Remove the extra white line at the end of the functions.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
nvmeq->cq_head is compared with nvmeq->q_depth and changed the value
and cq_phase for handling the next cq db.
but, nvmeq->q_depth's type is u32 and max. value is 0x10000 when
CQP.MSQE is 0xffff and io_queue_depth is 0x10000.
current temp. variable for comparing with nvmeq->q_depth is overflowed
when previous nvmeq->cq_head is 0xffff.
in this case, nvmeq->cq_phase is not updated.
so, fix data type for temp. variable to u32.
Signed-off-by: JK Kim <jongkang.kim2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
These error paths currently return success but they should return
-EOPNOTSUPP.
Fixes: 73ffcefcfc ("nvme-tcp: check sgl supported by target")
Fixes: 3f2304f8c6 ("nvme-tcp: add NVMe over TCP host driver")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a helper nvme_validate_passthru_nsid() to validate the nsid that
removes the nsid validation and error message print code from
nvme_user_cmd() and nvme_user_cmd64().
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fix a singular/plural mismatch in the CONFIG_NVME_MULTIPATH help text.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Commit ce86dad222 ("nvme-multipath: reset bdev to ns head when
failover") moved the reset code where the bio is added to the
requeue_list for the failover path. But it left the original
bio_set_dev in nvme_requeue_work.
There is a second path to nvme_requee_work. It is via
nvme_ns_head_submit_bio. Though we don't have to set bio->bi_bdev for
this path either, as it points to the correct bdev already.
Let's remove the bio_set_dev. It's updating the bio->bi_bdev with the
same pointer and thus it's unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The controller is required to have a non-zero MNAN value if it supports
ANA:
If the controller supports Asymmetric Namespace Access Reporting, then
this field shall be set to a non-zero value that is less than or equal
to the NN value.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
AMD systems from Renoir and Lucienne require that the NVME controller
is put into D3 over a Modern Standby / suspend-to-idle
cycle. This is "typically" accomplished using the `StorageD3Enable`
property in the _DSD, but this property was introduced after many
of these systems launched and most OEM systems don't have it in
their BIOS.
On AMD Renoir without these drives going into D3 over suspend-to-idle
the resume will fail with the NVME controller being reset and a trace
like this in the kernel logs:
```
[ 83.556118] nvme nvme0: I/O 161 QID 2 timeout, aborting
[ 83.556178] nvme nvme0: I/O 162 QID 2 timeout, aborting
[ 83.556187] nvme nvme0: I/O 163 QID 2 timeout, aborting
[ 83.556196] nvme nvme0: I/O 164 QID 2 timeout, aborting
[ 95.332114] nvme nvme0: I/O 25 QID 0 timeout, reset controller
[ 95.332843] nvme nvme0: Abort status: 0x371
[ 95.332852] nvme nvme0: Abort status: 0x371
[ 95.332856] nvme nvme0: Abort status: 0x371
[ 95.332859] nvme nvme0: Abort status: 0x371
[ 95.332909] PM: dpm_run_callback(): pci_pm_resume+0x0/0xe0 returns -16
[ 95.332936] nvme 0000:03:00.0: PM: failed to resume async: error -16
```
The Microsoft documentation for StorageD3Enable mentioned that Windows has
a hardcoded allowlist for D3 support, which was used for these platforms.
Introduce quirks to hardcode them for Linux as well.
As this property is now "standardized", OEM systems using AMD Cezanne and
newer APU's have adopted this property, and quirks like this should not be
necessary.
CC: Shyam-sundar S-k <Shyam-sundar.S-k@amd.com>
CC: Alexander Deucher <Alexander.Deucher@amd.com>
CC: Prike Liang <prike.liang@amd.com>
Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/component-guidelines/power-management-for-storage-hardware-devices-intro
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Julian Sikorski <belegdol@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Pull MD changes from Song:
"1) iostats rewrite by Guoqing Jiang;
2) raid5 lock contention optimization by Gal Ofri."
