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Damien Le Moal ab87d6f26e block: mq-deadline: Do not break sequential write streams to zoned HDDs 
commit 015d02f485 upstream.

mq-deadline ensures an in order dispatching of write requests to zoned
block devices using a per zone lock (a bit). This implies that for any
purely sequential write workload, the drive is exercised most of the
time at a maximum queue depth of one.

However, when such sequential write workload crosses a zone boundary
(when sequentially writing multiple contiguous zones), zone write
locking may prevent the last write to one zone to be issued (as the
previous write is still being executed) but allow the first write to the
following zone to be issued (as that zone is not yet being writen and
not locked). This result in an out of order delivery of the sequential
write commands to the device every time a zone boundary is crossed.

While such behavior does not break the sequential write constraint of
zoned block devices (and does not generate any write error), some zoned
hard-disks react badly to seeing these out of order writes, resulting in
lower write throughput.

This problem can be addressed by always dispatching the first request
of a stream of sequential write requests, regardless of the zones
targeted by these sequential writes. To do so, the function
deadline_skip_seq_writes() is introduced and used in
deadline_next_request() to select the next write command to issue if the
target device is an HDD (blk_queue_nonrot() being false).
deadline_fifo_request() is modified using the new
deadline_earlier_request() and deadline_is_seq_write() helpers to ignore
requests in the fifo list that have a preceding request in lba order
that is sequential.

With this fix, a sequential write workload executed with the following
fio command:

fio  --name=seq-write --filename=/dev/sda --zonemode=zbd --direct=1 \
     --size=68719476736  --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32 --rw=write \
     --bs=65536

results in an increase from 225 MB/s to 250 MB/s of the write throughput
of an SMR HDD (11% increase).

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221124021208.242541-3-damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2023-01-07 11:11:51 +01:00
arch ARM: 9256/1: NWFPE: avoid compiler-generated __aeabi_uldivmod 2023-01-07 11:11:49 +01:00
block block: mq-deadline: Do not break sequential write streams to zoned HDDs 2023-01-07 11:11:51 +01:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto crypto: tcrypt - Fix multibuffer skcipher speed test mem leak 2022-12-31 13:32:34 +01:00
Documentation kprobes: kretprobe events missing on 2-core KVM guest 2023-01-04 11:28:58 +01:00
drivers drm/amdgpu: fix mmhub register base coding error 2023-01-07 11:11:50 +01:00
fs cifs: set correct status of tcon ipc when reconnecting 2023-01-07 11:11:50 +01:00
include mptcp: remove MPTCP 'ifdef' in TCP SYN cookies 2023-01-07 11:11:44 +01:00
init init/Kconfig: fix CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT test with dash 2022-11-22 22:42:38 +09:00
io_uring io_uring: pass in EPOLL_URING_WAKE for eventfd signaling and wakeups 2023-01-04 11:28:48 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel tracing: Fix infinite loop in tracing_read_pipe on overflowed print_trace_line 2023-01-07 11:11:49 +01:00
lib maple_tree: fix mas_spanning_rebalance() on insufficient data 2022-12-31 13:33:11 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm, compaction: fix fast_isolate_around() to stay within boundaries 2023-01-04 11:29:01 +01:00
net mptcp: use proper req destructor for IPv6 2023-01-07 11:11:44 +01:00
rust Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
samples samples: vfio-mdev: Fix missing pci_disable_device() in mdpy_fb_probe() 2022-12-31 13:32:42 +01:00
scripts - Handle different output of readelf on different distros running 2022-11-27 12:08:17 -08:00
security ima: Fix hash dependency to correct algorithm 2023-01-07 11:11:46 +01:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Add new quirk FIXED_RATE for JBL Quantum810 Wireless 2023-01-07 11:11:43 +01:00
tools selftests: Use optional USERCFLAGS and USERLDFLAGS 2023-01-07 11:11:39 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-dwmw2-fixes' into HEAD 2022-11-23 18:59:45 -05:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.3 2023-01-04 11:29:02 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.