I got this:
fio-874 [007] 2157.724514: 8,32 m N cfq874 preempt
fio-874 [007] 2157.724519: 8,32 m N cfq830 slice expired t=1
fio-874 [007] 2157.724520: 8,32 m N cfq830 sl_used=1 disp=0 charge=1 iops=0 sect=0
fio-874 [007] 2157.724521: 8,32 m N cfq830 set_active wl_prio:0 wl_type:0
fio-874 [007] 2157.724522: 8,32 m N cfq830 Not idling. st->count:1
cfq830 is an async queue, and preempted by a sync queue cfq874. But since we
have cfqg->saved_workload_slice mechanism, the preempt is a nop.
Looks currently our preempt is totally broken if the two queues are not from
the same workload type.
Below patch fixes it. This will might make async queue starvation, but it's
what our old code does before cgroup is added.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
block: trace event block fix unassigned field
block: add internal hd part table references
block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
kref: add kref_test_and_get
bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
sd: implement sd_check_events()
sr: implement sr_check_events()
...
cfq_group->ref is used with queue_lock hold, the only exception is
cfq_set_request, which looks like a bug to me, so ref doesn't need
to be an atomic and atomic operation is slower.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
cfq_queue->ref is used with queue_lock hold, so ref doesn't need to be an atomic
and atomic operation is slower.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When cfq_choose_cfqg() is called in select_queue(), there must be at least one
backlogged CFQ queue waiting for dispatching, hence there must be at least one
backlogged CFQ group on service tree. So we never call choose_service_tree()
with cfqg == NULL.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If priority is changed, continuing to check workload_expires and service tree
count of the previous workload does not make sense. We should always choose
the workload with lowest key of new priority in such case.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
It's able to check whether a CFQ group on a service tree by
checking "cfqg->rb_node". There's no need to maintain an
extra flag here.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When a cfq group is running, it won't be dequeued from service tree, so
there's no need to store the active one in st->active. Just gid rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Vivek suggests we don't need schedule a dispatch when an idle queue
becomes nonidle. And he is right, cfq_should_preempt already covers
the logic.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If a deep seek queue slowly deliver requests but disk is much faster, idle
for the queue just wastes disk throughput. If the queue delevers all requests
before half its slice is used, the patch disable idle for it.
In my test, application delivers 32 requests one time, the disk can accept
128 requests at maxium and disk is fast. without the patch, the throughput
is just around 30m/s, while with it, the speed is about 80m/s. The disk is
a SSD, but is detected as a rotational disk. I can configure it as SSD, but
I thought the deep seek queue logic should be fixed too, for example,
considering a fast raid.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
A queue is idle at cfq_dispatch_requests(), but it gets noidle later. Unless
other task explictly does unplug or all requests are drained, we will not
deliever requests to the disk even cfq_arm_slice_timer doesn't make the
queue idle. For example, cfq_should_idle() returns true because of
service_tree->count == 1, and then other queues are added. Note, I didn't
see obvious performance impacts so far with the patch, but just thought
this could be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (39 commits)
cfq-iosched: Fix a gcc 4.5 warning and put some comments
block: Turn bvec_k{un,}map_irq() into static inline functions
block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
block: Make the integrity mapped property a bio flag
block: Fix double free in blk_integrity_unregister
block: Ensure physical block size is unsigned int
blkio-throttle: Fix possible multiplication overflow in iops calculations
blkio-throttle: limit max iops value to UINT_MAX
blkio-throttle: There is no need to convert jiffies to milli seconds
blkio-throttle: Fix link failure failure on i386
blkio: Recalculate the throttled bio dispatch time upon throttle limit change
blkio: Add root group to td->tg_list
blkio: deletion of a cgroup was causes oops
blkio: Do not export throttle files if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=n
block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory
block: revert bad fix for memory hotplug causing bounces
Fix compile error in blk-exec.c for !CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK
block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory
block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O
cfq: improve fsync performance for small files
...
Fix up trivial conflicts due to __rcu sparse annotation in include/linux/genhd.h
- Andi encountedred following warning with gcc 4.5
linux/block/cfq-iosched.c: In function ‘cfq_dispatch_requests’:
linux/block/cfq-iosched.c:2156:3: warning: array subscript is above array
bounds
- Warning happens due to following code.
slice = group_slice * count /
max_t(unsigned, cfqg->busy_queues_avg[cfqd->serving_prio],
cfq_group_busy_queues_wl(cfqd->serving_prio, cfqd, cfqg));
gcc is complaining about cfqg->busy_queues_avg[] being indexed by CFQ
prio classes (RT, BE and IDLE) while the array size is only 2.
- At run time, we never access cfqg->busy_queues_avg[IDLE] and return from
function before this code hits.
- To fix warning increase the array size though it will remain unused. This
patch also puts some comments to clarify some of the confusions.
- I have taken Jens's patch and modified it a bit.
- Compile tested with gcc 4.4 and boot tested. I don't have gcc 4.5
running, Andi can you please test it with gcc 4.5 to make sure it
worked.
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Currently any cgroup throttle limit changes are processed asynchronousy and
the change does not take affect till a new bio is dispatched from same group.
o It might happen that a user sets a redicuously low limit on throttling.
Say 1 bytes per second on reads. In such cases simple operations like mount
a disk can wait for a very long time.
o Once bio is throttled, there is no easy way to come out of that wait even if
user increases the read limit later.
o This patch fixes it. Now if a user changes the cgroup limits, we recalculate
the bio dispatch time according to new limits.
o Can't take queueu lock under blkcg_lock, hence after the change I wake
up the dispatch thread again which recalculates the time. So there are some
variables being synchronized across two threads without lock and I had to
make use of barriers. Hoping I have used barriers correctly. Any review of
memory barrier code especially will help.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Mike reported a kernel crash when a usb key hotplug is performed while all
kernel thrads are not in a root cgroup and are running in one of the child
cgroups of blkio controller.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000002c
IP: [<c11c7b08>] cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/host3/scsi_host/host3/uevent
[..]
Pid: 30039, comm: scsi_scan_3 Not tainted 2.6.35.2-fg.roam #1 Volvi2 /Aspire 4315
EIP: 0060:[<c11c7b08>] EFLAGS: 00010086 CPU: 0
EIP is at cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412
EAX: f705f9c0 EBX: e977abac ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
ESI: f00da400 EDI: f00da4ec EBP: e977a800 ESP: dff8fd00
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process scsi_scan_3 (pid: 30039, ti=dff8e000 task=f6b6c9a0 task.ti=dff8e000)
Stack:
00000000 00000000 00000001 01ff0000 f00da508 00000000 f00da524 f00da540
<0> e7994940 dd631750 f705f9c0 e977a820 e977ac44 f00da4d0 00000001 f6b6c9a0
<0> 00000010 00008010 0000000b 00000000 00000001 e977a800 dd76fac0 00000246
Call Trace:
[<c11c7f10>] ? cfq_set_request+0x228/0x34c
[<c11c7ce8>] ? cfq_set_request+0x0/0x34c
[<c11bb3b9>] ? elv_set_request+0xf/0x1c
[<c11bdd51>] ? get_request+0x1ad/0x22f
[<c11bddf2>] ? get_request_wait+0x1f/0x11a
[<c11d013b>] ? kvasprintf+0x33/0x3b
[<c127b537>] ? scsi_execute+0x1d/0x103
[<c127b675>] ? scsi_execute_req+0x58/0x83
[<c127c391>] ? scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x188/0x7c2
[<c12718c6>] ? attribute_container_add_device+0x15/0xfa
[<c11c95d1>] ? kobject_get+0xf/0x13
[<c126d1db>] ? get_device+0x10/0x14
[<c127be93>] ? scsi_alloc_target+0x217/0x24d
[<c127cbd8>] ? __scsi_scan_target+0x95/0x480
[<c10204eb>] ? dequeue_entity+0x14/0x1fe
[<c1020491>] ? update_curr+0x165/0x1ab
[<c1020491>] ? update_curr+0x165/0x1ab
[<c127d00d>] ? scsi_scan_channel+0x4a/0x76
[<c127d0b0>] ? scsi_scan_host_selected+0x77/0xad
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c127d137>] ? do_scsi_scan_host+0x51/0x56
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c127d14a>] ? do_scan_async+0xe/0x11a
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c10354c5>] ? kthread+0x5e/0x63
[<c1035467>] ? kthread+0x0/0x63
[<c1002af6>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
Code: 44 24 1c 54 83 44 24 18 54 83 fa 03 75 94 8b 06 c7 86 64 02 00 00 01 00 00 00 83 e0 03 09 f0 89 06 8b 44 24 28 8b 90 58 01 00 00 <8b> 42 2c 85 c0 75 03 8b 42 08 8d 54 24 48 52 8d 4c 24 50 51 68
EIP: [<c11c7b08>] cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412 SS:ESP 0068:dff8fd00
CR2: 000000000000002c
---[ end trace 9a88306573f69b12 ]---
The problem here is that we don't have bdi->dev information available when
thread does some IO. Hence when dev_name() tries to access bdi->dev, it
crashes.
