For some configurations of CONFIG_PREEMPT that is not true. So
get rid of __call_for_each_cic() and always uses the explicitly
rcu_read_lock() protected call_for_each_cic() instead.
This fixes a potential bug related to IO scheduler removal or
online switching.
Thanks to Paul McKenney for clarifying this.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly. I've kept
the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Removing think time checking. A high thinktime queue might means the queue
dispatches several requests and then do away. Limitting such queue seems
meaningless. And also this can simplify code. This is suggested by Vivek.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
For v2, I added back lines to cfq_preempt_queue() that were removed
during updates for accounting unaccounted_time. Thanks for pointing out
that I'd missed these, Vivek.
Previous commit "cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt" wrongly
cleared stats for preempting queues when it shouldn't have, because when
we choose a queue to preempt, it still isn't necessarily scheduled next.
Thanks to Vivek Goyal for figuring this out and understanding how the
preemption code works.
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Commit "Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used" changed the behavior of
cfq_preempt_queue to set cfqq active. Vivek pointed out that other
preemption rules might get involved, so we shouldn't manually set which
queue is active.
This cleans up the code to just clear the queue stats at preemption
time.
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Version 3 is updated to apply to for-2.6.39/core.
For version 2, I took Vivek's advice and made sure we update the group
weight from cfq_group_service_tree_add().
If a weight was updated while a group is on the service tree, the
calculation for the total weight of the service tree can be adjusted
improperly, which either leads to bad service tree weights, or
potentially crashes (if total_weight becomes 0).
This patch defers updates to the weight until a group is off the service
tree.
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
There are two kind of times that tasks are not charged for: the first
seek and the extra time slice used over the allocated timeslice. Both
of these exported as a new unaccounted_time stat.
I think it would be good to have this reported in 'time' as well, but
that is probably a separate discussion.
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The update_vdisktime logic is broken since commit
b54ce60eb7, st->min_vdisktime never makes
a progress. Fix it.
Thanks Vivek for pointing it out.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If there are a sync and an async queue and the sync queue's think time
is small, we can ignore the sync queue's dispatch quantum. Because the
sync queue will always preempt the async queue, we don't need to care
about async's latency. This can fix a performance regression of
aiostress test, which is introduced by commit f8ae6e3eb8. The issue
should exist even without the commit, but the commit amplifies the
impact.
The initial post does the same optimization for RT queue too, but since
I have no real workload for it, Vivek suggests to drop it.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This merge creates two set of conflicts. One is simple context
conflicts caused by removal of throtl_scheduled_delayed_work() in
for-linus and removal of throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() in
for-2.6.39/core.
The other is caused by commit 255bb490c8 (block: blk-flush shouldn't
call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue()) in for-linus
crashing with FLUSH reimplementation in for-2.6.39/core. The conflict
isn't trivial but the resolution is straight-forward.
* __blk_run_queue() calls in flush_end_io() and flush_data_end_io()
should be called with @force_kblockd set to %true.
* elv_insert() in blk_kick_flush() should use
%ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE.
Both changes are to avoid invoking ->request_fn() directly from
request completion path and closely match the changes in the commit
255bb490c8.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
__blk_run_queue() automatically either calls q->request_fn() directly
or schedules kblockd depending on whether the function is recursed.
blk-flush implementation needs to be able to explicitly choose
kblockd. Add @force_kblockd.
All the current users are converted to specify %false for the
parameter and this patch doesn't introduce any behavior change.
stable: This is prerequisite for fixing ide oops caused by the new
blk-flush implementation.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Effectively, make group_isolation=1 the default and remove the tunable.
The setting group_isolation=0 was because by default we idle on
sync-noidle tree and on fast devices, this can be very harmful for
throughput.
However, this problem can also be addressed by tuning slice_idle and
possibly group_idle on faster storage devices.
This change simplifies the CFQ code by removing the feature entirely.
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Flush requests are never put on the IO scheduler. Convert request
structure's elevator_private* into an array and have the flush fields
share a union with it.
