >> +             rq->limits.discard_alignment = info->discard_alignment;
> >> +     }
> >> +
> >>       /* Hard sector size and max sectors impersonate the equiv. hardware. 
> >> */
> >>       blk_queue_logical_block_size(rq, sector_size);
> >>       blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(rq, 512);
> >> @@ -722,6 +740,19 @@ static irqreturn_t blkif_interrupt(int irq, void 
> >> *dev_id)
> >>
> >>               error = (bret->status == BLKIF_RSP_OKAY) ? 0 : -EIO;
> >>               switch (bret->operation) {
> >> +             case BLKIF_OP_DISCARD:
> >> +                     if (unlikely(bret->status == BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP)) {
> >> +                             struct request_queue *rq = info->rq;
> >> +                             printk(KERN_WARNING "blkfront: %s: discard 
> >> op failed\n",
> >> +                                        info->gd->disk_name);
> >> +                             error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >> +                             info->feature_discard = 0;
> >> +                             spin_lock(rq->queue_lock);
> we should not take the spin_lock here,
> as the rq->queue_lock is actually blkif_io_lock, we pass the
> blkif_io_lock to blk_init_queue
> when we init the queue,
> and blkif_io_lock has already acquired above in blkif_interrupt(), so
> we will deadlock here.
> 
> I'm so sorry if this has already in your tree, I've tested with
> BLKIF_RSP_ERROR but forgot the EOPNOTSUPP case,
> I feel like I'm a stupid ass.
> could u get rid od the spin_lock and spin_unlock below? Thanks

Just send me a patch with the change and I will apply it to the tree.

Thanks for testing it even further!

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