This problem does not happen if kernel threads are in root group as root
group is statically allocated at device initialization time and we don't
hit this piece of code.
Fix it by delaying the filling of major and minor number information of
device in blk_group. Initially a blk_group is created with 0 as device
information and this information is filled later once some more IO comes
in from same group.
Reported-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Fsync performance for small files achieved by cfq on high-end disks is
lower than what deadline can achieve, due to idling introduced between
the sync write happening in process context and the journal commit.
Moreover, when competing with a sequential reader, a process writing
small files and fsync-ing them is starved.
This patch fixes the two problems by:
- marking journal commits as WRITE_SYNC, so that they get the REQ_NOIDLE
flag set,
- force all queues that have REQ_NOIDLE requests to be put in the noidle
tree.
Having the queue associated to the fsync-ing process and the one associated
to journal commits in the noidle tree allows:
- switching between them without idling,
- fairness vs. competing idling queues, since they will be serviced only
after the noidle tree expires its slice.
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o This patch prepares the base for introducing new IO control policies.
Currently all the code is written knowing there is only one policy
and that is proportional bandwidth. Creating infrastructure for newer
policies to come in.
o Also there were many functions which were generated using macro. It was
very confusing. Got rid of those.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Divyesh had gotten rid of this code in the past. I want to re-introduce it
back as it helps me a lot during debugging.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Implement a new tunable group_idle, which allows idling on the group
instead of a cfq queue. Hence one can set slice_idle = 0 and not idle
on the individual queues but idle on the group. This way on fast storage
we can get fairness between groups at the same time overall throughput
improves.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Implement another CFQ mode where we charge group in terms of number
of requests dispatched instead of measuring the time. Measuring in terms
of time is not possible when we are driving deeper queue depths and there
are requests from multiple cfq queues in the request queue.
o This mode currently gets activated if one sets slice_idle=0 and associated
disk supports NCQ. Again the idea is that on an NCQ disk with idling disabled
most of the queues will dispatch 1 or more requests and then cfq queue
expiry happens and we don't have a way to measure time. So start providing
fairness in terms of IOPS.
o Currently IOPS mode works only with cfq group scheduling. CFQ is following
different scheduling algorithms for queue and group scheduling. These IOPS
stats are used only for group scheduling hence in non-croup mode nothing
should change.
o For CFQ group scheduling one can disable slice idling so that we don't idle
on queue and drive deeper request queue depths (achieving better throughput),
at the same time group idle is enabled so one should get service
differentiation among groups.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Do not idle either on cfq queue or service tree if slice_idle=0. User does
not want any queue or service tree idling. Currently even if slice_idle=0,
we were waiting for request to finish before expiring the queue and that
can lead to lower queue depths.
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver. There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests: BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD. Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.
Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in
struct requests. This allows much easier grepping for different request
types instead of unwinding through macros.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Hi,
A user reported a kernel bug when running a particular program that did
the following:
created 32 threads
- each thread took a mutex, grabbed a global offset, added a buffer size
to that offset, released the lock
- read from the given offset in the file
- created a new thread to do the same
- exited
The result is that cfq's close cooperator logic would trigger, as the
threads were issuing I/O within the mean seek distance of one another.
This workload managed to routinely trigger a use after free bug when
walking the list of merge candidates for a particular cfqq
(cfqq->new_cfqq). The logic used for merging queues looks like this:
static void cfq_setup_merge(struct cfq_queue *cfqq, struct cfq_queue *new_cfqq)
{
int process_refs, new_process_refs;
struct cfq_queue *__cfqq;
/* Avoid a circular list and skip interim queue merges */
while ((__cfqq = new_cfqq->new_cfqq)) {
if (__cfqq == cfqq)
return;
new_cfqq = __cfqq;
}
process_refs = cfqq_process_refs(cfqq);
/*
* If the process for the cfqq has gone away, there is no
* sense in merging the queues.
*/
if (process_refs == 0)
return;
/*
* Merge in the direction of the lesser amount of work.
*/
new_process_refs = cfqq_process_refs(new_cfqq);
if (new_process_refs >= process_refs) {
cfqq->new_cfqq = new_cfqq;
atomic_add(process_refs, &new_cfqq->ref);
} else {
new_cfqq->new_cfqq = cfqq;
atomic_add(new_process_refs, &cfqq->ref);
}
}
When a merge candidate is found, we add the process references for the
queue with less references to the queue with more. The actual merging
of queues happens when a new request is issued for a given cfqq. In the
case of the test program, it only does a single pread call to read in
1MB, so the actual merge never happens.
Normally, this is fine, as when the queue exits, we simply drop the
references we took on the other cfqqs in the merge chain:
/*
* If this queue was scheduled to merge with another queue, be
* sure to drop the reference taken on that queue (and others in
* the merge chain). See cfq_setup_merge and cfq_merge_cfqqs.
*/
__cfqq = cfqq->new_cfqq;
while (__cfqq) {
if (__cfqq == cfqq) {
WARN(1, "cfqq->new_cfqq loop detected\n");
break;
}
next = __cfqq->new_cfqq;
cfq_put_queue(__cfqq);
__cfqq = next;
}
However, there is a hole in this logic. Consider the following (and
keep in mind that each I/O keeps a reference to the cfqq):
q1->new_cfqq = q2 // q2 now has 2 process references
q3->new_cfqq = q2 // q2 now has 3 process references
// the process associated with q2 exits
// q2 now has 2 process references
// queue 1 exits, drops its reference on q2
// q2 now has 1 process reference
// q3 exits, so has 0 process references, and hence drops its references
// to q2, which leaves q2 also with 0 process references
q4 comes along and wants to merge with q3
q3->new_cfqq still points at q2! We follow that link and end up at an
already freed cfqq.
So, the fix is to not follow a merge chain if the top-most queue does
not have a process reference, otherwise any queue in the chain could be
already freed. I also changed the logic to disallow merging with a
queue that does not have any process references. Previously, we did
this check for one of the merge candidates, but not the other. That
doesn't really make sense.
Without the attached patch, my system would BUG within a couple of
seconds of running the reproducer program. With the patch applied, my
system ran the program for over an hour without issues.
This addresses the following bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16217
Thanks a ton to Phil Carns for providing the bug report and an excellent
reproducer.
[ Note for stable: this applies to 2.6.32/33/34 ].
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Phil Carns <carns@mcs.anl.gov>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Use small consequent indexes as radix tree keys instead of sparse cfqd address.
This change will reduce radix tree depth from 11 (6 for 32-bit hosts)
to 1 if host have <=64 disks under cfq control, or to 0 if there only one disk.
So, this patch save 10*560 bytes for each process (5*296 for 32-bit hosts)
For each cfqd allocate cic index from ida.
To unlink dead cic from tree without cfqd access store index into ->key.
(bit 0 -- dead mark, bits 1..30 -- index: ida produce id in range 0..2^31-1)
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Remove ->dead_key field from cfq_io_context to shrink its size to 128 bytes.
(64 bytes for 32-bit hosts)
Use lower bit in ->key as dead-mark, instead of moving key to separate field.
After this for dead cfq_io_context we got cic->key != cfqd automatically.
Thus, io_context's last-hit cache should work without changing.
Now to check ->key for non-dead state compare it with cfqd,
instead of checking ->key for non-null value as it was before.
Plus remove obsolete race protection in cfq_cic_lookup.
This race gone after v2.6.24-1728-g4ac845a
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing
it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can
keep track of objects on stack.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch fixes few usability and configurability issues.
o All the cgroup based controller options are configurable from
"Genral Setup/Control Group Support/" menu. blkio is the only exception.
Hence make this option visible in above menu and make it configurable from
there to bring it inline with rest of the cgroup based controllers.
o Get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED.
This option currently does two things.
- Enable printing of cgroup paths in blktrace
- Enables CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP, which in turn displays additional stat
files in cgroup.
If we are using group scheduling, blktrace data is of not really much use
if cgroup information is not present. To get this data, currently one has to
also enable CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED, which in turn brings the overhead of
all the additional debug stat files which is not desired.
Hence, this patch moves printing of cgroup paths under
CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED.
This allows us to get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED completely. Now all
the debug stat files are controlled only by CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP which
can be enabled through config menu.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Fixes compile errors in blk-cgroup code for empty_time stat and a merge fix in
CFQ. The first error was when CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED is not set.
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Changelog from v1:
o Call blkiocg_update_idle_time_stats() at cfq_rq_enqueued() instead of at
dispatch time.
