From ac8b0cb415f3aa9162009d39624501d37031533b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Valente Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:06:31 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/bfq-iosched.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'block/bfq-iosched.c') diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c index 2756f4b1432b..a6fe60114ade 100644 --- a/block/bfq-iosched.c +++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c @@ -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); -- cgit