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[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] xen/block: add multi-page ring support



Extend xen/block to support multi-page ring, so that more requests can be issued
by using more than one pages as the request ring between blkfront and backend.
As a result, the performance can get improved significantly.

We got some impressive improvements on our highend iscsi storage cluster 
backend.
If using 64 pages as the ring, the IOPS increased about 15 times for the
throughput testing and above doubled for the latency testing.

The reason was the limit on outstanding requests is 32 if use only one-page
ring, but in our case the iscsi lun was spread across about 100 physical drives,
32 was really not enough to keep them busy.

Changes in v2:
 - Rebased to 4.0-rc6
 - Added description on how this protocol works into io/blkif.h

Changes in v3:
 - Follow the protocol defined in io/blkif.h on XEN tree

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c |  14 ++++-
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h  |   4 +-
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c  |  83 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c        | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 4 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c 
b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
index 713fc9f..f191083 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_persistent_grants,
                  "Maximum number of grants to map persistently");
 
 /*
+ * Maximum number of pages to be used as the ring between front and backend
+ */
+unsigned int xen_blkif_max_ring_pages = XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGES;
+module_param_named(max_ring_pages, xen_blkif_max_ring_pages, int, S_IRUGO);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_ring_pages, "Maximum amount of pages to be used as the 
ring");
+/*
  * The LRU mechanism to clean the lists of persistent grants needs to
  * be executed periodically. The time interval between consecutive executions
  * of the purge mechanism is set in ms.
@@ -630,7 +636,7 @@ purge_gnt_list:
                }
 
                /* Shrink if we have more than xen_blkif_max_buffer_pages */
-               shrink_free_pagepool(blkif, xen_blkif_max_buffer_pages);
+               shrink_free_pagepool(blkif, xen_blkif_max_buffer_pages * 
blkif->nr_ring_pages);
 
                if (log_stats && time_after(jiffies, blkif->st_print))
                        print_stats(blkif);
@@ -1435,6 +1441,12 @@ static int __init xen_blkif_init(void)
 {
        int rc = 0;
 
+       if (xen_blkif_max_ring_pages > XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGES) {
+               pr_info("Invalid max_ring_pages (%d), will use default max: 
%d.\n",
+                       xen_blkif_max_ring_pages, XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGES);
+               xen_blkif_max_ring_pages = XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGES;
+       }
+
        if (!xen_domain())
                return -ENODEV;
 
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h 
b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
index f620b5d..84a964c 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #include <xen/interface/io/blkif.h>
 #include <xen/interface/io/protocols.h>
 
+extern unsigned int xen_blkif_max_ring_pages;
 /*
  * This is the maximum number of segments that would be allowed in indirect
  * requests. This value will also be passed to the frontend.
@@ -248,7 +249,7 @@ struct backend_info;
 #define PERSISTENT_GNT_WAS_ACTIVE      1
 
 /* Number of requests that we can fit in a ring */
-#define XEN_BLKIF_REQS                 32
+#define XEN_BLKIF_REQS                 (32 * XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGES)
 
 struct persistent_gnt {
        struct page *page;
@@ -320,6 +321,7 @@ struct xen_blkif {
        struct work_struct      free_work;
        /* Thread shutdown wait queue. */
        wait_queue_head_t       shutdown_wq;
+       int nr_ring_pages;
 };
 
 struct seg_buf {
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c 
b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
index 6ab69ad..909babd 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
@@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ fail:
        return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 }
 
-static int xen_blkif_map(struct xen_blkif *blkif, grant_ref_t gref,
-                        unsigned int evtchn)
+static int xen_blkif_map(struct xen_blkif *blkif, grant_ref_t *gref,
+                        unsigned int nr_grefs, unsigned int evtchn)
 {
        int err;
 
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ static int xen_blkif_map(struct xen_blkif *blkif, 
grant_ref_t gref,
        if (blkif->irq)
                return 0;
 
