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Divyesh Shah
b6ac23af2c blkio: fix for modular blk-cgroup build
After merging the block tree, 20100414's linux-next build (x86_64
allmodconfig) failed like this:

ERROR: "get_gendisk" [block/blk-cgroup.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "sched_clock" [block/blk-cgroup.ko] undefined!

This happens because the two symbols aren't exported and hence not available
when blk-cgroup code is built as a module. I've tried to stay consistent with
the use of EXPORT_SYMBOL or EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL with the other symbols in the
respective files.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Acked-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-15 08:54:59 +02:00
Richard Kennedy
c0d97e9ca2 block: ensure jiffies wrap is handled correctly in blk_rq_timed_out_timer
blk_rq_timed_out_timer() relied on blk_add_timer() never returning a
timer value of zero, but commit 7838c15b8d
removed the code that bumped this value when it was zero.
Therefore when jiffies is near wrap we could get unlucky & not set the
timeout value correctly.

This patch uses a flag to indicate that the timeout value was set and so
handles jiffies wrap correctly, and it keeps all the logic in one
function so should be easier to maintain in the future.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-14 20:53:37 +02:00
Divyesh Shah
28baf44299 blkio: Fix compile errors
Fixes compile errors in blk-cgroup code for empty_time stat and a merge fix in
CFQ. The first error was when CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED is not set.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-14 11:22:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe
4facdaec1c Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35
Conflicts:
	block/blk-cgroup.c
	block/cfq-iosched.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-13 20:03:21 +02:00
Divyesh Shah
a11cdaa7af block: Update to io-controller stats
Changelog from v1:
o Call blkiocg_update_idle_time_stats() at cfq_rq_enqueued() instead of at
  dispatch time.

Changelog from original patchset: (in response to Vivek Goyal's comments)
o group blkiocg_update_blkio_group_dequeue_stats() with other DEBUG functions
o rename blkiocg_update_set_active_queue_stats() to
  blkiocg_update_avg_queue_size_stats()
o s/request/io/ in blkiocg_update_request_add_stats() and
  blkiocg_update_request_remove_stats()
o Call cfq_del_timer() at request dispatch() instead of
  blkiocg_update_idle_time_stats()

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-13 19:59:17 +02:00
Gui Jianfeng
34d0f179d6 io-controller: Add a new interface "weight_device" for IO-Controller
Currently, IO Controller makes use of blkio.weight to assign weight for
all devices. Here a new user interface "blkio.weight_device" is introduced to
assign different weights for different devices. blkio.weight becomes the
default value for devices which are not configured by "blkio.weight_device"

You can use the following format to assigned specific weight for a given
device:
#echo "major:minor weight" > blkio.weight_device

major:minor represents device number.

And you can remove weight for a given device as following:
#echo "major:minor 0" > blkio.weight_device

V1->V2 changes:
- use user interface "weight_device" instead of "policy" suggested by Vivek
- rename some struct suggested by Vivek
- rebase to 2.6-block "for-linus" branch
- remove an useless list_empty check pointed out by Li Zefan
- some trivial typo fix

V2->V3 changes:
- Move policy_*_node() functions up to get rid of forward declarations
- rename related functions by adding prefix "blkio_"

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-13 10:14:20 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
2f4084209a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch
  loop: Update mtime when writing using aops
  block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup
  backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure
  Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
  drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL
  cciss: unlock on error path
  cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes
  cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging
  i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro
  block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits
  cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
  block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
  Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS
  block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
  block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions
  block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
  vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb()
  paride: fix off-by-one test
  drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size
  ...
2010-04-09 11:50:29 -07:00
Divyesh Shah
3440c49f5c cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch
When CFQ dispatches requests forcefully due to a barrier or changing iosched,
it runs through all cfqq's dispatching requests and then expires each queue.
However, it does not activate a cfqq before flushing its IOs resulting in
using stale values for computing slice_used.
This patch fixes it by calling activate queue before flushing reuqests from
each queue.

This is useful mostly for barrier requests because when the iosched is changing
it really doesnt matter if we have incorrect accounting since we're going to
break down all structures anyway.

We also now expire the current timeslice before moving on with the dispatch
to accurately account slice used for that cfqq.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-09 09:29:57 +02:00
Divyesh Shah
812df48d12 blkio: Add more debug-only per-cgroup stats
1) group_wait_time - This is the amount of time the cgroup had to wait to get a
  timeslice for one of its queues from when it became busy, i.e., went from 0
  to 1 request queued. This is different from the io_wait_time which is the
  cumulative total of the amount of time spent by each IO in that cgroup waiting
  in the scheduler queue. This stat is a great way to find out any jobs in the
  fleet that are being starved or waiting for longer than what is expected (due
  to an IO controller bug or any other issue).
2) empty_time - This is the amount of time a cgroup spends w/o any pending
   requests. This stat is useful when a job does not seem to be able to use its
   assigned disk share by helping check if that is happening due to an IO
   controller bug or because the job is not submitting enough IOs.
3) idle_time - This is the amount of time spent by the IO scheduler idling
   for a given cgroup in anticipation of a better request than the exising ones
   from other queues/cgroups.

All these stats are recorded using start and stop events. When reading these
stats, we do not add the delta between the current time and the last start time
if we're between the start and stop events. We avoid doing this to make sure
that these numbers are always monotonically increasing when read. Since we're
using sched_clock() which may use the tsc as its source, it may induce some
inconsistency (due to tsc resync across cpus) if we included the current delta.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-09 08:36:08 +02:00
Divyesh Shah
cdc1184cf4 blkio: Add io_queued and avg_queue_size stats
These stats are useful for getting a feel for the queue depth of the cgroup,
i.e., how filled up its queues are at a given instant and over the existence of
the cgroup. This ability is useful when debugging problems in the wild as it
helps understand the application's IO pattern w/o having to read through the
userspace code (coz its tedious or just not available) or w/o the ability
to run blktrace (since you may not have root access and/or not want to disturb
performance).

