From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D51EC433FE for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2022 20:10:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229791AbiJGUKz (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2022 16:10:55 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38508 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229720AbiJGUKv (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2022 16:10:51 -0400 Received: from ale.deltatee.com (ale.deltatee.com [204.191.154.188]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA32A9259F for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2022 13:10:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=deltatee.com; s=20200525; h=Subject:MIME-Version:Message-Id:Date:Cc:To:From :references:content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=YJ407FP/WryCckr1uyU2XMHU7zb5/UTRRs1WoQ3h3s4=; b=AKja3zVzb16eXsBtyZOqpBSdBE NMnuT64/NgoJRQ1p8+UBatHDcdS9AIThe5zjdMfE3AqqrMNSoTqJYm6lpazsZY8+3P962AToqM0Ee GvblzQdfPMpm0FLug13+m+d/o9FE7M4Ts1pPl22SV9uBzTUrtYGvvvx6b5b9wJd5Gi6pfFyMjSWWJ 8TZ7IXRFhwAIk4uBkx90DXJ8JLDyVZXUc2JMDQuxxcsOA18HVAZBGvbIQ9bdok78Y+FbGn5sziwMY GXRTRNV9VUsELoQTgJ4Cqqf+wGb2ukWgYIkZ6Xev/JGMYqapIx+KvrH6ZvAL6lOfl8UR+igO4HsXS FfWNPezA==; Received: from cgy1-donard.priv.deltatee.com ([172.16.1.31]) by ale.deltatee.com with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1ogtgA-002hCh-9n; Fri, 07 Oct 2022 14:10:44 -0600 Received: from gunthorp by cgy1-donard.priv.deltatee.com with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1ogtg7-0005Hj-1O; Fri, 07 Oct 2022 14:10:39 -0600 From: Logan Gunthorpe To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Jes Sorensen Cc: Guoqing Jiang , Xiao Ni , Mariusz Tkaczyk , Coly Li , Chaitanya Kulkarni , Jonmichael Hands , Stephen Bates , Martin Oliveira , David Sloan , Logan Gunthorpe Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 14:10:30 -0600 Message-Id: <20221007201037.20263-1-logang@deltatee.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.30.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 172.16.1.31 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, jes@trained-monkey.org, guoqing.jiang@linux.dev, xni@redhat.com, mariusz.tkaczyk@linux.intel.com, colyli@suse.de, chaitanyak@nvidia.com, jm@chia.net, sbates@raithlin.com, Martin.Oliveira@eideticom.com, David.Sloan@eideticom.com, logang@deltatee.com X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gunthorp@deltatee.com Subject: [PATCH mdadm v4 0/7] Write Zeroes option for Creating Arrays X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:57:42 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on ale.deltatee.com) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Hi, This is the next iteration of the patchset that added the discard option to mdadm. Per feedback from Martin, it's more desirable to use the write-zeroes functionality than rely on devices to zero the data on a discard request. This is because standards typically only require the device to do the best effort to discard data and may not actually discard (and thus zero) it all in some circumstances. This version of the patch set adds the --write-zeroes option which will imply --assume-clean and write zeros to the data region in each disk before starting the array. This can take some time so each disk is done in parallel in its own fork. To make the forking code easier to understand this patch set also starts with some cleanup of the existing Create code. We tested write-zeroes requests on a number of modern nvme drives of various manufacturers and found most are not as optimized as the discard path. A couple drives that were tested did not support write-zeroes at all but still performed similarly with the kernel falling back to writing zero pages. Typically we see it take on the order of one minute per 100GB of data zeroed. One reason write-zeroes is slower than discard is that today's NVMe devices only allow about 2MB to be zeroed in one command where as the entire drive can typically be discarded in one command. Partly, this is a limitation of the spec as there are only 16 bits avalaible in the write-zeros command size but drives still don't max this out. Hopefully, in the future this will all be optimized a bit more and this work will be able to take advantage of that. Logan -- Changes since v3: * Store the pid in a local variable instead of the mdinfo struct (per Mariusz and Xiao) Changes since v2: * Use write-zeroes instead of discard to zero the disks (per Martin) * Due to the time required to zero the disks, each disk is now done in parallel with separate forks of the process. * In order to add the forking some refactoring was done on the Create() function to make it easier to understand * Added a pr_info() call so that some prints can be done to stdout instead of stdour (per Mariusz) * Added KIB_TO_BYTES and SEC_TO_BYTES helpers (per Mariusz) * Added a test to the mdadm test suite to test the option works. * Fixed up how the size and offset are calculated with some great information from Xiao. Changes since v1: * Discard the data in the devices later in the create process while they are already open. This requires treating the s.discard option the same as the s.assume_clean option. Per Mariusz. * A couple other minor cleanup changes from Mariusz. *** BLURB HERE *** Logan Gunthorpe (7): Create: goto abort_locked instead of return 1 in error path Create: remove safe_mode_delay local variable Create: Factor out add_disks() helpers mdadm: Introduce pr_info() mdadm: Add --write-zeros option for Create tests/00raid5-zero: Introduce test to exercise --write-zeros. manpage: Add --write-zeroes option to manpage Create.c | 479 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- ReadMe.c | 2 + mdadm.8.in | 16 ++ mdadm.c | 9 + mdadm.h | 7 + tests/00raid5-zero | 12 ++ 6 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/00raid5-zero base-commit: 8b668d4aa3305af5963162b7499b128bd71f8f29 -- 2.30.2