[dm-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] dm: support bio polling

[Ming Lei]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 06:02:50PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 3/7/22 11:53 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > From: Ming Lei <ming.lei at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Support bio(REQ_POLLED) polling in the following approach:
> > 
> > 1) only support io polling on normal READ/WRITE, and other abnormal IOs
> > still fallback to IRQ mode, so the target io is exactly inside the dm
> > io.
> > 
> > 2) hold one refcnt on io->io_count after submitting this dm bio with
> > REQ_POLLED
> > 
> > 3) support dm native bio splitting, any dm io instance associated with
> > current bio will be added into one list which head is bio->bi_private
> > which will be recovered before ending this bio
> > 
> > 4) implement .poll_bio() callback, call bio_poll() on the single target
> > bio inside the dm io which is retrieved via bio->bi_bio_drv_data; call
> > dm_io_dec_pending() after the target io is done in .poll_bio()
> > 
> > 5) enable QUEUE_FLAG_POLL if all underlying queues enable QUEUE_FLAG_POLL,
> > which is based on Jeffle's previous patch.
> 
> It's not the prettiest thing in the world with the overlay on bi_private,
> but at least it's nicely documented now.
> 
> I would encourage you to actually test this on fast storage, should make
> a nice difference. I can run this on a gen2 optane, it's 10x the IOPS
> of what it was tested on and should help better highlight where it
> makes a difference.
> 
> If either of you would like that, then send me a fool proof recipe for
> what should be setup so I have a poll capable dm device.

Follows steps for setup dm stripe over two nvmes, then run io_uring on
the dm stripe dev.

1) dm_stripe.perl

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Create a striped device across any number of underlying devices. The device
# will be called "stripe_dev" and have a chunk-size of 128k.

my $chunk_size = 128 * 2;
my $dev_name = "stripe_dev";
my $num_devs = @ARGV;
my @devs = @ARGV;
my ($min_dev_size, $stripe_dev_size, $i);

if (!$num_devs) {
        die("Specify at least one device\n");
}

$min_dev_size = `blockdev --getsz $devs[0]`;
for ($i = 1; $i < $num_devs; $i++) {
        my $this_size = `blockdev --getsz $devs[$i]`;
        $min_dev_size = ($min_dev_size < $this_size) ?
                        $min_dev_size : $this_size;
}

$stripe_dev_size = $min_dev_size * $num_devs;
$stripe_dev_size -= $stripe_dev_size % ($chunk_size * $num_devs);

$table = "0 $stripe_dev_size striped $num_devs $chunk_size";
for ($i = 0; $i < $num_devs; $i++) {
        $table .= " $devs[$i] 0";
}

`echo $table | dmsetup create $dev_name`;


2) test_poll_on_dm_stripe.sh

#!/bin/bash

RT=40
JOBS=1
HI=1
BS=4K

set -x
dmsetup remove_all

rmmod nvme
modprobe nvme poll_queues=2

sleep 2

./dm_stripe.perl /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme1n1
sleep 1
DEV=/dev/mapper/stripe_dev

echo "io_uring hipri test"

fio --bs=$BS --ioengine=io_uring --fixedbufs --registerfiles \
        --hipri=$HI --iodepth=64 --iodepth_batch_submit=16 --iodepth_batch_complete_min=16 \
        --filename=$DEV --direct=1 --runtime=$RT --numjobs=$JOBS --rw=randread --name=test \
        --group_reporting

Thanks, 
Ming