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-09 08:36:08 +02:00
Divyesh Shah
812d402648 blkio: Add io_merged stat
This includes both the number of bios merged into requests belonging to this
cgroup as well as the number of requests merged together.
In the past, we've observed different merging behavior across upstream kernels,
some by design some actual bugs. This stat helps a lot in debugging such
problems when applications report decreased throughput with a new kernel
version.

This needed adding an extra elevator function to capture bios being merged as I
did not want to pollute elevator code with blkiocg knowledge and hence needed
the accounting invocation to come from CFQ.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-09 08:36:07 +02:00
Divyesh Shah
84c124da9f blkio: Changes to IO controller additional stats patches
that include some minor fixes and addresses all comments.

Changelog: (most based on Vivek Goyal's comments)
o renamed blkiocg_reset_write to blkiocg_reset_stats
o more clarification in the documentation on io_service_time and io_wait_time
o Initialize blkg->stats_lock
o rename io_add_stat to blkio_add_stat and declare it static
o use bool for direction and sync
o derive direction and sync info from existing rq methods
o use 12 for major:minor string length
o define io_service_time better to cover the NCQ case
o add a separate reset_stats interface
o make the indexed stats a 2d array to simplify macro and function pointer code
o blkio.time now exports in jiffies as before
o Added stats description in patch description and
  Documentation/cgroup/blkio-controller.txt
o Prefix all stats functions with blkio and make them static as applicable
o replace IO_TYPE_MAX with IO_TYPE_TOTAL
o Moved #define constant to top of blk-cgroup.c
o Pass dev_t around instead of char *
o Add note to documentation file about resetting stats
o use BLK_CGROUP_MODULE in addition to BLK_CGROUP config option in #ifdef
  statements
o Avoid struct request specific knowledge in blk-cgroup. blk-cgroup.h now has
  rq_direction() and rq_sync() functions which are used by CFQ and when using
  io-controller at a higher level, bio_* functions can be added.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-09 08:31:19 +02:00
Matthew Garrett
31373d09da laptop-mode: Make flushes per-device
One of the features of laptop-mode is that it forces a writeout of dirty
pages if something else triggers a physical read or write from a device.
The current implementation flushes pages on all devices, rather than only
the one that triggered the flush. This patch alters the behaviour so that
only the recently accessed block device is flushed, preventing other
disks being spun up for no terribly good reason.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-06 14:25:14 +02:00
Ricky Benitez
a74b2adae0 block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup
Currently, the io statistics for the root cgroup are maintained, but
they are not shown because the device information is not available at
the point that the root blkio cgroup is created. This patch updates
the device information when the statistics are updated so that the
statistics become visible.

Signed-off-by: Ricky Benitez <rickyb@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-05 18:22:17 +02:00
Divyesh Shah
9195291e5f blkio: Increment the blkio cgroup stats for real now
We also add start_time_ns and io_start_time_ns fields to struct request
here to record the time when a request is created and when it is
dispatched to device. We use ns uints here as ms and jiffies are
not very useful for non-rotational media.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-02 08:44:37 +02:00
Divyesh Shah
303a3acb23 blkio: Add io controller stats like
- io_service_time
- io_wait_time
- io_serviced
- io_service_bytes

These stats are accumulated per operation type helping us to distinguish between
read and write, and sync and async IO. This patch does not increment any of
these stats.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-02 08:44:36 +02:00
Divyesh Shah
9a0785b0da blkio: Remove per-cfqq nr_sectors as we'll be passing
that info at request dispatch with other stats now. This patch removes the
existing support for accounting sectors for a blkio_group. This will be added
back differently in the next two patches.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-02 08:44:36 +02:00
wzt.wzt@gmail.com
a506aedc51 Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
elevator_get() not check the name length, if the name length > sizeof(elv),
elv will miss the '\0'. And elv buffer will be replace "-iosched" as something
like aaaaaaaaa, then call request_module() can load an not trust module.

Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-02 08:41:14 +02:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Divyesh Shah
39c01b219f cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes
Even if they are found to be co-operating.

The prio_trees do not have any IDLE cfqqs on them. cfq_close_cooperator()
is called from cfq_select_queue() and cfq_completed_request(). The latter
ensures that the close cooperator code does not get invoked if the current
cfqq is of class IDLE but the former doesn't seem to have any such checks.
So an IDLE cfqq may get merged with a BE cfqq from the same group which
should be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-25 15:46:38 +01:00
Divyesh Shah
b1ffe737f5 cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging
These have helped us debug some issues we've noticed in earlier IO
controller versions and should be useful now as well. The extra logging
covers:
- idling behavior. Since there are so many conditions based on which we decide
to idle or not, this patch adds a log message for some conditions that we've
found useful.
- workload slices and current prio and workload type

Changelog from v1:
o moved log message from cfq_set_active_queue() to __cfq_set_active_queue()
o changed queue_count to st->count

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-25 15:45:03 +01:00
Jens Axboe
b4b7a4ef09 Merge branch 'master' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	block/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-19 08:05:10 +01:00
Shaohua Li
e9ce335df5 cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
Alex Shi reported a kbuild regression which is about 10% performance lost.
He bisected to this commit: 3dde36ddea.
The reason is cfqq_close() can't find close cooperator. Restoring
cfq_rq_close()'s threshold to original value makes the regression go away.