Changelog from original patchset: (in response to Vivek Goyal's comments)
o group blkiocg_update_blkio_group_dequeue_stats() with other DEBUG functions
o rename blkiocg_update_set_active_queue_stats() to
blkiocg_update_avg_queue_size_stats()
o s/request/io/ in blkiocg_update_request_add_stats() and
blkiocg_update_request_remove_stats()
o Call cfq_del_timer() at request dispatch() instead of
blkiocg_update_idle_time_stats()
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Currently, IO Controller makes use of blkio.weight to assign weight for
all devices. Here a new user interface "blkio.weight_device" is introduced to
assign different weights for different devices. blkio.weight becomes the
default value for devices which are not configured by "blkio.weight_device"
You can use the following format to assigned specific weight for a given
device:
#echo "major:minor weight" > blkio.weight_device
major:minor represents device number.
And you can remove weight for a given device as following:
#echo "major:minor 0" > blkio.weight_device
V1->V2 changes:
- use user interface "weight_device" instead of "policy" suggested by Vivek
- rename some struct suggested by Vivek
- rebase to 2.6-block "for-linus" branch
- remove an useless list_empty check pointed out by Li Zefan
- some trivial typo fix
V2->V3 changes:
- Move policy_*_node() functions up to get rid of forward declarations
- rename related functions by adding prefix "blkio_"
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits)
cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch
loop: Update mtime when writing using aops
block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup
backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure
Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL
cciss: unlock on error path
cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes
cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging
i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro
block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits
cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS
block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions
block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb()
paride: fix off-by-one test
drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size
...
When CFQ dispatches requests forcefully due to a barrier or changing iosched,
it runs through all cfqq's dispatching requests and then expires each queue.
However, it does not activate a cfqq before flushing its IOs resulting in
using stale values for computing slice_used.
This patch fixes it by calling activate queue before flushing reuqests from
each queue.
This is useful mostly for barrier requests because when the iosched is changing
it really doesnt matter if we have incorrect accounting since we're going to
break down all structures anyway.
We also now expire the current timeslice before moving on with the dispatch
to accurately account slice used for that cfqq.
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
1) group_wait_time - This is the amount of time the cgroup had to wait to get a
timeslice for one of its queues from when it became busy, i.e., went from 0
to 1 request queued. This is different from the io_wait_time which is the
cumulative total of the amount of time spent by each IO in that cgroup waiting
in the scheduler queue. This stat is a great way to find out any jobs in the
fleet that are being starved or waiting for longer than what is expected (due
to an IO controller bug or any other issue).
2) empty_time - This is the amount of time a cgroup spends w/o any pending
requests. This stat is useful when a job does not seem to be able to use its
assigned disk share by helping check if that is happening due to an IO
controller bug or because the job is not submitting enough IOs.
3) idle_time - This is the amount of time spent by the IO scheduler idling
for a given cgroup in anticipation of a better request than the exising ones
from other queues/cgroups.
All these stats are recorded using start and stop events. When reading these
stats, we do not add the delta between the current time and the last start time
if we're between the start and stop events. We avoid doing this to make sure
that these numbers are always monotonically increasing when read. Since we're
using sched_clock() which may use the tsc as its source, it may induce some
inconsistency (due to tsc resync across cpus) if we included the current delta.
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
These stats are useful for getting a feel for the queue depth of the cgroup,
i.e., how filled up its queues are at a given instant and over the existence of
the cgroup. This ability is useful when debugging problems in the wild as it
helps understand the application's IO pattern w/o having to read through the
userspace code (coz its tedious or just not available) or w/o the ability
to run blktrace (since you may not have root access and/or not want to disturb
performance).
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This includes both the number of bios merged into requests belonging to this
cgroup as well as the number of requests merged together.
In the past, we've observed different merging behavior across upstream kernels,
some by design some actual bugs. This stat helps a lot in debugging such
problems when applications report decreased throughput with a new kernel
version.
This needed adding an extra elevator function to capture bios being merged as I
did not want to pollute elevator code with blkiocg knowledge and hence needed
the accounting invocation to come from CFQ.
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
that include some minor fixes and addresses all comments.
Changelog: (most based on Vivek Goyal's comments)
o renamed blkiocg_reset_write to blkiocg_reset_stats
o more clarification in the documentation on io_service_time and io_wait_time
o Initialize blkg->stats_lock
o rename io_add_stat to blkio_add_stat and declare it static
o use bool for direction and sync
o derive direction and sync info from existing rq methods
o use 12 for major:minor string length
o define io_service_time better to cover the NCQ case
o add a separate reset_stats interface
o make the indexed stats a 2d array to simplify macro and function pointer code
o blkio.time now exports in jiffies as before
o Added stats description in patch description and
Documentation/cgroup/blkio-controller.txt
o Prefix all stats functions with blkio and make them static as applicable
o replace IO_TYPE_MAX with IO_TYPE_TOTAL
o Moved #define constant to top of blk-cgroup.c
o Pass dev_t around instead of char *
o Add note to documentation file about resetting stats
o use BLK_CGROUP_MODULE in addition to BLK_CGROUP config option in #ifdef
statements
o Avoid struct request specific knowledge in blk-cgroup. blk-cgroup.h now has
rq_direction() and rq_sync() functions which are used by CFQ and when using
io-controller at a higher level, bio_* functions can be added.
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Currently, the io statistics for the root cgroup are maintained, but
they are not shown because the device information is not available at
the point that the root blkio cgroup is created. This patch updates
the device information when the statistics are updated so that the
statistics become visible.
Signed-off-by: Ricky Benitez <rickyb@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We also add start_time_ns and io_start_time_ns fields to struct request
here to record the time when a request is created and when it is
dispatched to device. We use ns uints here as ms and jiffies are
not very useful for non-rotational media.
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
- io_service_time
- io_wait_time
- io_serviced
- io_service_bytes
These stats are accumulated per operation type helping us to distinguish between
read and write, and sync and async IO. This patch does not increment any of
these stats.
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
that info at request dispatch with other stats now. This patch removes the
existing support for accounting sectors for a blkio_group. This will be added
back differently in the next two patches.
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Even if they are found to be co-operating.
The prio_trees do not have any IDLE cfqqs on them. cfq_close_cooperator()
is called from cfq_select_queue() and cfq_completed_request(). The latter
ensures that the close cooperator code does not get invoked if the current
cfqq is of class IDLE but the former doesn't seem to have any such checks.
So an IDLE cfqq may get merged with a BE cfqq from the same group which
should be avoided.
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
These have helped us debug some issues we've noticed in earlier IO
controller versions and should be useful now as well. The extra logging
covers:
- idling behavior. Since there are so many conditions based on which we decide
to idle or not, this patch adds a log message for some conditions that we've
found useful.
- workload slices and current prio and workload type
Changelog from v1:
o moved log message from cfq_set_active_queue() to __cfq_set_active_queue()
o changed queue_count to st->count
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Alex Shi reported a kbuild regression which is about 10% performance lost.
He bisected to this commit: 3dde36ddea.
The reason is cfqq_close() can't find close cooperator. Restoring
cfq_rq_close()'s threshold to original value makes the regression go away.
Since for_preempt parameter isn't used anymore, this patch deletes it.
Reported-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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 7667aa0630
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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)>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Since commit 2f5cb7381b, 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>
This reverts commit 3586e917f2.
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>
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>
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>
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>
CFQ's detection of queueing devices initially assumes a queuing device
and detects if the queue depth reaches a certain threshold.
However, it will reconsider this choice periodically.
Unfortunately, if device is considered not queuing, CFQ will force a
unit queue depth for some workloads, thus defeating the detection logic.
This leads to poor performance on queuing hardware,
since the idle window remains enabled.
Given this premise, switching to hw_tag = 0 after we have proved at
least once that the device is NCQ capable is not a good choice.
The new detection code starts in an indeterminate state, in which CFQ behaves
as if hw_tag = 1, and then, if for a long observation period we never saw
large depth, we switch to hw_tag = 0, otherwise we stick to hw_tag = 1,
without reconsidering it again.
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cfq_should_idle returns false for no-idle queues that are not the last,
so the control flow will never reach the removed code in a state that
satisfies the if condition.
The unreachable code was added to emulate previous cfq behaviour for
non-NCQ rotational devices. My tests show that even without it, the
performances and fairness are comparable with previous cfq, thanks to
the fact that all seeky queues are grouped together, and that we idle at
the end of the tree.
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
For the moment, different workload cfq queues are put into different
service trees. But CFQ still uses "busy_queues" to estimate rb_key
offset when inserting a cfq queue into a service tree. I think this
isn't appropriate, and it should make use of service tree count to do
this estimation. This patch is for for-2.6.33 branch.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Use HZ-independent calculation of milliseconds.
Add jiffies.h where it was missing since functions or macros
from it are used.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cfq has a bug in computation of next_rq, that affects transition
between multiple sequential request streams in a single queue
(e.g.: two sequential buffered writers of the same priority),
causing the alternation between the two streams for a transient period.
