Merge tag 'xfs-async-dio.6-2023-08-01' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux into iomap-6.6-mergeA

Improve iomap/xfs async dio write performance

iomap always punts async dio write completions to a workqueue, which has
a cost in terms of efficiency (now you need an unrelated worker to
process it) and latency (now you're bouncing a completion through an
async worker, which is a classic slowdown scenario).

io_uring handles IRQ completions via task_work, and for writes that
don't need to do extra IO at completion time, we can safely complete
them inline from that. This patchset adds IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP, which an
IO issuer can set to inform the completion side that any extra work that
needs doing for that completion can be punted to a safe task context.

The iomap dio completion will happen in hard/soft irq context, and we
need a saner context to process these completions. IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP
is added, which can be set in a struct kiocb->ki_flags by the issuer. If
the completion side of the iocb handling understands this flag, it can
choose to set a kiocb->dio_complete() handler and just call ki_complete
from IRQ context. The issuer must then ensure that this callback is
processed from a task. io_uring punts IRQ completions to task_work
already, so it's trivial wire it up to run more of the completion before
posting a CQE. This is good for up to a 37% improvement in
throughput/latency for low queue depth IO, patch 5 has the details.

If we need to do real work at completion time, iomap will clear the
IOMAP_DIO_CALLER_COMP flag.

This work came about when Andres tested low queue depth dio writes for
postgres and compared it to doing sync dio writes, showing that the
async processing slows us down a lot.

* tag 'xfs-async-dio.6-2023-08-01' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux:
  iomap: support IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP
  io_uring/rw: add write support for IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP
  fs: add IOCB flags related to passing back dio completions
  iomap: add IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP
  iomap: only set iocb->private for polled bio
  iomap: treat a write through cache the same as FUA
  iomap: use an unsigned type for IOMAP_DIO_* defines
  iomap: cleanup up iomap_dio_bio_end_io()

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>

Author: Darrick J. Wong

fs/iomap/direct-io.c

@@ -20,10 +20,12 @@
  * Private flags for iomap_dio, must not overlap with the public ones in
  * iomap.h:
  */
-#define IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_FUA	(1 << 28)
-#define IOMAP_DIO_NEED_SYNC	(1 << 29)
-#define IOMAP_DIO_WRITE		(1 << 30)
-#define IOMAP_DIO_DIRTY		(1 << 31)
+#define IOMAP_DIO_CALLER_COMP	(1U << 26)
+#define IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP	(1U << 27)
+#define IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_THROUGH	(1U << 28)
+#define IOMAP_DIO_NEED_SYNC	(1U << 29)
+#define IOMAP_DIO_WRITE		(1U << 30)
+#define IOMAP_DIO_DIRTY		(1U << 31)
 
 struct iomap_dio {
 	struct kiocb		*iocb;
@@ -41,7 +43,6 @@ struct iomap_dio {
 		struct {
 			struct iov_iter		*iter;
 			struct task_struct	*waiter;
-			struct bio		*poll_bio;
 		} submit;
 
 		/* used for aio completion: */
@@ -63,12 +64,14 @@ static struct bio *iomap_dio_alloc_bio(const struct iomap_iter *iter,
 static void iomap_dio_submit_bio(const struct iomap_iter *iter,
 		struct iomap_dio *dio, struct bio *bio, loff_t pos)
 {
+	struct kiocb *iocb = dio->iocb;
+
 	atomic_inc(&dio->ref);
 
 	/* Sync dio can't be polled reliably */
-	if ((dio->iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_HIPRI) && !is_sync_kiocb(dio->iocb)) {
-		bio_set_polled(bio, dio->iocb);
-		dio->submit.poll_bio = bio;
+	if ((iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_HIPRI) && !is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
+		bio_set_polled(bio, iocb);
+		WRITE_ONCE(iocb->private, bio);
 	}
 
 	if (dio->dops && dio->dops->submit_io)
@@ -130,6 +133,11 @@ ssize_t iomap_dio_complete(struct iomap_dio *dio)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iomap_dio_complete);
 
+static ssize_t iomap_dio_deferred_complete(void *data)
+{
+	return iomap_dio_complete(data);
+}
+
 static void iomap_dio_complete_work(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct iomap_dio *dio = container_of(work, struct iomap_dio, aio.work);
@@ -152,27 +160,69 @@ void iomap_dio_bio_end_io(struct bio *bio)
 {
 	struct iomap_dio *dio = bio->bi_private;
 	bool should_dirty = (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_DIRTY);
+	struct kiocb *iocb = dio->iocb;
 
 	if (bio->bi_status)
 		iomap_dio_set_error(dio, blk_status_to_errno(bio->bi_status));
+	if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&dio->ref))
+		goto release_bio;
 