Since for_preempt parameter isn't used anymore, this patch deletes it.

Reported-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-19 08:03:04 +01:00
Li Zefan
910ac735ba block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
Make the config visible, so we can choose from CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=y
and CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=m when CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=m.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-16 08:57:15 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
c77a5710b7 block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
These two values are useful when debugging issues surrounding maximum
I/O size.  Put them in sysfs with the rest of the queue limits.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-15 12:48:00 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
2cda2728aa block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
lcm() was defined to take integer-sized arguments.  The supplied
arguments are multiplied, however, causing us to overflow given
sufficiently large input.  That in turn led to incorrect optimal I/O
size reporting in some cases (RAID over RAID).

Switch lcm() over to unsigned long similar to gcd() and move the
function from blk-settings.c to lib.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-15 12:47:59 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
c32da02342 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits)
  doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage
  Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
  doc: fix console doc typo
  doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file
  Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed
  Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog
  Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
  doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
  tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments
  No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h
  devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment
  Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
  tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
  tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
  drm/kms: fix spelling in error message
  doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc
  devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/
  Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros
  fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment
  tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
Ben Blum
67523c48aa cgroups: blkio subsystem as module
Modify the Block I/O cgroup subsystem to be able to be built as a module.
As the CFQ disk scheduler optionally depends on blk-cgroup, config options
in block/Kconfig, block/Kconfig.iosched, and block/blk-cgroup.h are
enhanced to support the new module dependency.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:36 -08:00
Jiri Kosina
318ae2edc3 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
Emese Revfy
52cf25d0ab Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type
Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
Richard Kennedy
4671a13220 block: don't access jiffies when initialising io_context
As the comment says the initial value of last_waited is never used, so
there is no need to initialise it with the current jiffies. Jiffies is
hot enough without accessing it for no reason.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-01 10:57:22 +01:00
Richard Kennedy
73e9ffdd0c cfq: remove 8 bytes of padding from cfq_rb_root on 64 bit builds
Reorder cfq_rb_root to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds.

Consequently removing 56 bytes from cfq_group and 64 bytes from
cfq_data.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-01 10:50:20 +01:00
Shaohua Li
abc3c744d0 cfq-iosched: quantum check tweak
Currently a queue can only dispatch up to 4 requests if there are other queues.
This isn't optimal, device can handle more requests, for example, AHCI can
handle 31 requests. I can understand the limit is for fairness, but we could
do a tweak: if the queue still has a lot of slice left, sounds we could
ignore the limit. Test shows this boost my workload (two thread randread of
a SSD) from 78m/s to 100m/s.
Thanks for suggestions from Corrado and Vivek for the patch.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-01 09:20:54 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
53c583d226 cfq-iosched: requests "in flight" vs "in driver" clarification
Counters for requests "in flight" and "in driver" are used asymmetrically
in cfq_may_dispatch, and have slightly different meaning.
We split the rq_in_flight counter (was sync_flight) to count both sync
and async requests, in order to use this one, which is more accurate in
some corner cases.
The rq_in_driver counter is coalesced, since individual sync/async counts
are not used any more.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-28 19:45:05 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
41647e7a91 cfq-iosched: rethink seeky detection for SSDs
CFQ currently applies the same logic of detecting seeky queues and
grouping them together for rotational disks as well as SSDs.
For SSDs, the time to complete a request doesn't depend on the
request location, but only on the size.
This patch therefore changes the criterion to group queues by
request size in case of SSDs, in order to achieve better fairness.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-28 19:41:25 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
3dde36ddea cfq-iosched: rework seeky detection
Current seeky detection is based on average seek lenght.
This is suboptimal, since the average will not distinguish between:
* a process doing medium sized seeks
* a process doing some sequential requests interleaved with larger seeks
and even a medium seek can take lot of time, if the requested sector
happens to be behind the disk head in the rotation (50% probability).

Therefore, we change the seeky queue detection to work as follows:
* each request can be classified as sequential if it is very close to
  the current head position, i.e. it is likely in the disk cache (disks
  usually read more data than requested, and put it in cache for
  subsequent reads). Otherwise, the request is classified as seeky.
* an history window of the last 32 requests is kept, storing the
  classification result.
* A queue is marked as seeky if more than 1/8 of the last 32 requests
  were seeky.

This patch fixes a regression reported by Yanmin, on mmap 64k random
reads.

Reported-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-28 19:41:25 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
8a78362c4e block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
Except for SCSI no device drivers distinguish between physical and
hardware segment limits.  Consolidate the two into a single segment
limit.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 13:58:08 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
086fa5ff08 block: Rename blk_queue_max_sectors to blk_queue_max_hw_sectors
The block layer calling convention is blk_queue_<limit name>.
blk_queue_max_sectors predates this practice, leading to some confusion.
Rename the function to appropriately reflect that its intended use is to
set max_hw_sectors.

