[PATCH 1/15] cfq-iosched: improve preemption for cooperating tasks

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Apr 24 2007 - 04:17:31 EST


When testing the syslet async io approach, I discovered that CFQ
sometimes didn't perform as well as expected. cfq_should_preempt()
needs to better check for cooperating tasks, so fix that by allowing
preemption of an equal priority queue if the recently queued request
is as good a candidate for IO as the one we are currently waiting for.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/cfq-iosched.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index 9e37971..a683d00 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -861,15 +861,11 @@ static int cfq_arm_slice_timer(struct cfq_data *cfqd)

static void cfq_dispatch_insert(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq)
{
- struct cfq_data *cfqd = q->elevator->elevator_data;
struct cfq_queue *cfqq = RQ_CFQQ(rq);

cfq_remove_request(rq);
cfqq->on_dispatch[rq_is_sync(rq)]++;
elv_dispatch_sort(q, rq);
-
- rq = list_entry(q->queue_head.prev, struct request, queuelist);
- cfqd->last_sector = rq->sector + rq->nr_sectors;
}

/*
@@ -1579,6 +1575,7 @@ cfq_should_preempt(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *new_cfqq,
struct request *rq)
{
struct cfq_queue *cfqq = cfqd->active_queue;
+ sector_t dist;

if (cfq_class_idle(new_cfqq))
return 0;
@@ -1588,14 +1585,14 @@ cfq_should_preempt(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *new_cfqq,

if (cfq_class_idle(cfqq))
return 1;
- if (!cfq_cfqq_wait_request(new_cfqq))
- return 0;
+
/*
* if the new request is sync, but the currently running queue is
* not, let the sync request have priority.
*/
if (rq_is_sync(rq) && !cfq_cfqq_sync(cfqq))
return 1;
+
/*
* So both queues are sync. Let the new request get disk time if
* it's a metadata request and the current queue is doing regular IO.
@@ -1603,6 +1600,21 @@ cfq_should_preempt(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *new_cfqq,
if (rq_is_meta(rq) && !cfqq->meta_pending)
return 1;

+ if (!cfqd->active_cic || !cfq_cfqq_wait_request(cfqq))
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * if this request is as-good as one we would expect from the
+ * current cfqq, let it preempt
+ */
+ if (rq->sector > cfqd->last_sector)
+ dist = rq->sector - cfqd->last_sector;
+ else
+ dist = cfqd->last_sector - rq->sector;
+
+ if (dist <= cfqd->active_cic->seek_mean)
+ return 1;
+
return 0;
}

@@ -1719,6 +1731,8 @@ static void cfq_completed_request(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq)
cfqq->on_dispatch[sync]--;
cfqq->service_last = now;

+ cfqd->last_sector = rq->hard_sector + rq->hard_nr_sectors;
+
if (!cfq_class_idle(cfqq))
cfqd->last_end_request = now;

--
1.5.1.1.190.g74474

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