All requests of a queue could be merged to other requests of other queue.
Such queue will not have request in it, but it's in service tree. This
will cause kernel oops.
I encounter a BUG_ON() in cfq_dispatch_request() with next patch, but the
issue should exist without the patch.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Now block layer knows everything necessary to create and associate
icq's with requests.  Move ioc_create_icq() to blk-ioc.c and update
get_request() such that, if elevator_type->icq_size is set, requests
are automatically associated with their matching icq's before
elv_set_request().  io_context reference is also managed by block core
on request alloc/free.

* Only ioprio/cgroup changed handling remains from cfq_get_cic().
  Collapsed into cfq_set_request().

* This removes queue kicking on icq allocation failure (for now).  As
  icq allocation failure is rare and the only effect of queue kicking
  achieved was possibily accelerating queue processing, this change
  shouldn't be noticeable.

  There is a larger underlying problem.  Unlike request allocation,
  icq allocation is not guaranteed to succeed eventually after
  retries.  The number of icq is unbound and thus mempool can't be the
  solution either.  This effectively adds allocation dependency on
  memory free path and thus possibility of deadlock.

  This usually wouldn't happen because icq allocation is not a hot
  path and, even when the condition triggers, it's highly unlikely
  that none of the writeback workers already has icq.

  However, this is still possible especially if elevator is being
  switched under high memory pressure, so we better get it fixed.
  Probably the only solution is just bypassing elevator and appending
  to dispatch queue on any elevator allocation failure.

* Comment added to explain how icq's are managed and synchronized.

This completes cleanup of io_context interface.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Add elevator_ops->elevator_init_icq_fn() and restructure
cfq_create_cic() and rename it to ioc_create_icq().

The new function expects its caller to pass in io_context, uses
elevator_type->icq_cache, handles generic init, calls the new elevator
operation for elevator specific initialization, and returns pointer to
created or looked up icq.  This leaves cfq_icq_pool variable without
any user.  Removed.

This prepares for io_context interface cleanup and doesn't introduce
any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

With kmem_cache managed by blk-ioc, io_cq exit/release can be moved to
blk-ioc too.  The odd ->io_cq->exit/release() callbacks are replaced
with elevator_ops->elevator_exit_icq_fn() with unlinking from both ioc
and q, and freeing automatically handled by blk-ioc.  The elevator
operation only need to perform exit operation specific to the elevator
- in cfq's case, exiting the cfqq's.

Also, clearing of io_cq's on q detach is moved to block core and
automatically performed on elevator switch and q release.

Because the q io_cq points to might be freed before RCU callback for
the io_cq runs, blk-ioc code should remember to which cache the io_cq
needs to be freed when the io_cq is released.  New field
io_cq->__rcu_icq_cache is added for this purpose.  As both the new
field and rcu_head are used only after io_cq is released and the
q/ioc_node fields aren't, they are put into unions.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Let elevators set ->icq_size and ->icq_align in elevator_type and
elv_register() and elv_unregister() respectively create and destroy
kmem_cache for icq.

* elv_register() now can return failure.  All callers updated.

* icq caches are automatically named "ELVNAME_io_cq".

* cfq_slab_setup/kill() are collapsed into cfq_init/exit().

* While at it, minor indentation change for iosched_cfq.elevator_name
  for consistency.

This will help moving icq management to block core.  This doesn't
introduce any functional change.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Now that all io_cq related data structures are in block core layer,
io_cq lookup can be moved from cfq-iosched.c to blk-ioc.c.

Lookup logic from cfq_cic_lookup() is moved to ioc_lookup_icq() with
parameter return type changes (cfqd -> request_queue, cfq_io_cq ->
io_cq) and cfq_cic_lookup() becomes thin wrapper around
cfq_cic_lookup().
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Most of icq management is about to be moved out of cfq into blk-ioc.
This patch prepares for it.

* Move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue->icq_list

* Make request explicitly point to icq instead of through elevator
  private data.  ->elevator_private[3] is replaced with sub struct elv
  which contains icq pointer and priv[2].  cfq is updated accordingly.

