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2010-03-01cfq: remove 8 bytes of padding from cfq_rb_root on 64 bit buildsRichard Kennedy
Reorder cfq_rb_root to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds. Consequently removing 56 bytes from cfq_group and 64 bytes from cfq_data. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-01cfq-iosched: quantum check tweakShaohua Li
Currently a queue can only dispatch up to 4 requests if there are other queues. This isn't optimal, device can handle more requests, for example, AHCI can handle 31 requests. I can understand the limit is for fairness, but we could do a tweak: if the queue still has a lot of slice left, sounds we could ignore the limit. Test shows this boost my workload (two thread randread of a SSD) from 78m/s to 100m/s. Thanks for suggestions from Corrado and Vivek for the patch. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-28cfq-iosched: requests "in flight" vs "in driver" clarificationCorrado Zoccolo
Counters for requests "in flight" and "in driver" are used asymmetrically in cfq_may_dispatch, and have slightly different meaning. We split the rq_in_flight counter (was sync_flight) to count both sync and async requests, in order to use this one, which is more accurate in some corner cases. The rq_in_driver counter is coalesced, since individual sync/async counts are not used any more. Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-28cfq-iosched: rethink seeky detection for SSDsCorrado Zoccolo
CFQ currently applies the same logic of detecting seeky queues and grouping them together for rotational disks as well as SSDs. For SSDs, the time to complete a request doesn't depend on the request location, but only on the size. This patch therefore changes the criterion to group queues by request size in case of SSDs, in order to achieve better fairness. Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-28cfq-iosched: rework seeky detectionCorrado Zoccolo
Current seeky detection is based on average seek lenght. This is suboptimal, since the average will not distinguish between: * a process doing medium sized seeks * a process doing some sequential requests interleaved with larger seeks and even a medium seek can take lot of time, if the requested sector happens to be behind the disk head in the rotation (50% probability). Therefore, we change the seeky queue detection to work as follows: * each request can be classified as sequential if it is very close to the current head position, i.e. it is likely in the disk cache (disks usually read more data than requested, and put it in cache for subsequent reads). Otherwise, the request is classified as seeky. * an history window of the last 32 requests is kept, storing the classification result. * A queue is marked as seeky if more than 1/8 of the last 32 requests were seeky. This patch fixes a regression reported by Yanmin, on mmap 64k random reads. Reported-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26cfq: Remove useless css reference getGui Jianfeng
There's no need to take css reference here, for the caller has already called rcu_read_lock() to prevent cgroup from being removed. Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-22cfq: reorder cfq_queue removing padding on 64bitRichard Kennedy
This removes 8 bytes of padding from struct cfq_queue on 64 bit builds, shrinking it's size to 256 bytes, so fitting into 1 fewer cachelines and allowing 1 more object/slab in it's kmem_cache. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> ---- patch against 2.6.33-rc8 tested on x86_64 AMDX2 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-05cfq-iosched: split seeky coop queues after one sliceShaohua Li
Currently we split seeky coop queues after 1s, which is too big. Below patch marks seeky coop queue split_coop flag after one slice. After that, if new requests come in, the queues will be splitted. Patch is suggested by Corrado. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-02cfq-iosched: Do not idle on async queuesVivek Goyal
Few weeks back, Shaohua Li had posted similar patch. I am reposting it with more test results. This patch does two things. - Do not idle on async queues. - It also changes the write queue depth CFQ drives (cfq_may_dispatch()). Currently, we seem to driving queue depth of 1 always for WRITES. This is true even if there is only one write queue in the system and all the logic of infinite queue depth in case of single busy queue as well as slowly increasing queue depth based on last delayed sync request does not seem to be kicking in at all. This patch will allow deeper WRITE queue depths (subjected to the other WRITE queue depth contstraints like cfq_quantum and last delayed sync request). Shaohua Li had reported getting more out of his SSD. For me, I have got one Lun exported from an HP EVA and when pure buffered writes are on, I can get more out of the system. Following are test results of pure buffered writes (with end_fsync=1) with vanilla and patched kernel. These results are average of 3 sets of run with increasing number of threads. AVERAGE[bufwfs][vanilla] ------- job Set NR ReadBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) WriteBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) --- --- -- ------------ ----------- ------------- ----------- bufwfs 3 1 0 0 95349 474141 bufwfs 3 2 0 0 100282 806926 bufwfs 3 4 0 0 109989 2.7301e+06 bufwfs 3 8 0 0 116642 3762231 bufwfs 3 16 0 0 118230 6902970 AVERAGE[bufwfs] [patched kernel] ------- bufwfs 3 1 0 0 270722 404352 bufwfs 3 2 0 0 206770 1.06552e+06 bufwfs 3 4 0 0 195277 1.62283e+06 bufwfs 3 8 0 0 260960 2.62979e+06 bufwfs 3 16 0 0 299260 1.70731e+06 I also ran buffered writes along with some sequential reads and some buffered reads going on in the system on a SATA disk because the potential risk could be that we should not be driving queue depth higher in presence of sync IO going to keep the max clat low. With some random and sequential reads going on in the system on one SATA disk I did not see any significant increase in max clat. So it looks like other WRITE queue depth control logic is doing its job. Here are the results. AVERAGE[brr, bsr, bufw together] [vanilla] ------- job Set NR ReadBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) WriteBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) --- --- -- ------------ ----------- ------------- ----------- brr 3 1 850 546345 0 0 bsr 3 1 14650 729543 0 0 bufw 3 1 0 0 23908 8274517 brr 3 2 981.333 579395 0 0 bsr 3 2 14149.7 1175689 0 0 bufw 3 2 0 0 21921 1.28108e+07 brr 3 4 898.333 1.75527e+06 0 0 bsr 3 4 12230.7 1.40072e+06 0 0 bufw 3 4 0 0 19722.3 2.4901e+07 brr 3 8 900 3160594 0 0 bsr 3 8 9282.33 1.91314e+06 0 0 bufw 3 8 0 0 18789.3 23890622 AVERAGE[brr, bsr, bufw mixed] [patched kernel] ------- job Set NR ReadBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) WriteBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) --- --- -- ------------ ----------- ------------- ----------- brr 3 1 837 417973 0 0 bsr 3 1 14357.7 591275 0 0 bufw 3 1 0 0 24869.7 8910662 brr 3 2 1038.33 543434 0 0 bsr 3 2 13351.3 1205858 0 0 bufw 3 2 0 0 18626.3 13280370 brr 3 4 913 1.86861e+06 0 0 bsr 3 4 12652.3 1430974 0 0 bufw 3 4 0 0 15343.3 2.81305e+07 brr 3 8 890 2.92695e+06 0 0 bsr 3 8 9635.33 1.90244e+06 0 0 bufw 3 8 0 0 17200.3 24424392 So looks like it might make sense to include this patch. Thanks Vivek Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-11cfq-iosched: Respect ioprio_class when preemptingDivyesh Shah
In cfq_should_preempt(), we currently allow some cases where a non-RT request can preempt an ongoing RT cfqq timeslice. This should not happen. Examples include: o A sync_noidle wl type non-RT request pre-empting a sync_noidle wl type cfqq on which we are idling. o Once we have per-cgroup async queues, a non-RT sync request pre-empting a RT async cfqq. Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-28cfq-iosched: don't regard requests with long distance as closeShaohua Li
seek_mean could be very big sometimes, using it as close criteria is meaningless as this doen't improve any performance. So if it's big, let's fallback to default value. Reviewed-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-18cfq-iosched: Remove prio_change logic for workload selectionVivek Goyal
o CFQ now internally divides cfq queues in therr workload categories. sync-idle, sync-noidle and async. Which workload to run depends primarily on rb_key offset across three service trees. Which is a combination of mulitiple things including what time queue got queued on the service tree. There is one exception though. That is if we switched the prio class, say we served some RT tasks and again started serving BE class, then with-in BE class we always started with sync-noidle workload irrespective of rb_key offset in service trees. This can provide better latencies for sync-noidle workload in the presence of RT tasks. o This patch gets rid of that exception and which workload to run with-in class always depends on lowest rb_key across service trees. The reason being that now we have multiple BE class groups and if we always switch to sync-noidle workload with-in group, we can potentially starve a sync-idle workload with-in group. Same is true for async workload which will be in root group. Also the workload-switching with-in group will become very unpredictable as it now depends whether some RT workload was running in the system or not. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-18cfq-iosched: Get rid of nr_groupsVivek Goyal
o Currently code does not seem to be using cfqd->nr_groups. Get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-18cfq-iosched: Remove the check for same cfq group from allow_mergeVivek Goyal
o allow_merge() already checks if submitting task is pointing to same cfqq as rq has been queued in. If everything is fine, we should not be having a task in one cgroup and having a pointer to cfqq in other cgroup. Well I guess in some situations it can happen and that is, when a random IO queue has been moved into root cgroup for group_isolation=0. In this case, tasks's cgroup/group is different from where actually cfqq is, but this is intentional and in this case merging should be allowed. The second situation is where due to close cooperator patches, multiple processes can be sharing a cfqq. If everything implemented right, we should not end up in a situation where tasks from different processes in different groups are sharing the same cfqq as we allow merging of cooperating queues only if they are in same group. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-15cfq: set workload as expired if it doesn't have any slice leftGui Jianfeng
