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Date:      Thu, 3 Dec 2015 16:18:56 -0500
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r291716 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/cam sys/cam/ata sys/cam/scsi sys/dev/md sys/geom sys/kern sys/pc98/include sys/sys usr.sbin usr.sbin/camdd
Message-ID:  <20151203211856.GA78288@mithlond.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <5660B075.8040806@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201512032054.tB3KsuUw037541@repo.freebsd.org> <5660B075.8040806@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 13:13:25 -0800, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 12/3/15 12:54 PM, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > Author: ken
> > Date: Thu Dec  3 20:54:55 2015
> > New Revision: 291716
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/291716
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add asynchronous command support to the pass(4) driver, and the new
> >   camdd(8) utility.
> >   
> >   CCBs may be queued to the driver via the new CAMIOQUEUE ioctl, and
> >   completed CCBs may be retrieved via the CAMIOGET ioctl.  User
> >   processes can use poll(2) or kevent(2) to get notification when
> >   I/O has completed.
> >   
> >   While the existing CAMIOCOMMAND blocking ioctl interface only
> >   supports user virtual data pointers in a CCB (generally only
> >   one per CCB), the new CAMIOQUEUE ioctl supports user virtual and
> >   physical address pointers, as well as user virtual and physical
> >   scatter/gather lists.  This allows user applications to have more
> >   flexibility in their data handling operations.
> >   
> >   Kernel memory for data transferred via the queued interface is
> >   allocated from the zone allocator in MAXPHYS sized chunks, and user
> >   data is copied in and out.  This is likely faster than the
> >   vmapbuf()/vunmapbuf() method used by the CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl in
> >   configurations with many processors (there are more TLB shootdowns
> >   caused by the mapping/unmapping operation) but may not be as fast
> >   as running with unmapped I/O.
> >   
> >   The new memory handling model for user requests also allows
> >   applications to send CCBs with request sizes that are larger than
> >   MAXPHYS.  The pass(4) driver now limits queued requests to the I/O
> >   size listed by the SIM driver in the maxio field in the Path
> >   Inquiry (XPT_PATH_INQ) CCB.
> >   
> >   There are some things things would be good to add:
> >   
> >   1. Come up with a way to do unmapped I/O on multiple buffers.
> >      Currently the unmapped I/O interface operates on a struct bio,
> >      which includes only one address and length.  It would be nice
> >      to be able to send an unmapped scatter/gather list down to
> >      busdma.  This would allow eliminating the copy we currently do
> >      for data.
> >   
> >   2. Add an ioctl to list currently outstanding CCBs in the various
> >      queues.
> >   
> >   3. Add an ioctl to cancel a request, or use the XPT_ABORT CCB to do
> >      that.
> >   
> >   4. Test physical address support.  Virtual pointers and scatter
> >      gather lists have been tested, but I have not yet tested
> >      physical addresses or scatter/gather lists.
> >   
> >   5. Investigate multiple queue support.  At the moment there is one
> >      queue of commands per pass(4) device.  If multiple processes
> >      open the device, they will submit I/O into the same queue and
> >      get events for the same completions.  This is probably the right
> >      model for most applications, but it is something that could be
> >      changed later on.
> >   
> >   Also, add a new utility, camdd(8) that uses the asynchronous pass(4)
> >   driver interface.
> >   
> >   This utility is intended to be a basic data transfer/copy utility,
> >   a simple benchmark utility, and an example of how to use the
> >   asynchronous pass(4) interface.
> >   
> >   It can copy data to and from pass(4) devices using any target queue
> >   depth, starting offset and blocksize for the input and ouptut devices.
> >   It currently only supports SCSI devices, but could be easily extended
> >   to support ATA devices.
> >   
> >   It can also copy data to and from regular files, block devices, tape
> >   devices, pipes, stdin, and stdout.  It does not support queueing
> >   multiple commands to any of those targets, since it uses the standard
> >   read(2)/write(2)/writev(2)/readv(2) system calls.
> >   
> >   The I/O is done by two threads, one for the reader and one for the
> >   writer.  The reader thread sends completed read requests to the
> >   writer thread in strictly sequential order, even if they complete
> >   out of order.  That could be modified later on for random I/O patterns
> >   or slightly out of order I/O.
> >   
> >   camdd(8) uses kqueue(2)/kevent(2) to get I/O completion events from
> >   the pass(4) driver and also to send request notifications internally.