* Meaningless clearing of ->elevator_private[0] removed from
  elv_set_request().  At that point in code, the field was guaranteed
  to be %NULL anyway.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Currently io_context and cfq logics are mixed without clear boundary.
Most of io_context is independent from cfq but cfq_io_context handling
logic is dispersed between generic ioc code and cfq.

cfq_io_context represents association between an io_context and a
request_queue, which is a concept useful outside of cfq, but it also
contains fields which are useful only to cfq.

This patch takes out generic part and put it into io_cq (io
context-queue) and the rest into cfq_io_cq (cic moniker remains the
same) which contains io_cq.  The following changes are made together.

* cfq_ttime and cfq_io_cq now live in cfq-iosched.c.

* All related fields, functions and constants are renamed accordingly.

* ioc->ioc_data is now "struct io_cq *" instead of "void *" and
  renamed to icq_hint.

This prepares for io_context API cleanup.  Documentation is currently
sparse.  It will be added later.

Changes in this patch are mechanical and don't cause functional
change.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

When called under queue_lock, current_io_context() triggers lockdep
warning if it hits allocation path.  This is because io_context
installation is protected by task_lock which is not IRQ safe, so it
triggers irq-unsafe-lock -> irq -> irq-safe-lock -> irq-unsafe-lock
deadlock warning.

Given the restriction, accessor + creator rolled into one doesn't work
too well.  Drop current_io_context() and let the users access
task->io_context directly inside queue_lock combined with explicit
creation using create_io_context().

Future ioc updates will further consolidate ioc access and the create
interface will be unexported.

While at it, relocate ioc internal interface declarations in blk.h and
add section comments before and after.

This patch does not introduce functional change.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Now that lazy paths are removed, cfqd_dead_key() is meaningless and
cic->q can be used whereever cic->key is used.  Kill cic->key.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Now that cic's are immediately unlinked under both locks, there's no
need to count and drain cic's before module unload.  RCU callback
completion is waited with rcu_barrier().

While at it, remove residual RCU operations on cic_list.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Now that all cic's are immediately unlinked from both ioc and queue,
lazy dropping from lookup path and trimming on elevator unregister are
unnecessary.  Kill them and remove now unused elevator_ops->trim().

This also leaves call_for_each_cic() without any user.  Removed.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

cic is association between io_context and request_queue.  A cic is
linked from both ioc and q and should be destroyed when either one
goes away.  As ioc and q both have their own locks, locking becomes a
bit complex - both orders work for removal from one but not from the
other.

Currently, cfq tries to circumvent this locking order issue with RCU.
ioc->lock nests inside queue_lock but the radix tree and cic's are
also protected by RCU allowing either side to walk their lists without
grabbing lock.

This rather unconventional use of RCU quickly devolves into extremely
fragile convolution.  e.g. The following is from cfqd going away too
soon after ioc and q exits raced.

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU 2
 Modules linked in:
 [   88.503444]
 Pid: 599, comm: hexdump Not tainted 3.1.0-rc10-work+ #158 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81397628>]  [<ffffffff81397628>] cfq_exit_single_io_context+0x58/0xf0
 ...
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81395a4a>] call_for_each_cic+0x5a/0x90
  [<ffffffff81395ab5>] cfq_exit_io_context+0x15/0x20
  [<ffffffff81389130>] exit_io_context+0x100/0x140
  [<ffffffff81098a29>] do_exit+0x579/0x850
  [<ffffffff81098d5b>] do_group_exit+0x5b/0xd0
  [<ffffffff81098de7>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
  [<ffffffff81b02f2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The only real hot path here is cic lookup during request
initialization and avoiding extra locking requires very confined use
of RCU.  This patch makes cic removal from both ioc and request_queue
perform double-locking and unlink immediately.

* From q side, the change is almost trivial as ioc->lock nests inside
  queue_lock.  It just needs to grab each ioc->lock as it walks
  cic_list and unlink it.

