block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones

Currently dm-multipath has to clone the bios for every request sent
to the lower devices, which wastes cpu cycles and ties down memory.

This patch instead adds a new REQ_CLONE flag that instructs req_bio_endio
to not complete bios attached to a request, which we set on clone
requests similar to bios in a flush sequence.  With this change I/O
errors on a path failure only get propagated to dm-multipath, which
can then either resubmit the I/O or complete the bios on the original
request.

I've done some basic testing of this on a Linux target with ALUA support,
and it survives path failures during I/O nicely.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 83 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index de474b5d..aa819a5 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_rq_init);
 static void req_bio_endio(struct request *rq, struct bio *bio,
 			  unsigned int nbytes, int error)
 {
-	if (error)
+	if (error && !(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_CLONE))
 		clear_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags);
 	else if (!test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags))
 		error = -EIO;
@@ -128,7 +128,8 @@ static void req_bio_endio(struct request *rq, struct bio *bio,
 	bio_advance(bio, nbytes);
 
 	/* don't actually finish bio if it's part of flush sequence */
-	if (bio->bi_iter.bi_size == 0 && !(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH_SEQ))
+	if (bio->bi_iter.bi_size == 0 &&
+	    !(rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH_SEQ|REQ_CLONE)))
 		bio_endio(bio, error);
 }
 
@@ -2909,95 +2910,22 @@ int blk_lld_busy(struct request_queue *q)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_lld_busy);
 
-/**
- * blk_rq_unprep_clone - Helper function to free all bios in a cloned request
- * @rq: the clone request to be cleaned up
- *
- * Description:
- *     Free all bios in @rq for a cloned request.
- */
-void blk_rq_unprep_clone(struct request *rq)
-{
-	struct bio *bio;
-
-	while ((bio = rq->bio) != NULL) {
-		rq->bio = bio->bi_next;
-
-		bio_put(bio);
-	}
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_rq_unprep_clone);
-
-/*
- * Copy attributes of the original request to the clone request.
- * The actual data parts (e.g. ->cmd, ->sense) are not copied.
- */
-static void __blk_rq_prep_clone(struct request *dst, struct request *src)
+void blk_rq_prep_clone(struct request *dst, struct request *src)
 {
 	dst->cpu = src->cpu;
-	dst->cmd_flags |= (src->cmd_flags & REQ_CLONE_MASK) | REQ_NOMERGE;
+	dst->cmd_flags |= (src->cmd_flags & REQ_CLONE_MASK);
+	dst->cmd_flags |= REQ_NOMERGE | REQ_CLONE;
 	dst->cmd_type = src->cmd_type;
 	dst->__sector = blk_rq_pos(src);
 	dst->__data_len = blk_rq_bytes(src);
 	dst->nr_phys_segments = src->nr_phys_segments;
 	dst->ioprio = src->ioprio;
 	dst->extra_len = src->extra_len;
-}
-
-/**
- * blk_rq_prep_clone - Helper function to setup clone request
- * @rq: the request to be setup
- * @rq_src: original request to be cloned
- * @bs: bio_set that bios for clone are allocated from
- * @gfp_mask: memory allocation mask for bio
- * @bio_ctr: setup function to be called for each clone bio.
- *           Returns %0 for success, non %0 for failure.
- * @data: private data to be passed to @bio_ctr
- *
- * Description:
- *     Clones bios in @rq_src to @rq, and copies attributes of @rq_src to @rq.
- *     The actual data parts of @rq_src (e.g. ->cmd, ->sense)
- *     are not copied, and copying such parts is the caller's responsibility.
- *     Also, pages which the original bios are pointing to are not copied
- *     and the cloned bios just point same pages.
- *     So cloned bios must be completed before original bios, which means
- *     the caller must complete @rq before @rq_src.
- */
-int blk_rq_prep_clone(struct request *rq, struct request *rq_src,
-		      struct bio_set *bs, gfp_t gfp_mask,
-		      int (*bio_ctr)(struct bio *, struct bio *, void *),
-		      void *data)
-{
-	struct bio *bio, *bio_src;
-
-	if (!bs)
-		bs = fs_bio_set;
-
-	__rq_for_each_bio(bio_src, rq_src) {
-		bio = bio_clone_fast(bio_src, gfp_mask, bs);
-		if (!bio)
-			goto free_and_out;
-
-		if (bio_ctr && bio_ctr(bio, bio_src, data))
-			goto free_and_out;
-
-		if (rq->bio) {
-			rq->biotail->bi_next = bio;
-			rq->biotail = bio;
-		} else
-			rq->bio = rq->biotail = bio;
-	}
-
-	__blk_rq_prep_clone(rq, rq_src);
-
-	return 0;
-
-free_and_out:
-	if (bio)
-		bio_put(bio);
-	blk_rq_unprep_clone(rq);
-
-	return -ENOMEM;
+	dst->bio = src->bio;
+	dst->biotail = src->biotail;
+	dst->cmd = src->cmd;
+	dst->cmd_len = src->cmd_len;
+	dst->sense = src->sense;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_rq_prep_clone);