Also introduce a temporary wrapper for backwards compability.  This can
be removed after the merge window is closed.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 13:58:08 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
eb28d31bc9 block: Add BLK_ prefix to definitions
Add a BLK_ prefix to block layer constants.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 13:58:08 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
e751e76a5f block: Remove unused accessor function
blk_queue_max_hw_sectors is no longer called by any subsystem and can be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 13:58:07 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
2800aac111 block: Update blk_queue_max_sectors and documentation
Clarify blk_queue_max_sectors and update documentation.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 13:58:07 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng
024f906616 cfq: Remove useless css reference get
There's no need to take css reference here, for the caller
has already called rcu_read_lock() to prevent cgroup from
being removed.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 08:56:15 +01:00
Jens Axboe
7f03292ee1 Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.34
Conflicts:
	include/linux/blkdev.h

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-25 08:48:05 +01:00
Akinobu Mita
bddd87c7e6 blk-core: use BIO list management functions
Now that the bio list management stuff is generic, convert
generic_make_request to use bio lists instead of its own private bio
list implementation.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-23 08:55:42 +01:00
Jens Axboe
79da0644a8 Revert "block: improve queue_should_plug() by looking at IO depths"
This reverts commit fb1e75389b.

"Benjamin S." <sbenni@gmx.de> reports that the patch in question
causes a big drop in sequential throughput for him, dropping from
200MB/sec down to only 70MB/sec.

Needs to be investigated more fully, for now lets just revert the
offending commit.

Conflicts:

	include/linux/blkdev.h

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-23 08:40:43 +01:00
Richard Kennedy
c4081ba5c9 cfq: reorder cfq_queue removing padding on 64bit
This removes 8 bytes of padding from struct cfq_queue on 64 bit builds,
shrinking it's size to 256 bytes, so fitting into 1 fewer cachelines and
allowing 1 more object/slab in it's kmem_cache.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
----
patch against 2.6.33-rc8
tested on x86_64 AMDX2
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-22 13:49:24 +01:00
Jens Axboe
f11cbd74c5 Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.34 2010-02-22 13:48:51 +01:00
Daniel Mack
3ad2f3fbb9 tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-09 11:13:56 +01:00
Shaohua Li
ae54abed63 cfq-iosched: split seeky coop queues after one slice
Currently we split seeky coop queues after 1s, which is too big. Below patch
marks seeky coop queue split_coop flag after one slice. After that, if new
requests come in, the queues will be splitted. Patch is suggested by Corrado.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-05 13:11:45 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
1efe8fe1c2 cfq-iosched: Do not idle on async queues
Few weeks back, Shaohua Li had posted similar patch. I am reposting it
with more test results.

This patch does two things.

- Do not idle on async queues.

- It also changes the write queue depth CFQ drives (cfq_may_dispatch()).
  Currently, we seem to driving queue depth of 1 always for WRITES. This is
  true even if there is only one write queue in the system and all the logic
  of infinite queue depth in case of single busy queue as well as slowly
  increasing queue depth based on last delayed sync request does not seem to
  be kicking in at all.

This patch will allow deeper WRITE queue depths (subjected to the other
WRITE queue depth contstraints like cfq_quantum and last delayed sync
request).

Shaohua Li had reported getting more out of his SSD. For me, I have got
one Lun exported from an HP EVA and when pure buffered writes are on, I
can get more out of the system. Following are test results of pure
buffered writes (with end_fsync=1) with vanilla and patched kernel. These
results are average of 3 sets of run with increasing number of threads.

AVERAGE[bufwfs][vanilla]
-------
job       Set NR  ReadBW(KB/s)   MaxClat(us)    WriteBW(KB/s)  MaxClat(us)
---       --- --  ------------   -----------    -------------  -----------
bufwfs    3   1   0              0              95349          474141
bufwfs    3   2   0              0              100282         806926
bufwfs    3   4   0              0              109989         2.7301e+06
bufwfs    3   8   0              0              116642         3762231
bufwfs    3   16  0              0              118230         6902970

AVERAGE[bufwfs] [patched kernel]
-------
bufwfs    3   1   0              0              270722         404352
bufwfs    3   2   0              0              206770         1.06552e+06
bufwfs    3   4   0              0              195277         1.62283e+06
bufwfs    3   8   0              0              260960         2.62979e+06
bufwfs    3   16  0              0              299260         1.70731e+06

I also ran buffered writes along with some sequential reads and some
buffered reads going on in the system on a SATA disk because the potential
risk could be that we should not be driving queue depth higher in presence
of sync IO going to keep the max clat low.

With some random and sequential reads going on in the system on one SATA
disk I did not see any significant increase in max clat. So it looks like
other WRITE queue depth control logic is doing its job. Here are the
results.

AVERAGE[brr, bsr, bufw together] [vanilla]
-------
job       Set NR  ReadBW(KB/s)   MaxClat(us)    WriteBW(KB/s)  MaxClat(us)
---       --- --  ------------   -----------    -------------  -----------
brr       3   1   850            546345         0              0
bsr       3   1   14650          729543         0              0
bufw      3   1   0              0              23908          8274517

brr       3   2   981.333        579395         0              0
bsr       3   2   14149.7        1175689        0              0
bufw      3   2   0              0              21921          1.28108e+07

brr       3   4   898.333        1.75527e+06    0              0
bsr       3   4   12230.7        1.40072e+06    0              0
bufw      3   4   0              0              19722.3        2.4901e+07

brr       3   8   900            3160594        0              0
bsr       3   8   9282.33        1.91314e+06    0              0
bufw      3   8   0              0              18789.3        23890622

AVERAGE[brr, bsr, bufw mixed] [patched kernel]
-------
job       Set NR  ReadBW(KB/s)   MaxClat(us)    WriteBW(KB/s)  MaxClat(us)
---       --- --  ------------   -----------    -------------  -----------
brr       3   1   837            417973         0              0
bsr       3   1   14357.7        591275         0              0
bufw      3   1   0              0              24869.7        8910662

brr       3   2   1038.33        543434         0              0
bsr       3   2   13351.3        1205858        0              0
bufw      3   2   0              0              18626.3        13280370

brr       3   4   913            1.86861e+06    0              0
bsr       3   4   12652.3        1430974        0              0
bufw      3   4   0              0              15343.3        2.81305e+07

brr       3   8   890            2.92695e+06    0              0
bsr       3   8   9635.33        1.90244e+06    0              0
bufw      3   8   0              0              17200.3        24424392

So looks like it might make sense to include this patch.

