aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel

Some users have a large AoE target while others like to use many AoE
targets at the same time.  In the latter case, there is an opportunity to
greatly improve aggregate throughput by allowing different threads to
complete the I/O associated with each target.  For 36 targets, 4 KiB read
throughput roughly doubles, for example, with these changes in place.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h

@@ -196,9 +196,11 @@ struct ktstate {
 	struct completion rendez;
 	struct task_struct *task;
 	wait_queue_head_t *waitq;
-	int (*fn) (void);
-	char *name;
+	int (*fn) (int);
+	char name[12];
 	spinlock_t *lock;
+	int id;
+	int active;
 };
 
 int aoeblk_init(void);
@@ -222,6 +224,7 @@ int aoecmd_init(void);
 struct sk_buff *aoecmd_ata_id(struct aoedev *);
 void aoe_freetframe(struct frame *);
 void aoe_flush_iocq(void);
+void aoe_flush_iocq_by_index(int);
 void aoe_end_request(struct aoedev *, struct request *, int);
 int aoe_ktstart(struct ktstate *k);
 void aoe_ktstop(struct ktstate *k);

drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c

@@ -35,14 +35,27 @@ module_param(aoe_maxout, int, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(aoe_maxout,
 	"Only aoe_maxout outstanding packets for every MAC on eX.Y.");
 
-static wait_queue_head_t ktiowq;
-static struct ktstate kts;
+/* The number of online cpus during module initialization gives us a
+ * convenient heuristic cap on the parallelism used for ktio threads
+ * doing I/O completion.  It is not important that the cap equal the
+ * actual number of running CPUs at any given time, but because of CPU
+ * hotplug, we take care to use ncpus instead of using
+ * num_online_cpus() after module initialization.
+ */
+static int ncpus;
+
+/* mutex lock used for synchronization while thread spawning */
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(ktio_spawn_lock);
+
+static wait_queue_head_t *ktiowq;
+static struct ktstate *kts;
 
 /* io completion queue */
-static struct {
+struct iocq_ktio {
 	struct list_head head;
 	spinlock_t lock;
-} iocq;
+};
+static struct iocq_ktio *iocq;
 
 static struct page *empty_page;
 
@@ -1278,23 +1291,36 @@ out:
  * Returns true iff responses needing processing remain.
  */
 static int
-ktio(void)
+ktio(int id)
 {
 	struct frame *f;
 	struct list_head *pos;
 	int i;
+	int actual_id;
 
 	for (i = 0; ; ++i) {
 		if (i == MAXIOC)
 			return 1;
-		if (list_empty(&iocq.head))
+		if (list_empty(&iocq[id].head))
 			return 0;
-		pos = iocq.head.next;
+		pos = iocq[id].head.next;
 		list_del(pos);
-		spin_unlock_irq(&iocq.lock);
 		f = list_entry(pos, struct frame, head);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&iocq[id].lock);
 		ktiocomplete(f);
-		spin_lock_irq(&iocq.lock);
+
+		/* Figure out if extra threads are required. */
+		actual_id = f->t->d->aoeminor % ncpus;
+
+		if (!kts[actual_id].active) {
+			BUG_ON(id != 0);
+			mutex_lock(&ktio_spawn_lock);
+			if (!kts[actual_id].active
+				&& aoe_ktstart(&kts[actual_id]) == 0)
+				kts[actual_id].active = 1;
+			mutex_unlock(&ktio_spawn_lock);
+		}
+		spin_lock_irq(&iocq[id].lock);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -1311,7 +1337,7 @@ kthread(void *vp)
 	complete(&k->rendez);	/* tell spawner we're running */
 	do {
 		spin_lock_irq(k->lock);
-		more = k->fn();
+		more = k->fn(k->id);
 		if (!more) {
 			add_wait_queue(k->waitq, &wait);
 			__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
@@ -1353,13 +1379,24 @@ aoe_ktstart(struct ktstate *k)
 static void
 ktcomplete(struct frame *f, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
+	int id;
 	ulong flags;
 
 	f->r_skb = skb;
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&iocq.lock, flags);
-	list_add_tail(&f->head, &iocq.head);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&iocq.lock, flags);
-	wake_up(&ktiowq);
+	id = f->t->d->aoeminor % ncpus;
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&iocq[id].lock, flags);
+	if (!kts[id].active) {
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&iocq[id].lock, flags);
+		/* The thread with id has not been spawned yet,
+		 * so delegate the work to the main thread and
+		 * try spawning a new thread.
+		 */
+		id = 0;
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&iocq[id].lock, flags);
+	}
+	list_add_tail(&f->head, &iocq[id].head);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&iocq[id].lock, flags);
+	wake_up(&ktiowq[id]);
 }
 
