[PATCH 2/2] cfq-iosched: Do not disable idling for seeky processes if "fairness" is set

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>]

o CFQ provides fair access to disk in terms of disk time used to processes.
  Fairness is provided for the applications which have their think time with
  in slice_idle (8ms default) limit.

o CFQ currently disables idling for seeky processes. So even if a process
  has think time with-in slice_idle limits, it will still not get fair share
  of disk. Disabling idling for a seeky process seems good from throughput
  perspective but not necessarily from fairness perspecitve.

0 Do not disable idling based on seek pattern of process if a user has set
  /sys/block/<disk>/queue/iosched/fairness = 1.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
---
 block/cfq-iosched.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index 658ea7b..9de8046 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -1964,7 +1964,7 @@ cfq_update_idle_window(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *cfqq,
 	enable_idle = old_idle = cfq_cfqq_idle_window(cfqq);
 
 	if (!atomic_read(&cic->ioc->nr_tasks) || !cfqd->cfq_slice_idle ||
-	    (cfqd->hw_tag && CIC_SEEKY(cic)))
+	    (!cfqd->cfq_fairness && cfqd->hw_tag && CIC_SEEKY(cic)))
 		enable_idle = 0;
 	else if (sample_valid(cic->ttime_samples)) {
 		if (cic->ttime_mean > cfqd->cfq_slice_idle)
-- 
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