* From ioc side, it's a bit more difficult because of inversed lock
  order.  ioc needs its lock to walk its cic_list but can't grab the
  matching queue_lock and needs to perform unlock-relock dancing.

  Unlinking is now wholly done from put_io_context() and fast path is
  optimized by using the queue_lock the caller already holds, which is
  by far the most common case.  If the ioc accessed multiple devices,
  it tries with trylock.  In unlikely cases of fast path failure, it
  falls back to full double-locking dance from workqueue.

Double-locking isn't the prettiest thing in the world but it's *far*
simpler and more understandable than RCU trick without adding any
meaningful overhead.

This still leaves a lot of now unnecessary RCU logics.  Future patches
will trim them.

-v2: Vivek pointed out that cic->q was being dereferenced after
     cic->release() was called.  Updated to use local variable @this_q
     instead.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

* cfq_cic_lookup() may be called without queue_lock and multiple tasks
  can execute it simultaneously for the same shared ioc.  Nothing
  prevents them racing each other and trying to drop the same dead cic
  entry multiple times.

* smp_wmb() in cfq_exit_cic() doesn't really do anything and nothing
  prevents cfq_cic_lookup() seeing stale cic->key.  This usually
  doesn't blow up because by the time cic is exited, all requests have
  been drained and new requests are terminated before going through
  elevator.  However, it can still be triggered by plug merge path
  which doesn't grab queue_lock and thus can't check DEAD state
  reliably.

This patch updates lookup locking such that,

* Lookup is always performed under queue_lock.  This doesn't add any
  more locking.  The only issue is cfq_allow_merge() which can be
  called from plug merge path without holding any lock.  For now, this
  is worked around by using cic of the request to merge into, which is
  guaranteed to have the same ioc.  For longer term, I think it would
  be best to separate out plug merge method from regular one.

* Spurious ioc->lock locking around cic lookup hint assignment
  dropped.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

cfq_get_io_context() would fail if multiple tasks race to insert cic's
for the same association.  This patch restructures
cfq_get_io_context() such that slow path insertion race is handled
properly.

Note that the restructuring also makes cfq_get_io_context() called
under queue_lock and performs both ioc and cfqd insertions while
holding both ioc and queue locks.  This is part of on-going locking
tightening and will be used to simplify synchronization rules.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

ioprio/cgroup change was handled by marking the changed state in ioc
and, on the following access to the ioc, performing RCU-protected
iteration through all cic's grabbing the matching queue_lock.

This patch moves the changed state to each cic.  When ioprio or cgroup
changes, the respective bit is set on all cic's of the ioc and when
each of those cic (not ioc) is accessed, change is applied for that
specific ioc-queue pair.

This also fixes the following two race conditions between setting and
clearing of changed states.

* Missing barrier between assign/load of ioprio and ioprio_changed
  allowed applying old ioprio.

* Change requests could happen between application of change and
  clearing of changed variables.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Make the following changes to prepare for ioc/cic management cleanup.

* Add cic->q so that ioc can determine the associated queue without
  querying cfq.  This will eventually replace ->key.

* Factor out cfq_release_cic() from cic_free_func().  This function
  assumes that the caller handled locking.

* Rename __cfq_exit_single_io_context() to cfq_exit_cic() and make it
  take only @cic.

* Restructure cfq_cic_link() for future updates.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Ignoring copy_io() during fork, io_context can be allocated from two
places - current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio().  The former is
always called from local task while the latter can be called from
different task.  The synchornization between them are peculiar and
dubious.

* current_io_context() doesn't grab task_lock() and assumes that if it
  saw %NULL ->io_context, it would stay that way until allocation and
  assignment is complete.  It has smp_wmb() between alloc/init and
  assignment.