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&dio->ref)) {
-		if (dio->wait_for_completion) {
-			struct task_struct *waiter = dio->submit.waiter;
-			WRITE_ONCE(dio->submit.waiter, NULL);
-			blk_wake_io_task(waiter);
-		} else if (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_WRITE) {
-			struct inode *inode = file_inode(dio->iocb->ki_filp);
-
-			WRITE_ONCE(dio->iocb->private, NULL);
-			INIT_WORK(&dio->aio.work, iomap_dio_complete_work);
-			queue_work(inode->i_sb->s_dio_done_wq, &dio->aio.work);
-		} else {
-			WRITE_ONCE(dio->iocb->private, NULL);
-			iomap_dio_complete_work(&dio->aio.work);
-		}
+	/*
+	 * Synchronous dio, task itself will handle any completion work
+	 * that needs after IO. All we need to do is wake the task.
+	 */
+	if (dio->wait_for_completion) {
+		struct task_struct *waiter = dio->submit.waiter;
+
+		WRITE_ONCE(dio->submit.waiter, NULL);
+		blk_wake_io_task(waiter);
+		goto release_bio;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Flagged with IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP, we can complete it inline
+	 */
+	if (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP) {
+		WRITE_ONCE(iocb->private, NULL);
+		iomap_dio_complete_work(&dio->aio.work);
+		goto release_bio;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * If this dio is flagged with IOMAP_DIO_CALLER_COMP, then schedule
+	 * our completion that way to avoid an async punt to a workqueue.
+	 */
+	if (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_CALLER_COMP) {
+		/* only polled IO cares about private cleared */
+		iocb->private = dio;
+		iocb->dio_complete = iomap_dio_deferred_complete;
+
+		/*
+		 * Invoke ->ki_complete() directly. We've assigned our
+		 * dio_complete callback handler, and since the issuer set
+		 * IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP, we know their ki_complete handler will
+		 * notice ->dio_complete being set and will defer calling that
+		 * handler until it can be done from a safe task context.
+		 *
+		 * Note that the 'res' being passed in here is not important
+		 * for this case. The actual completion value of the request
+		 * will be gotten from dio_complete when that is run by the
+		 * issuer.
+		 */
+		iocb->ki_complete(iocb, 0);
+		goto release_bio;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Async DIO completion that requires filesystem level completion work
+	 * gets punted to a work queue to complete as the operation may require
+	 * more IO to be issued to finalise filesystem metadata changes or
+	 * guarantee data integrity.
+	 */
+	INIT_WORK(&dio->aio.work, iomap_dio_complete_work);
+	queue_work(file_inode(iocb->ki_filp)->i_sb->s_dio_done_wq,
+			&dio->aio.work);
+release_bio:
 	if (should_dirty) {
 		bio_check_pages_dirty(bio);
 	} else {
@@ -203,7 +253,7 @@ static void iomap_dio_zero(const struct iomap_iter *iter, struct iomap_dio *dio,
 /*
  * Figure out the bio's operation flags from the dio request, the
  * mapping, and whether or not we want FUA.  Note that we can end up
- * clearing the WRITE_FUA flag in the dio request.
+ * clearing the WRITE_THROUGH flag in the dio request.
  */
 static inline blk_opf_t iomap_dio_bio_opflags(struct iomap_dio *dio,
 		const struct iomap *iomap, bool use_fua)
@@ -217,7 +267,7 @@ static inline blk_opf_t iomap_dio_bio_opflags(struct iomap_dio *dio,
 	if (use_fua)
 		opflags |= REQ_FUA;
 	else
-		dio->flags &= ~IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_FUA;
+		dio->flags &= ~IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_THROUGH;
 
 	return opflags;
 }
@@ -257,12 +307,19 @@ static loff_t iomap_dio_bio_iter(const struct iomap_iter *iter,
 		 * Use a FUA write if we need datasync semantics, this is a pure
 		 * data IO that doesn't require any metadata updates (including
 		 * after IO completion such as unwritten extent conversion) and
-		 * the underlying device supports FUA. This allows us to avoid
-		 * cache flushes on IO completion.
+		 * the underlying device either supports FUA or doesn't have
+		 * a volatile write cache. This allows us to avoid cache flushes
+		 * on IO completion. If we can't use writethrough and need to
+		 * sync, disable in-task completions as dio completion will
+		 * need to call generic_write_sync() which will do a blocking
+		 * fsync / cache flush call.
 		 */
 		if (!(iomap->flags & (IOMAP_F_SHARED|IOMAP_F_DIRTY)) &&
-		    (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_FUA) && bdev_fua(iomap->bdev))
+		    (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_THROUGH) &&
+		    (bdev_fua(iomap->bdev) || !bdev_write_cache(iomap->bdev)))
 			use_fua = true;
+		else if (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_NEED_SYNC)
+			dio->flags &= ~IOMAP_DIO_CALLER_COMP;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -277,10 +334,23 @@ static loff_t iomap_dio_bio_iter(const struct iomap_iter *iter,
 		goto out;
 
