[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 02/10] block: Introduce queue limits for copy-offload support
Nitesh Shetty
nj.shetty at samsung.com
Tue Feb 8 18:43:35 UTC 2022
On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 04:01:23PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 2/7/22 23:13, Nitesh Shetty wrote:
> > Add device limits as sysfs entries,
> > - copy_offload (READ_WRITE)
> > - max_copy_sectors (READ_ONLY)
>
> Why read-only ? With the name as you have it, it seems to be the soft
> control for the max size of copy operations rather than the actual
> device limit. So it would be better to align to other limits like max
> sectors/max_hw_sectors and have:
>
> max_copy_sectors (RW)
> max_hw_copy_sectors (RO)
>
Idea was to have minimal number of sysfs.
We will add R/W limits in next series.
> > - max_copy_ranges_sectors (READ_ONLY)
> > - max_copy_nr_ranges (READ_ONLY)
>
> Same for these.
>
> >
> > copy_offload(= 0), is disabled by default. This needs to be enabled if
> > copy-offload needs to be used.
>
> How does this work ? This limit will be present for a DM device AND the
> underlying devices of the DM target. But "offload" applies only to the
> underlying devices, not the DM device...
>
> Also, since this is not an underlying device limitation but an on/off
> switch, this should probably be moved to a request_queue boolean field
> or flag bit, controlled with sysfs.
copy_offload was used as a flag to switch between emulation/offload in
block layer.
Yeah, it makes sense to use request_queue flag for the same, also will
make dm limit calculations simple. Will add in next series.
> > max_copy_sectors = 0, indicates the device doesn't support native copy.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty at samsung.com>
> > Signed-off-by: SelvaKumar S <selvakuma.s1 at samsung.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k at samsung.com>
> > ---
> > block/blk-settings.c | 4 ++++
> > block/blk-sysfs.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > include/linux/blkdev.h | 12 ++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 67 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
> > index b880c70e22e4..818454552cf8 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-settings.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-settings.c
> > @@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ void blk_set_default_limits(struct queue_limits *lim)
> > lim->misaligned = 0;
> > lim->zoned = BLK_ZONED_NONE;
> > lim->zone_write_granularity = 0;
> > + lim->copy_offload = 0;
> > + lim->max_copy_sectors = 0;
> > + lim->max_copy_nr_ranges = 0;
> > + lim->max_copy_range_sectors = 0;
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_set_default_limits);
> >
> > diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
> > index 9f32882ceb2f..dc68ae6b55c9 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
> > @@ -171,6 +171,48 @@ static ssize_t queue_discard_granularity_show(struct request_queue *q, char *pag
> > return queue_var_show(q->limits.discard_granularity, page);
> > }
> >
> > +static ssize_t queue_copy_offload_show(struct request_queue *q, char *page)
> > +{
> > + return queue_var_show(q->limits.copy_offload, page);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static ssize_t queue_copy_offload_store(struct request_queue *q,
> > + const char *page, size_t count)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long copy_offload;
> > + ssize_t ret = queue_var_store(©_offload, page, count);
> > +
> > + if (ret < 0)
> > + return ret;
> > +
> > + if (copy_offload && q->limits.max_copy_sectors == 0)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > + if (copy_offload)
> > + q->limits.copy_offload = BLK_COPY_OFFLOAD;
> > + else
> > + q->limits.copy_offload = 0;
> > +
> > + return ret;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static ssize_t queue_max_copy_sectors_show(struct request_queue *q, char *page)
> > +{
> > + return queue_var_show(q->limits.max_copy_sectors, page);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static ssize_t queue_max_copy_range_sectors_show(struct request_queue *q,