Thanks
Vivek

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-02 20:46:10 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng
bcf4dd4342 blk-cgroup: Fix potential deadlock in blk-cgroup
I triggered a lockdep warning as following.

=======================================================
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.33-rc2 #1
-------------------------------------------------------
test_io_control/7357 is trying to acquire lock:
 (blkio_list_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c053a990>] blkiocg_weight_write+0x82/0x9e

but task is already holding lock:
 (&(&blkcg->lock)->rlock){......}, at: [<c053a949>] blkiocg_weight_write+0x3b/0x9e

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #2 (&(&blkcg->lock)->rlock){......}:
       [<c04583b7>] validate_chain+0x8bc/0xb9c
       [<c0458dba>] __lock_acquire+0x723/0x789
       [<c0458eb0>] lock_acquire+0x90/0xa7
       [<c0692b0a>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x27/0x5a
       [<c053a4e1>] blkiocg_add_blkio_group+0x1a/0x6d
       [<c053cac7>] cfq_get_queue+0x225/0x3de
       [<c053eec2>] cfq_set_request+0x217/0x42d
       [<c052c8a6>] elv_set_request+0x17/0x26
       [<c0532a0f>] get_request+0x203/0x2c5
       [<c0532ae9>] get_request_wait+0x18/0x10e
       [<c0533470>] __make_request+0x2ba/0x375
       [<c0531985>] generic_make_request+0x28d/0x30f
       [<c0532da7>] submit_bio+0x8a/0x8f
       [<c04d827a>] submit_bh+0xf0/0x10f
       [<c04d91d2>] ll_rw_block+0xc0/0xf9
       [<f86e9705>] ext3_find_entry+0x319/0x544 [ext3]
       [<f86eae58>] ext3_lookup+0x2c/0xb9 [ext3]
       [<c04c3e1b>] do_lookup+0xd3/0x172
       [<c04c56c8>] link_path_walk+0x5fb/0x95c
       [<c04c5a65>] path_walk+0x3c/0x81
       [<c04c5b63>] do_path_lookup+0x21/0x8a
       [<c04c66cc>] do_filp_open+0xf0/0x978
       [<c04c0c7e>] open_exec+0x1b/0xb7
       [<c04c1436>] do_execve+0xbb/0x266
       [<c04081a9>] sys_execve+0x24/0x4a
       [<c04028a2>] ptregs_execve+0x12/0x18

-> #1 (&(&q->__queue_lock)->rlock){..-.-.}:
       [<c04583b7>] validate_chain+0x8bc/0xb9c
       [<c0458dba>] __lock_acquire+0x723/0x789
       [<c0458eb0>] lock_acquire+0x90/0xa7
       [<c0692b0a>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x27/0x5a
       [<c053dd2a>] cfq_unlink_blkio_group+0x17/0x41
       [<c053a6eb>] blkiocg_destroy+0x72/0xc7
       [<c0467df0>] cgroup_diput+0x4a/0xb2
       [<c04ca473>] dentry_iput+0x93/0xb7
       [<c04ca4b3>] d_kill+0x1c/0x36
       [<c04cb5c5>] dput+0xf5/0xfe
       [<c04c6084>] do_rmdir+0x95/0xbe
       [<c04c60ec>] sys_rmdir+0x10/0x12
       [<c04027cc>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32

-> #0 (blkio_list_lock){+.+...}:
       [<c0458117>] validate_chain+0x61c/0xb9c
       [<c0458dba>] __lock_acquire+0x723/0x789
       [<c0458eb0>] lock_acquire+0x90/0xa7
       [<c06929fd>] _raw_spin_lock+0x1e/0x4e
       [<c053a990>] blkiocg_weight_write+0x82/0x9e
       [<c0467f1e>] cgroup_file_write+0xc6/0x1c0
       [<c04bd2f3>] vfs_write+0x8c/0x116
       [<c04bd7c6>] sys_write+0x3b/0x60
       [<c04027cc>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32

other info that might help us debug this:

1 lock held by test_io_control/7357:
 #0:  (&(&blkcg->lock)->rlock){......}, at: [<c053a949>] blkiocg_weight_write+0x3b/0x9e
stack backtrace:
Pid: 7357, comm: test_io_control Not tainted 2.6.33-rc2 #1
Call Trace:
 [<c045754f>] print_circular_bug+0x91/0x9d
 [<c0458117>] validate_chain+0x61c/0xb9c
 [<c0458dba>] __lock_acquire+0x723/0x789
 [<c0458eb0>] lock_acquire+0x90/0xa7
 [<c053a990>] ? blkiocg_weight_write+0x82/0x9e
 [<c06929fd>] _raw_spin_lock+0x1e/0x4e
 [<c053a990>] ? blkiocg_weight_write+0x82/0x9e
 [<c053a990>] blkiocg_weight_write+0x82/0x9e
 [<c0467f1e>] cgroup_file_write+0xc6/0x1c0
 [<c0454df5>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd
 [<c044d93a>] ? cpu_clock+0x2e/0x44
 [<c050e6ec>] ? security_file_permission+0xf/0x11
 [<c04bcdda>] ? rw_verify_area+0x8a/0xad
 [<c0467e58>] ? cgroup_file_write+0x0/0x1c0
 [<c04bd2f3>] vfs_write+0x8c/0x116
 [<c04bd7c6>] sys_write+0x3b/0x60
 [<c04027cc>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32

To prevent deadlock, we should take locks as following sequence:

blkio_list_lock -> queue_lock ->  blkcg_lock.