When a group is resumed, if it doesn't have workload slice left, we should set workload_expires as expired. Otherwise, we might start from where we left in previous group by error. Thanks the idea from Corrado. Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-10Fix a CFQ crash in "for-2.6.33" branch of block treeVivek Goyal
I think my previous patch introduced a bug which can lead to CFQ hitting BUG_ON(). The offending commit in for-2.6.33 branch is. commit 7667aa0630407bc07dc38dcc79d29cc0a65553c1 Author: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Date: Tue Dec 8 17:52:58 2009 -0500 cfq-iosched: Take care of corner cases of group losing share due to deletion While doing some stress testing on my box, I enountered following. login: [ 3165.148841] BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x10000100 [ 3165.149821] Modules linked in: cfq_iosched dm_multipath qla2xxx igb scsi_transport_fc dm_snapshot [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] [ 3165.149821] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-block-for-33-merged-new #3 [ 3165.149821] Call Trace: [ 3165.149821] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8103fab8>] __schedule_bug+0x5c/0x60 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff8103afd7>] ? __wake_up+0x44/0x4d [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff8153a979>] schedule+0xe3/0x7bc [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff8103a796>] ? cpumask_next+0x1d/0x1f [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffffa000b21d>] ? cfq_dispatch_requests+0x6ba/0x93e [cfq_iosched] [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff810422d8>] __cond_resched+0x2a/0x35 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffffa000b21d>] ? cfq_dispatch_requests+0x6ba/0x93e [cfq_iosched] [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff8153b1ee>] _cond_resched+0x2c/0x37 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff8100e2db>] is_valid_bugaddr+0x16/0x2f [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff811e4161>] report_bug+0x18/0xac [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff8100f1fc>] die+0x39/0x63 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff8153cde1>] do_trap+0x11a/0x129 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff8100d470>] do_invalid_op+0x96/0x9f [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffffa000b21d>] ? cfq_dispatch_requests+0x6ba/0x93e [cfq_iosched] [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff81034b4d>] ? enqueue_task+0x5c/0x67 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff8103ae83>] ? task_rq_unlock+0x11/0x13 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff81041aae>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x292/0x2a4 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff8100c935>] invalid_op+0x15/0x20 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffffa000b21d>] ? cfq_dispatch_requests+0x6ba/0x93e [cfq_iosched] [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff810df5a6>] ? virt_to_head_page+0xe/0x2f [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff811d8c2a>] blk_peek_request+0x191/0x1a7 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff811e5b8d>] ? kobject_get+0x1a/0x21 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff812c8d4c>] scsi_request_fn+0x82/0x3df [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff8110b2de>] ? bio_fs_destructor+0x15/0x17 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff810df5a6>] ? virt_to_head_page+0xe/0x2f [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff811d931f>] __blk_run_queue+0x42/0x71 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff811d9403>] blk_run_queue+0x26/0x3a [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff812c8761>] scsi_run_queue+0x2de/0x375 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff812b60ac>] ? put_device+0x17/0x19 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff812c92d7>] scsi_next_command+0x3b/0x4b [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff812c9b9f>] scsi_io_completion+0x1c9/0x3f5 [ 3165.149821] [<ffffffff812c3c36>] scsi_finish_command+0xb5/0xbe I think I have hit following BUG_ON() in cfq_dispatch_request(). BUG_ON(RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&cfqq->sort_list)); Please find attached the patch to fix it. I have done some stress testing with it and have not seen it happening again. o We should wait on a queue even after slice expiry only if it is empty. If queue is not empty then continue to expire it. o If we decide to keep the queue then make cfqq=NULL. Otherwise select_queue() will return a valid cfqq and cfq_dispatch_request() can hit following BUG_ON(). BUG_ON(RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&cfqq->sort_list)) Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-10cfq: Remove wait_request flag when idle time is being deletedGui Jianfeng