* set_task_ioprio() grabs task_lock() for assignment and does
  smp_read_barrier_depends() between "ioc = task->io_context" and "if
  (ioc)".  Unfortunately, this doesn't achieve anything - the latter
  is not a dependent load of the former.  ie, if ioc itself were being
  dereferenced "ioc->xxx", it would mean something (not sure what tho)
  but as the code currently stands, the dependent read barrier is
  noop.

As only one of the the two test-assignment sequences is task_lock()
protected, the task_lock() can't do much about race between the two.
Nothing prevents current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio() allocating
its own ioc for the same task and overwriting the other's.

Also, set_task_ioprio() can race with exiting task and create a new
ioc after exit_io_context() is finished.

ioc get/put doesn't have any reason to be complex.  The only hot path
is accessing the existing ioc of %current, which is simple to achieve
given that ->io_context is never destroyed as long as the task is
alive.  All other paths can happily go through task_lock() like all
other task sub structures without impacting anything.

This patch updates ioc get/put so that it becomes more conventional.

* alloc_io_context() is replaced with get_task_io_context().  This is
  the only interface which can acquire access to ioc of another task.
  On return, the caller has an explicit reference to the object which
  should be put using put_io_context() afterwards.

* The functionality of current_io_context() remains the same but when
  creating a new ioc, it shares the code path with
  get_task_io_context() and always goes through task_lock().

* get_io_context() now means incrementing ref on an ioc which the
  caller already has access to (be that an explicit refcnt or implicit
  %current one).

* PF_EXITING inhibits creation of new io_context and once
  exit_io_context() is finished, it's guaranteed that both ioc
  acquisition functions return %NULL.

* All users are updated.  Most are trivial but
  smp_read_barrier_depends() removal from cfq_get_io_context() needs a
  bit of explanation.  I suppose the original intention was to ensure
  ioc->ioprio is visible when set_task_ioprio() allocates new
  io_context and installs it; however, this wouldn't have worked
  because set_task_ioprio() doesn't have wmb between init and install.
  There are other problems with this which will be fixed in another
  patch.

* While at it, use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1 for wildcard node
  specification.

-v2: Vivek spotted contamination from debug patch.  Removed.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

cfq allocates per-queue id using ida and uses it to index cic radix
tree from io_context.  Move it to q->id and allocate on queue init and
free on queue release.  This simplifies cfq a bit and will allow for
further improvements of io context life-cycle management.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Add a new REQ_PRIO to let requests preempt others in the cfq I/O schedule,
and lave REQ_META purely for marking requests as metadata in blktrace.

All existing callers of REQ_META except for XFS are updated to also
set REQ_PRIO for now.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

We have a kernel build regression since 3.1-rc1, which is about 10%
regression. The kernel source is in an ext3 filesystem.
Alex Shi bisect it to commit:
commit a07405b7
Author: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Date:   Sun Jul 10 22:09:19 2011 +0200

    cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs.

Apparently this is caused by lack metadata preemption, where ext3/ext4
do use READ_META. I didn't see a way to fix the issue, so suggest
reverting the patch.

This reverts commit a07405b7.

Reported-by: Alex Shi<alex.shi@intel.com>
Reported-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

FQ keeps track of number of groups which are linked on blkcg->blkg_list.
This is useful to avoid races between queue exit and cgroup exit code
paths. So if at the request queue exit time linked group count is not
zero, that means there are some group out there which is yet to be
deleted under rcu read period and queue exit code should wait for
on rcu period.

In my previous patch I forgot to decrease the number of group count.
So in current form, we nr_blkcg_linked_grps is always non-zero and
we will always wait one rcu period (if BLK_CGROUP=y). The side effect
of this is that it can increase boot time. I am surprised, nobody
complained so far.
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Currently when the last queue of a group has no request, we don't expire
the queue to hope request from the group comes soon, so the group doesn't
miss its share. But if the think time is big, the assumption isn't correct
and we just waste bandwidth. In such case, we don't do idle.