> >   
> >   For pass(4) devcies, camdd(8) uses a single buffer (CAM_DATA_VADDR)
> >   per CAM CCB on the reading side, and a scatter/gather list
> >   (CAM_DATA_SG) on the writing side.  In addition to testing both
> >   interfaces, this makes any potential reblocking of I/O easier.  No
> >   data is copied between the reader and the writer, but rather the
> >   reader's buffers are split into multiple I/O requests or combined
> >   into a single I/O request depending on the input and output blocksize.
> >   
> >   For the file I/O path, camdd(8) also uses a single buffer (read(2),
> >   write(2), pread(2) or pwrite(2)) on reads, and a scatter/gather list
> >   (readv(2), writev(2), preadv(2), pwritev(2)) on writes.
> >   
> >   Things that would be nice to do for camdd(8) eventually:
> >   
> >   1.  Add support for I/O pattern generation.  Patterns like all
> >       zeros, all ones, LBA-based patterns, random patterns, etc. Right
> >       Now you can always use /dev/zero, /dev/random, etc.
> >   
> >   2.  Add support for a "sink" mode, so we do only reads with no
> >       writes.  Right now, you can use /dev/null.
> >   
> >   3.  Add support for automatic queue depth probing, so that we can
> >       figure out the right queue depth on the input and output side
> >       for maximum throughput.  At the moment it defaults to 6.
> >   
> >   4.  Add support for SATA device passthrough I/O.
> >   
> >   5.  Add support for random LBAs and/or lengths on the input and
> >       output sides.
> >   
> >   6.  Track average per-I/O latency and busy time.  The busy time
> >       and latency could also feed in to the automatic queue depth
> >       determination.
> >   
> >   sys/cam/scsi/scsi_pass.h:
> >   	Define two new ioctls, CAMIOQUEUE and CAMIOGET, that queue
> >   	and fetch asynchronous CAM CCBs respectively.
> >   
> >   	Although these ioctls do not have a declared argument, they
> >   	both take a union ccb pointer.  If we declare a size here,
> >   	the ioctl code in sys/kern/sys_generic.c will malloc and free
> >   	a buffer for either the CCB or the CCB pointer (depending on
> >   	how it is declared).  Since we have to keep a copy of the
> >   	CCB (which is fairly large) anyway, having the ioctl malloc
> >   	and free a CCB for each call is wasteful.
> >   
> >   sys/cam/scsi/scsi_pass.c:
> >   	Add asynchronous CCB support.
> >   
> >   	Add two new ioctls, CAMIOQUEUE and CAMIOGET.
> >   
> >   	CAMIOQUEUE adds a CCB to the incoming queue.  The CCB is
> >   	executed immediately (and moved to the active queue) if it
> >   	is an immediate CCB, but otherwise it will be executed
> >   	in passstart() when a CCB is available from the transport layer.
> >   
> >   	When CCBs are completed (because they are immediate or
> >   	passdone() if they are queued), they are put on the done
> >   	queue.
> >   
> >   	If we get the final close on the device before all pending
> >   	I/O is complete, all active I/O is moved to the abandoned
> >   	queue and we increment the peripheral reference count so
> >   	that the peripheral driver instance doesn't go away before
> >   	all pending I/O is done.
> >   
> >   	The new passcreatezone() function is called on the first
> >   	call to the CAMIOQUEUE ioctl on a given device to allocate
> >   	the UMA zones for I/O requests and S/G list buffers.  This
> >   	may be good to move off to a taskqueue at some point.
> >   	The new passmemsetup() function allocates memory and
> >   	scatter/gather lists to hold the user's data, and copies
> >   	in any data that needs to be written.  For virtual pointers
> >   	(CAM_DATA_VADDR), the kernel buffer is malloced from the
> >   	new pass(4) driver malloc bucket.  For virtual
> >   	scatter/gather lists (CAM_DATA_SG), buffers are allocated
> >   	from a new per-pass(9) UMA zone in MAXPHYS-sized chunks.
> >   	Physical pointers are passed in unchanged.  We have support
> >   	for up to 16 scatter/gather segments (for the user and
> >   	kernel S/G lists) in the default struct pass_io_req, so
> >   	requests with longer S/G lists require an extra kernel malloc.
