Re: [PATCH] block: per-cpu counters for in-flight IO accounting

[Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 08:16:32PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2014-06-04 20:09, Shaohua Li wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:08:46PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>On 06/04/2014 05:29 AM, Matias Bjørling wrote:
> >>>It's in
> >>>
> >>>blk_io_account_start
> >>>   part_round_stats
> >>>     part_round_state_single
> >>>       part_in_flight
> >>>
> >>>I like the granularity idea.
> >>
> >>And similarly from blk_io_account_done() - which makes it even worse,
> >>since it at both ends of the IO chain.
> >
> >But part_round_state_single is supposed to only call part_in_flight every
> >jiffery. Maybe we need something below:
> >1. set part->stamp immediately
> >2. fixed granularity
> >Untested though.
> >
> >
> >diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
> >index 40d6548..5f0acaa 100644
> >--- a/block/blk-core.c
> >+++ b/block/blk-core.c
> >@@ -1270,17 +1270,19 @@ static void part_round_stats_single(int cpu, struct hd_struct *part,
> >  				    unsigned long now)
> >  {
> >  	int inflight;
> >+	unsigned long old_stamp;
> >
> >-	if (now == part->stamp)
> >+	if (time_before(now, part->stamp + msecs_to_jiffies(10)))
> >  		return;
> >+	old_stamp = part->stamp;
> >+	part->stamp = now;
> >
> >  	inflight = part_in_flight(part);
> >  	if (inflight) {
> >  		__part_stat_add(cpu, part, time_in_queue,
> >-				inflight * (now - part->stamp));
> >-		__part_stat_add(cpu, part, io_ticks, (now - part->stamp));
> >+				inflight * (now - old_stamp));
> >+		__part_stat_add(cpu, part, io_ticks, (now - old_stamp));
> >  	}
> >-	part->stamp = now;
> >  }
> >
> >  /**
> 
> It'd be a good improvement, and one we should be able to do without
> screwing anything up. It'd be identical to anyone running at HZ==100
> right now.
> 
> So the above we can easily do, and arguably should just do. We wont
> see real scaling in the IO stats path before we fixup the hd_struct
> referencing as well, however.

That's true. maybe a percpu_ref works here.

Thanks,
Shaohua