* 'md-next' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/song/md:
md/raid5: avoid device_lock in read_one_chunk()
md: add comments in md_integrity_register
md: check level before create and exit io_acct_set
md: Constify attribute_group structs
md: mark some personalities as deprecated
md/raid10: enable io accounting
md/raid1: enable io accounting
md/raid1: rename print_msg with r1bio_existed
md/raid5: avoid redundant bio clone in raid5_read_one_chunk
md/raid5: move checking badblock before clone bio in raid5_read_one_chunk
md: add io accounting for raid0 and raid5
md: revert io stats accounting
Pull floppy fixes from Denis:
"Floppy patches for 5.14
Two oneliners to fix clang warnings:
- -Wimplicit-fallthrough warning fix from Gustavo A. R. Silva.
- Redundant assignment warning fix from Jiapeng Chong.
No semantic and behavioural changes."
* tag 'floppy-for-5.14' of https://github.com/evdenis/linux-floppy:
floppy: Fix fall-through warning for Clang
floppy: cleanup: remove redundant assignment to nr_sectors
There is a lock contention on device_lock in read_one_chunk().
device_lock is taken to sync conf->active_aligned_reads and
conf->quiesce.
read_one_chunk() takes the lock, then waits for quiesce=0 (resumed)
before incrementing active_aligned_reads.
raid5_quiesce() takes the lock, sets quiesce=2 (in-progress), then waits
for active_aligned_reads to be zero before setting quiesce=1
(suspended).
Introduce a fast (lockless) path in read_one_chunk(): activate aligned
read without taking device_lock. In case quiesce starts while
activating the aligned-read in fast path, deactivate it and revert to
old behavior (take device_lock and wait for quiesce to finish).
Add smp store/load in raid5_quiesce()/read_one_chunk() respectively to
gaurantee that read_one_chunk() does not miss an ongoing quiesce.
My setups:
1. 8 local nvme drives (each up to 250k iops).
2. 8 ram disks (brd).
Each setup with raid6 (6+2), 1024 io threads on a 96 cpu-cores (48 per
socket) system. Record both iops and cpu spent on this contention with
rand-read-4k. Record bw with sequential-read-128k. Note: in most cases
cpu is still busy but due to "new" bottlenecks.
nvme:
| iops | cpu | bw
-----------------------------------------------
without patch | 1.6M | ~50% | 5.5GB/s
with patch | 2M (throttled) | 0% | 16GB/s (throttled)
ram (brd):
| iops | cpu | bw
-----------------------------------------------
without patch | 2M | ~80% | 24GB/s
with patch | 4M | 0% | 55GB/s
CC: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
CC: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Gal Ofri <gal.ofri@storing.io>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Given it is not obvious for the error handling, let's try to add some
comments here to make it clear.
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <jiangguoqing@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
The bio_set (io_acct_set) is used by personalities to clone bio and
trace the timestamp of bio. Some personalities such as raid1/10 don't
need the bio_set, so add check to not create it unconditionally.
Also update the comment for md_account_bio to make it more clear.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <jiangguoqing@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
The attribute_group structs are never modified, they're only passed to
sysfs_create_group() and sysfs_remove_group(). Make them const to allow
the compiler to put them in read-only memory.
Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Mark the three personalities (linear, fault and multipath) as deprecated
because:
1. people can use dm multipath or nvme multipath.
2. linear is already deprecated in MODULE_ALIAS.
3. no one actively using fault.
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <jiangguoqing@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
For raid10, we record the start time between split bio and clone bio,
and finish the accounting in the final endio.
Also introduce start_time in r10bio accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <jiangguoqing@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
For raid1, we record the start time between split bio and clone bio,
and finish the accounting in the final endio.
Also introduce start_time in r1bio accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <jiangguoqing@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
The caller of raid1_read_request could pass NULL or a valid pointer for
"struct r1bio *r1_bio", so it actually means whether r1_bio is existed
or not.
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <jiangguoqing@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
After enable io accounting, chunk read bio could be cloned twice which
is not good. To avoid such inefficiency, let's clone align_bio from
io_acct_set too, then we need only call md_account_bio in make_request
unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <jiangguoqing@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
We don't need to clone bio if the relevant region has badblock.
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <jiangguoqing@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
We introduce a new bioset (io_acct_set) for raid0 and raid5 since they
don't own clone infrastructure to accounting io. And the bioset is added
to mddev instead of to raid0 and raid5 layer, because with this way, we
can put common functions to md.h and reuse them in raid0 and raid5.