-       err = xenbus_map_ring_valloc(blkif->be->dev, &gref, 1,
+       err = xenbus_map_ring_valloc(blkif->be->dev, gref, nr_grefs,
                                     &blkif->blk_ring);
        if (err < 0)
                return err;
@@ -217,21 +217,21 @@ static int xen_blkif_map(struct xen_blkif *blkif, 
grant_ref_t gref,
        {
                struct blkif_sring *sring;
                sring = (struct blkif_sring *)blkif->blk_ring;
-               BACK_RING_INIT(&blkif->blk_rings.native, sring, PAGE_SIZE);
+               BACK_RING_INIT(&blkif->blk_rings.native, sring, PAGE_SIZE * 
nr_grefs);
                break;
        }
        case BLKIF_PROTOCOL_X86_32:
        {
                struct blkif_x86_32_sring *sring_x86_32;
                sring_x86_32 = (struct blkif_x86_32_sring *)blkif->blk_ring;
-               BACK_RING_INIT(&blkif->blk_rings.x86_32, sring_x86_32, 
PAGE_SIZE);
+               BACK_RING_INIT(&blkif->blk_rings.x86_32, sring_x86_32, 
PAGE_SIZE * nr_grefs);
                break;
        }
        case BLKIF_PROTOCOL_X86_64:
        {
                struct blkif_x86_64_sring *sring_x86_64;
                sring_x86_64 = (struct blkif_x86_64_sring *)blkif->blk_ring;
-               BACK_RING_INIT(&blkif->blk_rings.x86_64, sring_x86_64, 
PAGE_SIZE);
+               BACK_RING_INIT(&blkif->blk_rings.x86_64, sring_x86_64, 
PAGE_SIZE * nr_grefs);
                break;
        }
        default:
@@ -597,6 +597,11 @@ static int xen_blkbk_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev,
        if (err)
                goto fail;
 
+       err = xenbus_printf(XBT_NIL, dev->nodename, "max-ring-pages", "%u",
+                           xen_blkif_max_ring_pages);
+       if (err)
+               pr_warn("%s write out 'max-ring-pages' failed\n", __func__);
+
        err = xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateInitWait);
        if (err)
                goto fail;
@@ -860,22 +865,62 @@ again:
 static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be)
 {
        struct xenbus_device *dev = be->dev;
-       unsigned long ring_ref;
-       unsigned int evtchn;
+       unsigned int ring_ref[XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGES];
+       unsigned int evtchn, nr_grefs;
        unsigned int pers_grants;
        char protocol[64] = "";
        int err;
 
        pr_debug("%s %s\n", __func__, dev->otherend);
 
-       err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend, "ring-ref", "%lu",
-                           &ring_ref, "event-channel", "%u", &evtchn, NULL);
-       if (err) {
-               xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err,
-                                "reading %s/ring-ref and event-channel",
+       err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend, "event-channel", "%u",
+                         &evtchn);
+       if (err != 1) {
+               err = -EINVAL;
+               xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "reading %s/event-channel",
                                 dev->otherend);
                return err;
        }
+       pr_info("event-channel %u\n", evtchn);
+
+       err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend, "num-ring-pages", "%u",
+                         &nr_grefs);
+       if (err != 1) {
+               err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend, "ring-ref",
+                                 "%u", &ring_ref[0]);
+               if (err != 1) {
+                       err = -EINVAL;
+                       xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "reading %s/ring-ref",
+                                        dev->otherend);
+                       return err;
+               }
+               nr_grefs = 1;
+               pr_info("%s:using single page: ring-ref %d\n", dev->otherend,
+                       ring_ref[0]);
+       } else {
+               unsigned int i;
+
+               if (nr_grefs > xen_blkif_max_ring_pages) {
+                       err = -EINVAL;
+                       xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "%s/request %d ring pages 
exceed max:%d",
+                                        dev->otherend, nr_grefs, 
xen_blkif_max_ring_pages);
+                       return err;
+               }
+               for (i = 0; i < nr_grefs; i++) {
+                       char ring_ref_name[BLKBACK_NAME_LEN];
+
+                       snprintf(ring_ref_name, sizeof(ring_ref_name), 
"ring-ref%u", i);
+                       err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend,
+                                          ring_ref_name, "%u", &ring_ref[i]);
+                       if (err != 1) {
+                               err = -EINVAL;
+                               xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "reading %s/%s",
+                                                dev->otherend, ring_ref_name);
+                               return err;
+                       }
+                       pr_info("ring-ref%u: %u\n", i, ring_ref[i]);
+               }
+       }
 
        be->blkif->blk_protocol = BLKIF_PROTOCOL_DEFAULT;
        err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend, "protocol",
@@ -900,16 +945,16 @@ static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be)
 
        be->blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent = pers_grants;
        be->blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants = 0;
+       be->blkif->nr_ring_pages = nr_grefs;
 
-       pr_info("ring-ref %ld, event-channel %d, protocol %d (%s) %s\n",
-               ring_ref, evtchn, be->blkif->blk_protocol, protocol,
-               pers_grants ? "persistent grants" : "");
+       pr_info("ring-pages:%d, event-channel %d, protocol %d (%s) %s\n",
+                       nr_grefs, evtchn, be->blkif->blk_protocol, protocol,
+                       pers_grants ? "persistent grants" : "");
 
