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block, bfq: do not plug I/O of in-service queue when harmful 

If the in-service bfq_queue is sync and remains temporarily idle, then
I/O dispatching (from other queues) may be plugged. It may be dome for
two reasons: either to boost throughput, or to preserve the bandwidth
share of the in-service queue. In the first case, if the I/O of the
in-service queue, when it finally arrives, consists only of one small
I/O request, then it makes sense to plug even the I/O of the in-service
queue. In fact, serving such a small request immediately is likely to
lower throughput instead of boosting it, whereas waiting a little bit is
likely to let that request grow, thanks to request merging, and become
more profitable in terms of throughput (this is likely to happen exactly
because the I/O of the queue has been detected to boost throughput).

On the opposite end, if I/O dispatching is being plugged only to
preserve the bandwidth of the in-service queue, then it would be better
not to plug also the I/O of the in-service queue, because such a
plugging is likely to cause only loss of bandwidth for the queue.

Unfortunately, no distinction is made between the two cases, and the I/O
of the in-service queue is always plugged in case just a small I/O
request arrives. This commit draws this missing distinction and does not
perform harmful plugging.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Paolo Valente 2019-01-29 12:06:31 +01:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 05c2f5c30b
commit ac8b0cb415
1 changed files with 17 additions and 14 deletions
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@ -4599,28 +4599,31 @@ static void bfq_rq_enqueued(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq,
bool budget_timeout = bfq_bfqq_budget_timeout(bfqq);
/*
* There is just this request queued: if the request
* is small and the queue is not to be expired, then
* just exit.
* There is just this request queued: if
* - the request is small, and
* - we are idling to boost throughput, and
* - the queue is not to be expired,
* then just exit.
*
* In this way, if the device is being idled to wait
* for a new request from the in-service queue, we
* avoid unplugging the device and committing the
* device to serve just a small request. On the
* contrary, we wait for the block layer to decide
* when to unplug the device: hopefully, new requests
* will be merged to this one quickly, then the device
* will be unplugged and larger requests will be
* dispatched.
* device to serve just a small request. In contrast
* we wait for the block layer to decide when to
* unplug the device: hopefully, new requests will be
* merged to this one quickly, then the device will be
* unplugged and larger requests will be dispatched.
*/
if (small_req && !budget_timeout)
if (small_req && idling_boosts_thr_without_issues(bfqd, bfqq) &&
!budget_timeout)
return;
/*
* A large enough request arrived, or the queue is to
* be expired: in both cases disk idling is to be
* stopped, so clear wait_request flag and reset
* timer.
* A large enough request arrived, or idling is being
* performed to preserve service guarantees, or
* finally the queue is to be expired: in all these
* cases disk idling is to be stopped, so clear
* wait_request flag and reset timer.
*/
bfq_clear_bfqq_wait_request(bfqq);
hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&bfqd->idle_slice_timer);