Reclaim the space lost in 'struct request' by moving 'completion_data'
back in the union with 'rb_node'.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Commit 7667aa0630 added logic to wait for
the last queue of the group to become busy (have at least one request),
so that the group does not lose out for not being continuously
backlogged. The commit did not check for the condition that the last
queue already has some requests. As a result, if the queue already has
requests, wait_busy is set. Later on, cfq_select_queue() checks the
flag, and decides that since the queue has a request now and wait_busy
is set, the queue is expired. This results in early expiration of the
queue.
This patch fixes the problem by adding a check to see if queue already
has requests. If it does, wait_busy is not set. As a result, time slices
do not expire early.
The queues with more than one request are usually buffered writers.
Testing shows improvement in isolation between buffered writers.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Rename a function to give it more approprate name. We are calculating
cfq queue slice and function name gives the impression as if cfq group
slice length is being calculated.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If a queue is preempted before it gets slice assigned, the queue doesn't get
compensation, which looks unfair. For such queue, we compensate it for a whole
slice.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
I got this:
fio-874 [007] 2157.724514: 8,32 m N cfq874 preempt
fio-874 [007] 2157.724519: 8,32 m N cfq830 slice expired t=1
fio-874 [007] 2157.724520: 8,32 m N cfq830 sl_used=1 disp=0 charge=1 iops=0 sect=0
fio-874 [007] 2157.724521: 8,32 m N cfq830 set_active wl_prio:0 wl_type:0
fio-874 [007] 2157.724522: 8,32 m N cfq830 Not idling. st->count:1
cfq830 is an async queue, and preempted by a sync queue cfq874. But since we
have cfqg->saved_workload_slice mechanism, the preempt is a nop.
Looks currently our preempt is totally broken if the two queues are not from
the same workload type.
Below patch fixes it. This will might make async queue starvation, but it's
what our old code does before cgroup is added.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
block: trace event block fix unassigned field
block: add internal hd part table references
block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
kref: add kref_test_and_get
bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
sd: implement sd_check_events()
sr: implement sr_check_events()
...
cfq_group->ref is used with queue_lock hold, the only exception is
cfq_set_request, which looks like a bug to me, so ref doesn't need
to be an atomic and atomic operation is slower.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
cfq_queue->ref is used with queue_lock hold, so ref doesn't need to be an atomic
and atomic operation is slower.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When cfq_choose_cfqg() is called in select_queue(), there must be at least one
backlogged CFQ queue waiting for dispatching, hence there must be at least one
backlogged CFQ group on service tree. So we never call choose_service_tree()
with cfqg == NULL.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If priority is changed, continuing to check workload_expires and service tree
count of the previous workload does not make sense. We should always choose
the workload with lowest key of new priority in such case.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
It's able to check whether a CFQ group on a service tree by
checking "cfqg->rb_node". There's no need to maintain an
extra flag here.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When a cfq group is running, it won't be dequeued from service tree, so
there's no need to store the active one in st->active. Just gid rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Vivek suggests we don't need schedule a dispatch when an idle queue
becomes nonidle. And he is right, cfq_should_preempt already covers
the logic.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If a deep seek queue slowly deliver requests but disk is much faster, idle
for the queue just wastes disk throughput. If the queue delevers all requests
before half its slice is used, the patch disable idle for it.
In my test, application delivers 32 requests one time, the disk can accept
128 requests at maxium and disk is fast. without the patch, the throughput
is just around 30m/s, while with it, the speed is about 80m/s. The disk is
a SSD, but is detected as a rotational disk. I can configure it as SSD, but
I thought the deep seek queue logic should be fixed too, for example,
considering a fast raid.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
A queue is idle at cfq_dispatch_requests(), but it gets noidle later. Unless
other task explictly does unplug or all requests are drained, we will not
deliever requests to the disk even cfq_arm_slice_timer doesn't make the
queue idle. For example, cfq_should_idle() returns true because of
service_tree->count == 1, and then other queues are added. Note, I didn't
see obvious performance impacts so far with the patch, but just thought
this could be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (39 commits)
cfq-iosched: Fix a gcc 4.5 warning and put some comments
block: Turn bvec_k{un,}map_irq() into static inline functions
block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
block: Make the integrity mapped property a bio flag
block: Fix double free in blk_integrity_unregister
block: Ensure physical block size is unsigned int
blkio-throttle: Fix possible multiplication overflow in iops calculations
blkio-throttle: limit max iops value to UINT_MAX
blkio-throttle: There is no need to convert jiffies to milli seconds
blkio-throttle: Fix link failure failure on i386
blkio: Recalculate the throttled bio dispatch time upon throttle limit change
blkio: Add root group to td->tg_list
blkio: deletion of a cgroup was causes oops
blkio: Do not export throttle files if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=n
block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory
block: revert bad fix for memory hotplug causing bounces
Fix compile error in blk-exec.c for !CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK
block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory
block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O
cfq: improve fsync performance for small files
...