 	/*
-	 * We can only poll for single bio I/Os.
+	 * We can only do deferred completion for pure overwrites that
+	 * don't require additional IO at completion. This rules out
+	 * writes that need zeroing or extent conversion, extend
+	 * the file size, or issue journal IO or cache flushes
+	 * during completion processing.
 	 */
 	if (need_zeroout ||
+	    ((dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_NEED_SYNC) && !use_fua) ||
 	    ((dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_WRITE) && pos >= i_size_read(inode)))
+		dio->flags &= ~IOMAP_DIO_CALLER_COMP;
+
+	/*
+	 * The rules for polled IO completions follow the guidelines as the
+	 * ones we set for inline and deferred completions. If none of those
+	 * are available for this IO, clear the polled flag.
+	 */
+	if (!(dio->flags & (IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP|IOMAP_DIO_CALLER_COMP)))
 		dio->iocb->ki_flags &= ~IOCB_HIPRI;
 
 	if (need_zeroout) {
@@ -505,12 +575,14 @@ __iomap_dio_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
 
 	dio->submit.iter = iter;
 	dio->submit.waiter = current;
-	dio->submit.poll_bio = NULL;
 
 	if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT)
 		iomi.flags |= IOMAP_NOWAIT;
 
 	if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == READ) {
+		/* reads can always complete inline */
+		dio->flags |= IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP;
+
 		if (iomi.pos >= dio->i_size)
 			goto out_free_dio;
 
@@ -524,6 +596,15 @@ __iomap_dio_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
 		iomi.flags |= IOMAP_WRITE;
 		dio->flags |= IOMAP_DIO_WRITE;
 
+		/*
+		 * Flag as supporting deferred completions, if the issuer
+		 * groks it. This can avoid a workqueue punt for writes.
+		 * We may later clear this flag if we need to do other IO
+		 * as part of this IO completion.
+		 */
+		if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP)
+			dio->flags |= IOMAP_DIO_CALLER_COMP;
+
 		if (dio_flags & IOMAP_DIO_OVERWRITE_ONLY) {
 			ret = -EAGAIN;
 			if (iomi.pos >= dio->i_size ||
@@ -537,13 +618,16 @@ __iomap_dio_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
 			dio->flags |= IOMAP_DIO_NEED_SYNC;
 
 		       /*
-			* For datasync only writes, we optimistically try
-			* using FUA for this IO.  Any non-FUA write that
-			* occurs will clear this flag, hence we know before
-			* completion whether a cache flush is necessary.
+			* For datasync only writes, we optimistically try using
+			* WRITE_THROUGH for this IO. This flag requires either
+			* FUA writes through the device's write cache, or a
+			* normal write to a device without a volatile write
+			* cache. For the former, Any non-FUA write that occurs
+			* will clear this flag, hence we know before completion
+			* whether a cache flush is necessary.
 			*/
 			if (!(iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_SYNC))
-				dio->flags |= IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_FUA;
+				dio->flags |= IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_THROUGH;
 		}
 
 		/*
@@ -605,14 +689,13 @@ __iomap_dio_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
 		iomap_dio_set_error(dio, ret);
 
 	/*
-	 * If all the writes we issued were FUA, we don't need to flush the
-	 * cache on IO completion. Clear the sync flag for this case.
+	 * If all the writes we issued were already written through to the
+	 * media, we don't need to flush the cache on IO completion. Clear the
+	 * sync flag for this case.
 	 */
-	if (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_FUA)
+	if (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_THROUGH)
 		dio->flags &= ~IOMAP_DIO_NEED_SYNC;
 
-	WRITE_ONCE(iocb->private, dio->submit.poll_bio);
-
 	/*
 	 * We are about to drop our additional submission reference, which
 	 * might be the last reference to the dio.  There are three different

include/linux/fs.h

@@ -338,6 +338,20 @@ enum rw_hint {
 #define IOCB_NOIO		(1 << 20)
 /* can use bio alloc cache */
 #define IOCB_ALLOC_CACHE	(1 << 21)
+/*
+ * IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP can be set by the iocb owner, to indicate that the
+ * iocb completion can be passed back to the owner for execution from a safe
+ * context rather than needing to be punted through a workqueue. If this
+ * flag is set, the bio completion handling may set iocb->dio_complete to a
+ * handler function and iocb->private to context information for that handler.
+ * The issuer should call the handler with that context information from task
+ * context to complete the processing of the iocb. Note that while this
+ * provides a task context for the dio_complete() callback, it should only be
+ * used on the completion side for non-IO generating completions. It's fine to
+ * call blocking functions from this callback, but they should not wait for
+ * unrelated IO (like cache flushing, new IO generation, etc).
+ */
+#define IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP	(1 << 22)
 
