cfq-iosched: rework seeky detection
Current seeky detection is based on average seek lenght.
This is suboptimal, since the average will not distinguish between:
* a process doing medium sized seeks
* a process doing some sequential requests interleaved with larger seeks
and even a medium seek can take lot of time, if the requested sector
happens to be behind the disk head in the rotation (50% probability).
Therefore, we change the seeky queue detection to work as follows:
* each request can be classified as sequential if it is very close to
the current head position, i.e. it is likely in the disk cache (disks
usually read more data than requested, and put it in cache for
subsequent reads). Otherwise, the request is classified as seeky.
* an history window of the last 32 requests is kept, storing the
classification result.
* A queue is marked as seeky if more than 1/8 of the last 32 requests
were seeky.
This patch fixes a regression reported by Yanmin, on mmap 64k random
reads.
Reported-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index 10eb286..3fd8afc 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
#define CFQ_HW_QUEUE_MIN (5)
#define CFQ_SERVICE_SHIFT 12
-#define CFQQ_SEEK_THR 8 * 1024
-#define CFQQ_SEEKY(cfqq) ((cfqq)->seek_mean > CFQQ_SEEK_THR)
+#define CFQQ_SEEK_THR (sector_t)(8 * 100)
+#define CFQQ_SEEKY(cfqq) (hweight32(cfqq->seek_history) > 32/8)
#define RQ_CIC(rq) \
((struct cfq_io_context *) (rq)->elevator_private)
@@ -132,9 +132,7 @@
pid_t pid;
- unsigned int seek_samples;
- u64 seek_total;
- sector_t seek_mean;
+ u32 seek_history;
sector_t last_request_pos;
struct cfq_rb_root *service_tree;
@@ -1668,16 +1666,7 @@
static inline int cfq_rq_close(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *cfqq,
struct request *rq, bool for_preempt)
{
- sector_t sdist = cfqq->seek_mean;
-
- if (!sample_valid(cfqq->seek_samples))
- sdist = CFQQ_SEEK_THR;
-
- /* if seek_mean is big, using it as close criteria is meaningless */
- if (sdist > CFQQ_SEEK_THR && !for_preempt)
- sdist = CFQQ_SEEK_THR;
-
- return cfq_dist_from_last(cfqd, rq) <= sdist;
+ return cfq_dist_from_last(cfqd, rq) <= CFQQ_SEEK_THR;
}
static struct cfq_queue *cfqq_close(struct cfq_data *cfqd,
@@ -2975,30 +2964,16 @@
cfq_update_io_seektime(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *cfqq,
struct request *rq)
{
- sector_t sdist;
- u64 total;
+ sector_t sdist = 0;
+ if (cfqq->last_request_pos) {
+ if (cfqq->last_request_pos < blk_rq_pos(rq))
+ sdist = blk_rq_pos(rq) - cfqq->last_request_pos;
+ else
+ sdist = cfqq->last_request_pos - blk_rq_pos(rq);
+ }
- if (!cfqq->last_request_pos)
- sdist = 0;
- else if (cfqq->last_request_pos < blk_rq_pos(rq))
- sdist = blk_rq_pos(rq) - cfqq->last_request_pos;
- else
- sdist = cfqq->last_request_pos - blk_rq_pos(rq);
-
- /*
- * Don't allow the seek distance to get too large from the
- * odd fragment, pagein, etc
- */
- if (cfqq->seek_samples <= 60) /* second&third seek */
- sdist = min(sdist, (cfqq->seek_mean * 4) + 2*1024*1024);
- else
- sdist = min(sdist, (cfqq->seek_mean * 4) + 2*1024*64);
-
- cfqq->seek_samples = (7*cfqq->seek_samples + 256) / 8;
- cfqq->seek_total = (7*cfqq->seek_total + (u64)256*sdist) / 8;
- total = cfqq->seek_total + (cfqq->seek_samples/2);
- do_div(total, cfqq->seek_samples);
- cfqq->seek_mean = (sector_t)total;
+ cfqq->seek_history <<= 1;
+ cfqq->seek_history |= (sdist > CFQQ_SEEK_THR);
}
/*
@@ -3023,8 +2998,7 @@
cfq_mark_cfqq_deep(cfqq);
if (!atomic_read(&cic->ioc->nr_tasks) || !cfqd->cfq_slice_idle ||
- (!cfq_cfqq_deep(cfqq) && sample_valid(cfqq->seek_samples)
- && CFQQ_SEEKY(cfqq)))
+ (!cfq_cfqq_deep(cfqq) && CFQQ_SEEKY(cfqq)))
enable_idle = 0;
else if (sample_valid(cic->ttime_samples)) {
if (cic->ttime_mean > cfqd->cfq_slice_idle)