8,0 1 18737 0.260400660 5312 D W 141653311 + 256
8,0 1 20839 0.273239461 5400 D W 141653567 + 256
8,0 1 20841 0.276343885 5394 D W 142803919 + 256
8,0 1 20843 0.279490878 5394 D W 141668927 + 256
8,0 1 20845 0.292459993 5400 D W 142804175 + 256
8,0 1 20847 0.295537247 5400 D W 141668671 + 256
8,0 1 20849 0.298656337 5400 D W 142804431 + 256
8,0 1 20851 0.311481148 5394 D W 141668415 + 256
8,0 1 20853 0.314421305 5394 D W 142804687 + 256
8,0 1 20855 0.318960112 5400 D W 142804943 + 256
The fix makes sure that the next_rq is computed from the last
dispatched request, and not affected by merging.
8,0 1 37776 4.305161306 0 D W 141738087 + 256
8,0 1 37778 4.308298091 0 D W 141738343 + 256
8,0 1 37780 4.312885190 0 D W 141738599 + 256
8,0 1 37782 4.315933291 0 D W 141738855 + 256
8,0 1 37784 4.319064459 0 D W 141739111 + 256
8,0 1 37786 4.331918431 5672 D W 142803007 + 256
8,0 1 37788 4.334930332 5672 D W 142803263 + 256
8,0 1 37790 4.337902723 5672 D W 142803519 + 256
8,0 1 37792 4.342359774 5672 D W 142803775 + 256
8,0 1 37794 4.345318286 0 D W 142804031 + 256
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We need to rework this logic post the cooperating cfq_queue merging,
for now just get rid of it and Jeff Moyer will fix the fall out.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
CFQ has an optimization for cooperated applications. if several
io-context have close requests, they will get boost. But the
optimization get abused. Considering thread a, b, which work on one
file. a reads sectors s, s+2, s+4, ...; b reads sectors s+1, s+3, s
+5, ... Both a and b are sequential read, so they can open idle window.
a reads a sector s and goes to idle window and wakeup b. b reads sector
s+1, since in current implementation, cfq_should_preempt() thinks a and
b are cooperators, b will preempt a. b then reads sector s+1 and goes to
idle window and wakeup a. for the same reason, a will preempt b and
reads s+2. a and b will continue the circle. The circle will be very
long, and a and b will occupy whole disk queue. Other applications will
nearly have no chance to run.
Fix this limiting coop preempt until a queue is scheduled normally
again.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Commit a6151c3a5c inadvertently reversed
a preempt condition check, potentially causing a performance regression.
Make the meta check correct again.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Currently no-idle queues in cfq are not serviced fairly:
even if they can only dispatch a small number of requests at a time,
they have to compete with idling queues to be serviced, experiencing
large latencies.
We should notice, instead, that no-idle queues are the ones that would
benefit most from having low latency, in fact they are any of:
* processes with large think times (e.g. interactive ones like file
managers)
* seeky (e.g. programs faulting in their code at startup)
* or marked as no-idle from upper levels, to improve latencies of those
requests.
This patch improves the fairness and latency for those queues, by:
* separating sync idle, sync no-idle and async queues in separate
service_trees, for each priority
* service all no-idle queues together
* and idling when the last no-idle queue has been serviced, to
anticipate for more no-idle work
* the timeslices allotted for idle and no-idle service_trees are
computed proportionally to the number of processes in each set.
Servicing all no-idle queues together should have a performance boost
for NCQ-capable drives, without compromising fairness.
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cfq can disable idling for queues in various circumstances.
When workloads of different priorities are competing, if the higher
priority queue has idling disabled, lower priority queues may steal
its disk share. For example, in a scenario with an RT process
performing seeky reads vs a BE process performing sequential reads,
on an NCQ enabled hardware, with low_latency unset,
the RT process will dispatch only the few pending requests every full
slice of service for the BE process.
The patch solves this issue by always performing idle on the last
queue at a given priority class > idle. If the same process, or one
that can pre-empt it (so at the same priority or higher), submits a
new request within the idle window, the lower priority queue won't
dispatch, saving the disk bandwidth for higher priority ones.
Note: this doesn't touch the non_rotational + NCQ case (no hardware
to test if this is a benefit in that case).
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We use different service trees for different priority classes.
This allows a simplification in the service tree insertion code, that no
longer has to consider priority while walking the tree.
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We embed a pointer to the service tree in each queue, to handle multiple
service trees easily.
Service trees are enriched with a counter.
cfq_add_rq_rb is invoked after putting the rq in the fifo, to ensure
that all fields in rq are properly initialized.
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When the number of processes performing I/O concurrently increases,
a fixed time slice per process will cause large latencies.
This patch, if low_latency mode is enabled, will scale the time slice
assigned to each process according to a 300ms target latency.
In order to keep fairness among processes:
* The number of active processes is computed using a special form of
running average, that quickly follows sudden increases (to keep latency low),
and decrease slowly (to have fairness in spite of rapid decreases of this
value).
To safeguard sequential bandwidth, we impose a minimum time slice
(computed using 2*cfq_slice_idle as base, adjusted according to priority
and async-ness).
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
If active queue hasn't enough requests and idle window opens, cfq will not
dispatch sufficient requests to hardware. In such situation, current code
will zero hw_tag. But this is because cfq doesn't dispatch enough requests
instead of hardware queue doesn't work. Don't zero hw_tag in such case.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cfq_queues are merged if they are issuing requests within the mean seek
distance of one another. This patch detects when the coopearting stops and
breaks the queues back up.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The flag used to indicate that a cfqq was allowed to jump ahead in the
scheduling order due to submitting a request close to the queue that
just executed. Since closely cooperating queues are now merged, the flag
holds little meaning. Change it to indicate that multiple queues were
merged. This will later be used to allow the breaking up of merged queues
when they are no longer cooperating.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When cooperating cfq_queues are detected currently, they are allowed to
skip ahead in the scheduling order. It is much more efficient to
automatically share the cfq_queue data structure between cooperating processes.
Performance of the read-test2 benchmark (which is written to emulate the
dump(8) utility) went from 12MB/s to 90MB/s on my SATA disk. NFS servers
with multiple nfsd threads also saw performance increases.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
async cfq_queue's are already shared between processes within the same
priority, and forthcoming patches will change the mapping of cic to sync
cfq_queue from 1:1 to 1:N. So, calculate the seekiness of a process
based on the cfq_queue instead of the cfq_io_context.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
If the average think time is larger than the remaining time slice
for any given queue, don't allow it to idle. A succesful idle also
means that we need to dispatch and complete a request, so if we don't
even have time left for the idle process, we would overrun the slice
in any case.
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Saves 16 bytes of text, woohoo. But the more important point is
that it makes the code more readable when returning bool for 0/1
cases.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
CFQ enables idle only for processes that think less than the allowed
idle time. Since idle time is lower for seeky queues, we should use the
correct value in the comparison.
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We should subtract the slice residual from the rb tree key, since
a negative residual count indicates that the cfqq overran its slice
the last time. Hence we want to add the overrun time, to position
it a bit further away in the service tree.
Reported-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It was briefly introduced to allow CFQ to to delayed scheduling,
but we ended up removing that feature again. So lets kill the
function and export, and just switch CFQ back to the normal work
schedule since it is now passing in a '0' delay from all call
sites.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The RR service tree is indexed by a key that is relative to current jiffies.
This can cause problems on jiffies wraparound.
The patch fixes it using time_before comparison, and changing
the add_front path to use a relative number, too.
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cfq uses rq->start_time as the fifo indicator, but that field may
get modified prior to cfq doing it's fifo list adjustment when
a request gets merged with another request. This can cause the
fifo list to become unordered.
Reported-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We cannot delay for the first dispatch of the async queue if it
hasn't dispatched at all, since that could present a local user
DoS attack vector using an app that just did slow timed sync reads
while filling memory.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Don't think that's necessarily a perfect description of what this
option fiddles with, but it's probably better than 'desktop'.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This slowly ramps up the async queue depth based on the time
passed since the sync IO, and doesn't allow async at all until
a sync slice period has passed.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
o Do not allow more than max_dispatch requests from an async queue, if some
sync request has finished recently. This is in the hope that sync activity
is still going on in the system and we might receive a sync request soon.
Most likely from a sync queue which finished a request and we did not enable
idling on it.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This is basically identical to what Vivek Goyal posted, but combined
into one and labelled 'desktop' instead of 'fairness'. The goal
is to continue to improve on the latency side of things as it relates
to interactiveness, keeping the questionable bits under this sysfs
tunable so it would be easy for throughput-only people to turn off.
Apart from adding the interactive sysfs knob, it also adds the
behavioural change of allowing slice idling even if the hardware
does tagged command queuing.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
percpu: add chunk->base_addr
percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
percpu: improve boot messages
percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
...
Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
The blktrace tools can show process id when cfq dispatched a request,
using cfq_log_cfqq() instead of cfq_log().
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It's not currently used, as pointed out by
Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>. We already check the
wait_request flag to allow an idling queue priority allocation access,
so we don't need this extra flag.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Get rid of any functions that test for these bits and make callers
use bio_rw_flagged() directly. Then it is at least directly apparent
what variable and flag they check.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
o Get rid of busy_rt_queues infrastructure. Looks like it is redundant.
o Once an RT queue gets request it will preempt any of the BE or IDLE queues
immediately. Otherwise this queue will be put on service tree and scheduler
will anyway select this queue before any of the BE or IDLE queue. Hence
looks like there is no need to keep track of how many busy RT queues are
currently on service tree.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To lessen the impact of async IO on sync IO, let the device drain of
any async IO in progress when switching to a sync cfqq that has idling
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
mm/percpu.c
Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids. As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
In case memory is scarce, we now default to oom_cfqq. Once memory is
available again, we should allocate a new cfqq and stop using oom_cfqq for
a particular io context.
Once a new request comes in, check if we are using oom_cfqq, and if yes,
try to allocate a new cfqq.
Tested the patch by forcing the use of oom_cfqq and upon next request thread
realized that it was using oom_cfqq and it allocated a new cfqq.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix
changes. As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of
inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute.
Conflicts:
arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
include/linux/percpu-defs.h
With the changes for falling back to an oom_cfqq, we never fail
to find/allocate a queue in cfq_get_queue(). So remove the check.
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Setup an emergency fallback cfqq that we allocate at IO scheduler init
time. If the slab allocation fails in cfq_find_alloc_queue(), we'll just
punt IO to that cfqq instead. This ensures that cfq_find_alloc_queue()
never fails without having to ensure free memory.
On cfqq lookup, always try to allocate a new cfqq if the given cfq io
context has the oom_cfqq assigned. This ensures that we only temporarily
punt to this shared queue.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We're going to be needing that init code outside of that function
to get rid of the __GFP_NOFAIL in cfqq allocation.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Percpu variable definition is about to be updated such that all percpu
symbols including the static ones must be unique. Update percpu
variable definitions accordingly.
* as,cfq: rename ioc_count uniquely
* cpufreq: rename cpu_dbs_info uniquely
* xen: move nesting_count out of xen_evtchn_do_upcall() and rename it
* mm: move ratelimits out of balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() and
rename it
* ipv4,6: rename cookie_scratch uniquely
* x86 perf_counter: rename prev_left to pmc_prev_left, irq_entry to
pmc_irq_entry and nmi_entry to pmc_nmi_entry
* perf_counter: rename disable_count to perf_disable_count
* ftrace: rename test_event_disable to ftrace_test_event_disable
* kmemleak: rename test_pointer to kmemleak_test_pointer
* mce: rename next_interval to mce_next_interval
[ Impact: percpu usage cleanups, no duplicate static percpu var names ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
I noticed a blank line in blktrace output. This patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Actually, last_end_request in cfq_data isn't used now. So lets
just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Currently io_context has an atomic_t(32-bit) as refcount. In the case of
cfq, for each device against whcih a task does I/O, a reference to the
io_context would be taken. And when there are multiple process sharing
io_contexts(CLONE_IO) would also have a reference to the same io_context.
Theoretically the possible maximum number of processes sharing the same
io_context + the number of disks/cfq_data referring to the same io_context
can overflow the 32-bit counter on a very high-end machine.
Even though it is an improbable case, let us make it atomic_long_t.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
struct request has had a few different ways to represent some
properties of a request. ->hard_* represent block layer's view of the
request progress (completion cursor) and the ones without the prefix
are supposed to represent the issue cursor and allowed to be updated
as necessary by the low level drivers. The thing is that as block
layer supports partial completion, the two cursors really aren't
necessary and only cause confusion. In addition, manual management of
request detail from low level drivers is cumbersome and error-prone at
the very least.
Another interesting duplicate fields are rq->[hard_]nr_sectors and
rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors against rq->data_len and
rq->bio->bi_size. This is more convoluted than the hard_ case.
rq->[hard_]nr_sectors are initialized for requests with bio but
blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for !pc requests. rq->data_len is
initialized for all request but blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for pc
requests. This causes good amount of confusion throughout block layer
and its drivers and determining the request length has been a bit of
black magic which may or may not work depending on circumstances and
what the specific LLD is actually doing.
rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors represent the number of sectors in
the contiguous data area at the front. This is mainly used by drivers
which transfers data by walking request segment-by-segment. This
value always equals rq->bio->bi_size >> 9. However, data length for
pc requests may not be multiple of 512 bytes and using this field
becomes a bit confusing.
In general, having multiple fields to represent the same property
leads only to confusion and subtle bugs. With recent block low level
driver cleanups, no driver is accessing or manipulating these
duplicate fields directly. Drop all the duplicates. Now rq->sector
means the current sector, rq->data_len the current total length and
rq->bio->bi_size the current segment length. Everything else is
defined in terms of these three and available only through accessors.
* blk_recalc_rq_sectors() is collapsed into blk_update_request() and
now handles pc and fs requests equally other than rq->sector update.
This means that now pc requests can use partial completion too (no
in-kernel user yet tho).
* bio_cur_sectors() is replaced with bio_cur_bytes() as block layer
now uses byte count as the primary data length.
* blk_rq_pos() is now guranteed to be always correct. In-block users
converted.
* blk_rq_bytes() is now guaranteed to be always valid as is
blk_rq_sectors(). In-block users converted.
* blk_rq_sectors() is now guaranteed to equal blk_rq_bytes() >> 9.
More convenient one is used.
* blk_rq_bytes() and blk_rq_cur_bytes() are now inlined and take const
pointer to request.
[ Impact: API cleanup, single way to represent one property of a request ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver
directly manipulates request fields. This means that the 'hard'
request fields always equal the !hard fields. Convert all
rq->sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to
accessors.
While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() < 0 test in swim.c.
[ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Tested-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsi.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dario Ballabio <ballabio_dario@emc.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Implement accessors - blk_rq_pos(), blk_rq_sectors() and
blk_rq_cur_sectors() which return rq->hard_sector, rq->hard_nr_sectors
and rq->hard_cur_sectors respectively and convert direct references of
the said fields to the accessors.
This is in preparation of request data length handling cleanup.
Geert : suggested adding const to struct request * parameter to accessors
Sergei : spotted error in patch description
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Ackec-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
blk_start_queueing() is identical to __blk_run_queue() except that it
doesn't check for recursion. None of the current users depends on
blk_start_queueing() running request_fn directly. Replace usages of
blk_start_queueing() with [__]blk_run_queue() and kill it.
[ Impact: removal of mostly duplicate interface function ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Currently we look it up from ->ioprio, but ->ioprio can change if
either the process gets its IO priority changed explicitly, or if
cfq decides to temporarily boost it. So if we are unlucky, we can
end up attempting to remove a node from a different rbtree root than
where it was added.
Fix this by using ->org_ioprio as the prio_tree index, since that
will only change for explicit IO priority settings (not for a boost).
Additionally cache the rbtree root inside the cfqq, then we don't have
to add code to reinsert the cfqq in the prio_tree if IO priority changes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cfq_prio_tree_lookup() should return the direct match, yet it always
returns zero. Fix that.
cfq_prio_tree_add() assumes that we don't get a direct match, while
it is very possible that we do. Using O_DIRECT, you can have different
cfqq with matching requests, since you don't have the page cache
to serialize things for you. Fix this bug by only adding the cfqq if
there isn't an existing match.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
If the cfq io context doesn't have enough samples yet to provide a mean
seek distance, then use the default threshold we have for seeky IO instead
of defaulting to 0.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Right now, depending on the first sector to which a process issues I/O,
the seek time may start out way out of whack. So make sure we start
with 0 sectors in seek, instead of the offset of the first request
issued.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
If we have processes that are working in close proximity to each
other on disk, we don't want to idle wait. Instead allow the close
process to issue a request, getting better aggregate bandwidth.
The anticipatory scheduler has similar checks, noop and deadline do
not need it since they don't care about process <-> io mappings.
The code for CFQ is a little more involved though, since we split
request queues into per-process contexts.
This fixes a performance problem with eg dump(8), since it uses
several processes in some silly attempt to speed IO up. Even if
dump(8) isn't really a valid case (it should be fixed by using
CLONE_IO), there are other cases where we see close processes
and where idling ends up hurting performance.