> >   
> >   	The new passcopysglist() function copies a user scatter/gather
> >   	list to a kernel scatter/gather list.  The number of elements
> >   	in each list may be different, but (obviously) the amount of data
> >   	stored has to be identical.
> >   
> >   	The new passmemdone() function copies data out for the
> >   	CAM_DATA_VADDR and CAM_DATA_SG cases.
> >   
> >   	The new passiocleanup() function restores data pointers in
> >   	user CCBs and frees memory.
> >   
> >   	Add new functions to support kqueue(2)/kevent(2):
> >   
> >   	passreadfilt() tells kevent whether or not the done
> >   	queue is empty.
> >   
> >   	passkqfilter() adds a knote to our list.
> >   
> >   	passreadfiltdetach() removes a knote from our list.
> >   
> >   	Add a new function, passpoll(), for poll(2)/select(2)
> >   	to use.
> >   
> >   	Add devstat(9) support for the queued CCB path.
> >   
> >   sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c:
> >   	Add support for the BIO_VLIST bio type.
> >   
> >   sys/cam/cam_ccb.h:
> >   	Add a new enumeration for the xflags field in the CCB header.
> >   	(This doesn't change the CCB header, just adds an enumeration to
> >   	use.)
> >   
> >   sys/cam/cam_xpt.c:
> >   	Add a new function, xpt_setup_ccb_flags(), that allows specifying
> >   	CCB flags.
> >   
> >   sys/cam/cam_xpt.h:
> >   	Add a prototype for xpt_setup_ccb_flags().
> >   
> >   sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
> >   	Add support for BIO_VLIST.
> >   
> >   sys/dev/md/md.c:
> >   	Add BIO_VLIST support to md(4).
> >   
> >   sys/geom/geom_disk.c:
> >   	Add BIO_VLIST support to the GEOM disk class.  Re-factor the I/O size
> >   	limiting code in g_disk_start() a bit.
> >   
> >   sys/kern/subr_bus_dma.c:
> >   	Change _bus_dmamap_load_vlist() to take a starting offset and
> >   	length.
> >   
> >   	Add a new function, _bus_dmamap_load_pages(), that will load a list
> >   	of physical pages starting at an offset.
> >   
> >   	Update _bus_dmamap_load_bio() to allow loading BIO_VLIST bios.
> >   	Allow unmapped I/O to start at an offset.
> >   
> >   sys/kern/subr_uio.c:
> >   	Add two new functions, physcopyin_vlist() and physcopyout_vlist().
> >   
> >   sys/pc98/include/bus.h:
> >   	Guard kernel-only parts of the pc98 machine/bus.h header with
> >   	#ifdef _KERNEL.
> >   
> >   	This allows userland programs to include <machine/bus.h> to get the
> >   	definition of bus_addr_t and bus_size_t.
> >   
> >   sys/sys/bio.h:
> >   	Add a new bio flag, BIO_VLIST.
> >   
> >   sys/sys/uio.h:
> >   	Add prototypes for physcopyin_vlist() and physcopyout_vlist().
> >   
> >   share/man/man4/pass.4:
> >   	Document the CAMIOQUEUE and CAMIOGET ioctls.
> >   
> >   usr.sbin/Makefile:
> >   	Add camdd.
> >   
> >   usr.sbin/camdd/Makefile:
> >   	Add a makefile for camdd(8).
> >   
> >   usr.sbin/camdd/camdd.8:
> >   	Man page for camdd(8).
> >   
> >   usr.sbin/camdd/camdd.c:
> >   	The new camdd(8) utility.
> >   
> >   Sponsored by:	Spectra Logic
> >   MFC after:	1 week
> > 
> > Added:
> >   head/usr.sbin/camdd/
> >   head/usr.sbin/camdd/Makefile   (contents, props changed)
> 
> > +++ usr.sbin/camdd/Makefile
> > @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> > +# $FreeBSD$
> > +
> > +PROG=  camdd
> > +SRCS=  camdd.c
> > +SDIR=  ${.CURDIR}/../../sys
> > +DPADD= ${LIBCAM} ${LIBMT} ${LIBSBUF} ${LIBBSDXML} ${LIBUTIL} ${LIBTHR}
> > +LDADD= -lcam -lmt -lsbuf -lbsdxml -lutil -lthr
> 
> 
> We use LIBADD in head now, not DPADD and LDADD. See r291718.

Oops, sorry about that!  Thanks for fixing it.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@FreeBSD.ORG



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