Fix up trivial conflicts due to __rcu sparse annotation in include/linux/genhd.h
- Andi encountedred following warning with gcc 4.5
linux/block/cfq-iosched.c: In function ‘cfq_dispatch_requests’:
linux/block/cfq-iosched.c:2156:3: warning: array subscript is above array
bounds
- Warning happens due to following code.
slice = group_slice * count /
max_t(unsigned, cfqg->busy_queues_avg[cfqd->serving_prio],
cfq_group_busy_queues_wl(cfqd->serving_prio, cfqd, cfqg));
gcc is complaining about cfqg->busy_queues_avg[] being indexed by CFQ
prio classes (RT, BE and IDLE) while the array size is only 2.
- At run time, we never access cfqg->busy_queues_avg[IDLE] and return from
function before this code hits.
- To fix warning increase the array size though it will remain unused. This
patch also puts some comments to clarify some of the confusions.
- I have taken Jens's patch and modified it a bit.
- Compile tested with gcc 4.4 and boot tested. I don't have gcc 4.5
running, Andi can you please test it with gcc 4.5 to make sure it
worked.
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Currently any cgroup throttle limit changes are processed asynchronousy and
the change does not take affect till a new bio is dispatched from same group.
o It might happen that a user sets a redicuously low limit on throttling.
Say 1 bytes per second on reads. In such cases simple operations like mount
a disk can wait for a very long time.
o Once bio is throttled, there is no easy way to come out of that wait even if
user increases the read limit later.
o This patch fixes it. Now if a user changes the cgroup limits, we recalculate
the bio dispatch time according to new limits.
o Can't take queueu lock under blkcg_lock, hence after the change I wake
up the dispatch thread again which recalculates the time. So there are some
variables being synchronized across two threads without lock and I had to
make use of barriers. Hoping I have used barriers correctly. Any review of
memory barrier code especially will help.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Mike reported a kernel crash when a usb key hotplug is performed while all
kernel thrads are not in a root cgroup and are running in one of the child
cgroups of blkio controller.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000002c
IP: [<c11c7b08>] cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/host3/scsi_host/host3/uevent
[..]
Pid: 30039, comm: scsi_scan_3 Not tainted 2.6.35.2-fg.roam #1 Volvi2 /Aspire 4315
EIP: 0060:[<c11c7b08>] EFLAGS: 00010086 CPU: 0
EIP is at cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412
EAX: f705f9c0 EBX: e977abac ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
ESI: f00da400 EDI: f00da4ec EBP: e977a800 ESP: dff8fd00
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process scsi_scan_3 (pid: 30039, ti=dff8e000 task=f6b6c9a0 task.ti=dff8e000)
Stack:
00000000 00000000 00000001 01ff0000 f00da508 00000000 f00da524 f00da540
<0> e7994940 dd631750 f705f9c0 e977a820 e977ac44 f00da4d0 00000001 f6b6c9a0
<0> 00000010 00008010 0000000b 00000000 00000001 e977a800 dd76fac0 00000246
Call Trace:
[<c11c7f10>] ? cfq_set_request+0x228/0x34c
[<c11c7ce8>] ? cfq_set_request+0x0/0x34c
[<c11bb3b9>] ? elv_set_request+0xf/0x1c
[<c11bdd51>] ? get_request+0x1ad/0x22f
[<c11bddf2>] ? get_request_wait+0x1f/0x11a
[<c11d013b>] ? kvasprintf+0x33/0x3b
[<c127b537>] ? scsi_execute+0x1d/0x103
[<c127b675>] ? scsi_execute_req+0x58/0x83
[<c127c391>] ? scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x188/0x7c2
[<c12718c6>] ? attribute_container_add_device+0x15/0xfa
[<c11c95d1>] ? kobject_get+0xf/0x13
[<c126d1db>] ? get_device+0x10/0x14
[<c127be93>] ? scsi_alloc_target+0x217/0x24d
[<c127cbd8>] ? __scsi_scan_target+0x95/0x480
[<c10204eb>] ? dequeue_entity+0x14/0x1fe
[<c1020491>] ? update_curr+0x165/0x1ab
[<c1020491>] ? update_curr+0x165/0x1ab
[<c127d00d>] ? scsi_scan_channel+0x4a/0x76
[<c127d0b0>] ? scsi_scan_host_selected+0x77/0xad
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c127d137>] ? do_scsi_scan_host+0x51/0x56
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c127d14a>] ? do_scan_async+0xe/0x11a
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c10354c5>] ? kthread+0x5e/0x63