Credit goes to Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> for writing the
initial implementation.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We only kick the dispatch for an idling queue, if we think it's a
(somewhat) fully merged request. Also allow a kick if we have other
busy queues in the system, since we don't want to risk waiting for
a potential merge in that case. It's better to get some work done and
proceed.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It's called from the workqueue handlers from process context, so
we always have irqs enabled when entered.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> reports that commit
b029195dda introduced a regression
of about 50% with sequential threaded read workloads. The test
case is:
tiotest -k0 -k1 -k3 -f 80 -t 32
which starts 32 threads each reading a 80MB file. Twiddle the kick
queue logic so that we do start IO immediately, if it appears to be
a fully merged request. We can't really detect that, so just check
if the request is bigger than a page or not. The assumption is that
since single bio issues will first queue a single request with just
one page attached and then later do merges on that, if we already
have more than a page worth of data in the request, then the request
is most likely good to go.
Verified that this doesn't cause a regression with the test case that
commit b029195dda was fixing. It does not,
we still see maximum sized requests for the queue-then-merge cases.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When CFQ is waiting for a new request from a process, currently it'll
immediately restart queuing when it sees such a request. This doesn't
work very well with streamed IO, since we then end up splitting IO
that would otherwise have been merged nicely. For a simple dd test,
this causes 10x as many requests to be issued as we should have.
Normally this goes unnoticed due to the low overhead of requests
at the device side, but some hardware is very sensitive to request
sizes and there it can cause big slow downs.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We only manipulate the must_dispatch and queue_new flags, they are not
tested anymore. So get rid of them.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The IO scheduler core calls into the IO scheduler dispatch_request hook
to move requests from the IO scheduler and into the driver dispatch
list. It only does so when the dispatch list is empty. CFQ moves several
requests to the dispatch list, which can cause higher latencies if we
suddenly have to switch to some important sync IO. Change the logic to
move one request at the time instead.
This should almost be functionally equivalent to what we did before,
except that we now honor 'quantum' as the maximum queue depth at the
device side from any single cfqq. If there's just a single active
cfqq, we allow up to 4 times the normal quantum.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
By default, CFQ will anticipate more IO from a given io context if the
previously completed IO was sync. This used to be fine, since the only
sync IO was reads and O_DIRECT writes. But with more "normal" sync writes
being used now, we don't want to anticipate for those.
Add a bio/request flag that informs the IO scheduler that this is a sync
request that we should not idle for. Introduce WRITE_ODIRECT specifically
for O_DIRECT writes, and make sure that the other sync writes set this
flag.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds the ability to pre-empt an ongoing BE timeslice when a RT
request is waiting for the current timeslice to complete. This reduces the
wait time to disk for RT requests from an upper bound of 4 (current value
of cfq_quantum) to 1 disk request.
Applied Jens' suggeested changes to avoid the rb lookup and use !cfq_class_rt()
and retested.
Latency(secs) for the RT task when doing sequential reads from 10G file.
| only RT | RT + BE | RT + BE + this patch
small (512 byte) reads | 143 | 163 | 145
large (1Mb) reads | 142 | 158 | 146
Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Original patch from Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
When a queue exits the queue lock is taken and cfq_exit_queue() would free all
the cic's associated with the queue.
But when a task exits, cfq_exit_io_context() gets cic one by one and then
locks the associated queue to call __cfq_exit_single_io_context. It looks like
between getting a cic from the ioc and locking the queue, the queue might have
exited on another cpu.
Fix this by rechecking the cfq_io_context queue key inside the queue lock
again, and not calling into __cfq_exit_single_io_context() if somebody
beat us to it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This basically limits the hardware queue depth to 4*quantum at any
point in time, which is 16 with the default settings. As CFQ uses
other means to shrink the hardware queue when necessary in the first
place, there's really no need for this extra heuristic. Additionally,
it ends up hurting performance in some cases.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
After many improvements on kblockd_flush_work, it is now identical to
cancel_work_sync, so a direct call to cancel_work_sync is suggested.
The only difference is that cancel_work_sync is a GPL symbol,
so no non-GPL modules anymore.
Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We really need to know about the hardware tagging support as well,
since if the SSD does not do tagging then we still want to idle.
Otherwise have the same dependent sync IO vs flooding async IO
problem as on rotational media.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We don't want to idle in AS/CFQ if the device doesn't have a seek
penalty. So add a QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT to indicate a non-rotational
device, low level drivers should set this flag upon discovery of
an SSD or similar device type.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
CFQ's detection of queueing devices assumes a non-queuing device and detects
if the queue depth reaches a certain threshold. Under some workloads (e.g.
synchronous reads), CFQ effectively forces a unit queue depth, thus defeating
the detection logic. This leads to poor performance on queuing hardware,
since the idle window remains enabled.
This patch inverts the sense of the logic: assume a queuing-capable device,
and detect if the depth does not exceed the threshold.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Now that blktrace has the ability to carry arbitrary messages in
its stream, use that for some CFQ logging.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
If we have multiple tasks freeing cfq_io_contexts when cfq-iosched
is being unloaded, we could complete() ioc_gone twice. Fix that by
protecting ioc_gone complete() and clearing with a spinlock for
just that purpose. Doesn't matter from a performance perspective,
since it'll only enter that path when ioc_gone != NULL (when cfq-iosched
is being rmmod'ed).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cfq_cic_lookup() needs to properly protect ioc->ioc_data before
dereferencing it and also exclude updaters of ioc->ioc_data as well.
Also add a number of comments documenting why the existing RCU usage
is OK.
Thanks a lot to "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> for
review and comments!
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
saves 8 bytes of padding & increases objects/slab from 30 to 32 on my
AMD64 config
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We currently set all processes to the best-effort scheduling class,
regardless of what CPU scheduling class they belong to. Improve that
so that we correctly track idle and rt scheduling classes as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
put_io_context() drops the RCU read lock before calling into cfq_dtor(),
however we need to hold off freeing there before grabbing and
dereferencing the first object on the list.
So extend the rcu_read_lock() scope to cover the calling of cfq_dtor(),
and optimize cfq_free_io_context() to use a new variant for
call_for_each_cic() that assumes the RCU read lock is already held.
Hit in the wild by Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When switching scheduler from cfq, cfq_exit_queue() does not clear
ioc->ioc_data, leaving a dangling pointer that can deceive the following
lookups when the iosched is switched back to cfq. The pattern that can
trigger that is the following:
- elevator switch from cfq to something else;
- module unloading, with elv_unregister() that calls cfq_free_io_context()
on ioc freeing the cic (via the .trim op);
- module gets reloaded and the elevator switches back to cfq;
- reallocation of a cic at the same address as before (with a valid key).
To fix it just assign NULL to ioc_data in __cfq_exit_single_io_context(),
that is called from the regular exit path and from the elevator switching
code. The only path that frees a cic and is not covered is the error handling
one, but cic's freed in this way are never cached in ioc_data.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is not a direct substitute for normal call_rcu()
freeing, since it'll page freeing but NOT object freeing. So change
cfq to do the freeing on its own.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It's cumbersome to browse a radix tree from start to finish, especially
since we modify keys when a process exits. So add a hlist for the single
purpose of browsing over all known cfq_io_contexts, used for exit,
io prio change, etc.
This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9948
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Currently you must be root to set idle io prio class on a process. This
is due to the fact that the idle class is implemented as a true idle
class, meaning that it will not make progress if someone else is
requesting disk access. Unfortunately this means that it opens DOS
opportunities by locking down file system resources, hence it is root
only at the moment.
This patch relaxes the idle class a little, by removing the truly idle
part (which entals a grace period with associated timer). The
modifications make the idle class as close to zero impact as can be done
while still guarenteeing progress. This means we can relax the root only
criteria as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The io context sharing introduced a per-ioc spinlock, that would protect
the cfq io context lookup. That is a regression from the original, since
we never needed any locking there because the ioc/cic were process private.
The cic lookup is changed from an rbtree construct to a radix tree, which
we can then use RCU to make the reader side lockless. That is the performance
critical path, modifying the radix tree is only done on process creation
(when that process first does IO, actually) and on process exit (if that
process has done IO).
As it so happens, radix trees are also much faster for this type of
lookup where the key is a pointer. It's a very sparse tree.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
elv_register() always returns 0, and there isn't anything it does where
it should return an error (the only error condition is so grave that
it's handled with a BUG_ON).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
In theory, if the queue was idle long enough, cfq_idle_class_timer may have
a false (and very long) timeout because jiffies can wrap into the past wrt
->last_end_request.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
After the fresh boot:
ionice -c3 -p $$
echo cfq >> /sys/block/XXX/queue/scheduler
dd if=/dev/XXX of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1
Now dd hangs in D state and the queue is completely stalled for approximately
INITIAL_JIFFIES + CFQ_IDLE_GRACE jiffies. This is because cfq_init_queue()
forgets to initialize cfq_data->last_end_request.
(I guess this patch is not complete, overflow is still possible)
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Spotted by Nick <gentuu@gmail.com>, hopefully can explain the second trace in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9180.
