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authorPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>2017-08-04 07:35:11 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2017-08-11 08:58:03 -0600
commitedaf94285bf98375d45cc95bbfd4b9d57796c864 (patch)
tree1a3a79ccc855190bef281b3c12031ecf950ae485 /block
parentd5be3fefc9e2db68eacfc7cfe265e2e860e4213f (diff)
downloadlinux-edaf94285bf98375d45cc95bbfd4b9d57796c864.tar.bz2
block, bfq: boost throughput with flash-based non-queueing devices
When a queue associated with a process remains empty, there are cases where throughput gets boosted if the device is idled to await the arrival of a new I/O request for that queue. Currently, BFQ assumes that one of these cases is when the device has no internal queueing (regardless of the properties of the I/O being served). Unfortunately, this condition has proved to be too general. So, this commit refines it as "the device has no internal queueing and is rotational". This refinement provides a significant throughput boost with random I/O, on flash-based storage without internal queueing. For example, on a HiKey board, throughput increases by up to 125%, growing, e.g., from 6.9MB/s to 15.6MB/s with two or three random readers in parallel. Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Luca Miccio <lucmiccio@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/bfq-iosched.c29
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
index ccdc9e6b5df1..509f39998011 100644
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -3114,7 +3114,10 @@ static bool bfq_may_expire_for_budg_timeout(struct bfq_queue *bfqq)
static bool bfq_bfqq_may_idle(struct bfq_queue *bfqq)
{
struct bfq_data *bfqd = bfqq->bfqd;
- bool idling_boosts_thr, idling_boosts_thr_without_issues,
+ bool rot_without_queueing =
+ !blk_queue_nonrot(bfqd->queue) && !bfqd->hw_tag,
+ bfqq_sequential_and_IO_bound,
+ idling_boosts_thr, idling_boosts_thr_without_issues,
idling_needed_for_service_guarantees,
asymmetric_scenario;
@@ -3133,28 +3136,34 @@ static bool bfq_bfqq_may_idle(struct bfq_queue *bfqq)
bfq_class_idle(bfqq))
return false;
+ bfqq_sequential_and_IO_bound = !BFQQ_SEEKY(bfqq) &&
+ bfq_bfqq_IO_bound(bfqq) && bfq_bfqq_has_short_ttime(bfqq);
+
/*
* The next variable takes into account the cases where idling
* boosts the throughput.
*
* The value of the variable is computed considering, first, that
* idling is virtually always beneficial for the throughput if:
- * (a) the device is not NCQ-capable, or
- * (b) regardless of the presence of NCQ, the device is rotational
- * and the request pattern for bfqq is I/O-bound and sequential.
+ * (a) the device is not NCQ-capable and rotational, or
+ * (b) regardless of the presence of NCQ, the device is rotational and
+ * the request pattern for bfqq is I/O-bound and sequential, or
+ * (c) regardless of whether it is rotational, the device is
+ * not NCQ-capable and the request pattern for bfqq is
+ * I/O-bound and sequential.
*
* Secondly, and in contrast to the above item (b), idling an
* NCQ-capable flash-based device would not boost the
* throughput even with sequential I/O; rather it would lower
* the throughput in proportion to how fast the device
* is. Accordingly, the next variable is true if any of the
- * above conditions (a) and (b) is true, and, in particular,
- * happens to be false if bfqd is an NCQ-capable flash-based
- * device.
+ * above conditions (a), (b) or (c) is true, and, in
+ * particular, happens to be false if bfqd is an NCQ-capable
+ * flash-based device.
*/
- idling_boosts_thr = !bfqd->hw_tag ||
- (!blk_queue_nonrot(bfqd->queue) && bfq_bfqq_IO_bound(bfqq) &&
- bfq_bfqq_has_short_ttime(bfqq));
+ idling_boosts_thr = rot_without_queueing ||
+ ((!blk_queue_nonrot(bfqd->queue) || !bfqd->hw_tag) &&
+ bfqq_sequential_and_IO_bound);
/*
* The value of the next variable,