        /* Map the shared frame, irq etc. */
-       err = xen_blkif_map(be->blkif, ring_ref, evtchn);
+       err = xen_blkif_map(be->blkif, ring_ref, nr_grefs, evtchn);
        if (err) {
-               xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "mapping ring-ref %lu port %u",
-                                ring_ref, evtchn);
+               xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "mapping ring-ref port %u", evtchn);
                return err;
        }
 
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 88e23fd..c4b427f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -98,7 +98,17 @@ static unsigned int xen_blkif_max_segments = 32;
 module_param_named(max, xen_blkif_max_segments, int, S_IRUGO);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(max, "Maximum amount of segments in indirect requests 
(default is 32)");
 
-#define BLK_RING_SIZE __CONST_RING_SIZE(blkif, PAGE_SIZE)
+static unsigned int xen_blkif_max_ring_pages = 1;
+module_param_named(max_ring_pages, xen_blkif_max_ring_pages, int, S_IRUGO);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_ring_pages, "Maximum amount of pages to be used as the 
ring");
+
+#define BLK_RING_SIZE __CONST_RING_SIZE(blkif, PAGE_SIZE * info->nr_ring_pages)
+#define BLK_MAX_RING_SIZE __CONST_RING_SIZE(blkif, PAGE_SIZE * 
XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGES)
+/*
+ * ring-ref%i i=(-1UL) would take 11 characters + 'ring-ref' is 8, so 19 
characters
+ * are enough. Define to 20 to keep consist with backend.
+ */
+#define RINGREF_NAME_LEN (20)
 
 /*
  * We have one of these per vbd, whether ide, scsi or 'other'.  They
@@ -114,13 +124,14 @@ struct blkfront_info
        int vdevice;
        blkif_vdev_t handle;
        enum blkif_state connected;
-       int ring_ref;
+       int ring_ref[XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGES];
+       unsigned int nr_ring_pages;
        struct blkif_front_ring ring;
        unsigned int evtchn, irq;
        struct request_queue *rq;
        struct work_struct work;
        struct gnttab_free_callback callback;
-       struct blk_shadow shadow[BLK_RING_SIZE];
+       struct blk_shadow shadow[BLK_MAX_RING_SIZE];
        struct list_head grants;
        struct list_head indirect_pages;
        unsigned int persistent_gnts_c;
@@ -139,8 +150,6 @@ static unsigned int nr_minors;
 static unsigned long *minors;
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(minor_lock);
 
-#define MAXIMUM_OUTSTANDING_BLOCK_REQS \
-       (BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST * BLK_RING_SIZE)
 #define GRANT_INVALID_REF      0
 
 #define PARTS_PER_DISK         16
@@ -1033,12 +1042,15 @@ free_shadow:
        flush_work(&info->work);
 
        /* Free resources associated with old device channel. */
-       if (info->ring_ref != GRANT_INVALID_REF) {
-               gnttab_end_foreign_access(info->ring_ref, 0,
-                                         (unsigned long)info->ring.sring);
-               info->ring_ref = GRANT_INVALID_REF;
-               info->ring.sring = NULL;
+       for (i = 0; i < info->nr_ring_pages; i++) {
+               if (info->ring_ref[i] != GRANT_INVALID_REF) {
+                       gnttab_end_foreign_access(info->ring_ref[i], 0, 0);
+                       info->ring_ref[i] = GRANT_INVALID_REF;
+               }
        }
+       free_pages((unsigned long)info->ring.sring, 
get_order(info->nr_ring_pages * PAGE_SIZE));
+       info->ring.sring = NULL;
+
        if (info->irq)
                unbind_from_irqhandler(info->irq, info);
        info->evtchn = info->irq = 0;
@@ -1245,26 +1257,30 @@ static int setup_blkring(struct xenbus_device *dev,
                         struct blkfront_info *info)
 {
        struct blkif_sring *sring;
-       grant_ref_t gref;
-       int err;
+       int err, i;
+       unsigned long ring_size = info->nr_ring_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
+       grant_ref_t gref[XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGES];
 
-       info->ring_ref = GRANT_INVALID_REF;
+       for (i = 0; i < info->nr_ring_pages; i++)
+               info->ring_ref[i] = GRANT_INVALID_REF;
 