The following patch should fix this bug.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-01 09:58:54 +01:00
Alan D. Brunelle
488991e28e block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O
Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_
merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache).

The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of
a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system.

nomerges        Throughput      %System         Improvement (tput / %sys)
--------        ------------    -----------     -------------------------
0               12.45 MB/sec    0.669365609
1               12.50 MB/sec    0.641519199     0.40% / 2.71%
2               12.52 MB/sec    0.639849750     0.56% / 2.96%

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-29 09:04:08 +01:00
Divyesh Shah
875feb63b9 cfq-iosched: Respect ioprio_class when preempting
In cfq_should_preempt(), we currently allow some cases where a non-RT request
can preempt an ongoing RT cfqq timeslice. This should not happen.
Examples include:

o A sync_noidle wl type non-RT request pre-empting a sync_noidle wl type cfqq
  on which we are idling.
o Once we have per-cgroup async queues, a non-RT sync request pre-empting a RT
  async cfqq.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-11 16:16:18 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
e03a72e136 block: Stop using byte offsets
All callers of the stacking functions use 512-byte sector units rather
than byte offsets.  Simplify the code so the stacking functions take
sectors when specifying data offsets.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-11 14:30:09 +01:00
Kirill Afonshin
ce289321b7 block: removed unused as_io_context
It isn't used anymore, since AS was deleted.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-11 14:29:20 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
17be8c2450 block: bdev_stack_limits wrapper
DM does not want to know about partition offsets.  Add a partition-aware
wrapper that DM can use when stacking block devices.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-11 14:29:20 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
dd3d145d49 block: Fix discard alignment calculation and printing
Discard alignment reporting for partitions was incorrect.  Update to
match the algorithm used elsewhere.

The alignment can be negative (misaligned).  Fix format string
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-11 14:29:19 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
fe0b393f2c block: Correct handling of bottom device misaligment
The top device misalignment flag would not be set if the added bottom
device was already misaligned as opposed to causing a stacking failure.

Also massage the reporting so that an error is only returned if adding
the bottom device caused the misalignment.  I.e. don't return an error
if the top is already flagged as misaligned.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-11 14:29:19 +01:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
e79e95db5c block: Honor the gfp_mask for alloc_page() in blkdev_issue_discard()
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-29 08:53:54 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
81744ee44a block: Fix incorrect alignment offset reporting and update documentation
queue_sector_alignment_offset returned the wrong value which caused
partitions to report an incorrect alignment_offset.  Since offset
alignment calculation is needed several places it has been split into a
separate helper function.  The topology stacking function has been
updated accordingly.

Furthermore, comments have been added to clarify how the stacking
function works.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-29 08:35:35 +01:00
Shaohua Li
2f7a2d89a8 cfq-iosched: don't regard requests with long distance as close
seek_mean could be very big sometimes, using it as close criteria is meaningless
as this doen't improve any performance. So if it's big, let's fallback to
default value.

Reviewed-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-28 13:18:44 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
9504e0864b block: Fix topology stacking for data and discard alignment
The stacking code incorrectly scaled up the data offset in some cases
causing misaligned devices to report alignment.  Rewrite the stacking
algorithm to remedy this and apply the same alignment principles to the
discard handling.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-21 15:55:51 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
65b32a573e cfq-iosched: Remove prio_change logic for workload selection
o CFQ now internally divides cfq queues in therr workload categories. sync-idle,
  sync-noidle and async. Which workload to run depends primarily on rb_key
  offset across three service trees. Which is a combination of mulitiple things
  including what time queue got queued on the service tree.

  There is one exception though. That is if we switched the prio class, say
  we served some RT tasks and again started serving BE class, then with-in
  BE class we always started with sync-noidle workload irrespective of rb_key
  offset in service trees.

  This can provide better latencies for sync-noidle workload in the presence
  of RT tasks.

o This patch gets rid of that exception and which workload to run with-in
  class always depends on lowest rb_key across service trees. The reason
  being that now we have multiple BE class groups and if we always switch
  to sync-noidle workload with-in group, we can potentially starve a sync-idle
  workload with-in group. Same is true for async workload which will be in
  root group. Also the workload-switching with-in group will become very
  unpredictable as it now depends whether some RT workload was running in
  the system or not.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-18 12:40:21 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
fb104db41e cfq-iosched: Get rid of nr_groups
o Currently code does not seem to be using cfqd->nr_groups. Get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-18 12:40:21 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
1db32c4060 cfq-iosched: Remove the check for same cfq group from allow_merge
o allow_merge() already checks if submitting task is pointing to same cfqq
  as rq has been queued in. If everything is fine, we should not be having
  a task in one cgroup and having a pointer to cfqq in other cgroup.

  Well I guess in some situations it can happen and that is, when a random
  IO queue has been moved into root cgroup for group_isolation=0. In
  this case, tasks's cgroup/group is different from where actually cfqq is,
  but this is intentional and in this case merging should be allowed.

  The second situation is where due to close cooperator patches, multiple
  processes can be sharing a cfqq. If everything implemented right, we should
  not end up in a situation where tasks from different processes in different
  groups are sharing the same cfqq as we allow merging of cooperating queues
  only if they are in same group.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-18 12:40:21 +01:00
Jens Axboe
b568be627a block: temporarily disable discard granularity
Commit 86b3728141 adds a check for
misaligned stacking offsets, but it's buggy since the defaults are 0.
Hence all dm devices that pass in a non-zero starting offset will
be marked as misaligned amd dm will complain.