If ->async_idle_cfqq != NULL cfq_put_async_queues() puts it IOPRIO_BE_NR times
in a loop. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cfq_get_queue()->cfq_find_alloc_queue() can fail, check the returned value.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Note that this isn't a bug at the moment, since the regular IO path
does not call this path without __GFP_WAIT set. However, it could be a
future bug, so I've applied it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
There are some leftover bits from the task cooperator patch, that was
yanked out again. While it will get reintroduced, no point in having
this write-only stuff in the tree. So yank it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
If we have two processes with different ioprio_class, but the same
ioprio_data, their async requests will fall into the same queue. I guess
such behavior is not expected, because it's not right to put real-time
requests and best-effort requests in the same queue.
The attached patch fixes the problem by introducing additional *cfqq
fields on cfqd, pointing to per-(class,priority) async queues.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
kmalloc_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node() were not available in a zeroing
variant in the past. But with __GFP_ZERO it is possible now to do zeroing
while allocating.
Use __GFP_ZERO to remove the explicit clearing of memory via memset whereever
we can.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With the cfq_queue hash removal, we inadvertently got rid of the
async queue sharing. This was not intentional, in fact CFQ purposely
shares the async queue per priority level to get good merging for
async writes.
So put some logic in cfq_get_queue() to track the shared queues.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch provides a new macro
KMEM_CACHE(<struct>, <flags>)
to simplify slab creation. KMEM_CACHE creates a slab with the name of the
struct, with the size of the struct and with the alignment of the struct.
Additional slab flags may be specified if necessary.
Example
struct test_slab {
int a,b,c;
struct list_head;
} __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
test_slab_cache = KMEM_CACHE(test_slab, SLAB_PANIC)
will create a new slab named "test_slab" of the size sizeof(struct
test_slab) and aligned to the alignment of test slab. If it fails then we
panic.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We often lookup the same queue many times in succession, so cache
the last looked up queue to avoid browsing the rbtree.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cfq hash is no more necessary. We always can get cfqq from io context.
cfq_get_io_context_noalloc() function is introduced, because we don't
want to allocate cic on merging and checking may_queue. In order to
identify sync queue we've used hash key = CFQ_KEY_ASYNC. Since hash is
eliminated we need to use other criterion: sync flag for queue is added.
In all places where we dig in rb_tree we're in current context, so no
additional locking is required.
Advantages of this patch: no additional memory for hash, no seeking in
hash, code is cleaner. But it is necessary now to seek cic in per-ioc
rbtree, but it is faster:
- most processes work only with few devices
- most systems have only few block devices
- it is a rb-tree
Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Changes by me:
- Merge into CFQ devel branch
- Get rid of cfq_get_io_context_noalloc()
- Fix various bugs with dereferencing cic->cfqq[] with offset other
than 0 or 1.
- Fix bug in cfqq setup, is_sync condition was reversed.
- Fix bug where only bio_sync() is used, we need to check for a READ too
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
For tagged devices, allow overlap of requests if the idle window
isn't enabled on the current active queue.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It's only used for preemption now that the IDLE and RT queues also
use the rbtree. If we pass an 'add_front' variable to
cfq_service_tree_add(), we can set ->rb_key to 0 to force insertion
at the front of the tree.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Currently CFQ does a linked insert into the current list for RT
queues. We can just factor the class into the rb insertion,
and then we don't have to treat RT queues in a special way. It's
faster, too.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
For cases where the rbtree is mainly used for sorting and min retrieval,
a nice speedup of the rbtree code is to maintain a cache of the leftmost
node in the tree.
Also spotted in the CFS CPU scheduler code.
Improved by Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> by updating the
leftmost hint in cfq_rb_first() if it isn't set, instead of only
updating it on insert.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Drawing on some inspiration from the CFS CPU scheduler design, overhaul
the pending cfq_queue concept list management. Currently CFQ uses a
doubly linked list per priority level for sorting and service uses.
Kill those lists and maintain an rbtree of cfq_queue's, sorted by when
to service them.
This unfortunately means that the ionice levels aren't as strong
anymore, will work on improving those later. We only scale the slice
time now, not the number of times we service. This means that latency
is better (for all priority levels), but that the distinction between
the highest and lower levels aren't as big.
The diffstat speaks for itself.
cfq-iosched.c | 363 +++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
1 file changed, 125 insertions(+), 238 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
- Move the queue_new flag clear to when the queue is selected
- Only select the non-first queue in cfq_get_best_queue(), if there's
a substantial difference between the best and first.
- Get rid of ->busy_rr
- Only select a close cooperator, if the current queue is known to take
a while to "think".
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
- Implement logic for detecting cooperating processes, so we
choose the best available queue whenever possible.
- Improve residual slice time accounting.
- Remove dead code: we no longer see async requests coming in on
sync queues. That part was removed a long time ago. That means
that we can also remove the difference between cfq_cfqq_sync()
and cfq_cfqq_class_sync(), they are now indentical. And we can
kill the on_dispatch array, just make it a counter.
- Allow a process to go into the current list, if it hasn't been
serviced in this scheduler tick yet.
Possible future improvements including caching the cfqq lookup
in cfq_close_cooperator(), so we don't have to look it up twice.
cfq_get_best_queue() should just use that last decision instead
of doing it again.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When testing the syslet async io approach, I discovered that CFQ
sometimes didn't perform as well as expected. cfq_should_preempt()
needs to better check for cooperating tasks, so fix that by allowing
preemption of an equal priority queue if the recently queued request
is as good a candidate for IO as the one we are currently waiting for.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
There's a really rare and obscure bug in CFQ, that causes a crash in
cfq_dispatch_insert() due to rq == NULL. One example of the resulting
oops is seen here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/15/41
Neil correctly diagnosed the situation for how this can happen: if two
concurrent requests with the exact same sector number (due to direct IO
or aliasing between MD and the raw device access), the alias handling
will add the request to the sortlist, but next_rq remains NULL.
Read the more complete analysis at:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/25/57
This looks like it requires md to trigger, even though it should
potentially be possible to due with O_DIRECT (at least if you edit the
kernel and doctor some of the unplug calls).
The fix is to move the ->next_rq update to when we add a request to the
rbtree. Then we remove the possibility for a request to exist in the
rbtree code, but not have ->next_rq correctly updated.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We have a 10-15% performance regression for sequential writes on TCQ/NCQ
enabled drives in 2.6.21-rcX after the CFQ update went in. It has been
reported by Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net> and the Intel
testing folks. The regression is because of CFQ's now more aggressive
queue control, limiting the depth available to the device.
This patches fixes that regression by allowing a greater depth when only
one queue is busy. It has been tested to not impact sync-vs-async
workloads too much - we still do a lot better than 2.6.20.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We currently check the FIFO once per slice. Optimize that a bit and
only do it as the first thing for a new slice, so we don't end up
doing a single request and then seek to the FIFO requests.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It must always be the active queue, otherwise it's a bug. So just
use the active_queue, don't pass it in explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
If a slice uses less than it is entitled to (or perhaps more), include
that in the decision on how much time to give it the next time it
gets serviced.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Right now we use slice_start, which gives async queues an unfair
advantage. Chance that to service_last, and base the resorter
on that.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Two issues:
- The final return 1 should be a return 0, otherwise comparing cfqq is
a noop.
- bio_sync() only checks the sync flag, while rq_is_sync() checks both
for READ and sync. The latter is what we want. Expand the bio check
to include reads, and relax the restriction to allow merging of async
io into sync requests.
In the future we want to clean up the SYNC logic, right now it means
both sync request (such as READ and O_DIRECT WRITE) and unplug-on-issue.
Leave that for later.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The logic in cfq_allow_merge() wasn't clear enough - basically allow
merging for the same queues only. Do a fast check for 'rq and bio both
sync/async' before doing the cfqq hash lookup.
This is verified to work with the fixed elv_try_merge() from commit
bb4067e341.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently we allow any merge, even if the io originates from different
processes. This can cause really bad starvation and unfairness, if those
ios happen to be synchronous (reads or direct writes).
So add a allow_merge hook to the io scheduler ops, so an io scheduler can
help decide whether a bio/process combination may be merged with an
existing request.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We need to do this, otherwise the io schedulers don't get access to the
sync flag. Then they cannot tell the difference between a regular write
and an O_DIRECT write, which can cause a performance loss.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.
The patch was generated using the following script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#
set -e
for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done
The script was run like this
sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Conflicts:
drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
drivers/usb/core/hub.h
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
net/core/netpoll.c
Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
- ->init_queue() does not need the elevator passed in
- ->put_request() is a hot path and need not have the queue passed in
- cfq_update_io_seektime() does not need cfqd passed in
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.
For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.
To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
work_struct. This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.
Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
work function. This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated.. This is a
problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).
However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
with no problems. But then the work function must itself release the
work_struct by calling work_release().
In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default. Special
initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
In very rare circumstances would we be pruning a merged request and at
the same time delete the implicated cfqq from the rr_list, and not readd
it when the merged request got added. This could cause io stalls until
that process issued io again.
