Re: [PATCH] cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages inCFQ for easier debugging.

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Wed Mar 24 2010 - 21:01:10 EST


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:19:34PM -0700, Divyesh Shah wrote:
> These extra logging messages have helped us debug some issues we've noticed in
> earlier IO controller versions and should be useful now as well. The extra
> logging covers:
> - idling behavior. Since there are so many conditions based on which we decide
> to idle or not, this patch adds a log message for some conditions that we've
> found useful.
> - workload slices and current prio and workload type
>
> Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> block/cfq-iosched.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
> index e6910dc..556124a 100644
> --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
> +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
> @@ -1646,6 +1646,10 @@ static struct cfq_queue *cfq_set_active_queue(struct cfq_data *cfqd,
> if (!cfqq)
> cfqq = cfq_get_next_queue(cfqd);
>
> + if (cfqq)
> + cfq_log_cfqq(cfqd, cfqq, "New timeslice for wl_prio:%d "
> + "wl_type:%d", cfqd->serving_prio,
> + cfqd->serving_type);
> __cfq_set_active_queue(cfqd, cfqq);

Divyesh, __cfq_set_active_queue(), is already logging message
"set_active". Why don't you simply extend that to also print prio and
workload type of the queue service tree.

> return cfqq;
> }
> @@ -1789,7 +1793,11 @@ static bool cfq_should_idle(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *cfqq)
> * Otherwise, we do only if they are the last ones
> * in their service tree.
> */
> - return service_tree->count == 1 && cfq_cfqq_sync(cfqq);
> + if (service_tree->count == 1 && cfq_cfqq_sync(cfqq))
> + return 1;
> + cfq_log_cfqq(cfqd, cfqq, "Not idling. queue_count:%d",
> + service_tree->count);
> + return 0;

Instead of queue_count, probably st->count=%d will be better.

Rest of it looks ok to me.

Vivek

> }
>
> static void cfq_arm_slice_timer(struct cfq_data *cfqd)
> @@ -1834,8 +1842,11 @@ static void cfq_arm_slice_timer(struct cfq_data *cfqd)
> * time slice.
> */
> if (sample_valid(cic->ttime_samples) &&
> - (cfqq->slice_end - jiffies < cic->ttime_mean))
> + (cfqq->slice_end - jiffies < cic->ttime_mean)) {
> + cfq_log_cfqq(cfqd, cfqq, "Not idling. think_time:%d",
> + cic->ttime_mean);
> return;
> + }
>
> cfq_mark_cfqq_wait_request(cfqq);
>
> @@ -2043,6 +2054,7 @@ static void choose_service_tree(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_group *cfqg)
> slice = max(slice, 2 * cfqd->cfq_slice_idle);
>
> slice = max_t(unsigned, slice, CFQ_MIN_TT);
> + cfq_log(cfqd, "workload slice:%d", slice);
> cfqd->workload_expires = jiffies + slice;
> cfqd->noidle_tree_requires_idle = false;
> }
> @@ -3309,6 +3321,7 @@ static void cfq_completed_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
> if (cfq_should_wait_busy(cfqd, cfqq)) {
> cfqq->slice_end = jiffies + cfqd->cfq_slice_idle;
> cfq_mark_cfqq_wait_busy(cfqq);
> + cfq_log_cfqq(cfqd, cfqq, "will busy wait");
> }
>
> /*
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