This is the second version of

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=119933628210006&w=2

I gave up once, but I found that the performance loss is negligible
(within 1%) by using kmem_cache_alloc instead of mempool.

I use scsi_debug with fake_rw=1 and disktest (DIO reads with 8
threads) again:

scsi-misc (slub)         | 486.9 MB/s  IOPS 124652.9/s
dynamic sense buf (slub) | 483.2 MB/s  IOPS 123704.1/s

scsi-misc (slab)         | 467.0 MB/s  IOPS 119544.3/s
dynamic sense buf (slab) | 468.7 MB/s  IOPS 119986.0/s

The results are the averages of three runs with a server using two
dual-core 1.60 GHz Xeon processors with DDR2 memory.


I doubt think that someone will complain about the performance
regression due to this patch. In addition, unlike scsi_debug, the real
LLDs allocate the own data structure per scsi_cmnd so the performance
differences would be smaller (and with the real hard disk overheads).

Here's the full results:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tomo/sense/results.txt


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From: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [PATCH] use dynamically allocated sense buffer

This removes static array sense_buffer in scsi_cmnd and uses
dynamically allocated sense_buffer (with GFP_DMA).

The reason for doing this is that some architectures need cacheline
aligned buffer for DMA:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/19/2

The problems are that scsi_eh_prep_cmnd puts scsi_cmnd::sense_buffer
to sglist and some LLDs directly DMA to scsi_cmnd::sense_buffer. It's
necessary to DMA to scsi_cmnd::sense_buffer safely. This patch solves
these issues.

__scsi_get_command allocates sense_buffer via kmem_cache_alloc and
attaches it to a scsi_cmnd so everything just work as before.

A scsi_host reserves one sense buffer for the backup command
(shost->backup_sense_buffer).


Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 drivers/scsi/hosts.c     |   10 ++++++-
 drivers/scsi/scsi.c      |   67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h |    2 +
 include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h |    2 +-
 include/scsi/scsi_host.h |    3 ++
 5 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c
index 9a10b43..35c5f0e 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c
@@ -205,10 +205,14 @@ int scsi_add_host(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct device 
*dev)
        if (!shost->shost_gendev.parent)
                shost->shost_gendev.parent = dev ? dev : &platform_bus;
 
-       error = device_add(&shost->shost_gendev);
+       error = scsi_setup_command_sense_buffer(shost);
        if (error)
                goto out;
 
+       error = device_add(&shost->shost_gendev);
+       if (error)
+               goto destroy_pool;
+
        scsi_host_set_state(shost, SHOST_RUNNING);
        get_device(shost->shost_gendev.parent);
 
@@ -248,6 +252,8 @@ int scsi_add_host(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct device 
*dev)
        class_device_del(&shost->shost_classdev);
  out_del_gendev:
        device_del(&shost->shost_gendev);
+ destroy_pool:
+       scsi_destroy_command_sense_buffer(shost);
  out:
        return error;
 }
@@ -267,6 +273,8 @@ static void scsi_host_dev_release(struct device *dev)
                scsi_free_queue(shost->uspace_req_q);
        }
 
+       scsi_destroy_command_sense_buffer(shost);
+
        scsi_destroy_command_freelist(shost);
        if (shost->bqt)
                blk_free_tags(shost->bqt);
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
index 54ff611..d153da3 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@ static struct scsi_host_cmd_pool scsi_cmd_dma_pool = {
 
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(host_cmd_pool_mutex);
 
+static struct kmem_cache *sense_buffer_slab;
+static int sense_buffer_slab_users;
+
 /**
  * __scsi_get_command - Allocate a struct scsi_cmnd
  * @shost: host to transmit command
@@ -186,6 +189,22 @@ struct scsi_cmnd *__scsi_get_command(struct Scsi_Host 
*shost, gfp_t gfp_mask)
                        list_del_init(&cmd->list);
                }
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&shost->free_list_lock, flags);
+
+               if (cmd) {
+                       memset(cmd, 0, sizeof(*cmd));
+                       cmd->sense_buffer = shost->backup_sense_buffer;
+               }
+       } else {
+               unsigned char *buf;
+
+               buf = kmem_cache_alloc(sense_buffer_slab, __GFP_DMA|gfp_mask);
+               if (likely(buf)) {
+                       memset(cmd, 0, sizeof(*cmd));
+                       cmd->sense_buffer = buf;
+               } else {
+                       kmem_cache_free(shost->cmd_pool->slab, cmd);
+                       cmd = NULL;
+               }
        }
 
        return cmd;
@@ -212,7 +231,6 @@ struct scsi_cmnd *scsi_get_command(struct scsi_device *dev, 
gfp_t gfp_mask)
        if (likely(cmd != NULL)) {
                unsigned long flags;
 