-       sring = (struct blkif_sring *)__get_free_page(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH);
+       sring = (struct blkif_sring *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH,
+                                                      get_order(ring_size));
        if (!sring) {
                xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, -ENOMEM, "allocating shared ring");
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
        SHARED_RING_INIT(sring);
-       FRONT_RING_INIT(&info->ring, sring, PAGE_SIZE);
+       FRONT_RING_INIT(&info->ring, sring, ring_size);
 
-       err = xenbus_grant_ring(dev, info->ring.sring, 1, &gref);
+       err = xenbus_grant_ring(dev, info->ring.sring, info->nr_ring_pages, 
gref);
        if (err < 0) {
                free_page((unsigned long)sring);
                info->ring.sring = NULL;
                goto fail;
        }
-       info->ring_ref = gref;
+       for (i = 0; i < info->nr_ring_pages; i++)
+               info->ring_ref[i] = gref[i];
 
        err = xenbus_alloc_evtchn(dev, &info->evtchn);
        if (err)
@@ -1292,7 +1308,15 @@ static int talk_to_blkback(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 {
        const char *message = NULL;
        struct xenbus_transaction xbt;
-       int err;
+       int err, i;
+       unsigned int max_pages = 0;
+
+       err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend,
+                          "max-ring-pages", "%u", &max_pages);
+       if (err != 1)
+               info->nr_ring_pages = 1;
+       else
+               info->nr_ring_pages = min(xen_blkif_max_ring_pages, max_pages);
 
        /* Create shared ring, alloc event channel. */
        err = setup_blkring(dev, info);
@@ -1306,11 +1330,31 @@ again:
                goto destroy_blkring;
        }
 
-       err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
-                           "ring-ref", "%u", info->ring_ref);
-       if (err) {
-               message = "writing ring-ref";
-               goto abort_transaction;
+       if (info->nr_ring_pages == 1) {
+               err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
+                                   "ring-ref", "%u", info->ring_ref[0]);
+               if (err) {
+                       message = "writing ring-ref";
+                       goto abort_transaction;
+               }
+       } else {
+               err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
+                                   "num-ring-pages", "%u", 
info->nr_ring_pages);
+               if (err) {
+                       message = "writing num-ring-pages";
+                       goto abort_transaction;
+               }
+
+               for (i = 0; i < info->nr_ring_pages; i++) {
+                       char ring_ref_name[RINGREF_NAME_LEN];
+                       snprintf(ring_ref_name, sizeof(ring_ref_name), 
"ring-ref%u", i);
+                       err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
+                                       ring_ref_name, "%u", info->ring_ref[i]);
+                       if (err) {
+                               message = "writing ring-ref";
+                               goto abort_transaction;
+                       }
+               }
        }
        err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
                            "event-channel", "%u", info->evtchn);
@@ -1338,6 +1382,7 @@ again:
                goto destroy_blkring;
        }
 
+       info->shadow[BLK_RING_SIZE-1].req.u.rw.id = 0x0fffffff;
        xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateInitialised);
 
        return 0;
@@ -1422,9 +1467,8 @@ static int blkfront_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev,
        info->connected = BLKIF_STATE_DISCONNECTED;
        INIT_WORK(&info->work, blkif_restart_queue);
 
-       for (i = 0; i < BLK_RING_SIZE; i++)
+       for (i = 0; i < BLK_MAX_RING_SIZE; i++)
                info->shadow[i].req.u.rw.id = i+1;
-       info->shadow[BLK_RING_SIZE-1].req.u.rw.id = 0x0fffffff;
 
        /* Front end dir is a number, which is used as the id. */
        info->handle = simple_strtoul(strrchr(dev->nodename, '/')+1, NULL, 0);
@@ -1469,7 +1513,7 @@ static int blkif_recover(struct blkfront_info *info)
 
        /* Stage 2: Set up free list. */
        memset(&info->shadow, 0, sizeof(info->shadow));
-       for (i = 0; i < BLK_RING_SIZE; i++)
+       for (i = 0; i < BLK_MAX_RING_SIZE; i++)
                info->shadow[i].req.u.rw.id = i+1;
        info->shadow_free = info->ring.req_prod_pvt;
        info->shadow[BLK_RING_SIZE-1].req.u.rw.id = 0x0fffffff;
@@ -2086,6 +2130,12 @@ static int __init xlblk_init(void)
 {
        int ret;
 
+       if (xen_blkif_max_ring_pages > XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGES) {
+               pr_info("Invalid max_ring_pages (%d), will use default max: 
%d.\n",
+                       xen_blkif_max_ring_pages, XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGES);
+               xen_blkif_max_ring_pages = 1;
+       }
+
        if (!xen_domain())
                return -ENODEV;
 
-- 
1.8.3.1


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