Also struct md_io_acct is added accordingly which includes io start_time,
the origin bio and cloned bio. Then we can call bio_{start,end}_io_acct
to get related io status.
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <jiangguoqing@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
pstore-blk just pokes directly into the pagecache for the block
device without going through the file operations for that by faking
up it's own file operations that do not match the block device ones.
As this breaks the control of the block layer of it's page cache,
and even now just works by accident only the best thing is to just
disable this driver.
Fixes: 17639f67c1 ("pstore/blk: Introduce backend for block devices")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210608161327.1537919-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fixes scripts/checkpatch.pl warning:
WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
Remove it can help us save a bit of memory.
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fixes scripts/checkpatch.pl warning:
WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
Remove it can help us save a bit of memory.
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fixes scripts/checkpatch.pl warning:
WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
Remove it can help us save a bit of memory.
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fixes scripts/checkpatch.pl warning:
WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
Remove it can help us save a bit of memory.
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fixes scripts/checkpatch.pl warning:
WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
Remove it can help us save a bit of memory.
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fixes scripts/checkpatch.pl warning:
WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
Remove it can help us save a bit of memory.
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull NVMe updates from Christoph:
"nvme updates for Linux 5.14
- improve the APST configuration algorithm (Alexey Bogoslavsky)
- look for StorageD3Enable on companion ACPI device (Mario Limonciello)
- allow selecting the network interface for TCP connections
(Martin Belanger)
- misc cleanups (Amit Engel, Chaitanya Kulkarni, Colin Ian King, me)"
* tag 'nvme-5.14-2021-06-08' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme:
nvmet: remove a superfluous variable
nvmet: move ka_work initialization to nvmet_alloc_ctrl
nvme: remove nvme_{get,put}_ns_from_disk
nvme: split nvme_report_zones
nvme: move the CSI sanity check into nvme_ns_report_zones
nvme: add a sparse annotation to nvme_ns_head_ctrl_ioctl
nvme: open code nvme_put_ns_from_disk in nvme_ns_head_ctrl_ioctl
nvme: open code nvme_{get,put}_ns_from_disk in nvme_ns_head_ioctl
nvme: open code nvme_put_ns_from_disk in nvme_ns_head_chr_ioctl
nvme-fabrics: remove extra braces
nvme-fabrics: remove an extra comment
nvme-fabrics: remove extra new lines in the switch
nvme-fabrics: fix the kerneldco comment for nvmf_log_connect_error()
nvme-tcp: allow selecting the network interface for connections
nvme-pci: look for StorageD3Enable on companion ACPI device instead
nvme: extend and modify the APST configuration algorithm
nvme: remove redundant initialization of variable ret
Remove the superfluous variable "bdev" that is only used once in the
nvmet_bdev_alloc_bip() and use req->ns->bdev that is used everywhere in
the code to access the nvmet request's bdev.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Initialize keep-alive work only once, as part of alloc_ctrl
and not each time that nvmet_start_keep_alive_timer is being called
Signed-off-by: Amit Engel <amit.engel@dell.com>
Reviewed-by: Hou Pu <houpu.main@gmail.com>
Now that only one caller is left remove the helpers by restructuring
nvme_pr_command so that it has two helpers for sending a command of to a
given nsid using either the ns_head for multipath, or the namespace
stored in the gendisk.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Split multipath support out of nvme_report_zones into a separate helper
and simplify the non-multipath version as a result.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Move the CSI check into nvme_ns_report_zones to clean up the code
a little bit and prepare for further refactoring.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Add the __releases annotation to tell sparse that nvme_ns_head_ctrl_ioctl
is expected to unlock head->srcu.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
nvme_ns_head_ctrl_ioctl is always used on multipath nodes, so just call
srcu_read_unlock directly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
nvme_ns_head_ioctl is always used on multipath nodes, no need to
deal with the de-multiplexers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
nvme_ns_head_chr_ioctl is always used on multipath nodes, so just call
srcu_read_unlock and consolidate the two unlock paths.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
No need to use the braces around ~ operator.
No functionality change in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Remove the comment at the end of the switch that is not needed as
function is small enough.
No functionality change in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Remove the extra lines in the switch block that is not common practice
in the kernel code.
No functionality change in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fix the comment style that matches existing code.
