Paolo Valente b5a185ee30 block, bfq: increase idling for weight-raised queues ... [ Upstream commit 778c02a236 ] If a sync bfq_queue has a higher weight than some other queue, and remains temporarily empty while in service, then, to preserve the bandwidth share of the queue, it is necessary to plug I/O dispatching until a new request arrives for the queue. In addition, a timeout needs to be set, to avoid waiting for ever if the process associated with the queue has actually finished its I/O. Even with the above timeout, the device is however not fed with new I/O for a while, if the process has finished its I/O. If this happens often, then throughput drops and latencies grow. For this reason, the timeout is kept rather low: 8 ms is the current default. Unfortunately, such a low value may cause, on the opposite end, a violation of bandwidth guarantees for a process that happens to issue new I/O too late. The higher the system load, the higher the probability that this happens to some process. This is a problem in scenarios where service guarantees matter more than throughput. One important case are weight-raised queues, which need to be granted a very high fraction of the bandwidth. To address this issue, this commit lower-bounds the plugging timeout for weight-raised queues to 20 ms. This simple change provides relevant benefits. For example, on a PLEXTOR PX-256M5S, with which gnome-terminal starts in 0.6 seconds if there is no other I/O in progress, the same applications starts in - 0.8 seconds, instead of 1.2 seconds, if ten files are being read sequentially in parallel - 1 second, instead of 2 seconds, if, in parallel, five files are being read sequentially, and five more files are being written sequentially Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>		2019-06-15 11:54:10 +02:00
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badblocks.c
bfq-cgroup.c
bfq-iosched.c	block, bfq: increase idling for weight-raised queues	2019-06-15 11:54:10 +02:00
bfq-iosched.h
bfq-wf2q.c
bio-integrity.c
bio.c
blk-cgroup.c
blk-core.c	blk-mq: move cancel of requeue_work into blk_mq_release	2019-06-15 11:54:06 +02:00
blk-exec.c
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blk-integrity.c
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blk-iolatency.c
blk-lib.c
blk-map.c
blk-merge.c
blk-mq-cpumap.c
blk-mq-debugfs-zoned.c
blk-mq-debugfs.c
blk-mq-debugfs.h
blk-mq-pci.c
blk-mq-rdma.c
blk-mq-sched.c
blk-mq-sched.h
blk-mq-sysfs.c
blk-mq-tag.c
blk-mq-tag.h
blk-mq-virtio.c
blk-mq.c	blk-mq: move cancel of requeue_work into blk_mq_release	2019-06-15 11:54:06 +02:00
blk-mq.h
blk-rq-qos.c
blk-rq-qos.h
blk-settings.c
blk-softirq.c
blk-stat.c
blk-stat.h
blk-sysfs.c
blk-tag.c
blk-throttle.c
blk-timeout.c
blk-wbt.c
blk-wbt.h
blk-zoned.c
blk.h
bounce.c
bsg-lib.c
bsg.c
cfq-iosched.c
cmdline-parser.c
compat_ioctl.c
deadline-iosched.c
elevator.c
genhd.c
ioctl.c
ioprio.c
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mq-deadline.c
noop-iosched.c
opal_proto.h
partition-generic.c
scsi_ioctl.c
sed-opal.c
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