block: Introduce elevator features

Introduce the definition of elevator features through the
elevator_features flags in the elevator_type structure. Each flag can
represent a feature supported by an elevator. The first feature defined
by this patch is support for zoned block device sequential write
constraint with the flag ELEVATOR_F_ZBD_SEQ_WRITE, which is implemented
by the mq-deadline elevator using zone write locking.

Other possible features are IO priorities, write hints, latency targets
or single-LUN dual-actuator disks (for which the elevator could maintain
one LBA ordered list per actuator).

The required_elevator_features field is also added to the request_queue
structure to allow a device driver to specify elevator feature flags
that an elevator must support for the correct operation of the device
(e.g. device drivers for zoned block devices can have the
ELEVATOR_F_ZBD_SEQ_WRITE flag as a required feature).
The helper function blk_queue_required_elevator_features() is
defined for setting this new field.

With these two new fields in place, the elevator functions
elevator_match() and elevator_find() are modified to allow a user to set
only an elevator with a set of features that satisfies the device
required features. Elevators not matching the device requirements are
not shown in the device sysfs queue/scheduler file to prevent their use.

The "none" elevator can always be selected as before.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Damien Le Moal 2019-09-05 18:51:31 +09:00 • committed by Jens Axboe
commit 68c43f133a
5 changed files with 67 additions and 11 deletions

View file

@ -794,6 +794,7 @@ static struct elevator_type mq_deadline = {
.elevator_attrs = deadline_attrs,
.elevator_name = "mq-deadline",
.elevator_alias = "deadline",
.elevator_features = ELEVATOR_F_ZBD_SEQ_WRITE,
.elevator_owner = THIS_MODULE,
};
MODULE_ALIAS("mq-deadline-iosched");