Remove wait_request flag when idle time is being deleted, otherwise it'll hit this path every time when a request is enqueued. Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-09cfq-iosched: commenting non-obvious initializationCorrado Zoccolo
Added a comment to explain the initialization of last_delayed_sync. Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-09cfq-iosched: Take care of corner cases of group losing share due to deletionVivek Goyal
If there is a sequential reader running in a group, we wait for next request to come in that group after slice expiry and once new request is in, we expire the queue. Otherwise we delete the group from service tree and group looses its fair share. So far I was marking a queue as wait_busy if it had consumed its slice and it was last queue in the group. But this condition did not cover following two cases. 1.If a request completed and slice has not expired yet. Next request comes in and is dispatched to disk. Now select_queue() hits and slice has expired. This group will be deleted. Because request is still in the disk, this queue will never get a chance to wait_busy. 2.If request completed and slice has not expired yet. Before next request comes in (delay due to think time), select_queue() hits and expires the queue hence group. This queue never got a chance to wait busy. Gui was hitting the boundary condition 1 and not getting fairness numbers proportional to weight. This patch puts the checks for above two conditions and improves the fairness numbers for sequential workload on rotational media. Check in select_queue() takes care of case 1 and additional check in should_wait_busy() takes care of case 2. Reported-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-09cfq-iosched: Get rid of cfqq wait_busy_done flagVivek Goyal
o Get rid of wait_busy_done flag. This flag only tells we were doing wait busy on a queue and that queue got request so expire it. That information can easily be obtained by (cfq_cfqq_wait_busy() && queue_is_not_empty). So remove this flag and keep code simple. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-09cfq: Optimization for close cooperating queue searchingGui Jianfeng
It doesn't make any sense to try to find out a close cooperating queue if current cfqq is the only one in the group. Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-09cfq-iosched: reduce write depth only if sync was delayedCorrado Zoccolo
The introduction of ramp-up formula for async queue depths has slowed down dirty page reclaim, by reducing async write performance. This patch makes sure the formula kicks in only when sync request was recently delayed. Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-07cfq-iosched: Do not access cfqq after freeing itVivek Goyal
Fix a crash during boot reported by Jeff Moyer. Fix the issue of accessing cfqq after freeing it. Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>
2009-12-06cfq-iosched: use call_rcu() instead of doing grace period stall on queue exitJens Axboe
After the merge of the IO controller patches, booting on my megaraid box ran much slower. Vivek Goyal traced it down to megaraid discovery creating tons of devices, each suffering a grace period when they later kill that queue (if no device is found). So lets use call_rcu() to batch these deferred frees, instead of taking the grace period hit for each one. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04blkio: Implement dynamic io controlling policy registrationVivek Goyal
o One of the goals of block IO controller is that it should be able to support mulitple io control policies, some of which be operational at higher level in storage hierarchy. o To begin with, we had one io controlling policy implemented by CFQ, and I hard coded the CFQ functions called by blkio. This created issues when CFQ is compiled as module. o This patch implements a basic dynamic io controlling policy registration functionality in blkio. This is similar to elevator functionality where ioschedulers register the functions dynamically. o Now in future, when more IO controlling policies are implemented, these can dynakically register with block IO controller. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04blkio: Export some symbols from blkio as its user CFQ can be a moduleVivek Goyal
o blkio controller is inside the kernel and cfq makes use of interfaces exported by blkio. CFQ can be a module too, hence export symbols used by CFQ. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04cfq-iosched: make nonrot check logic consistentShaohua Li
cfq_arm_slice_timer() has logic to disable idle window for SSD device. The same thing should be done at cfq_select_queue() too, otherwise we will still see idle window. This makes the nonrot check logic consistent in cfq. Tests in a intel SSD with low_latency knob close, below patch can triple disk thoughput for muti-thread sequential read. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04cfq-iosched: move IO controller declerations to a header fileJens Axboe