A real fix is coming, in the mean time disable the discard granularity
check so that users don't worry about dm reporting about misaligned
devices.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-16 09:16:41 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
51b736b851 Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cfq: set workload as expired if it doesn't have any slice left
  Fix a CFQ crash in "for-2.6.33" branch of block tree
  cfq: Remove wait_request flag when idle time is being deleted
  cfq-iosched: commenting non-obvious initialization
  cfq-iosched: Take care of corner cases of group losing share due to deletion
  cfq-iosched: Get rid of cfqq wait_busy_done flag
  cfq: Optimization for close cooperating queue searching
  block,xd: Delay allocation of DMA buffers until device is known
  drbd: Following the hmac change to SHASH (see linux commit 8bd1209cff)
  cfq-iosched: reduce write depth only if sync was delayed
2009-12-15 09:11:28 -08:00
Gui Jianfeng
66ae291978 cfq: set workload as expired if it doesn't have any slice left
When a group is resumed, if it doesn't have workload slice left,
we should set workload_expires as expired. Otherwise, we might
start from where we left in previous group by error.
Thanks the idea from Corrado.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-15 10:08:45 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
82bbbf28db Fix a CFQ crash in "for-2.6.33" branch of block tree
I think my previous patch introduced a bug which can lead to CFQ hitting
BUG_ON().

The offending commit in for-2.6.33 branch is.

commit 7667aa0630
Author: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 8 17:52:58 2009 -0500

    cfq-iosched: Take care of corner cases of group losing share due to deletion

While doing some stress testing on my box, I enountered following.

login: [ 3165.148841] BUG: scheduling while
atomic: swapper/0/0x10000100
[ 3165.149821] Modules linked in: cfq_iosched dm_multipath qla2xxx igb
scsi_transport_fc dm_snapshot [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[ 3165.149821] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted
2.6.32-block-for-33-merged-new #3
[ 3165.149821] Call Trace:
[ 3165.149821]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8103fab8>] __schedule_bug+0x5c/0x60
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff8103afd7>] ? __wake_up+0x44/0x4d
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff8153a979>] schedule+0xe3/0x7bc
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff8103a796>] ? cpumask_next+0x1d/0x1f
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffffa000b21d>] ? cfq_dispatch_requests+0x6ba/0x93e
[cfq_iosched]
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff810422d8>] __cond_resched+0x2a/0x35
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffffa000b21d>] ? cfq_dispatch_requests+0x6ba/0x93e
[cfq_iosched]
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff8153b1ee>] _cond_resched+0x2c/0x37
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff8100e2db>] is_valid_bugaddr+0x16/0x2f
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff811e4161>] report_bug+0x18/0xac
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff8100f1fc>] die+0x39/0x63
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff8153cde1>] do_trap+0x11a/0x129
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff8100d470>] do_invalid_op+0x96/0x9f
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffffa000b21d>] ? cfq_dispatch_requests+0x6ba/0x93e
[cfq_iosched]
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff81034b4d>] ? enqueue_task+0x5c/0x67
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff8103ae83>] ? task_rq_unlock+0x11/0x13
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff81041aae>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x292/0x2a4
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff8100c935>] invalid_op+0x15/0x20
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffffa000b21d>] ? cfq_dispatch_requests+0x6ba/0x93e
[cfq_iosched]
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff810df5a6>] ? virt_to_head_page+0xe/0x2f
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff811d8c2a>] blk_peek_request+0x191/0x1a7
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff811e5b8d>] ? kobject_get+0x1a/0x21
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff812c8d4c>] scsi_request_fn+0x82/0x3df
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff8110b2de>] ? bio_fs_destructor+0x15/0x17
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff810df5a6>] ? virt_to_head_page+0xe/0x2f
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff811d931f>] __blk_run_queue+0x42/0x71
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff811d9403>] blk_run_queue+0x26/0x3a
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff812c8761>] scsi_run_queue+0x2de/0x375
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff812b60ac>] ? put_device+0x17/0x19
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff812c92d7>] scsi_next_command+0x3b/0x4b
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff812c9b9f>] scsi_io_completion+0x1c9/0x3f5
[ 3165.149821]  [<ffffffff812c3c36>] scsi_finish_command+0xb5/0xbe

I think I have hit following BUG_ON() in cfq_dispatch_request().

BUG_ON(RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&cfqq->sort_list));

Please find attached the patch to fix it. I have done some stress testing
with it and have not seen it happening again.

o We should wait on a queue even after slice expiry only if it is empty. If
  queue is not empty then continue to expire it.

o If we decide to keep the queue then make cfqq=NULL. Otherwise select_queue()
  will return a valid cfqq and cfq_dispatch_request() can hit following
  BUG_ON().

