blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism

Linux currently has two models for block devices:

- The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct
  request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper
  functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag
  management, timeout handling, queueing, etc.

- The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the
  block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack,
  driver generally have to manage everything themselves.

With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic
request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates
back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with
scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on
smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands
per device.

The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model
for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent
everything, and along with that we get all the problems again
that the shared approach solved.

This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The
design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which
then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues.
We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be
an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports.

blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include:

- Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to
  be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and
  to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed
  tags, to enable cache hot reuse.

- Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device
  basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification,
  if a request happens to fail.

- Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and
  submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the
  desired location.

- Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need
  to associate a request structure with some driver private
  command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time,
  and then any request handed to the driver will have the
  required size of memory associated with it.

- Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model
  gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging
  sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus
  increases bandwidth.

For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with
the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic
and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real
model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md
devices (as it was originally intended).

Contributions in this patch from the following people:

Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h
index e837b8f619b7d..c90e1d8f7a2b3 100644
--- a/block/blk.h
+++ b/block/blk.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #define BLK_BATCH_REQ	32
 
 extern struct kmem_cache *blk_requestq_cachep;
+extern struct kmem_cache *request_cachep;
 extern struct kobj_type blk_queue_ktype;
 extern struct ida blk_queue_ida;
 
@@ -34,14 +35,30 @@ bool __blk_end_bidi_request(struct request *rq, int error,
 			    unsigned int nr_bytes, unsigned int bidi_bytes);
 
 void blk_rq_timed_out_timer(unsigned long data);
+void blk_rq_check_expired(struct request *rq, unsigned long *next_timeout,
+			  unsigned int *next_set);
+void __blk_add_timer(struct request *req, struct list_head *timeout_list);
 void blk_delete_timer(struct request *);
 void blk_add_timer(struct request *);
 
+
+bool bio_attempt_front_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req,
+			     struct bio *bio);
+bool bio_attempt_back_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req,
+			    struct bio *bio);
+bool blk_attempt_plug_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio,
+			    unsigned int *request_count);
+
+void blk_account_io_start(struct request *req, bool new_io);
+void blk_account_io_completion(struct request *req, unsigned int bytes);
+void blk_account_io_done(struct request *req);
+
 /*
  * Internal atomic flags for request handling
  */
 enum rq_atomic_flags {
 	REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE = 0,
+	REQ_ATOM_STARTED,
 };
 
 /*