> > + char *page)
> > +{
> > + return queue_var_show(q->limits.max_copy_range_sectors, page);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static ssize_t queue_max_copy_nr_ranges_show(struct request_queue *q,
> > + char *page)
> > +{
> > + return queue_var_show(q->limits.max_copy_nr_ranges, page);
> > +}
> > +
> > static ssize_t queue_discard_max_hw_show(struct request_queue *q, char *page)
> > {
> >
> > @@ -597,6 +639,11 @@ QUEUE_RO_ENTRY(queue_nr_zones, "nr_zones");
> > QUEUE_RO_ENTRY(queue_max_open_zones, "max_open_zones");
> > QUEUE_RO_ENTRY(queue_max_active_zones, "max_active_zones");
> >
> > +QUEUE_RW_ENTRY(queue_copy_offload, "copy_offload");
> > +QUEUE_RO_ENTRY(queue_max_copy_sectors, "max_copy_sectors");
> > +QUEUE_RO_ENTRY(queue_max_copy_range_sectors, "max_copy_range_sectors");
> > +QUEUE_RO_ENTRY(queue_max_copy_nr_ranges, "max_copy_nr_ranges");
> > +
> > QUEUE_RW_ENTRY(queue_nomerges, "nomerges");
> > QUEUE_RW_ENTRY(queue_rq_affinity, "rq_affinity");
> > QUEUE_RW_ENTRY(queue_poll, "io_poll");
> > @@ -643,6 +690,10 @@ static struct attribute *queue_attrs[] = {
> > &queue_discard_max_entry.attr,
> > &queue_discard_max_hw_entry.attr,
> > &queue_discard_zeroes_data_entry.attr,
> > + &queue_copy_offload_entry.attr,
> > + &queue_max_copy_sectors_entry.attr,
> > + &queue_max_copy_range_sectors_entry.attr,
> > + &queue_max_copy_nr_ranges_entry.attr,
> > &queue_write_same_max_entry.attr,
> > &queue_write_zeroes_max_entry.attr,
> > &queue_zone_append_max_entry.attr,
> > diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> > index efed3820cbf7..f63ae50f1de3 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> > @@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ extern struct class block_class;
> > /* Doing classic polling */
> > #define BLK_MQ_POLL_CLASSIC -1
> >
> > +/* Define copy offload options */
> > +enum blk_copy {
> > + BLK_COPY_EMULATE = 0,
> > + BLK_COPY_OFFLOAD,
> > +};
> > +
> > /*
> > * Maximum number of blkcg policies allowed to be registered concurrently.
> > * Defined here to simplify include dependency.
> > @@ -253,6 +259,10 @@ struct queue_limits {
> > unsigned int discard_granularity;
> > unsigned int discard_alignment;
> > unsigned int zone_write_granularity;
> > + unsigned int copy_offload;
> > + unsigned int max_copy_sectors;
> > + unsigned short max_copy_range_sectors;
> > + unsigned short max_copy_nr_ranges;
> >
> > unsigned short max_segments;
> > unsigned short max_integrity_segments;
> > @@ -562,6 +572,7 @@ struct request_queue {
> > #define QUEUE_FLAG_RQ_ALLOC_TIME 27 /* record rq->alloc_time_ns */
> > #define QUEUE_FLAG_HCTX_ACTIVE 28 /* at least one blk-mq hctx is active */
> > #define QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT 29 /* device supports NOWAIT */
> > +#define QUEUE_FLAG_COPY 30 /* supports copy offload */
>
> Then what is the point of max_copy_sectors limit ? You can test support
> by the device by looking at max_copy_sectors != 0, no ? This flag is
> duplicated information.
> I would rather use it for the on/off switch for the copy offload,
> removing the copy_offload limit.
>
Same as above
> >
> > #define QUEUE_FLAG_MQ_DEFAULT ((1 << QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT) | \
> > (1 << QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP) | \
> > @@ -585,6 +596,7 @@ bool blk_queue_flag_test_and_set(unsigned int flag, struct request_queue *q);
> > #define blk_queue_io_stat(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT, &(q)->queue_flags)
> > #define blk_queue_add_random(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, &(q)->queue_flags)
> > #define blk_queue_discard(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, &(q)->queue_flags)
> > +#define blk_queue_copy(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_COPY, &(q)->queue_flags)
> > #define blk_queue_zone_resetall(q) \
> > test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_ZONE_RESETALL, &(q)->queue_flags)
> > #define blk_queue_secure_erase(q) \
>
>
> --
> Damien Le Moal
> Western Digital Research
>
--
Thank you
Nitesh
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