1. 01 6月, 2018 38 次提交
  2. 31 5月, 2018 2 次提交
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      block, bfq: prevent soft_rt_next_start from being stuck at infinity · f6c3ca0e
      Davide Sapienza 提交于
      BFQ can deem a bfq_queue as soft real-time only if the queue
      - periodically becomes completely idle, i.e., empty and with
        no still-outstanding I/O request;
      - after becoming idle, gets new I/O only after a special reference
        time soft_rt_next_start.
      
      In this respect, after commit "block, bfq: consider also past I/O in
      soft real-time detection", the value of soft_rt_next_start can never
      decrease. This causes a problem with the following special updating
      case for soft_rt_next_start: to prevent queues that are not completely
      idle to be wrongly detected as soft real-time (when they become
      non-empty again), soft_rt_next_start is temporarily set to infinity
      for empty queues with still outstanding I/O requests. But, if such an
      update is actually performed, then, because of the above commit,
      soft_rt_next_start will be stuck at infinity forever, and the queue
      will have no more chance to be considered soft real-time.
      
      On slow systems, this problem does cause actual soft real-time
      applications to be occasionally not detected as such.
      
      This commit addresses this issue by eliminating the pushing of
      soft_rt_next_start to infinity, and by changing the way non-empty
      queues are prevented from being wrongly detected as soft
      real-time. Simply, a queue that becomes non-empty again can now be
      detected as soft real-time only if it has no outstanding I/O request.
      Signed-off-by: NDavide Sapienza <sapienza.dav@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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      block, bfq: increase weight-raising duration for interactive apps · d450542e
      Davide Sapienza 提交于
      The maximum possible duration of the weight-raising period for
      interactive applications is limited to 13 seconds, as this is the time
      needed to load the largest application that we considered when tuning
      weight raising. Unfortunately, in such an evaluation, we did not
      consider the case of very slow virtual machines.
      
      For example, on a QEMU/KVM virtual machine
      - running in a slow PC;
      - with a virtual disk stacked on a slow low-end 5400rpm HDD;
      - serving a heavy I/O workload, such as the sequential reading of
      several files;
      mplayer takes 23 seconds to start, if constantly weight-raised.
      
      To address this issue, this commit conservatively sets the upper limit
      for weight-raising duration to 25 seconds.
      Signed-off-by: NDavide Sapienza <sapienza.dav@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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