- 06 Dec, 2009 1 commit
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Jens Axboe authored
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>
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- 04 Dec, 2009 8 commits
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Vivek Goyal authored
o Now issues of blkio controller and CFQ in module mode should be fixed. Enable the cfq group scheduling support in module mode. Signed-off-by:
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Louis Rilling authored
With CLONE_IO, parent's io_context->nr_tasks is incremented, but never decremented whenever copy_process() fails afterwards, which prevents exit_io_context() from calling IO schedulers exit functions. Give a task_struct to exit_io_context(), and call exit_io_context() instead of put_io_context() in copy_process() cleanup path. Signed-off-by:
Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by:
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Louis Rilling authored
With CLONE_IO, copy_io() increments both ioc->refcount and ioc->nr_tasks. However exit_io_context() only decrements ioc->refcount if ioc->nr_tasks reaches 0. Always call put_io_context() in exit_io_context(). Signed-off-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
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:
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Jens Axboe authored
It's currently not an allowed configuration, so express that in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: -
Jens Axboe authored
They should not be declared inside some other file that's not related to CFQ. Signed-off-by:
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- 03 Dec, 2009 31 commits
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Jens Axboe authored
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Vivek Goyal authored
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
o Propagate blkio cgroup weight updation to associated cfq groups. Signed-off-by:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
o Some debugging aids for CFQ. Signed-off-by:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
Nauman Rafique <nauman@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
o This is basic implementation of blkio controller cgroup interface. This is the common interface visible to user space and should be used by different IO control policies as we implement those. Signed-off-by:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
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:
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Vivek Goyal authored
o must_dispatch flag should be set only if we decided not to run the queue and dispatch the request. Signed-off-by:
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Philipp Reisner authored
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Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by:
Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
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Wu Fengguang authored
- no one is calling wb_writeback and write_cache_pages with wbc.nonblocking=1 any more - lumpy pageout will want to do nonblocking writeback without the congestion wait So remove the congestion checks as suggested by Chris. Signed-off-by:
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
It will lower the flush priority for NFS, and maybe more in future. Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
This is dead code because no bdi flush thread will be started for !bdi_cap_writeback_dirty bdi. Signed-off-by:
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OGAWA Hirofumi authored
To touch task->flags directly is racy. thaw_process() still has race (changing non_current->flags, but this is another issue) though, I think it's much better off. So, use thaw_process() instead. Signed-off-by:
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Jens Axboe authored
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Shaohua Li authored
Since commit 2f5cb738, 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:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device prior to putting metadata down. However, not all devices return zeroed blocks after a discard. Some drives return stale data, potentially containing old superblocks. It is therefore important to know whether discarded blocks are properly zeroed. Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether zeroes are returned after a discard operation. Implement a block level interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and queried via a new block device ioctl. Signed-off-by:
Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
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