They should not be declared inside some other file that's not related to CFQ. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Wait on sync-noidle queue even if rq_noidle = 1Vivek Goyal
o rq_noidle() is supposed to tell cfq that do not expect a request after this one, hence don't idle. But this does not seem to work very well. For example for direct random readers, rq_noidle = 1 but there is next request coming after this. Not idling, leads to a group not getting its share even if group_isolation=1. o The right solution for this issue is to scan the higher layers and set right flag (WRITE_SYNC or WRITE_ODIRECT). For the time being, this single line fix helps. This should not have any significant impact when we are not using cgroups. I will later figure out IO paths in higher layer and fix it. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Implement group_isolation tunableVivek Goyal
o If a group is running only a random reader, then it will not have enough traffic to keep disk busy and we will reduce overall throughput. This should result in better latencies for random reader though. If we don't idle on random reader service tree, then this random reader will experience large latencies if there are other groups present in system with sequential readers running in these. o One solution suggested by corrado is that by default keep the random readers or sync-noidle workload in root group so that during one dispatch round we idle only once on sync-noidle tree. This means that all the sync-idle workload queues will be in their respective group and we will see service differentiation in those but not on sync-noidle workload. o Provide a tunable group_isolation. If set, this will make sure that even sync-noidle queues go in their respective group and we wait on these. This provides stronger isolation between groups but at the expense of throughput if group does not have enough traffic to keep the disk busy. o By default group_isolation = 0 Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Determine async workload length based on total number of queuesVivek Goyal
o Async queues are not per group. Instead these are system wide and maintained in root group. Hence their workload slice length should be calculated based on total number of queues in the system and not just queues in the root group. o As root group's default weight is 1000, make sure to charge async queue more in terms of vtime so that it does not get more time on disk because root group has higher weight. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Wait for cfq queue to get backlogged if group is emptyVivek Goyal
o If a queue consumes its slice and then gets deleted from service tree, its associated group will also get deleted from service tree if this was the only queue in the group. That will make group loose its share. o For the queues on which we have idling on and if these have used their slice, wait a bit for these queues to get backlogged again and then expire these queues so that group does not loose its share. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Propagate cgroup weight updation to cfq groupsVivek Goyal
o Propagate blkio cgroup weight updation to associated cfq groups. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Drop the reference to queue once the task changes cgroupVivek Goyal
o If a task changes cgroup, drop reference to the cfqq associated with io context and set cfqq pointer stored in ioc to NULL so that upon next request arrival we will allocate a new queue in new group. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Provide some isolation between groupsVivek Goyal
o Do not allow following three operations across groups for isolation. - selection of co-operating queues - preemtpions across groups - request merging across groups. o Async queues are currently global and not per group. Allow preemption of an async queue if a sync queue in other group gets backlogged. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Export disk time and sectors used by a group to user spaceVivek Goyal
o Export disk time and sector used by a group to user space through cgroup interface. o Also export a "dequeue" interface to cgroup which keeps track of how many a times a group was deleted from service tree. Helps in debugging. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Some debugging aids for CFQVivek Goyal
o Some debugging aids for CFQ. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Take care of cgroup deletion and cfq group reference countingVivek Goyal
o One can choose to change elevator or delete a cgroup. Implement group reference counting so that both elevator exit and cgroup deletion can take place gracefully. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nauman Rafique <nauman@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Dynamic cfq group creation based on cgroup tasks belongs toVivek Goyal
o Determine the cgroup IO submitting task belongs to and create the cfq group if it does not exist already. o Also link cfqq and associated cfq group. o Currently all async IO is mapped to root group. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Group time used accounting and workload context save restoreVivek Goyal