[global]
runtime=30
direct=1

[test1]
cgroup=test1
cgroup_weight=1000
rw=randread
ioengine=libaio
size=500m
runtime=30
directory=/mnt
filename=file1
thinktime=9000

[test2]
cgroup=test2
cgroup_weight=1000
rw=randread
ioengine=libaio
size=500m
runtime=30
directory=/mnt
filename=file2

	patched		base
test1	64k		39k
test2	548k		540k
total	604k		578k

group1 gets much better throughput because it waits less time.

To check if the patch changes behavior of queue without think time. I also
tried to give test1 2ms think time or no think time. The test result is stable.
The thoughput doesn't change with/without the patch.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Currently when the last queue of a service tree has no request, we don't
expire the queue to hope request from the service tree comes soon, so the
service tree doesn't miss its share. But if the think time is big, the
assumption isn't correct and we just waste bandwidth. In such case, we
don't do idle.

[global]
runtime=10
direct=1

[test1]
rw=randread
ioengine=libaio
size=500m
directory=/mnt
filename=file1
thinktime=9000

[test2]
rw=read
ioengine=libaio
size=1G
directory=/mnt
filename=file2

	patched		base
test1	41k/s		33k/s
test2	15868k/s	15789k/s
total	15902k/s	15817k/s

A slightly better

To check if the patch changes behavior of queue without think time. I also
tried to give test1 2ms think time or no think time. The test has variation
even without the patch, but the average throughput doesn't change with/without
the patch.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Move the variables to do think time check to a sepatate struct. This is
to prepare adding think time check for service tree and group. No
functional change.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to
the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly
specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many
cases (like across cgroups).

fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to
indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed
a boost.

It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete.
Lets kill it.
Signed-off-by: NJustin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

There is no consistency among filesystems from what bios (or requests)
are marked as being metadata. It's interesting to expose this in traces,
but we shouldn't schedule the requests differently based on whether or
not they're marked as being metadata.
Signed-off-by: NJustin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

ioc->ioc_data is rcu protectd, so uses correct API to access it.
This doesn't change any behavior, but just make code consistent.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # after ab4bd22dSigned-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

I got a rcu warnning at boot. the ioc->ioc_data is rcu_deferenced, but
doesn't hold rcu_read_lock.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # after ab4bd22dSigned-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Use the compiler to verify format strings and arguments.

Fix fallout.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Use the compiler to verify format strings and arguments.

Fix fallout.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Correctly suggested by sparse.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold
the lock protecting it around it.

This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq
io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long
time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed
to see it a lot.

Tracked in RH bugzilla here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968

Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue
was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his
hard work the issue is now fixed.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold
the lock protecting it around it.

This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq
io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long
time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed
to see it a lot.

Tracked in RH bugzilla here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968

Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue
was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his
hard work the issue is now fixed.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Hi, Jens,

If you recall, I posted an RFC patch for this back in July of last year:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/13/279

The basic problem is that a process can issue a never-ending stream of
async direct I/Os to the same sector on a device, thus starving out
other I/O in the system (due to the way the alias handling works in both
cfq and deadline).  The solution I proposed back then was to start
dispatching from the fifo after a certain number of aliases had been
dispatched.  Vivek asked why we had to treat aliases differently at all,
and I never had a good answer.  So, I put together a simple patch which
allows aliases to be added to the rb tree (it adds them to the right,
though that doesn't matter as the order isn't guaranteed anyway).  I
think this is the preferred solution, as it doesn't break up time slices
in CFQ or batches in deadline.  I've tested it, and it does solve the
starvation issue.  Let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Jeff
Signed-off-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

queue_fail can only be reached if cic is NULL, so its check for cic must
be bogus.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Fix comment typo and remove unnecessary semicolon at macro
Signed-off-by: NKyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

When struct cfq_data allocation fails, cic_index need to be freed.
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

The 'group_changed' variable is initialized to 0 and never changed, so
checking the variable is meaningless.

It is a leftover from 0bbfeb83 ("cfq-iosched: Always provide group
iosolation."). Let's get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Reduce the number of bit operations in cfq_choose_req() on average
(and worst) cases.
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>