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From: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
To: "Linux-Kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] cfq: enable idle for seeky processes on rotational NCQ devices
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:37:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910041837.34546.czoccolo@gmail.com> (raw)

Disabled idle window cause large latencies when seeky processes are competing
with async writes, for rotational NCQ devices.

This patch, based on Vivek Goyal's original idea (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/12/110),
unconditionally enables idle window for seeky processes on rotational NCQ devices.
As for non-NCQ devices, a smaller idle window (2ms) is used
for seeky processes compared to normal I/O (8ms).

RAIDs should be marked as non-rotational as well (and probably a better flag
name should be devised), since they can carry multiple operations in parallel.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index ebab60c..576e92d 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -1981,10 +1981,14 @@ 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->cfq_latency && cfqd->hw_tag && CIC_SEEKY(cic)))
+           (blk_queue_nonrot(cfqd->queue) && cfqd->hw_tag && CIC_SEEKY(cic)))
                enable_idle = 0;
        else if (sample_valid(cic->ttime_samples)) {
-               if (cic->ttime_mean > cfqd->cfq_slice_idle)
+               unsigned idle_time = cfqd->cfq_slice_idle;
+               if (CIC_SEEKY(cic))
+                       idle_time = CFQ_MIN_TT;
+
+               if (cic->ttime_mean > idle_time)
                        enable_idle = 0;
                else
                        enable_idle = 1;



             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-04 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-04 16:37 Corrado Zoccolo [this message]
2009-10-04 17:36 ` [PATCH] cfq: enable idle for seeky processes on rotational NCQ devices Jens Axboe
2009-10-04 18:29   ` Corrado Zoccolo
2009-10-04 18:39     ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-03  8:57 Corrado Zoccolo
2009-10-03 13:50 ` Jens Axboe

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