 /* for use in trace events */
 #define TRACE_IOCB_STRINGS \
@@ -351,7 +365,8 @@ enum rw_hint {
 	{ IOCB_WRITE,		"WRITE" }, \
 	{ IOCB_WAITQ,		"WAITQ" }, \
 	{ IOCB_NOIO,		"NOIO" }, \
-	{ IOCB_ALLOC_CACHE,	"ALLOC_CACHE" }
+	{ IOCB_ALLOC_CACHE,	"ALLOC_CACHE" }, \
+	{ IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP,	"CALLER_COMP" }
 
 struct kiocb {
 	struct file		*ki_filp;
@@ -360,7 +375,23 @@ struct kiocb {
 	void			*private;
 	int			ki_flags;
 	u16			ki_ioprio; /* See linux/ioprio.h */
-	struct wait_page_queue	*ki_waitq; /* for async buffered IO */
+	union {
+		/*
+		 * Only used for async buffered reads, where it denotes the
+		 * page waitqueue associated with completing the read. Valid
+		 * IFF IOCB_WAITQ is set.
+		 */
+		struct wait_page_queue	*ki_waitq;
+		/*
+		 * Can be used for O_DIRECT IO, where the completion handling
+		 * is punted back to the issuer of the IO. May only be set
+		 * if IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP is set by the issuer, and the issuer
+		 * must then check for presence of this handler when ki_complete
+		 * is invoked. The data passed in to this handler must be
+		 * assigned to ->private when dio_complete is assigned.
+		 */
+		ssize_t (*dio_complete)(void *data);
+	};
 };
 
 static inline bool is_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *kiocb)

io_uring/rw.c

@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ int io_prep_rw(struct io_kiocb *req, const struct io_uring_sqe *sqe)
 	} else {
 		rw->kiocb.ki_ioprio = get_current_ioprio();
 	}
+	rw->kiocb.dio_complete = NULL;
 
 	rw->addr = READ_ONCE(sqe->addr);
 	rw->len = READ_ONCE(sqe->len);
@@ -285,6 +286,15 @@ static inline int io_fixup_rw_res(struct io_kiocb *req, long res)
 
 void io_req_rw_complete(struct io_kiocb *req, struct io_tw_state *ts)
 {
+	struct io_rw *rw = io_kiocb_to_cmd(req, struct io_rw);
+	struct kiocb *kiocb = &rw->kiocb;
+
+	if ((kiocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP) && kiocb->dio_complete) {
+		long res = kiocb->dio_complete(rw->kiocb.private);
+
+		io_req_set_res(req, io_fixup_rw_res(req, res), 0);
+	}
+
 	io_req_io_end(req);
 
 	if (req->flags & (REQ_F_BUFFER_SELECTED|REQ_F_BUFFER_RING)) {
@@ -300,9 +310,11 @@ static void io_complete_rw(struct kiocb *kiocb, long res)
 	struct io_rw *rw = container_of(kiocb, struct io_rw, kiocb);
 	struct io_kiocb *req = cmd_to_io_kiocb(rw);
 
-	if (__io_complete_rw_common(req, res))
-		return;
-	io_req_set_res(req, io_fixup_rw_res(req, res), 0);
+	if (!kiocb->dio_complete || !(kiocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP)) {
+		if (__io_complete_rw_common(req, res))
+			return;
+		io_req_set_res(req, io_fixup_rw_res(req, res), 0);
+	}
 	req->io_task_work.func = io_req_rw_complete;
 	__io_req_task_work_add(req, IOU_F_TWQ_LAZY_WAKE);
 }
@@ -916,6 +928,15 @@ int io_write(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned int issue_flags)
 	}
 	kiocb->ki_flags |= IOCB_WRITE;
 
+	/*
+	 * For non-polled IO, set IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP, stating that our handler
+	 * groks deferring the completion to task context. This isn't
+	 * necessary and useful for polled IO as that can always complete
+	 * directly.
+	 */
+	if (!(kiocb->ki_flags & IOCB_HIPRI))
+		kiocb->ki_flags |= IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP;
+
 	if (likely(req->file->f_op->write_iter))
 		ret2 = call_write_iter(req->file, kiocb, &s->iter);
 	else if (req->file->f_op->write)