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  1. 13 10月, 2017 22 次提交
  3. 11 10月, 2017 3 次提交
  5. 10 10月, 2017 2 次提交
  7. 09 10月, 2017 3 次提交
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      block, bfq: fix unbalanced decrements of burst size · 99fead8d
      由 Paolo Valente 提交于 
      The commit "block, bfq: decrease burst size when queues in burst
exit" introduced the decrement of burst_size on the removal of a
bfq_queue from the burst list. Unfortunately, this decrement can
happen to be performed even when burst size is already equal to 0,
because of unbalanced decrements. A description follows of the cause
of these unbalanced decrements, namely a wrong assumption, and of the
way how this wrong assumption leads to unbalanced decrements.

The wrong assumption is that a bfq_queue can exit only if the process
associated with the bfq_queue has exited. This is false, because a
bfq_queue, say Q, may exit also as a consequence of a merge with
another bfq_queue. In this case, Q exits because the I/O of its
associated process has been redirected to another bfq_queue.

The decrement unbalance occurs because Q may then be re-created after
a split, and added back to the current burst list, *without*
incrementing burst_size. burst_size is not incremented because Q is
not a new bfq_queue added to the burst list, but a bfq_queue only
temporarily removed from the list, and, before the commit "bfq-sq,
bfq-mq: decrease burst size when queues in burst exit", burst_size was
not decremented when Q was removed.

This commit addresses this issue by just checking whether the exiting
bfq_queue is a merged bfq_queue, and, in that case, not decrementing
burst_size. Unfortunately, this still leaves room for unbalanced
decrements, in the following rarer case: on a split, the bfq_queue
happens to be inserted into a different burst list than that it was
removed from when merged. If this happens, the number of elements in
the new burst list becomes higher than burst_size (by one). When the
bfq_queue then exits, it is of course not in a merged state any
longer, thus burst_size is decremented, which results in an unbalanced
decrement.  To handle this sporadic, unlucky case in a simple way,
this commit also checks that burst_size is larger than 0 before
decrementing it.

Finally, this commit removes an useless, extra check: the check that
the bfq_queue is sync, performed before checking whether the bfq_queue
is in the burst list. This extra check is redundant, because only sync
bfq_queues can be inserted into the burst list.

Fixes: 7cb04004 ("block, bfq: decrease burst size when queues in burst exit")
Reported-by: NPhilip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NAngelo Ruocco <angeloruocco90@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NPhilip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>
Tested-by: NOleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: NLee Tibbert <lee.tibbert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      99fead8d
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      block,bfq: Disable writeback throttling · b5dc5d4d
      由 Luca Miccio 提交于 
      Similarly to CFQ, BFQ has its write-throttling heuristics, and it
is better not to combine them with further write-throttling
heuristics of a different nature.
So this commit disables write-back throttling for a device if BFQ
is used as I/O scheduler for that device.
Signed-off-by: NLuca Miccio <lucmiccio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Tested-by: NOleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: NLee Tibbert <lee.tibbert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      b5dc5d4d
    • Y
      writeback: schedule periodic writeback with sysctl · 94af5846
      由 Yafang Shao 提交于 
      After disable periodic writeback by writing 0 to
dirty_writeback_centisecs, the handler wb_workfn() will not be
entered again until the dirty background limit reaches or
sync syscall is executed or no enough free memory available or
vmscan is triggered.

So the periodic writeback can't be enabled by writing a non-zero
value to dirty_writeback_centisecs.
As it can be disabled by sysctl, it should be able to enable by
sysctl as well.
Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NYafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      94af5846
  9. 07 10月, 2017 2 次提交
  11. 06 10月, 2017 2 次提交
  13. 05 10月, 2017 4 次提交
    • J
      sysctl: remove /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads · b35bd0d9
      由 Jens Axboe 提交于 
      This tunable has been obsolete since 2.6.32, and writes to the
file have been failing and complaining in dmesg since then:

nr_pdflush_threads exported in /proc is scheduled for removal

That was 8 years ago. Remove the file ABI obsolete notice, and
the sysfs file.
Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      b35bd0d9
    • J
      writeback: eliminate work item allocation in bd_start_writeback() · 85009b4f
      由 Jens Axboe 提交于 
      Handle start-all writeback like we do periodic or kupdate
style writeback - by marking the bdi_writeback as needing a full
flush, and simply waking the thread. This eliminates the need to
allocate and queue a specific work item just for this purpose.

