kernel_optimize_test/block
Vivek Goyal 32ee5bc478 blk-throttle: Account for child group's start time in parent while bio climbs up
With the planned proper hierarchy support, a bio will climb up the
tree before actually being dispatched. This makes sure bio is also
subjected to parent's throttling limits, if any.

It might happen that parent is idle and when bio is transferred to
parent, a new slice starts fresh. But that is incorrect as parents
wait time should have started when bio was queued in child group and
causes IOs to be throttled more than configured as they climb the
hierarchy.

Given the fact that we have not written hierarchical algorithm in a
way where child's and parents time slices are synchronized, we
transfer the child's start time to parent if parent was idling.  If
parent was busy doing dispatch of other bios all this while, this is
not an issue.

Child's slice start time is passed to parent. Parent looks at its
last expired slice start time. If child's start time is after parents
old start time, that means parent had been idle and after parent
went idle, child had an IO queued. So use child's start time as
parent start time.

If parent's start time is after child's start time, that means,
when IO got queued in child group, parent was not idle. But later
it dispatched some IO, its slice got trimmed and then it went idle.
After a while child's request got shifted in parent group. In this
case use parent's old start time as new start time as that's the
duration of slice we did not use.

This logic is far from perfect as if there are multiple childs
then first child transferring the bio decides the start time while
a bio might have queued up even earlier in other child, which is
yet to be transferred up to parent. In that case we will lose
time and bandwidth in parent. This patch is just an approximation
to make situation somewhat better.
 
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-05-14 13:52:38 -07:00
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partitions partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's 2013-04-30 08:34:25 +02:00
blk-cgroup.c blkcg: move bulk of blkcg_gq release operations to the RCU callback 2013-05-14 13:52:31 -07:00
blk-cgroup.h blkcg: move bulk of blkcg_gq release operations to the RCU callback 2013-05-14 13:52:31 -07:00
blk-core.c Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-05-08 10:13:35 -07:00
blk-exec.c Merge branch 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-02-28 12:52:24 -08:00
blk-flush.c Block: blk-flush: Fixed indent code style 2013-03-22 12:22:51 -06:00
blk-integrity.c scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end 2013-03-20 15:43:04 +10:30
blk-ioc.c
blk-iopoll.c
blk-lib.c
blk-map.c
blk-merge.c scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end 2013-03-20 15:43:04 +10:30
blk-settings.c
blk-softirq.c
blk-sysfs.c block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_store 2013-04-03 21:53:57 +02:00
blk-tag.c
blk-throttle.c blk-throttle: Account for child group's start time in parent while bio climbs up 2013-05-14 13:52:38 -07:00
blk-timeout.c
blk.h
bsg-lib.c
bsg.c
cfq-iosched.c block: Add bio_end_sector() 2013-03-23 14:15:29 -07:00
compat_ioctl.c
deadline-iosched.c block: Add bio_end_sector() 2013-03-23 14:15:29 -07:00
elevator.c block: implement runtime pm strategy 2013-03-22 22:22:15 -06:00
genhd.c driver core: handle user namespaces properly with the uid/gid devtmpfs change 2013-04-11 11:43:29 -07:00
ioctl.c
Kconfig
Kconfig.iosched
Makefile
noop-iosched.c
partition-generic.c Revert "loop: cleanup partitions when detaching loop device" 2013-04-08 10:12:11 +02:00
scsi_ioctl.c aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00