[<c1035467>] ? kthread+0x0/0x63
[<c1002af6>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
Code: 44 24 1c 54 83 44 24 18 54 83 fa 03 75 94 8b 06 c7 86 64 02 00 00 01 00 00 00 83 e0 03 09 f0 89 06 8b 44 24 28 8b 90 58 01 00 00 <8b> 42 2c 85 c0 75 03 8b 42 08 8d 54 24 48 52 8d 4c 24 50 51 68
EIP: [<c11c7b08>] cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412 SS:ESP 0068:dff8fd00
CR2: 000000000000002c
---[ end trace 9a88306573f69b12 ]---
The problem here is that we don't have bdi->dev information available when
thread does some IO. Hence when dev_name() tries to access bdi->dev, it
crashes.
This problem does not happen if kernel threads are in root group as root
group is statically allocated at device initialization time and we don't
hit this piece of code.
Fix it by delaying the filling of major and minor number information of
device in blk_group. Initially a blk_group is created with 0 as device
information and this information is filled later once some more IO comes
in from same group.
Reported-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Fsync performance for small files achieved by cfq on high-end disks is
lower than what deadline can achieve, due to idling introduced between
the sync write happening in process context and the journal commit.
Moreover, when competing with a sequential reader, a process writing
small files and fsync-ing them is starved.
This patch fixes the two problems by:
- marking journal commits as WRITE_SYNC, so that they get the REQ_NOIDLE
flag set,
- force all queues that have REQ_NOIDLE requests to be put in the noidle
tree.
Having the queue associated to the fsync-ing process and the one associated
to journal commits in the noidle tree allows:
- switching between them without idling,
- fairness vs. competing idling queues, since they will be serviced only
after the noidle tree expires its slice.
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o This patch prepares the base for introducing new IO control policies.
Currently all the code is written knowing there is only one policy
and that is proportional bandwidth. Creating infrastructure for newer
policies to come in.
o Also there were many functions which were generated using macro. It was
very confusing. Got rid of those.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Divyesh had gotten rid of this code in the past. I want to re-introduce it
back as it helps me a lot during debugging.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Implement a new tunable group_idle, which allows idling on the group
instead of a cfq queue. Hence one can set slice_idle = 0 and not idle
on the individual queues but idle on the group. This way on fast storage
we can get fairness between groups at the same time overall throughput
improves.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Implement another CFQ mode where we charge group in terms of number
of requests dispatched instead of measuring the time. Measuring in terms
of time is not possible when we are driving deeper queue depths and there
are requests from multiple cfq queues in the request queue.
o This mode currently gets activated if one sets slice_idle=0 and associated
disk supports NCQ. Again the idea is that on an NCQ disk with idling disabled
most of the queues will dispatch 1 or more requests and then cfq queue
expiry happens and we don't have a way to measure time. So start providing
fairness in terms of IOPS.
o Currently IOPS mode works only with cfq group scheduling. CFQ is following
different scheduling algorithms for queue and group scheduling. These IOPS
stats are used only for group scheduling hence in non-croup mode nothing
should change.
o For CFQ group scheduling one can disable slice idling so that we don't idle
on queue and drive deeper request queue depths (achieving better throughput),
at the same time group idle is enabled so one should get service
differentiation among groups.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Do not idle either on cfq queue or service tree if slice_idle=0. User does
not want any queue or service tree idling. Currently even if slice_idle=0,
we were waiting for request to finish before expiring the queue and that
can lead to lower queue depths.
