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>
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: 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>
Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request. So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases. The patch fixes this.
The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op. Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.
See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.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>
While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often
have allocation blocks that are bigger. Allow the discard granularity
and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to
handle them.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@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>
Quiet sparse noise about symbol's not being declared.
Symbol blk_default_cmd_filter is only used locally and should be static.
The function blk_scsi_ioctl_init() is a fs_initcall and should also be
static.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.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>
With 2.6.32-rc5 in a KVM guest using dm and virtio_blk, we see the
following errors:
end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0
The errors go away if dm stops submitting empty barriers, by reverting:
commit 52b1fd5a27
Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
dm: send empty barriers to targets in dm_flush
We should silently error all barriers, even empty barriers, on devices
like virtio_blk which don't support them.
See also:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/514901
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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>
Commit a9327cac44 added seperate read
and write statistics of in_flight requests. And exported the number
of read and write requests in progress seperately through sysfs.
But Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> reported getting strange
output from "iostat -kx 2". Global values for service time and
utilization were garbage. For interval values, utilization was always
100%, and service time is higher than normal.
So this was reverted by commit 0f78ab9899
The problem was in part_round_stats_single(), I missed the following:
if (now == part->stamp)
return;
- if (part->in_flight) {
+ if (part_in_flight(part)) {
__part_stat_add(cpu, part, time_in_queue,
part_in_flight(part) * (now - part->stamp));
__part_stat_add(cpu, part, io_ticks, (now - part->stamp));
With this chunk included, the reported regression gets fixed.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
--
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>
Not all users of the topology information want to use libblkid. Provide
the topology information through bdev ioctls.
Also clarify sector size comments for existing BLK ioctls.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
