block, bfq: reduce threshold for detecting command queueing
bfq simple heuristic from cfq for detecting whether the drive performs
command queueing: check whether the average number of in-flight requests
is above a given threshold. Unfortunately this heuristic does fail to
detect queueing (on drives with queueing) if processes doing I/O are few
and issue I/O with a low depth.
To reduce false negatives, this commit lowers the threshold.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
index bf585ad..48b5790 100644
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *bfq_pool;
#define BFQ_MIN_TT (2 * NSEC_PER_MSEC)
/* hw_tag detection: parallel requests threshold and min samples needed. */
-#define BFQ_HW_QUEUE_THRESHOLD 4
+#define BFQ_HW_QUEUE_THRESHOLD 3
#define BFQ_HW_QUEUE_SAMPLES 32
#define BFQQ_SEEK_THR (sector_t)(8 * 100)
@@ -4798,7 +4798,7 @@ static void bfq_update_hw_tag(struct bfq_data *bfqd)
* sum is not exact, as it's not taking into account deactivated
* requests.
*/
- if (bfqd->rq_in_driver + bfqd->queued < BFQ_HW_QUEUE_THRESHOLD)
+ if (bfqd->rq_in_driver + bfqd->queued <= BFQ_HW_QUEUE_THRESHOLD)
return;
if (bfqd->hw_tag_samples++ < BFQ_HW_QUEUE_SAMPLES)