  BUG_ON(RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&cfqq->sort_list))

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-10 19:25:41 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng
554554f60a cfq: Remove wait_request flag when idle time is being deleted
Remove wait_request flag when idle time is being deleted, otherwise
it'll hit this path every time when a request is enqueued.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-10 09:38:39 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
4ef58d4e2a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (42 commits)
  tree-wide: fix misspelling of "definition" in comments
  reiserfs: fix misspelling of "journaled"
  doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt.
  inotify: remove superfluous return code check
  hdlc: spelling fix in find_pvc() comment
  doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteism
  mtd: Fix comment in Kconfig
  doc: Fix IRQ chip docs
  tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
  drivers/ata/libata-sff.c: comment spelling fixes
  fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt
  sysctl: add missing comments
  fs/debugfs/inode.c: fix comment typos
  sgivwfb: Make use of ARRAY_SIZE.
  sky2: fix sky2_link_down copy/paste comment error
  tree-wide: fix typos "couter" -> "counter"
  tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset"
  fix kerneldoc for set_irq_msi()
  spidev: fix double "of of" in comment
  comment typo fix: sybsystem -> subsystem
  ...
2009-12-09 19:43:33 -08:00
Corrado Zoccolo
edc71131c4 cfq-iosched: commenting non-obvious initialization
Added a comment to explain the initialization of last_delayed_sync.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-09 20:56:04 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
7667aa0630 cfq-iosched: Take care of corner cases of group losing share due to deletion
If there is a sequential reader running in a group, we wait for next request
to come in that group after slice expiry and once new request is in, we expire
the queue. Otherwise we delete the group from service tree and group looses
its fair share.

So far I was marking a queue as wait_busy if it had consumed its slice and
it was last queue in the group. But this condition did not cover following
two cases.

1.If a request completed and slice has not expired yet. Next request comes
  in and is dispatched to disk. Now select_queue() hits and slice has expired.
  This group will be deleted. Because request is still in the disk, this queue
  will never get a chance to wait_busy.

2.If request completed and slice has not expired yet. Before next request
  comes in (delay due to think time), select_queue() hits and expires the
  queue hence group. This queue never got a chance to wait busy.

Gui was hitting the boundary condition 1 and not getting fairness numbers
proportional to weight.

This patch puts the checks for above two conditions and improves the fairness
numbers for sequential workload on rotational media. Check in select_queue()
takes care of case 1 and additional check in should_wait_busy() takes care
of case 2.

Reported-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-09 15:11:04 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
c244bb50a9 cfq-iosched: Get rid of cfqq wait_busy_done flag
o Get rid of wait_busy_done flag. This flag only tells we were doing wait
  busy on a queue and that queue got request so expire it. That information
  can easily be obtained by (cfq_cfqq_wait_busy() && queue_is_not_empty). So
  remove this flag and keep code simple.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-09 15:11:03 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng
b9d8f4c73b cfq: Optimization for close cooperating queue searching
It doesn't make any sense to try to find out a close cooperating
queue if current cfqq is the only one in the group.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-09 15:11:03 +01:00
Corrado Zoccolo
573412b295 cfq-iosched: reduce write depth only if sync was delayed
The introduction of ramp-up formula for async queue depths has
slowed down dirty page reclaim, by reducing async write performance.
This patch makes sure the formula kicks in only when sync request
was recently delayed.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-09 12:32:55 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
878eaddd05 cfq-iosched: Do not access cfqq after freeing it
Fix a crash during boot reported by Jeff Moyer. Fix the issue of accessing
cfqq after freeing it.

Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>
2009-12-07 19:37:15 +01:00
Stephen Rothwell
accee7854b block: include linux/err.h to use ERR_PTR
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-07 09:47:07 +01:00
Jens Axboe
bb729bc98c cfq-iosched: use call_rcu() instead of doing grace period stall on queue exit
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>
2009-12-06 09:54:19 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
846954b0a3 blkio: Allow CFQ group IO scheduling even when CFQ is a module
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: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04 16:38:14 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
3e25206689 blkio: Implement dynamic io controlling policy registration
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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04 16:38:14 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
9d6a986c0b blkio: Export some symbols from blkio as its user CFQ can be a module
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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04 16:38:14 +01:00
Louis Rilling
b69f229206 block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO
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: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04 16:36:18 +01:00
Louis Rilling
61cc74fbb8 block: Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IO
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: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04 16:36:18 +01:00
André Goddard Rosa
af901ca181 tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
, "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
, "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
, "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
Shaohua Li
3c764b7a65 cfq-iosched: make nonrot check logic consistent
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: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04 13:12:06 +01:00
Jens Axboe
237e5bc4e5 io controller: quick fix for blk-cgroup and modular CFQ
It's currently not an allowed configuration, so express that in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04 10:07:38 +01:00
Jens Axboe
f2eecb9152 cfq-iosched: move IO controller declerations to a header file
They should not be declared inside some other file that's not related
to CFQ.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04 10:06:35 +01:00
Jens Axboe
2f5ea47712 cfq-iosched: fix compile problem with !CONFIG_CGROUP
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 21:07:17 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
c04645e592 blkio: Wait on sync-noidle queue even if rq_noidle = 1
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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:53 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
ae30c28655 blkio: Implement group_isolation tunable
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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:53 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
f26bd1f0a3 blkio: Determine async workload length based on total number of queues
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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:53 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
f75edf2dc8 blkio: Wait for cfq queue to get backlogged if group is empty
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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:53 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
f8d461d692 blkio: Propagate cgroup weight updation to cfq groups
o Propagate blkio cgroup weight updation to associated cfq groups.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:53 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
24610333d5 blkio: Drop the reference to queue once the task changes cgroup
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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:52 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
8682e1f15f blkio: Provide some isolation between groups
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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:52 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
220841906f blkio: Export disk time and sectors used by a group to user space
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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:52 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
2868ef7b39 blkio: Some debugging aids for CFQ
o Some debugging aids for CFQ.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:52 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
b1c3576961 blkio: Take care of cgroup deletion and cfq group reference counting
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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nauman Rafique <nauman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:52 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
25fb5169d4 blkio: Dynamic cfq group creation based on cgroup tasks belongs to
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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:52 +01:00