 struct sk_buff *
@@ -1705,6 +1742,17 @@ aoe_failbuf(struct aoedev *d, struct buf *buf)
 
 void
 aoe_flush_iocq(void)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < ncpus; i++) {
+		if (kts[i].active)
+			aoe_flush_iocq_by_index(i);
+	}
+}
+
+void
+aoe_flush_iocq_by_index(int id)
 {
 	struct frame *f;
 	struct aoedev *d;
@@ -1713,9 +1761,9 @@ aoe_flush_iocq(void)
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	ulong flags;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&iocq.lock, flags);
-	list_splice_init(&iocq.head, &flist);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&iocq.lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&iocq[id].lock, flags);
+	list_splice_init(&iocq[id].head, &flist);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&iocq[id].lock, flags);
 	while (!list_empty(&flist)) {
 		pos = flist.next;
 		list_del(pos);
@@ -1738,6 +1786,8 @@ int __init
 aoecmd_init(void)
 {
 	void *p;
+	int i;
+	int ret;
 
 	/* get_zeroed_page returns page with ref count 1 */
 	p = (void *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT);
@@ -1745,22 +1795,72 @@ aoecmd_init(void)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	empty_page = virt_to_page(p);
 
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&iocq.head);
-	spin_lock_init(&iocq.lock);
-	init_waitqueue_head(&ktiowq);
-	kts.name = "aoe_ktio";
-	kts.fn = ktio;
-	kts.waitq = &ktiowq;
-	kts.lock = &iocq.lock;
-	return aoe_ktstart(&kts);
+	ncpus = num_online_cpus();
+
+	iocq = kcalloc(ncpus, sizeof(struct iocq_ktio), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!iocq)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	kts = kcalloc(ncpus, sizeof(struct ktstate), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!kts) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto kts_fail;
+	}
+
+	ktiowq = kcalloc(ncpus, sizeof(wait_queue_head_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ktiowq) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto ktiowq_fail;
+	}
+
+	mutex_init(&ktio_spawn_lock);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < ncpus; i++) {
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&iocq[i].head);
+		spin_lock_init(&iocq[i].lock);
+		init_waitqueue_head(&ktiowq[i]);
+		snprintf(kts[i].name, sizeof(kts[i].name), "aoe_ktio%d", i);
+		kts[i].fn = ktio;
+		kts[i].waitq = &ktiowq[i];
+		kts[i].lock = &iocq[i].lock;
+		kts[i].id = i;
+		kts[i].active = 0;
+	}
+	kts[0].active = 1;
+	if (aoe_ktstart(&kts[0])) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto ktstart_fail;
+	}
+	return 0;
+
+ktstart_fail:
+	kfree(ktiowq);
+ktiowq_fail:
+	kfree(kts);
+kts_fail:
+	kfree(iocq);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 void
 aoecmd_exit(void)
 {
-	aoe_ktstop(&kts);
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < ncpus; i++)
+		if (kts[i].active)
+			aoe_ktstop(&kts[i]);
+
 	aoe_flush_iocq();
 
+	/* Free up the iocq and thread speicific configuration
+	* allocated during startup.
+	*/
+	kfree(iocq);
+	kfree(kts);
+	kfree(ktiowq);
+
 	free_page((unsigned long) page_address(empty_page));
 	empty_page = NULL;
 }

drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c

@@ -518,7 +518,6 @@ void
 aoedev_exit(void)
 {
 	flush_scheduled_work();
-	aoe_flush_iocq();
 	flush(NULL, 0, EXITING);
 }
 

drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static struct sk_buff_head skbtxq;
 
 /* enters with txlock held */
 static int
-tx(void) __must_hold(&txlock)
+tx(int id) __must_hold(&txlock)
 {
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	struct net_device *ifp;
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ aoenet_init(void)
 	kts.lock = &txlock;
 	kts.fn = tx;
 	kts.waitq = &txwq;
-	kts.name = "aoe_tx";
+	kts.id = 0;
+	snprintf(kts.name, sizeof(kts.name), "aoe_tx%d", kts.id);
 	if (aoe_ktstart(&kts))
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	dev_add_pack(&aoe_pt);