Some failure modes are handled poorly by kublk. For example, if ublk_drv
is built as a module but not currently loaded into the kernel, ./kublk
add ... just hangs forever. This happens because in this case (and a few
others), the worker process does not notify its parent (via a write to
the shared eventfd) that it has tried and failed to initialize, so the
parent hangs forever. Fix this by ensuring that we always notify the
parent process of any initialization failure, and have the parent print
a (not very descriptive) log line when this happens.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250603-ublk_init_fail-v1-1-87c91486230e@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add support in kublk for decoupled ublk_queues and ublk server threads.
kublk now has two modes of operation:
- (preexisting mode) threads and queues are paired 1:1, and each thread
services all the I/Os of one queue
- (new mode) thread and queue counts are independently configurable.
threads service I/Os in a way that balances load across threads even
if load is not balanced over queues.
The default is the preexisting mode. The new mode is activated by
passing the --per_io_tasks flag.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-6-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently, each ublk server I/O handler thread initializes its own
queue. However, as we move towards decoupled ublk_queues and ublk server
threads, this model does not make sense anymore, as there will no longer
be a concept of a thread having "its own" queue. So lift queue
initialization out of the per-thread ublk_io_handler_fn and into a loop
in ublk_start_daemon (which runs once for each device).
There is a part of ublk_queue_init (ring initialization) which does
actually need to happen on the thread that will use the ring; that is
separated into a separate ublk_thread_init which is still called by each
I/O handler thread.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-4-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We currently have a helper ublk_queue_alloc_sqes which the ublk targets
use to allocate SQEs for their own operations. However, as we move
towards decoupled ublk_queues and ublk server threads, this helper does
not make sense anymore. SQEs are allocated from rings, and we will have
one ring per thread to avoid locking. Change the SQE allocation helper
to ublk_io_alloc_sqes. Currently this still allocates SQEs from the io's
queue's ring, but when we fully decouple threads and queues, it will
allocate from the io's thread's ring instead.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-3-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently, when we process CQEs, we know which ublk_queue we are working
on because we know which ring we are working on, and ublk_queues and
rings are in 1:1 correspondence. However, as we decouple ublk_queues
from ublk server threads, ublk_queues and rings will no longer be in 1:1
correspondence - each ublk server thread will have a ring, and each
thread may issue commands against more than one ublk_queue. So in order
to know which ublk_queue a CQE refers to, plumb that information in the
associated SQE's user_data.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-2-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add test for covering UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK:
- pass '--auto_zc_fallback' to null target, which requires both F_AUTO_BUF_REG
and F_SUPPORT_ZERO_COPY for handling UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
- add ->buf_index() method for returning invalid buffer index to trigger
UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
- add generic_09 for running the test
- add --auto_zc_fallback test in stress_03/stress_04/stress_05
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520045455.515691-7-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Enable UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG support for ublk utility by argument `--auto_zc`,
meantime support this feature in null, loop and stripe target code.
Add function test generic_08 for covering basic UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG feature.
Also cover UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG in stress_03, stress_04 and stress_05 test too.
'fio/t/io_uring -p0 /dev/ublkb0' shows that F_AUTO_BUF_REG can improve
IOPS by 50% compared with F_SUPPORT_ZERO_COPY in my test VM.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520045455.515691-6-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Commit 57e13a2e8c ("selftests: ublk: support user recovery") starts to
support UBLK_F_NEED_GET_DATA for covering recovery feature, however the
ublk utility implementation isn't done correctly.
Fix it by supporting UBLK_F_NEED_GET_DATA correctly.
Also add test generic_07 for covering UBLK_F_NEED_GET_DATA.
Reviewed-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Fixes: 57e13a2e8c ("selftests: ublk: support user recovery")
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250429022941.1718671-2-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In NUMA machine, ublk IO performance is very sensitive with queue
pthread's affinity setting.
Retrieve queue's affinity and select the 1st cpu as queue thread's sched
affinity, and it is observed that single cpu task affinity can get
stable & good performance if client application is put on proper cpu.
Dump this info when adding one ublk device. Use shmem to communicate
queue's tid between parent and daemon.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250412023035.2649275-9-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Detach ublk daemon from the starting process completely by double-fork and
clearing its process group, so that `_add_ublk_dev` can return from sub-shell.
Then it is more friendly for writing shell test script for adding/recovering
ublk device.
Prepare for running ublk test in parallel.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250412023035.2649275-5-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
There are a couple of places in the kublk selftests ublk server which
use the legacy ublk opcodes. These operations fail (with -EOPNOTSUPP) on
a kernel compiled without CONFIG_BLKDEV_UBLK_LEGACY_OPCODES set. We
could easily require it to be set as a prerequisite for these selftests,
but since new applications should not be using the legacy opcodes, use
the ioctl-encoded opcodes everywhere in kublk.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250401-ublk_selftests-v1-1-98129c9bc8bb@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add ublk stripe target which can take 1~4 underlying backing files
or block device, with stripe size 4k ~ 512K.
Add two basic tests(write verify & mkfs/mount/umount) over ublk/stripe.
This target is helpful to cover multiple IOs aiming at same
fixed/registered IO kernel buffer.
It is also capable of verifying vectored registered (kernel)buffers
in future for zero copy, so far it isn't supported yet.
Todo: support vectored registered kernel buffer for ublk/zc.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250322093218.431419-9-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
- pass 'truct dev_ctx *ctx' to target init function
- add 'private_data' to 'struct ublk_dev' for storing target specific data
- add 'private_data' to 'struct ublk_io' for storing per-IO data
- add 'tgt_ios' to 'struct ublk_io' for counting how many io_uring ios
for handling the current io command
- add helper ublk_get_io() for supporting stripe target
- add two helpers for simplifying target io handling
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250322093218.431419-6-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Improve ublk_stop_io_daemon() in the following ways:
- don't wait if ->ublksrv_pid becomes -1, which means that the disk
has been stopped
- don't wait if ublk char device doesn't exist any more, so we can
avoid to rely on inoitfy for wait until the char device is closed
And this way may reduce time of delete command a lot.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250303124324.3563605-2-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Both ublk driver and userspace heavily depends on io_uring subsystem,
and tools/testing/selftests/ should be the best place for holding this
cross-subsystem tests.
Add basic read/write IO test over this ublk null disk, and make sure ublk
working.
More tests will be added.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250228161919.2869102-2-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
