When IO queues are used for parallelized management operations,
e.g. changing cleaning policy, a deadlock may occur due to global
metadata lock interfering with taking request from IO queue,
as they might be run on the same thread. As a workaround using
a management queue specifically for such operations eliminates
this problem.
Signed-off-by: Rafal Stefanowski <rafal.stefanowski@huawei.com>
This avoids unnecessary map allocation and initialization of unused fields of
request structure. It also allows to track thier number separately from
the regular requests
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@huawei.com>
Eliminate need to resolve cache based on the queue. This allows to share
the queue between cache instances. The queue still holds pointer to
a cache that owns the queue, but no management or io path relies on the
queue -> cache mapping.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@huawei.com>
Management path does not benefit much from mpools, as number of requests
allocated is very small. It's less restrictive (mngt_queue does not have
single-CPU affinity) thus avoiding mpool usage in management path allows
to introduce additional restrictions on mpool, leading to I/O performance
improvement.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@huawei.com>
The user is supposed to deinit/destroy it.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@huawei.com>
The queues can be created and destroyed dynamically at any point in
the cache lifetime, and this can happen from different execution contexts,
thus there is a need to protect the queue_list with a lock.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@huawei.com>
Previously every created queue was added to io_queues list, which
made mngt_queue being used in ocf_parallelize. Change mngt_queue creation
API so that mngt_queue is not added to the list and doesn't have
unnecessary functionalities initialized.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@huawei.com>
Now the request can be pushed to a high priority queue (instead of ocf_queue_push_req_front)
and to a low priority queue (instead of ocf_queue_push_req_back).
Both functions were merged into one function (ocf_queue_push_req) and instead of the
allow_sync parameter there is now a flags parameter that can be an OR combination of
OCF_QUEUE_ALLOW_SYNC and OCF_QUEUE_PRIO_HIGH
Signed-off-by: Ian Levine <ian.levine@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@huawei.com>
Majority of management operations should be blocked for detached cache,
although adding and removing cores should be possible.
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@huawei.com>
Stop and cache detach were already sharing contexts implicitly, which allowed
to reuse some functions in both pipelines. However, changing the context structs
could lead to not obvious bugs.
To prevent such errors both methods now share context structure explicitly
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@huawei.com>
'stop_pipeline' filed may be reused during cache lifetime (e.g. when cache is
detached and attached again - the pipeline would be freed and then
re-allocated). Calling completion after detach before freeing the pipeline may
lead to race condition.
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@huawei.com>
Because context has one field which is aligned to 64B
(struct ocf_volume cache_volume) the compiler use vmovdqa (aligned)
instead of vmovdqu (unaligned) in reality the address is not 64 aligned,
it ends with 0x8, so we get this segfault.
Signed-off-by: Amir Haroush <amir.haroush@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai.fultheim@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@intel.com>
Don't populate cleaning policies during initialization procedure so the user
has to call the latter explicitly.
Until now cleaning policies could be populated in two ways:
- implicitly during cleaning policy initialization,
- explicitly be calling populate.
The difference was that the former was single threaded.
This patch removes the functionally redundant and less efficient code.
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@intel.com>
The function not only recovers cleaning policy metadata but is also utilized
to initialize data structures so more generic name is actually more accurate
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@intel.com>
Initializing metadata in an asynchronous manner will allow to use
parallelization utilities in the future commits
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@intel.com>
Normally cleaning policy would be deinitialized during stopping cache which is
one of steps of error handling e.g in case of failed cache activation. But since
`cache_stop()` may be called only for an attached cache instance, cleaning
policy needs to deinitialized explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@intel.com>
Remove one callback indirection level. I/O never changes it's direction
so there is no point in storing both read and write callbacks for each
request.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@intel.com>
ocf_metadata_flush_superblock() is being called on the cache stop, after
deinitialization of the cores (and their volumes), thus accessing core
volume in superblock flushing procedure leads to use-after-free bug.
Fix this by moving volume type setting to the core insertion code.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@intel.com>