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Diffstat (limited to 'block/bfq-iosched.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/bfq-iosched.h | 76 |
1 files changed, 59 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.h b/block/bfq-iosched.h index a41e9884f2dd..ca98c98a8179 100644 --- a/block/bfq-iosched.h +++ b/block/bfq-iosched.h @@ -108,15 +108,14 @@ struct bfq_sched_data { }; /** - * struct bfq_weight_counter - counter of the number of all active entities + * struct bfq_weight_counter - counter of the number of all active queues * with a given weight. */ struct bfq_weight_counter { - unsigned int weight; /* weight of the entities this counter refers to */ - unsigned int num_active; /* nr of active entities with this weight */ + unsigned int weight; /* weight of the queues this counter refers to */ + unsigned int num_active; /* nr of active queues with this weight */ /* - * Weights tree member (see bfq_data's @queue_weights_tree and - * @group_weights_tree) + * Weights tree member (see bfq_data's @queue_weights_tree) */ struct rb_node weights_node; }; @@ -151,8 +150,6 @@ struct bfq_weight_counter { struct bfq_entity { /* service_tree member */ struct rb_node rb_node; - /* pointer to the weight counter associated with this entity */ - struct bfq_weight_counter *weight_counter; /* * Flag, true if the entity is on a tree (either the active or @@ -199,6 +196,9 @@ struct bfq_entity { /* flag, set to request a weight, ioprio or ioprio_class change */ int prio_changed; + + /* flag, set if the entity is counted in groups_with_pending_reqs */ + bool in_groups_with_pending_reqs; }; struct bfq_group; @@ -266,6 +266,9 @@ struct bfq_queue { /* entity representing this queue in the scheduler */ struct bfq_entity entity; + /* pointer to the weight counter associated with this entity */ + struct bfq_weight_counter *weight_counter; + /* maximum budget allowed from the feedback mechanism */ int max_budget; /* budget expiration (in jiffies) */ @@ -448,15 +451,54 @@ struct bfq_data { * bfq_weights_tree_[add|remove] for further details). */ struct rb_root queue_weights_tree; + /* - * rbtree of non-queue @bfq_entity weight counters, sorted by - * weight. Used to keep track of whether all @bfq_groups have - * the same weight. The tree contains one counter for each - * distinct weight associated to some active @bfq_group (see - * the comments to the functions bfq_weights_tree_[add|remove] - * for further details). + * Number of groups with at least one descendant process that + * has at least one request waiting for completion. Note that + * this accounts for also requests already dispatched, but not + * yet completed. Therefore this number of groups may differ + * (be larger) than the number of active groups, as a group is + * considered active only if its corresponding entity has + * descendant queues with at least one request queued. This + * number is used to decide whether a scenario is symmetric. + * For a detailed explanation see comments on the computation + * of the variable asymmetric_scenario in the function + * bfq_better_to_idle(). + * + * However, it is hard to compute this number exactly, for + * groups with multiple descendant processes. Consider a group + * that is inactive, i.e., that has no descendant process with + * pending I/O inside BFQ queues. Then suppose that + * num_groups_with_pending_reqs is still accounting for this + * group, because the group has descendant processes with some + * I/O request still in flight. num_groups_with_pending_reqs + * should be decremented when the in-flight request of the + * last descendant process is finally completed (assuming that + * nothing else has changed for the group in the meantime, in + * terms of composition of the group and active/inactive state of child + * groups and processes). To accomplish this, an additional + * pending-request counter must be added to entities, and must + * be updated correctly. To avoid this additional field and operations, + * we resort to the following tradeoff between simplicity and + * accuracy: for an inactive group that is still counted in + * num_groups_with_pending_reqs, we decrement + * num_groups_with_pending_reqs when the first descendant + * process of the group remains with no request waiting for + * completion. + * + * Even this simpler decrement strategy requires a little + * carefulness: to avoid multiple decrements, we flag a group, + * more precisely an entity representing a group, as still + * counted in num_groups_with_pending_reqs when it becomes + * inactive. Then, when the first descendant queue of the + * entity remains with no request waiting for completion, + * num_groups_with_pending_reqs is decremented, and this flag + * is reset. After this flag is reset for the entity, + * num_groups_with_pending_reqs won't be decremented any + * longer in case a new descendant queue of the entity remains + * with no request waiting for completion. */ - struct rb_root group_weights_tree; + unsigned int num_groups_with_pending_reqs; /* * Number of bfq_queues containing requests (including the @@ -854,10 +896,10 @@ struct bfq_queue *bic_to_bfqq(struct bfq_io_cq *bic, bool is_sync); void bic_set_bfqq(struct bfq_io_cq *bic, struct bfq_queue *bfqq, bool is_sync); struct bfq_data *bic_to_bfqd(struct bfq_io_cq *bic); void bfq_pos_tree_add_move(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq); -void bfq_weights_tree_add(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_entity *entity, +void bfq_weights_tree_add(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq, struct rb_root *root); void __bfq_weights_tree_remove(struct bfq_data *bfqd, - struct bfq_entity *entity, + struct bfq_queue *bfqq, struct rb_root *root); void bfq_weights_tree_remove(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq); @@ -951,7 +993,7 @@ bool __bfq_deactivate_entity(struct bfq_entity *entity, bool ins_into_idle_tree); bool next_queue_may_preempt(struct bfq_data *bfqd); struct bfq_queue *bfq_get_next_queue(struct bfq_data *bfqd); -void __bfq_bfqd_reset_in_service(struct bfq_data *bfqd); +bool __bfq_bfqd_reset_in_service(struct bfq_data *bfqd); void bfq_deactivate_bfqq(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq, bool ins_into_idle_tree, bool expiration); void bfq_activate_bfqq(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq); |