Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] btrfs zoned block device support

[Qu Wenruo]

On 8/10/18 2:04 AM, Naohiro Aota wrote:
> This series adds zoned block device support to btrfs.
> 
> A zoned block device consists of a number of zones. Zones are either
> conventional and accepting random writes or sequential and requiring that
> writes be issued in LBA order from each zone write pointer position.

Not familiar with zoned block device, especially for the sequential case.

Is that sequential case tape like?

> This
> patch series ensures that the sequential write constraint of sequential
> zones is respected while fundamentally not changing BtrFS block and I/O
> management for block stored in conventional zones.
> 
> To achieve this, the default dev extent size of btrfs is changed on zoned
> block devices so that dev extents are always aligned to a zone. Allocation
> of blocks within a block group is changed so that the allocation is always
> sequential from the beginning of the block groups. To do so, an allocation
> pointer is added to block groups and used as the allocation hint.  The
> allocation changes also ensures that block freed below the allocation
> pointer are ignored, resulting in sequential block allocation regardless of
> the block group usage.

This looks like it would cause a lot of holes for metadata block groups.
It would be better to avoid metadata block allocation in such sequential
zone.
(And that would need the infrastructure to make extent allocator
priority-aware)

> 
> While the introduction of the allocation pointer ensure that blocks will be
> allocated sequentially, I/Os to write out newly allocated blocks may be
> issued out of order, causing errors when writing to sequential zones. This
> problem s solved by introducing a submit_buffer() function and changes to
> the internal I/O scheduler to ensure in-order issuing of write I/Os for
> each chunk and corresponding to the block allocation order in the chunk.
> 
> The zones of a chunk are reset to allow reusing of the zone only when the
> block group is being freed, that is, when all the extents of the block group
> are unused.
> 
> For btrfs volumes composed of multiple zoned disks, restrictions are added
> to ensure that all disks have the same zone size. This matches the existing
> constraint that all dev extents in a chunk must have the same size.
> 
> It requires zoned block devices to test the patchset. Even if you don't
> have zone devices, you can use tcmu-runner [1] to emulate zoned block
> devices. It can export emulated zoned block devices via iSCSI. Please see
> the README.md of tcmu-runner [2] for howtos to generate a zoned block
> device on tcmu-runner.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/open-iscsi/tcmu-runner
> [2] https://github.com/open-iscsi/tcmu-runner/blob/master/README.md
> 
> Patch 1 introduces the HMZONED incompatible feature flag to indicate that
> the btrfs volume was formatted for use on zoned block devices.
> 
> Patches 2 and 3 implement functions to gather information on the zones of
> the device (zones type and write pointer position).
> 
> Patch 4 restrict the possible locations of super blocks to conventional
> zones to preserve the existing update in-place mechanism for the super
> blocks.
> 
> Patches 5 to 7 disable features which are not compatible with the sequential
> write constraints of zoned block devices. This includes fallocate and
> direct I/O support. Device replace is also disabled for now.
> 
> Patches 8 and 9 tweak the extent buffer allocation for HMZONED mode to
> implement sequential block allocation in block groups and chunks.
> 
> Patches 10 to 12 implement the new submit buffer I/O path to ensure sequential
> write I/O delivery to the device zones.
> 
> Patches 13 to 16 modify several parts of btrfs to handle free blocks
> without breaking the sequential block allocation and sequential write order
> as well as zone reset for unused chunks.
> 
> Finally, patch 17 adds the HMZONED feature to the list of supported
> features.
> 
> Naohiro Aota (17):
>   btrfs: introduce HMZONED feature flag
>   btrfs: Get zone information of zoned block devices
>   btrfs: Check and enable HMZONED mode
>   btrfs: limit super block locations in HMZONED mode
>   btrfs: disable fallocate in HMZONED mode
>   btrfs: disable direct IO in HMZONED mode
>   btrfs: disable device replace in HMZONED mode
>   btrfs: align extent allocation to zone boundary

According to the patch name, I though it's about extent allocation, but
in fact it's about dev extent allocation.
Renaming the patch would make more sense.

>   btrfs: do sequential allocation on HMZONED drives

And this is the patch modifying extent allocator.

Despite that, the support zoned storage looks pretty interesting and
have something in common with planned priority-aware extent allocator.

Thanks,
Qu

>   btrfs: split btrfs_map_bio()
>   btrfs: introduce submit buffer
>   btrfs: expire submit buffer on timeout
>   btrfs: avoid sync IO prioritization on checksum in HMZONED mode
>   btrfs: redirty released extent buffers in sequential BGs
>   btrfs: reset zones of unused block groups
>   btrfs: wait existing extents before truncating
>   btrfs: enable to mount HMZONED incompat flag
> 
>  fs/btrfs/async-thread.c     |   1 +
>  fs/btrfs/async-thread.h     |   1 +
>  fs/btrfs/ctree.h            |  36 ++-
>  fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c      |  10 +
>  fs/btrfs/disk-io.c          |  48 +++-
>  fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c      | 281 +++++++++++++++++-
>  fs/btrfs/extent_io.c        |   1 +
>  fs/btrfs/extent_io.h        |   1 +
>  fs/btrfs/file.c             |   4 +
>  fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c |  36 +++
>  fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.h |  10 +
>  fs/btrfs/inode.c            |  14 +
>  fs/btrfs/super.c            |  32 ++-
>  fs/btrfs/sysfs.c            |   2 +
>  fs/btrfs/transaction.c      |  32 +++
>  fs/btrfs/transaction.h      |   3 +
>  fs/btrfs/volumes.c          | 551 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  fs/btrfs/volumes.h          |  37 +++
>  include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h  |   1 +
>  19 files changed, 1061 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>

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