block: Introduce REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND

Define REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND to append-write sectors to a zone of a zoned
block device. This is a no-merge write operation.

A zone append write BIO must:
* Target a zoned block device
* Have a sector position indicating the start sector of the target zone
* The target zone must be a sequential write zone
* The BIO must not cross a zone boundary
* The BIO size must not be split to ensure that a single range of LBAs
  is written with a single command.

Implement these checks in generic_make_request_checks() using the
helper function blk_check_zone_append(). To avoid write append BIO
splitting, introduce the new max_zone_append_sectors queue limit
attribute and ensure that a BIO size is always lower than this limit.
Export this new limit through sysfs and check these limits in bio_full().

Also when a LLDD can't dispatch a request to a specific zone, it
will return BLK_STS_ZONE_RESOURCE indicating this request needs to
be delayed, e.g.  because the zone it will be dispatched to is still
write-locked. If this happens set the request aside in a local list
to continue trying dispatching requests such as READ requests or a
WRITE/ZONE_APPEND requests targetting other zones. This way we can
still keep a high queue depth without starving other requests even if
one request can't be served due to zone write-locking.

Finally, make sure that the bio sector position indicates the actual
write position as indicated by the device on completion.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
[ jth: added zone-append specific add_page and merge_page helpers ]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index 90895d594e64..b90dca1fa430 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -63,6 +63,18 @@ typedef u8 __bitwise blk_status_t;
  */
 #define BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE	((__force blk_status_t)13)
 
+/*
+ * BLK_STS_ZONE_RESOURCE is returned from the driver to the block layer if zone
+ * related resources are unavailable, but the driver can guarantee the queue
+ * will be rerun in the future once the resources become available again.
+ *
+ * This is different from BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE in that it explicitly references
+ * a zone specific resource and IO to a different zone on the same device could
+ * still be served. Examples of that are zones that are write-locked, but a read
+ * to the same zone could be served.
+ */
+#define BLK_STS_ZONE_RESOURCE	((__force blk_status_t)14)
+
 /**
  * blk_path_error - returns true if error may be path related
  * @error: status the request was completed with
@@ -296,6 +308,8 @@ enum req_opf {
 	REQ_OP_ZONE_CLOSE	= 11,
 	/* Transition a zone to full */
 	REQ_OP_ZONE_FINISH	= 12,
+	/* write data at the current zone write pointer */
+	REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND	= 13,
 
 	/* SCSI passthrough using struct scsi_request */
 	REQ_OP_SCSI_IN		= 32,