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver. There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests: BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD. Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.
Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in
struct requests. This allows much easier grepping for different request
types instead of unwinding through macros.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Hi,
A user reported a kernel bug when running a particular program that did
the following:
created 32 threads
- each thread took a mutex, grabbed a global offset, added a buffer size
to that offset, released the lock
- read from the given offset in the file
- created a new thread to do the same
- exited
The result is that cfq's close cooperator logic would trigger, as the
threads were issuing I/O within the mean seek distance of one another.
This workload managed to routinely trigger a use after free bug when
walking the list of merge candidates for a particular cfqq
(cfqq->new_cfqq). The logic used for merging queues looks like this:
static void cfq_setup_merge(struct cfq_queue *cfqq, struct cfq_queue *new_cfqq)
{
int process_refs, new_process_refs;
struct cfq_queue *__cfqq;
/* Avoid a circular list and skip interim queue merges */
while ((__cfqq = new_cfqq->new_cfqq)) {
if (__cfqq == cfqq)
return;
new_cfqq = __cfqq;
}
process_refs = cfqq_process_refs(cfqq);
/*
* If the process for the cfqq has gone away, there is no
* sense in merging the queues.
*/
if (process_refs == 0)
return;
/*
* Merge in the direction of the lesser amount of work.
*/
new_process_refs = cfqq_process_refs(new_cfqq);
if (new_process_refs >= process_refs) {
cfqq->new_cfqq = new_cfqq;
atomic_add(process_refs, &new_cfqq->ref);
} else {
new_cfqq->new_cfqq = cfqq;
atomic_add(new_process_refs, &cfqq->ref);
}
}
When a merge candidate is found, we add the process references for the
queue with less references to the queue with more. The actual merging
of queues happens when a new request is issued for a given cfqq. In the
case of the test program, it only does a single pread call to read in
1MB, so the actual merge never happens.
Normally, this is fine, as when the queue exits, we simply drop the
references we took on the other cfqqs in the merge chain:
/*
* If this queue was scheduled to merge with another queue, be
* sure to drop the reference taken on that queue (and others in
* the merge chain). See cfq_setup_merge and cfq_merge_cfqqs.
*/
__cfqq = cfqq->new_cfqq;
while (__cfqq) {
if (__cfqq == cfqq) {
WARN(1, "cfqq->new_cfqq loop detected\n");
break;
}
next = __cfqq->new_cfqq;
cfq_put_queue(__cfqq);
__cfqq = next;
}
However, there is a hole in this logic. Consider the following (and
keep in mind that each I/O keeps a reference to the cfqq):
q1->new_cfqq = q2 // q2 now has 2 process references
q3->new_cfqq = q2 // q2 now has 3 process references
// the process associated with q2 exits
// q2 now has 2 process references
// queue 1 exits, drops its reference on q2
// q2 now has 1 process reference
// q3 exits, so has 0 process references, and hence drops its references
// to q2, which leaves q2 also with 0 process references
q4 comes along and wants to merge with q3
q3->new_cfqq still points at q2! We follow that link and end up at an
already freed cfqq.
So, the fix is to not follow a merge chain if the top-most queue does
not have a process reference, otherwise any queue in the chain could be
already freed. I also changed the logic to disallow merging with a
queue that does not have any process references. Previously, we did
this check for one of the merge candidates, but not the other. That
doesn't really make sense.
Without the attached patch, my system would BUG within a couple of
seconds of running the reproducer program. With the patch applied, my
system ran the program for over an hour without issues.
This addresses the following bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16217
Thanks a ton to Phil Carns for providing the bug report and an excellent
reproducer.
[ Note for stable: this applies to 2.6.32/33/34 ].
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Phil Carns <carns@mcs.anl.gov>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Jens Axboe
Christoph Hellwig
Lucas De Marchi
Li, Shaohua
Justin TerAvest
Gui Jianfeng
Tejun Heo
Mike Snitzer
Vivek Goyal
Linus Torvalds
Uwe Kleine-König
Corrado Zoccolo
Christoph Hellwig
Jeff Moyer