No functionality change in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
In our application, we need a way to force TCP connections to go out a
specific IP interface instead of letting Linux select the interface
based on the routing tables.
Add the 'host-iface' option to allow specifying the interface to use.
When the option host-iface is specified, the driver uses the specified
interface to set the option SO_BINDTODEVICE on the TCP socket before
connecting.
This new option is needed in addtion to the existing host-traddr for
the following reasons:
Specifying an IP interface by its associated IP address is less
intuitive than specifying the actual interface name and, in some cases,
simply doesn't work. That's because the association between interfaces
and IP addresses is not predictable. IP addresses can be changed or can
change by themselves over time (e.g. DHCP). Interface names are
predictable [1] and will persist over time. Consider the following
configuration.
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state ...
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 100.0.0.100/24 scope global lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc ...
link/ether 08:00:27:21:65:ec brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 100.0.0.100/24 scope global enp0s3
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: enp0s8: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc ...
link/ether 08:00:27:4f:95:5c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 100.0.0.100/24 scope global enp0s8
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
The above is a VM that I configured with the same IP address
(100.0.0.100) on all interfaces. Doing a reverse lookup to identify the
unique interface associated with 100.0.0.100 does not work here. And
this is why the option host_iface is required. I understand that the
above config does not represent a standard host system, but I'm using
this to prove a point: "We can never know how users will configure
their systems". By te way, The above configuration is perfectly fine
by Linux.
The current TCP implementation for host_traddr performs a
bind()-before-connect(). This is a common construct to set the source
IP address on a TCP socket before connecting. This has no effect on how
Linux selects the interface for the connection. That's because Linux
uses the Weak End System model as described in RFC1122 [2]. On the other
hand, setting the Source IP Address has benefits and should be supported
by linux-nvme. In fact, setting the Source IP Address is a mandatory
FedGov requirement (e.g. connection to a RADIUS/TACACS+ server).
Consider the following configuration.
$ ip addr list dev enp0s8
3: enp0s8: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc ...
link/ether 08:00:27:4f:95:5c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.56.101/24 brd 192.168.56.255 scope global enp0s8
valid_lft 426sec preferred_lft 426sec
inet 192.168.56.102/24 scope global secondary enp0s8
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet 192.168.56.103/24 scope global secondary enp0s8
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet 192.168.56.104/24 scope global secondary enp0s8
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Here we can see that several addresses are associated with interface
enp0s8. By default, Linux always selects the default IP address,
192.168.56.101, as the source address when connecting over interface
enp0s8. Some users, however, want the ability to specify a different
source address (e.g., 192.168.56.102, 192.168.56.103, ...). The option
host_traddr can be used as-is to perform this function.
In conclusion, I believe that we need 2 options for TCP connections.
One that can be used to specify an interface (host-iface). And one that
can be used to set the source address (host-traddr). Users should be
allowed to use one or the other, or both, or none. Of course, the
documentation for host_traddr will need some clarification. It should
state that when used for TCP connection, this option only sets the
source address. And the documentation for host_iface should say that
this option is only available for TCP connections.
References:
[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1122
Tested both IPv4 and IPv6 connections.
Signed-off-by: Martin Belanger <martin.belanger@dell.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The algorithm that was used until now for building the APST configuration
table has been found to produce entries with excessively long ITPT
(idle time prior to transition) for devices declaring relatively long
entry and exit latencies for non-operational power states. This leads
to unnecessary waste of power and, as a result, failure to pass
mandatory power consumption tests on Chromebook platforms.
The new algorithm is based on two predefined ITPT values and two
predefined latency tolerances. Based on these values, as well as on
exit and entry latencies reported by the device, the algorithm looks
for up to 2 suitable non-operational power states to use as primary
and secondary APST transition targets. The predefined values are
supplied to the nvme driver as module parameters:
- apst_primary_timeout_ms (default: 100)
- apst_secondary_timeout_ms (default: 2000)
- apst_primary_latency_tol_us (default: 15000)
- apst_secondary_latency_tol_us (default: 100000)
The algorithm echoes the approach used by Intel's and Microsoft's drivers
on Windows. The specific default parameter values are also based on those
drivers. Yet, this patch doesn't introduce the ability to dynamically
regenerate the APST table in the event of switching the power source from
AC to battery and back. Adding this functionality may be considered in the
future. In the meantime, the timeouts and tolerances reflect a compromise
between values used by Microsoft for AC and battery scenarios.