After this change, we truly only ever have one of them running at
any point in time. We mark the need to start all flushes, and the
writeback thread will clear it once it has processed the request.
Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      85009b4f
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      blk-mq: document the need to have STARTED and COMPLETED share a byte · fc13457f
      由 Jens Axboe 提交于 
      For memory ordering guarantees on stores, we need to ensure that
these two bits share the same byte of storage in the unsigned
long. Add a comment as to why, and a BUILD_BUG_ON() to ensure that
we don't violate this requirement.
Suggested-by: NBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      fc13457f
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      blk-mq: attempt to fix atomic flag memory ordering · a7af0af3
      由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于 
      Attempt to untangle the ordering in blk-mq. The patch introducing the
single smp_mb__before_atomic() is obviously broken in that it doesn't
clearly specify a pairing barrier and an obtained guarantee.

The comment is further misleading in that it hints that the
deadline store and the COMPLETE store also need to be ordered, but
AFAICT there is no such dependency. However what does appear to be
important is the clear happening _after_ the store, and that worked by
pure accident.

This clarifies blk_mq_start_request() -- we should not get there with
STARTING set -- this simplifies the code and makes the barrier usage
sane (the old code could be read to allow not having _any_ atomic after
the barrier, in which case the barrier hasn't got anything to order). We
then also introduce the missing pairing barrier for it.

Also down-grade the barrier to smp_wmb(), this is cheaper for
PowerPC/ARM and doesn't cost anything extra on x86.

And it documents the STARTING vs COMPLETE ordering. Although I've not
been entirely successful in reverse engineering the blk-mq state
machine so there might still be more funnies around timeout vs
requeue.

If I got anything wrong, feel free to educate me by adding comments to
clarify things ;-)

Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: 538b7534 ("blk-mq: request deadline must be visible before marking rq as started")
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      a7af0af3
  15. 03 10月, 2017 2 次提交
    • C
      block: move __elv_next_request to blk-core.c · 9c988374
      由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于 
      No need to have this helper inline in a header.  Also drop the __ prefix.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      9c988374
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      block, bfq: decrease burst size when queues in burst exit · 7cb04004
      由 Paolo Valente 提交于 
      If many queues belonging to the same group happen to be created
shortly after each other, then the concurrent processes associated
with these queues have typically a common goal, and they get it done
as soon as possible if not hampered by device idling.  Examples are
processes spawned by git grep, or by systemd during boot. As for
device idling, this mechanism is currently necessary for weight
raising to succeed in its goal: privileging I/O.  In view of these
facts, BFQ does not provide the above queues with either weight
raising or device idling.

On the other hand, a burst of queue creations may be caused also by
the start-up of a complex application. In this case, these queues need
usually to be served one after the other, and as quickly as possible,
to maximise responsiveness. Therefore, in this case the best strategy
is to weight-raise all the queues created during the burst, i.e., the
exact opposite of the strategy for the above case.

To distinguish between the two cases, BFQ uses an empirical burst-size
threshold, found through extensive tests and monitoring of daily
usage. Only large bursts, i.e., burst with a size above this
threshold, are considered as generated by a high number of parallel
processes. In this respect, upstart-based boot proved to be rather
hard to detect as generating a large burst of queue creations, because
with upstart most of the queues created in a burst exit *before* the
next queues in the same burst are created. To address this issue, I
changed the burst-detection mechanism so as to not decrease the size
of the current burst even if one of the queues in the burst is
eliminated.

Unfortunately, this missing decrease causes false positives on very
fast systems: on the start-up of a complex application, such as
libreoffice writer, so many queues are created, served and exited
shortly after each other, that a large burst of queue creations is
wrongly detected as occurring. These false positives just disappear if
the size of a burst is decreased when one of the queues in the burst
exits. This commit restores the missing burst-size decrease, relying
of the fact that upstart is apparently unlikely to be used on systems
running this and future versions of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NMauro Andreolini <mauro.andreolini@unimore.it>
Signed-off-by: NAngelo Ruocco <angeloruocco90@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NMirko Montanari <mirkomontanari91@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NOleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: NLee Tibbert <lee.tibbert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      7cb04004