o This patch introduces the functionality to do the accounting of group time when a queue expires. This time used decides which is the group to go next. o Also introduce the functionlity to save and restore the workload type context with-in group. It might happen that once we expire the cfq queue and group, a different group will schedule in and we will lose the context of the workload type. Hence save and restore it upon queue expiry. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Implement per cfq group latency target and busy queue avgVivek Goyal
o So far we had 300ms soft target latency system wide. Now with the introduction of cfq groups, divide that latency by number of groups so that one can come up with group target latency which will be helpful in determining the workload slice with-in group and also the dynamic slice length of the cfq queue. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Introduce per cfq group weights and vdisktime calculationsVivek Goyal
o Bring in the per cfq group weight and how vdisktime is calculated for the group. Also bring in the functionality of updating the min_vdisktime of the group service tree. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Introduce the root service tree for cfq groupsVivek Goyal
o So far we just had one cfq_group in cfq_data. To create space for more than one cfq_group, we need to have a service tree of groups where all the groups can be queued if they have active cfq queues backlogged in these. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Keep queue on service tree until we expire itVivek Goyal
o Currently cfqq deletes a queue from service tree if it is empty (even if we might idle on the queue). This patch keeps the queue on service tree hence associated group remains on the service tree until we decide that we are not going to idle on the queue and expire it. o This just helps in time accounting for queue/group and in implementation of rest of the patches. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Implement macro to traverse each service tree in groupVivek Goyal
o Implement a macro to traverse each service tree in the group. This avoids usage of double for loop and special condition for idle tree 4 times. o Macro is little twisted because of special handling of idle class service tree. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Introduce the notion of cfq groupsVivek Goyal
o This patch introduce the notion of cfq groups. Soon we will can have multiple groups of different weights in the system. o Various service trees (prioclass and workload type trees), will become per cfq group. So hierarchy looks as follows. cfq_groups | workload type | cfq queue o When an scheduling decision has to be taken, first we select the cfq group then workload with-in the group and then cfq queue with-in the workload type. o This patch just makes various workload service tree per cfq group and introduce the function to be able to choose a group for scheduling. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03blkio: Set must_dispatch only if we decided to not dispatch the requestVivek Goyal
o must_dispatch flag should be set only if we decided not to run the queue and dispatch the request. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03cfq-iosched: no dispatch limit for single queueShaohua Li
Since commit 2f5cb7381b737e24c8046fd4aeab571fb71315f5, each queue can send up to 4 * 4 requests if only one queue exists. I wonder why we have such limit. Device supports tag can send more requests. For example, AHCI can send 31 requests. Test (direct aio randread) shows the limits reduce about 4% disk thoughput. On the other hand, since we send one request one time, if other queue pop when current is sending more than cfq_quantum requests, current queue will stop send requests soon after one request, so sounds there is no big latency. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-30Revert "cfq: Make use of service count to estimate the rb_key offset"Jens Axboe
This reverts commit 3586e917f2c7df769d173c4ec99554cb40a911e5. Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> correctly points out, that we need consistency of rb_key offset across groups. This means we cannot properly use the per-service_tree service count. Revert this change. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-26cfq-iosched: fix corner cases in idling logicCorrado Zoccolo
Idling logic was disabled in some corner cases, leading to unfair share for noidle queues. * the idle timer was not armed if there were other requests in the driver. unfortunately, those requests could come from other workloads, or queues for which we don't enable idling. So we will check only pending requests from the active queue * rq_noidle check on no-idle queue could disable the end of tree idle if the last completed request was rq_noidle. Now, we will disable that idle only if all the queues served in the no-idle tree had rq_noidle requests. Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>