Fix it up by putting the rr_list add handling into cfq_add_rq_rb(),
identical to how pruning is handled in cfq_del_rq_rb(). This fixes a
hang reproducible with fsx-linux.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When the ioprio code recently got juggled a bit, a bug was introduced.
changed_ioprio() is no longer called with interrupts disabled, so using
plain spin_lock() on the queue_lock is a bug.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If cfq_set_request() is called for a new process AND a non-fs io
request (so that __GFP_WAIT may not be set), cfq_cic_link() may
use spin_lock_irq() and spin_unlock_irq() with interrupts already
disabled.
Fix is to always use irq safe locking in cfq_cic_link()
Acked-By: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
All on stack DECLARE_COMPLETIONs should be replaced by:
DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Give meta data reads preference over regular reads, as the process
often needs to get that out of the way to do the io it was actually
interested in.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
CFQ implements this on its own now, but it's really block layer
knowledge. Tells a device queue to start dispatching requests to
the driver, taking care to unplug if needed. Also fixes the issue
where as/cfq will invoke a stopped queue, which we really don't
want.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
No point in having a place holder list just for empty queues, so remove
it. It's not used for anything other than to keep ->cfq_list busy.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Currently it scales with number of processes in that priority group,
which is potentially not very nice as it's called quite often.
Basically we always need to do tail inserts, except for the case of a
new process. So just mark/detect a queue as such.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Kill a few inlines that bring in too much code to more than one location
Shrinks kernel text by about 300 bytes on 32-bit x86.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
It's ok if the read path is a lot more costly, as long as inc/dec is
really cheap. The inc/dec will happen for each created/freed io context,
while the reading only happens when a disk queue exits.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
cfq_exit_lock is protecting two things now:
- The per-ioc rbtree of cfq_io_contexts
- The per-cfqd linked list of cfq_io_contexts
The per-cfqd linked list can be protected by the queue lock, as it is (by
definition) per cfqd as the queue lock is.
The per-ioc rbtree is mainly used and updated by the process itself only.
The only outside use is the io priority changing. If we move the
priority changing to not browsing the rbtree, we can remove any locking
from the rbtree updates and lookup completely. Let the sys_ioprio syscall
just mark processes as having the iopriority changed and lazily update
the private cfq io contexts the next time io is queued, and we can
remove this locking as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
A collection of little fixes and cleanups:
- We don't use the 'queued' sysfs exported attribute, since the
may_queue() logic was rewritten. So kill it.
- Remove dead defines.
- cfq_set_active_queue() can be rewritten cleaner with else if conditions.
- Several places had cfq_exit_cfqq() like logic, abstract that out and
use that.
- Annotate the cfqq kmem_cache_alloc() so the allocator knows that this
is a repeat allocation if it fails with __GFP_WAIT set. Allows the
allocator to start freeing some memory, if needed. CFQ already loops for
this condition, so might as well pass the hint down.
- Remove cfqd->rq_starved logic. It's not needed anymore after we dropped
the crq allocation in cfq_set_request().
- Remove uneeded parameter passing.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Get rid of the cfq_rq request type. With the added elevator_private2, we
have enough room in struct request to get rid of any crq allocation/free
for each request.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Right now, every IO scheduler implements its own backmerging (except for
noop, which does no merging). That results in duplicated code for
essentially the same operation, which is never a good thing. This patch
moves the backmerging out of the io schedulers and into the elevator
core. We save 1.6kb of text and as a bonus get backmerging for noop as
well. Win-win!
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Obviously, cfq_cic_link() shouldn't free a just allocated cfq_io_context?
The dead key is from __cic, so drop that.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
The CIC_SEEKY() test really wants to use the minimum of either:
- 2 msecs (not jiffies)
- or, the pending slice time
So code it like that.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
They all duplicate macros to check for empty root and/or node, and
clearing a node. So put those in rbtree.h.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
- Remember to set ->last_sector so that the cfq_choose_req() logic
works correctly.
- Remove redundant call to cfq_choose_req()
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
This is a collection of patches that greatly improve CFQ performance
in some circumstances.
- Change the idling logic to only kick in after a request is done and we
are deciding what to do. Before the idling included the request service
time, so it was hard to adjust. Now it's true think/idle time.
- Take advantage of TCQ/NCQ/queueing for seeky sync workloads, but keep
it in control for sync and sequential (or close to) workloads.
- Expire queues immediately and move on to other busy queues, if we are
not going to idle after the current one finishes.
- Don't rearm idle timer if there are no busy queues. Just leave the
system idle.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Patch originally from Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@sw.ru>
If you set io-priority of process 1 using sys_ioprio_set system call by
another process 2 (like ionice do), then cfq_init_prio_data() function
sets priority of process 2 (current) on queue of process 1 and clears
the flag, that designates change of ioprio. So the process 1 will work
like with priority of process 2.
I propose not to call cfq_init_prio_data() on io-priority change, but
only mark queue as queue with changed prority. Every time when new
request comes cfq-scheduler checks for this flag and atomaticaly changes
priority of queue to new value.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
A process flag to indicate whether we are doing sync io is incredibly
ugly. It also causes performance problems when one does a lot of async
io and then proceeds to sync it. Part of the io will go out as async,
and the other part as sync. This causes a disconnect between the
previously submitted io and the synced io. For io schedulers such as CFQ,
this will cause us lost merges and suboptimal behaviour in scheduling.
Remove PF_SYNCWRITE completely from the fsync/msync paths, and let
the O_DIRECT path just directly indicate that the writes are sync
by using WRITE_SYNC instead.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
We cannot update them if the user changes nr_requests, so don't
set it in the first place. The gains are pretty questionable as
well. The batching loss has been shown to decrease throughput.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
The color is now in the low bits of the parent pointer, and initializing
it to 0 happens as part of the whole memset above, so just remove the
unnecessary RB_CLEAR_COLOR.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/rbtree-2.6:
[RBTREE] Switch rb_colour() et al to en_US spelling of 'color' for consistency
Update UML kernel/physmem.c to use rb_parent() accessor macro
[RBTREE] Update hrtimers to use rb_parent() accessor macro.
[RBTREE] Add explicit alignment to sizeof(long) for struct rb_node.
[RBTREE] Merge colour and parent fields of struct rb_node.
[RBTREE] Remove dead code in rb_erase()
[RBTREE] Update JFFS2 to use rb_parent() accessor macro.
[RBTREE] Update eventpoll.c to use rb_parent() accessor macro.
[RBTREE] Update key.c to use rb_parent() accessor macro.
[RBTREE] Update ext3 to use rb_parent() accessor macro.
[RBTREE] Change rbtree off-tree marking in I/O schedulers.
[RBTREE] Add accessor macros for colour and parent fields of rb_node
We don't clear the seek stat values in cfq_alloc_io_context(), and if
->seek_mean is unlucky enough to be set to -36 by chance, the first
invocation of cfq_update_io_seektime() will oops with a divide by zero
in do_div().
Just memset the entire cic instead of filling invididual values
independently.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There's a race between shutting down one io scheduler and firing up the
next, in which a new io could enter and cause the io scheduler to be
invoked with bad or NULL data.
To fix this, we need to maintain the queue lock for a bit longer.
Unfortunately we cannot do that, since the elevator init requires to be
run without the lock held. This isn't easily fixable, without also
changing the mempool API. So split the initialization into two parts,
and alloc-init operation and an attach operation. Then we can
preallocate the io scheduler and related structures, and run the attach
inside the lock after we detach the old one.
This patch has survived 30 minutes of 1 second io scheduler switching
with a very busy io load.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Now that we select busy_rr for possible service, insert entries at the
back of that list instead of at the front.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
There's a small window from when the timer is entered and we grab
the queue lock, where cfq_set_active_queue() could be rearming the
timer for us. Seen in the wild on a 12-way ppc box. Fix this by
just using mod_timer(), which will do the right thing for us.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
If the hardware is doing real queueing, decide that it's worthless to
idle the hardware. It does reasonable simultaneous io in that case
anyways, and the idling hurts some work loads.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
If we are anticipating a sync request from this process and we are
waiting for that and see an async request come in, expire that slice
and move on.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
For just one busy queue (like async write out), we often overlooked
that we could queue more io and decided we were idle instead. This causes
us quite a bit of performance loss.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
- Drop cic from the list when seen as dead.
- Fixup the locking, just use a simple spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
They were abusing the rb_color field to mark nodes which weren't currently
on the tree. Fix that to use the same method as eventpoll did -- setting
the parent pointer to point back to itself. And use the appropriate
accessor macros for setting and reading the parent.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
In current code, we are re-reading cic->key after dead cic->key check.
So, in theory, it may really re-read *after* cfq_exit_queue() seted NULL.
To avoid race, we copy it to stack, then use it. With this change, I
guess gcc will assign cic->key to a register or stack, and it wouldn't
be re-readed.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
