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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2020-06-17 15:58:23 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2020-06-25 21:06:11 -0600
commitf3bdc62fd82ed93dbe4d049eacba310de7eb2a6a (patch)
treeeefbacc996ba10e58a127a7a2df8924e4bbb0179 /kernel/trace
parent621c1f42945e76015c3a585e7a9fe6e71665eba0 (diff)
downloadlinux-f3bdc62fd82ed93dbe4d049eacba310de7eb2a6a.tar.gz
blktrace: Provide event for request merging
Currently blk-mq does not report any event when two requests get merged
in the elevator. This then results in difficult to understand sequence
of events like:

...
  8,0   34     1579     0.608765271  2718  I  WS 215023504 + 40 [dbench]
  8,0   34     1584     0.609184613  2719  A  WS 215023544 + 56 <- (8,4) 2160568
  8,0   34     1585     0.609184850  2719  Q  WS 215023544 + 56 [dbench]
  8,0   34     1586     0.609188524  2719  G  WS 215023544 + 56 [dbench]
  8,0    3      602     0.609684162   773  D  WS 215023504 + 96 [kworker/3:1H]
  8,0   34     1591     0.609843593     0  C  WS 215023504 + 96 [0]

and you can only guess (after quite some headscratching since the above
excerpt is intermixed with a lot of other IO) that request 215023544+56
got merged to request 215023504+40. Provide proper event for request
merging like we used to do in the legacy block layer.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/blktrace.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index c086c38f4954..7ba62d68885a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -860,6 +860,13 @@ static void blk_add_trace_rq_issue(void *ignore,
 			 blk_trace_request_get_cgid(q, rq));
 }
 
+static void blk_add_trace_rq_merge(void *ignore,
+				   struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
+{
+	blk_add_trace_rq(rq, 0, blk_rq_bytes(rq), BLK_TA_BACKMERGE,
+			 blk_trace_request_get_cgid(q, rq));
+}
+
 static void blk_add_trace_rq_requeue(void *ignore,
 				     struct request_queue *q,
 				     struct request *rq)
@@ -1144,6 +1151,8 @@ static void blk_register_tracepoints(void)
 	WARN_ON(ret);
 	ret = register_trace_block_rq_issue(blk_add_trace_rq_issue, NULL);
 	WARN_ON(ret);
+	ret = register_trace_block_rq_merge(blk_add_trace_rq_merge, NULL);
+	WARN_ON(ret);
 	ret = register_trace_block_rq_requeue(blk_add_trace_rq_requeue, NULL);
 	WARN_ON(ret);
 	ret = register_trace_block_rq_complete(blk_add_trace_rq_complete, NULL);
@@ -1190,6 +1199,7 @@ static void blk_unregister_tracepoints(void)
 	unregister_trace_block_bio_bounce(blk_add_trace_bio_bounce, NULL);
 	unregister_trace_block_rq_complete(blk_add_trace_rq_complete, NULL);
 	unregister_trace_block_rq_requeue(blk_add_trace_rq_requeue, NULL);
+	unregister_trace_block_rq_merge(blk_add_trace_rq_merge, NULL);
 	unregister_trace_block_rq_issue(blk_add_trace_rq_issue, NULL);
 	unregister_trace_block_rq_insert(blk_add_trace_rq_insert, NULL);