linux/Documentation
Javier González a4bd217b43 lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target
This patch introduces pblk, a host-side translation layer for
Open-Channel SSDs to expose them like block devices. The translation
layer allows data placement decisions, and I/O scheduling to be
managed by the host, enabling users to optimize the SSD for their
specific workloads.

An open-channel SSD has a set of LUNs (parallel units) and a
collection of blocks. Each block can be read in any order, but
writes must be sequential. Writes may also fail, and if a block
requires it, must also be reset before new writes can be
applied.

To manage the constraints, pblk maintains a logical to
physical address (L2P) table,  write cache, garbage
collection logic, recovery scheme, and logic to rate-limit
user I/Os versus garbage collection I/Os.

The L2P table is fully-associative and manages sectors at a
4KB granularity. Pblk stores the L2P table in two places, in
the out-of-band area of the media and on the last page of a
line. In the cause of a power failure, pblk will perform a
scan to recover the L2P table.

The user data is organized into lines. A line is data
striped across blocks and LUNs. The lines enable the host to
reduce the amount of metadata to maintain besides the user
data and makes it easier to implement RAID or erasure coding
in the future.

pblk implements multi-tenant support and can be instantiated
multiple times on the same drive. Each instance owns a
portion of the SSD - both regarding I/O bandwidth and
capacity - providing I/O isolation for each case.

Finally, pblk also exposes a sysfs interface that allows
user-space to peek into the internals of pblk. The interface
is available at /dev/block/*/pblk/ where * is the block
device name exposed.

This work also contains contributions from:
  Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
  Simon A. F. Lund <slund@cnexlabs.com>
  Young Tack Jin <youngtack.jin@gmail.com>
  Huaicheng Li <huaicheng@cs.uchicago.edu>

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-16 10:06:33 -06:00
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ABI block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flag 2017-04-08 11:25:38 -06:00
DocBook A few fixes for the docs tree, including one for a 4.11 build regression. 2017-03-04 11:32:18 -08:00
EDID
PCI A few fixes for the docs tree, including one for a 4.11 build regression. 2017-03-04 11:32:18 -08:00
RCU
accounting
acpi scripts/spelling.txt: add "followings" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
admin-guide Power management updates for v4.11-rc2 2017-03-09 16:30:37 -08:00
aoe
arm
arm64 irqchip/gicv3-its: Add workaround for QDF2400 ITS erratum 0065 2017-03-07 14:34:27 +00:00
auxdisplay
backlight
blackfin
block blk-mq: introduce Kyber multiqueue I/O scheduler 2017-04-14 14:06:58 -06:00
blockdev remove the mg_disk driver 2017-04-14 14:00:49 -06:00
bus-devices
cdrom
cgroup-v1 Merge branch 'for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2017-02-27 21:41:08 -08:00
cma
connector
console
core-api
cpu-freq
cpuidle
cris
crypto
dev-tools scripts/spelling.txt: add "disble(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
device-mapper scripts/spelling.txt: add "explictely" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
devicetree USB/PHY fixes for 4.11-rc4 2017-03-26 10:52:52 -07:00
dmaengine
doc-guide
driver-api
driver-model
early-userspace
extcon extcon: int3496: Add GPIO ACPI mapping table 2017-03-22 18:29:46 +09:00
fault-injection
fb
features
filesystems statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available 2017-03-02 20:51:15 -05:00
firmware_class
fmc
fpga
frv
gpio
gpu
hid
hwmon
i2c
ia64
ide
iio
infiniband
input
ioctl
isdn
kbuild
kdump
laptops
leds
lightnvm lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target 2017-04-16 10:06:33 -06:00
livepatch
locking
m68k
md
media A few fixes for the docs tree, including one for a 4.11 build regression. 2017-03-04 11:32:18 -08:00
memory-devices
metag
mic
mips
misc-devices
mmc
mn10300
mtd
namespaces
netlabel
networking Make IP 'forwarding' doc more precise 2017-03-12 23:28:43 -07:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm
nvmem
parisc
pcmcia
perf
phy
platform
power More power management updates for v4.11-rc1 2017-03-02 17:33:52 -08:00
powerpc
pps
prctl
process
pti
ptp
rapidio
s390 Documentation: Update path to sysrq.txt 2017-03-03 15:48:38 -07:00
scheduler
scsi scripts/spelling.txt: add "varible" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
security KEYS: Differentiate uses of rcu_dereference_key() and user_key_payload() 2017-03-02 10:09:00 +11:00
serial
sh
sound scripts/spelling.txt: add "followings" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
sparc
sphinx
sphinx-static
spi
sysctl A few fixes for the docs tree, including one for a 4.11 build regression. 2017-03-04 11:32:18 -08:00
target
thermal
timers
trace perf/core: Rename CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS 2017-03-01 10:26:39 +01:00
translations doc/ko_KR/memory-barriers: Update control-dependencies section 2017-03-03 15:54:55 -07:00
usb
virtual KVM: Documentation: document MCE ioctls 2017-03-20 16:25:06 +01:00
vm userfaultfd: non-cooperative: rollback userfaultfd_exit 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
w1
watchdog
wimax
x86 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-28 11:46:00 -08:00
xtensa
.gitignore
00-INDEX
Changes
CodingStyle
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
DMA-API.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
DMA-attributes.txt
IPMI.txt
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt
IRQ.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
Makefile
Makefile.sphinx
SAK.txt
SM501.txt
SubmittingPatches
bcache.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
cachetlb.txt
cgroup-v2.txt cgroup: Fix indenting in PID controller documentation 2017-03-06 14:46:27 -05:00
circular-buffers.txt
clk.txt
conf.py Documentation/sphinx: fix primary_domain configuration 2017-03-03 16:12:30 -07:00
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
digsig.txt
docutils.conf
dontdiff
efi-stub.txt
eisa.txt
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcc-plugins.txt gcc-plugins: update architecture list in documentation 2017-03-21 22:20:05 +11:00
highuid.txt
hw_random.txt
hwspinlock.txt
index.rst
intel_txt.txt
io-mapping.txt
io_ordering.txt
iostats.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isa.txt
isapnp.txt
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
kobject.txt
kprobes.txt
kref.txt
kselftest.txt scripts/spelling.txt: add "an user" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
ldm.txt
lockup-watchdogs.txt
logo.gif
logo.txt
lzo.txt
mailbox.txt
memory-barriers.txt
memory-hotplug.txt scripts/spelling.txt: add "followings" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
men-chameleon-bus.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
ntb.txt
numastat.txt
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt
pi-futex.txt
pinctrl.txt
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt
pwm.txt
rbtree.txt
remoteproc.txt
rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt
rtc.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
siphash.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt
static-keys.txt
svga.txt
sync_file.txt
this_cpu_ops.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unshare.txt
vfio-mediated-device.txt
vfio.txt
video-output.txt
xillybus.txt
xz.txt
zorro.txt