In most NVMe devices the new algorithm causes them to implement a more
aggressive power saving policy. While beneficial in most cases, this
sometimes comes at the price of a higher IO processing latency in certain
scenarios as well as at the price of a potential impact on the drive's
endurance (due to more frequent context saving when entering deep non-
operational states). So in order to provide a fallback for systems where
these regressions cannot be tolerated, the patch allows to revert to
the legacy behavior by setting either apst_primary_timeout_ms or
apst_primary_latency_tol_us parameter to 0. Eventually (and possibly after
fine tuning the default values of the module parameters) the legacy behavior
can be removed.
TESTING.
The new algorithm has been extensively tested. Initially, simulations were
used to compare APST tables generated by old and new algorithms for a wide
range of devices. After that, power consumption, performance and latencies
were measured under different workloads on devices from multiple vendors
(WD, Intel, Samsung, Hynix, Kioxia). Below is the description of the tests
and the findings.
General observations.
The effect the patch has on the APST table varies depending on the entry and
exit latencies advertised by the devices. For some devices, the effect is
negligible (e.g. Kioxia KBG40ZNS), for some significant, making the
transitions to PS3 and PS4 much quicker (e.g. WD SN530, Intel 760P), or making
the sleep deeper, PS4 rather than PS3 after a similar amount of time (e.g.
SK Hynix BC511). For some devices (e.g. Samsung PM991) the effect is mixed:
the initial transition happens after a longer idle time, but takes the device
to a lower power state.
Workflows.
In order to evaluate the patch's effect on the power consumption and latency,
7 workflows were used for each device. The workflows were designed to test
the scenarios where significant differences between the old and new behaviors
are most likely. Each workflow was tested twice: with the new and with the
old APST table generation implementation. Power consumption, performance and
latency were measured in the process. The following workflows were used:
1) Consecutive write at the maximum rate with IO depth of 2, with no pauses
2) Repeated pattern of 1000 consecutive writes of 4K packets followed by 50ms
idle time
3) Repeated pattern of 1000 consecutive writes of 4K packets followed by 150ms
idle time
4) Repeated pattern of 1000 consecutive writes of 4K packets followed by 500ms
idle time
5) Repeated pattern of 1000 consecutive writes of 4K packets followed by 1.5s
idle time
6) Repeated pattern of 1000 consecutive writes of 4K packets followed by 5s
idle time
7) Repeated pattern of a single random read of a 4K packet followed by 150ms
idle time
Power consumption
Actual power consumption measurements produced predictable results in
accordance with the APST mechanism's theory of operation.
Devices with long entry and exit latencies such as WD SN530 showed huge
improvement on scenarios 4,5 and 6 of up to 62%. Devices such as Kioxia
KBG40ZNS where the resulting APST table looks virtually identical with
both legacy and new algorithms, showed little or no change in the average power
consumption on all workflows. Devices with extra short latencies such as
Samsung PM991 showed moderate increase in power consumption of up to 18% in
worst case scenarios.
In addition, on Intel and Samsung devices a more complex impact was observed
on scenarios 3, 4 and 7. Our understanding is that due to longer stay in deep
non-operational states between the writes the devices start performing background
operations leading to an increase of power consumption. With the old APST tables
part of these operations are delayed until the scenario is over and a longer idle
period begins, but eventually this extra power is consumed anyway.
Performance.
In terms of performance measured on sustained write or read scenarios, the
effect of the patch is minimal as in this case the device doesn't enter low power
states.
Latency
As expected, in devices where the patch causes a more aggressive power saving
policy (e.g. WD SN530, Intel 760P), an increase in latency was observed in
certain scenarios. Workflow number 7, specifically designed to simulate the
worst case scenario as far as latency is concerned, indeed shows a sharp
increase in average latency (~2ms -> ~53ms on Intel 760P and 0.6 -> 10ms on
WD SN530). The latency increase on other workloads and other devices is much
milder or non-existent.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Bogoslavsky <alexey.bogoslavsky@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The variable ret is being initialized with a value that is never read,
it is being updated later on. The assignment is redundant and can be
removed.
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
