Commit 2613eab1 authored by Khazhismel Kumykov's avatar Khazhismel Kumykov Committed by Mike Snitzer

dm mpath: add Historical Service Time Path Selector

This new selector keeps an exponential moving average of the service
time for each path (losely defined as delta between start_io and
end_io), and uses this along with the number of inflight requests to
estimate future service time for a path.  Since we don't have a prober
to account for temporally slow paths, re-try "slow" paths every once in
a while (num_paths * historical_service_time). To account for fast paths
transitioning to slow, if a path has not completed any request within
(num_paths * historical_service_time), limit the number of outstanding
requests.  To account for low volume situations where number of
inflight IOs would be zero, the last finish time of each path is
factored in.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKhazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarGabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
parent 087615bf
......@@ -452,6 +452,17 @@ config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
If unsure, say N.
config DM_MULTIPATH_HST
tristate "I/O Path Selector based on historical service time"
depends on DM_MULTIPATH
help
This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
time by comparing estimated service time (based on historical
service time).
If unsure, say N.
config DM_DELAY
tristate "I/O delaying target"
depends on BLK_DEV_DM
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......@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DM_FLAKEY) += dm-flakey.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH) += dm-multipath.o dm-round-robin.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_QL) += dm-queue-length.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_ST) += dm-service-time.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_HST) += dm-historical-service-time.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DM_SWITCH) += dm-switch.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT) += dm-snapshot.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DM_PERSISTENT_DATA) += persistent-data/
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