scsi: target: target/file: Add support of direct and async I/O
authorAndrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:55:02 +0000 (23:55 -0700)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Tue, 15 May 2018 02:40:08 +0000 (22:40 -0400)
commit769031c92c8b85bd886f7e064430b7b512c68728
treeaeb339bce1641974aba11403c6bdd702c6ea119b
parent97e066184b855dd2df4e82c2d1feff37282c53fd
scsi: target: target/file: Add support of direct and async I/O

There are two advantages:

* Direct I/O allows to avoid the write-back cache, so it reduces affects
  to other processes in the system.
* Async I/O allows to handle a few commands concurrently.

DIO + AIO shows a better perfomance for random write operations:

Mode: O_DSYNC Async: 1
$ ./fio --bs=4K --direct=1 --rw=randwrite --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --name=/dev/sda --runtime=20 --numjobs=2
  WRITE: bw=45.9MiB/s (48.1MB/s), 21.9MiB/s-23.0MiB/s (22.0MB/s-25.2MB/s), io=919MiB (963MB), run=20002-20020msec

Mode: O_DSYNC Async: 0
$ ./fio --bs=4K --direct=1 --rw=randwrite --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --name=/dev/sdb --runtime=20 --numjobs=2
  WRITE: bw=1607KiB/s (1645kB/s), 802KiB/s-805KiB/s (821kB/s-824kB/s), io=31.8MiB (33.4MB), run=20280-20295msec

Known issue:

DIF (PI) emulation doesn't work when a target uses async I/O, because
DIF metadata is saved in a separate file, and it is another non-trivial
task how to synchronize writing in two files, so that a following read
operation always returns a consisten metadata for a specified block.

Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
drivers/target/target_core_file.c
drivers/target/target_core_file.h