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2009-12-16block: temporarily disable discard granularityJens Axboe
Commit 86b37281411cf1e9bc0a6b5406c45edb7bd9ea5d adds a check for misaligned stacking offsets, but it's buggy since the defaults are 0. Hence all dm devices that pass in a non-zero starting offset will be marked as misaligned amd dm will complain. A real fix is coming, in the mean time disable the discard granularity check so that users don't worry about dm reporting about misaligned devices. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-15Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: cfq: set workload as expired if it doesn't have any slice left Fix a CFQ crash in "for-2.6.33" branch of block tree cfq: Remove wait_request flag when idle time is being deleted cfq-iosched: commenting non-obvious initialization cfq-iosched: Take care of corner cases of group losing share due to deletion cfq-iosched: Get rid of cfqq wait_busy_done flag cfq: Optimization for close cooperating queue searching block,xd: Delay allocation of DMA buffers until device is known drbd: Following the hmac change to SHASH (see linux commit 8bd1209cfff) cfq-iosched: reduce write depth only if sync was delayed
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>
2009-12-09Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (42 commits) tree-wide: fix misspelling of "definition" in comments reiserfs: fix misspelling of "journaled" doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt. inotify: remove superfluous return code check hdlc: spelling fix in find_pvc() comment doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteism mtd: Fix comment in Kconfig doc: Fix IRQ chip docs tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place drivers/ata/libata-sff.c: comment spelling fixes fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt sysctl: add missing comments fs/debugfs/inode.c: fix comment typos sgivwfb: Make use of ARRAY_SIZE. sky2: fix sky2_link_down copy/paste comment error tree-wide: fix typos "couter" -> "counter" tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset" fix kerneldoc for set_irq_msi() spidev: fix double "of of" in comment comment typo fix: sybsystem -> subsystem ...
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)>
2009-12-07block: include linux/err.h to use ERR_PTRStephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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: Allow CFQ group IO scheduling even when CFQ is a moduleVivek Goyal
o Now issues of blkio controller and CFQ in module mode should be fixed. Enable the cfq group scheduling support in module mode. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> 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>
2009-12-04block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IOLouis Rilling
With CLONE_IO, parent's io_context->nr_tasks is incremented, but never decremented whenever copy_process() fails afterwards, which prevents exit_io_context() from calling IO schedulers exit functions. Give a task_struct to exit_io_context(), and call exit_io_context() instead of put_io_context() in copy_process() cleanup path. Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04block: Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IOLouis Rilling
With CLONE_IO, copy_io() increments both ioc->refcount and ioc->nr_tasks. However exit_io_context() only decrements ioc->refcount if ioc->nr_tasks reaches 0. Always call put_io_context() in exit_io_context(). Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the placeAndré Goddard Rosa
That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping" , "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature" , "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore" , "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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>
2009-12-04io controller: quick fix for blk-cgroup and modular CFQJens Axboe
It's currently not an allowed configuration, so express that in Kconfig. 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>
2009-12-03cfq-iosched: fix compile problem with !CONFIG_CGROUPJens Axboe
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 blkio controller cgroup interfaceVivek Goyal
o This is basic implementation of blkio controller cgroup interface. This is the common interface visible to user space and should be used by different IO control policies as we implement those. 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>
2009-12-03block: Allow devices to indicate whether discarded blocks are zeroedMartin K. Petersen
The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device prior to putting metadata down. However, not all devices return zeroed blocks after a discard. Some drives return stale data, potentially containing old superblocks. It is therefore important to know whether discarded blocks are properly zeroed. Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether zeroes are returned after a discard operation. Implement a block level interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and queried via a new block device ioctl. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.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>
2009-11-26cfq-iosched: idling on deep seeky sync queuesCorrado Zoccolo
Seeky sync queues with large depth can gain unfairly big share of disk time, at the expense of other seeky queues. This patch ensures that idling will be enabled for queues with I/O depth at least 4, and small think time. The decision to enable idling is sticky, until an idle window times out without seeing a new request. The reasoning behind the decision is that, if an application is using large I/O depth, it is already optimized to make full utilization of the hardware, and therefore we reserve a slice of exclusive use for it. Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-26cfq-iosched: fix no-idle preemption logicCorrado Zoccolo
An incoming no-idle queue should preempt the active no-idle queue only if the active queue is idling due to service tree empty. Previous code was buggy in two ways: * it relied on service_tree field to be set on the active queue, while it is not set when the code is idling for a new request * it didn't check for the service tree empty condition, so could lead to LIFO behaviour if multiple queues with depth > 1 were preempting each other on an non-NCQ device. 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>