-               memset(cmd, 0, sizeof(*cmd));
                cmd->device = dev;
                init_timer(&cmd->eh_timeout);
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cmd->list);
@@ -246,8 +264,10 @@ void __scsi_put_command(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct 
scsi_cmnd *cmd,
        }
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&shost->free_list_lock, flags);
 
-       if (likely(cmd != NULL))
+       if (likely(cmd != NULL)) {
+               kmem_cache_free(sense_buffer_slab, cmd->sense_buffer);
                kmem_cache_free(shost->cmd_pool->slab, cmd);
+       }
 
        put_device(dev);
 }
@@ -351,6 +371,49 @@ void scsi_destroy_command_freelist(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
        mutex_unlock(&host_cmd_pool_mutex);
 }
 
+int scsi_setup_command_sense_buffer(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
+{
+       unsigned char *sense_buffer;
+
+       mutex_lock(&host_cmd_pool_mutex);
+       if (!sense_buffer_slab_users) {
+               sense_buffer_slab = kmem_cache_create("scsi_sense_buffer",
+                                                     SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE,
+                                                     0, SLAB_CACHE_DMA, NULL);
+               if (!sense_buffer_slab) {
+                       mutex_unlock(&host_cmd_pool_mutex);
+                       return -ENOMEM;
+               }
+       }
+       sense_buffer_slab_users++;
+       mutex_unlock(&host_cmd_pool_mutex);
+
+       sense_buffer = kmem_cache_alloc(sense_buffer_slab,
+                                       GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_DMA);
+       if (!sense_buffer)
+               goto fail;
+
+       shost->backup_sense_buffer = sense_buffer;
+
+       return 0;
+fail:
+       mutex_lock(&host_cmd_pool_mutex);
+       if (!--sense_buffer_slab_users)
+                       kmem_cache_destroy(sense_buffer_slab);
+       mutex_unlock(&host_cmd_pool_mutex);
+       return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+void scsi_destroy_command_sense_buffer(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
+{
+       kmem_cache_free(sense_buffer_slab, shost->backup_sense_buffer);
+
+       mutex_lock(&host_cmd_pool_mutex);
+       if (!--sense_buffer_slab_users)
+               kmem_cache_destroy(sense_buffer_slab);
+       mutex_unlock(&host_cmd_pool_mutex);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING
 void scsi_log_send(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h b/drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h
index 3f34e93..55c6f71 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ extern void scsi_exit_hosts(void);
 extern int scsi_dispatch_cmd(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd);
 extern int scsi_setup_command_freelist(struct Scsi_Host *shost);
 extern void scsi_destroy_command_freelist(struct Scsi_Host *shost);
+extern int scsi_setup_command_sense_buffer(struct Scsi_Host *shost);
+extern void scsi_destroy_command_sense_buffer(struct Scsi_Host *shost);
 extern void __scsi_done(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd);
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING
 void scsi_log_send(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd);
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
index 3f47e52..abd7479 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct scsi_cmnd {
                                           working on */
 
 #define SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE  96
-       unsigned char sense_buffer[SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE];
+       unsigned char *sense_buffer;
                                /* obtained by REQUEST SENSE when
                                 * CHECK CONDITION is received on original
                                 * command (auto-sense) */
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_host.h b/include/scsi/scsi_host.h
index 0fd4746..65d2bcf 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_host.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_host.h
@@ -520,6 +520,9 @@ struct Scsi_Host {
        struct list_head        free_list; /* backup store of cmd structs */
        struct list_head        starved_list;
 
+       /* sense buffer for the backup command */
+       unsigned char *backup_sense_buffer;
+
        spinlock_t              default_lock;
        spinlock_t              *host_lock;
 
-- 
1.5.3.4

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