1. 13 Oct, 2017 27 commits
  2. 12 Oct, 2017 2 commits
  3. 10 Oct, 2017 5 commits
  4. 09 Oct, 2017 3 commits
    • Paolo Valente's avatar
      block, bfq: fix unbalanced decrements of burst size · 99fead8d
      Paolo Valente authored
      The commit "block, bfq: decrease burst size when queues in burst
      exit" introduced the decrement of burst_size on the removal of a
      bfq_queue from the burst list. Unfortunately, this decrement can
      happen to be performed even when burst size is already equal to 0,
      because of unbalanced decrements. A description follows of the cause
      of these unbalanced decrements, namely a wrong assumption, and of the
      way how this wrong assumption leads to unbalanced decrements.
      
      The wrong assumption is that a bfq_queue can exit only if the process
      associated with the bfq_queue has exited. This is false, because a
      bfq_queue, say Q, may exit also as a consequence of a merge with
      another bfq_queue. In this case, Q exits because the I/O of its
      associated process has been redirected to another bfq_queue.
      
      The decrement unbalance occurs because Q may then be re-created after
      a split, and added back to the current burst list, *without*
      incrementing burst_size. burst_size is not incremented because Q is
      not a new bfq_queue added to the burst list, but a bfq_queue only
      temporarily removed from the list, and, before the commit "bfq-sq,
      bfq-mq: decrease burst size when queues in burst exit", burst_size was
      not decremented when Q was removed.
      
      This commit addresses this issue by just checking whether the exiting
      bfq_queue is a merged bfq_queue, and, in that case, not decrementing
      burst_size. Unfortunately, this still leaves room for unbalanced
      decrements, in the following rarer case: on a split, the bfq_queue
      happens to be inserted into a different burst list than that it was
      removed from when merged. If this happens, the number of elements in
      the new burst list becomes higher than burst_size (by one). When the
      bfq_queue then exits, it is of course not in a merged state any
      longer, thus burst_size is decremented, which results in an unbalanced
      decrement.  To handle this sporadic, unlucky case in a simple way,
      this commit also checks that burst_size is larger than 0 before
      decrementing it.
      
      Finally, this commit removes an useless, extra check: the check that
      the bfq_queue is sync, performed before checking whether the bfq_queue
      is in the burst list. This extra check is redundant, because only sync
      bfq_queues can be inserted into the burst list.
      
      Fixes: 7cb04004 ("block, bfq: decrease burst size when queues in burst exit")
      Reported-by: default avatarPhilip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAngelo Ruocco <angeloruocco90@gmail.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarPhilip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>
      Tested-by: default avatarOleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
      Tested-by: default avatarLee Tibbert <lee.tibbert@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      99fead8d
    • Luca Miccio's avatar
      block,bfq: Disable writeback throttling · b5dc5d4d
      Luca Miccio authored
      Similarly to CFQ, BFQ has its write-throttling heuristics, and it
      is better not to combine them with further write-throttling
      heuristics of a different nature.
      So this commit disables write-back throttling for a device if BFQ
      is used as I/O scheduler for that device.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLuca Miccio <lucmiccio@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
      Tested-by: default avatarOleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
      Tested-by: default avatarLee Tibbert <lee.tibbert@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      b5dc5d4d
    • Yafang Shao's avatar
      writeback: schedule periodic writeback with sysctl · 94af5846
      Yafang Shao authored
      After disable periodic writeback by writing 0 to
      dirty_writeback_centisecs, the handler wb_workfn() will not be
      entered again until the dirty background limit reaches or
      sync syscall is executed or no enough free memory available or
      vmscan is triggered.
      
      So the periodic writeback can't be enabled by writing a non-zero
      value to dirty_writeback_centisecs.
      As it can be disabled by sysctl, it should be able to enable by
      sysctl as well.
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarYafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      94af5846
  5. 06 Oct, 2017 3 commits