From 991f61fe7e1db3f74b72a3a5cbe6b012804eb0ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Liu Bo Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 01:47:02 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Blk-throttle: reduce tail io latency when iops limit is enforced When an application's iops has exceeded its cgroup's iops limit, surely it is throttled and kernel will set a timer for dispatching, thus IO latency includes the delay. However, the dispatch delay which is calculated by the limit and the elapsed jiffies is suboptimal. As the dispatch delay is only calculated once the application's iops is (iops limit + 1), it doesn't need to wait any longer than the remaining time of the current slice. The difference can be proved by the following fio job and cgroup iops setting, ----- $ echo 4 > /mnt/config/nullb/disk1/mbps # limit nullb's bandwidth to 4MB/s for testing. $ echo "253:1 riops=100 rbps=max" > /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/cg1/io.max $ cat r2.job [global] name=fio-rand-read filename=/dev/nullb1 rw=randread bs=4k direct=1 numjobs=1 time_based=1 runtime=60 group_reporting=1 [file1] size=4G ioengine=libaio iodepth=1 rate_iops=50000 norandommap=1 thinktime=4ms ----- wo patch: file1: (g=0): rw=randread, bs=(R) 4096B-4096B, (W) 4096B-4096B, (T) 4096B-4096B, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=1 fio-3.7-66-gedfc Starting 1 process read: IOPS=99, BW=400KiB/s (410kB/s)(23.4MiB/60001msec) slat (usec): min=10, max=336, avg=27.71, stdev=17.82 clat (usec): min=2, max=28887, avg=5929.81, stdev=7374.29 lat (usec): min=24, max=28901, avg=5958.73, stdev=7366.22 clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 4], 5.00th=[ 4], 10.00th=[ 4], 20.00th=[ 4], | 30.00th=[ 4], 40.00th=[ 4], 50.00th=[ 6], 60.00th=[11731], | 70.00th=[11863], 80.00th=[11994], 90.00th=[12911], 95.00th=[22676], | 99.00th=[23725], 99.50th=[23987], 99.90th=[23987], 99.95th=[25035], | 99.99th=[28967] w/ patch: file1: (g=0): rw=randread, bs=(R) 4096B-4096B, (W) 4096B-4096B, (T) 4096B-4096B, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=1 fio-3.7-66-gedfc Starting 1 process read: IOPS=100, BW=400KiB/s (410kB/s)(23.4MiB/60005msec) slat (usec): min=10, max=155, avg=23.24, stdev=16.79 clat (usec): min=2, max=12393, avg=5961.58, stdev=5959.25 lat (usec): min=23, max=12412, avg=5985.91, stdev=5951.92 clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 3], 5.00th=[ 3], 10.00th=[ 4], 20.00th=[ 4], | 30.00th=[ 4], 40.00th=[ 5], 50.00th=[ 47], 60.00th=[11863], | 70.00th=[11994], 80.00th=[11994], 90.00th=[11994], 95.00th=[11994], | 99.00th=[11994], 99.50th=[11994], 99.90th=[12125], 99.95th=[12125], | 99.99th=[12387] Signed-off-by: Liu Bo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/blk-throttle.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c index caaabbe8a7a5..a3eede00d302 100644 --- a/block/blk-throttle.c +++ b/block/blk-throttle.c @@ -922,12 +922,7 @@ static bool tg_with_in_iops_limit(struct throtl_grp *tg, struct bio *bio, } /* Calc approx time to dispatch */ - jiffy_wait = ((tg->io_disp[rw] + 1) * HZ) / tg_iops_limit(tg, rw) + 1; - - if (jiffy_wait > jiffy_elapsed) - jiffy_wait = jiffy_wait - jiffy_elapsed; - else - jiffy_wait = 1; + jiffy_wait = jiffy_elapsed_rnd - jiffy_elapsed; if (wait) *wait = jiffy_wait; -- 2.30.2