Re: [PATCH] io-controller: Preempt a non-rt queue if a rt ioq is present in ancestor or sibling groups

[Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:44:08PM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
>> Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:44:08PM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
>>>> Preempt the ongoing non-rt ioq if there are rt ioqs waiting for dispatching
>>>> in ancestor or sibling groups. It will give other group's rt ioq an chance 
>>>> to dispatch ASAP.
>>>>
>>> Hi Gui,
>>>
>>> Will new preempton logic of traversing up the hiearchy so that both new
>>> queue and old queue are at same level to take a preemption decision not
>>> take care of above scenario?
>> Hi Vivek,
>>
>> Would you explain a bit what do you mean about "both new queue and old queue 
>> are at same level to take a preemption decision". I don't understand it well.
>>
> 
> Consider following hierarchy.
> 
> 			root
> 			/ | 
> 		       A  1   
> 		       | 
> 		       2 
> In the above diagram, A is the group and "1" and "2" are two io queues 
> associated with tasks.
> 
> Now assume that queue "1" is being served and queue "2" gets backlogged.
> Should queue 2 preempt queue 1 now?
> 
> To take that decision, we need to do the comparision between type of
> entity of group A and queue 1 (That is at the same level or IOW, the
> entities in question have the same parent). If group A is of class RT and
> queue 1 is of type BE then queue 2 should preempt queue 1 otherwise not.
> 
> Hence in hierarchical setups to take a preemption decision, comparison
> should be done at same level.

  So what bfq_find_matching_entity has done is going to figure out the same
  level entities， in turn, taking the decision.

> 
>>> Please have a look at bfq_find_matching_entity().
>>>
>>> At the same time we probably don't want to preempt the non-rt queue
>>> with an RT queue in sibling group until and unless sibling group is an
>>> RT group.
>>>
>>> 		root
>>> 		/  \
>>> 	   BEgrpA  BEgrpB
>>> 	      |     |	
>>> 	  BEioq1   RTioq2
>>>
>>> Above we got two BE group A and B and assume ioq in group A is being
>>> served and then an RT request in group B comes. Because group B is an
>>> BE class group, we should not preempt the queue in group A.
>>   Yes, i also have this concern. So, it does not allow non-rt group preempts
>>   another group. I'll check whether there is a way to address this issue.
>>
> 
> So here also assume ioq1 is being served and ioq2 gets backlogged. To
> decide whether ioq2 should preempt ioq1 or not, one needs to go up the 
> hiearchy till two paths share the parent. That means one needs to go up
> at the BEgrpA and BEgrpB level where they have common parent "root". Now
> both the groups are of class BE hence ioq2 should not preempt ioq1.
> 
> Hope it helps.

  Thanks, it's very helpful.

  I have a thought now. Whether we can maintain a rt ioq list in efqd, and 
  elv_fq_select_ioq() travels this list to take preemtion decision for each
  available rt ioqs at the same level(by using bfq_find_matching_entity).
  I'd like to try it out.

> 
> Thanks
> Vivek
> 
> 
> 

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Regards
Gui Jianfeng