From 4420b095cc474759f6fbdb6351648c7ff9833a54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Valente Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 21:55:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] block, bfq: do not expire a queue that will deserve dispatch plugging MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit For some bfq_queues, BFQ plugs I/O dispatching when the queue becomes idle, and keeps the plug until a new request of the queue arrives, or a timeout fires. BFQ does so either to boost throughput or to preserve service guarantees for the queue. More precisely, for such a queue, plugging starts when the queue happens to have either no request enqueued, or no request in flight, that is, no request already dispatched but not yet completed. On the opposite end, BFQ may happen to expire a queue with no request enqueued, without doing any plugging, if the queue still has some request in flight. Unfortunately, such a premature expiration causes the queue to lose its chance to enjoy dispatch plugging a moment later, i.e., when its in-flight requests finally get completed. This breaks service guarantees for the queue. This commit prevents BFQ from expiring an empty queue if the latter still has in-flight requests. Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/bfq-iosched.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c index 3f32e88c7e9b..4fd4f1996498 100644 --- a/block/bfq-iosched.c +++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c @@ -3597,8 +3597,14 @@ static struct bfq_queue *bfq_select_queue(struct bfq_data *bfqd) bfq_log_bfqq(bfqd, bfqq, "select_queue: already in-service queue"); + /* + * Do not expire bfqq for budget timeout if bfqq may be about + * to enjoy device idling. The reason why, in this case, we + * prevent bfqq from expiring is the same as in the comments + * on the case where bfq_bfqq_must_idle() returns true, in + * bfq_completed_request(). + */ if (bfq_may_expire_for_budg_timeout(bfqq) && - !bfq_bfqq_wait_request(bfqq) && !bfq_bfqq_must_idle(bfqq)) goto expire; @@ -4674,8 +4680,32 @@ static void bfq_completed_request(struct bfq_queue *bfqq, struct bfq_data *bfqd) * or if we want to idle in case it has no pending requests. */ if (bfqd->in_service_queue == bfqq) { - if (bfqq->dispatched == 0 && bfq_bfqq_must_idle(bfqq)) { - bfq_arm_slice_timer(bfqd); + if (bfq_bfqq_must_idle(bfqq)) { + if (bfqq->dispatched == 0) + bfq_arm_slice_timer(bfqd); + /* + * If we get here, we do not expire bfqq, even + * if bfqq was in budget timeout or had no + * more requests (as controlled in the next + * conditional instructions). The reason for + * not expiring bfqq is as follows. + * + * Here bfqq->dispatched > 0 holds, but + * bfq_bfqq_must_idle() returned true. This + * implies that, even if no request arrives + * for bfqq before bfqq->dispatched reaches 0, + * bfqq will, however, not be expired on the + * completion event that causes bfqq->dispatch + * to reach zero. In contrast, on this event, + * bfqq will start enjoying device idling + * (I/O-dispatch plugging). + * + * But, if we expired bfqq here, bfqq would + * not have the chance to enjoy device idling + * when bfqq->dispatched finally reaches + * zero. This would expose bfqq to violation + * of its reserved service guarantees. + */ return; } else if (bfq_may_expire_for_budg_timeout(bfqq)) bfq_bfqq_expire(bfqd, bfqq, false, -- 2.30.2