Re: [RFC PATCH] cfq: Give a chance for arming slice idle timer in case of group_idle

[Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@codeaurora.org>]

Hi Jens,

Could you please take a look at below patch and the issue it is trying 
to solve. Please let us know your thoughts on the below problem and the 
patch.


Regards
Ritesh


On 8/9/2017 6:28 PM, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> In below scenario blkio cgroup does not work as per their assigned
> weights :-
> 1. When the underlying device is nonrotational with a single HW queue
> with depth of >= CFQ_HW_QUEUE_MIN
> 2. When the use case is forming two blkio cgroups cg1(weight 1000) &
> cg2(wight 100) and two processes(file1 and file2) doing sync IO in
> their respective blkio cgroups.
> 
> For above usecase result of fio (without this patch):-
> file1: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=685: Thu Jan  1 19:41:49 1970
>    write: IOPS=1315, BW=41.1MiB/s (43.1MB/s)(1024MiB/24906msec)
> <...>
> file2: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=686: Thu Jan  1 19:41:49 1970
>    write: IOPS=1295, BW=40.5MiB/s (42.5MB/s)(1024MiB/25293msec)
> <...>
> // both the process BW is equal even though they belong to diff.
> cgroups with weight of 1000(cg1) and 100(cg2)
> 
> In above case (for non rotational NCQ devices),
> as soon as the request from cg1 is completed and even
> though it is provided with higher set_slice=10, because of CFQ
> algorithm when the driver tries to fetch the request, CFQ expires
> this group without providing any idle time nor weight priority
> and schedules another cfq group (in this case cg2).
> And thus both cfq groups(cg1 & cg2) keep alternating to get the
> disk time and hence loses the cgroup weight based scheduling.
> 
> Below patch gives a chance to cfq algorithm (cfq_arm_slice_timer)
> to arm the slice timer in case group_idle is enabled.
> In case if group_idle is also not required (including for nonrotational
> NCQ drives), we need to explicitly set group_idle = 0 from sysfs for
> such cases.
> 
> With this patch result of fio(for above usecase) :-
> file1: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=690: Thu Jan  1 00:06:08 1970
>    write: IOPS=1706, BW=53.3MiB/s (55.9MB/s)(1024MiB/19197msec)
> <..>
> file2: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=691: Thu Jan  1 00:06:08 1970
>    write: IOPS=1043, BW=32.6MiB/s (34.2MB/s)(1024MiB/31401msec)
> <..>
> // In this processes BW is as per their respective cgroups weight.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>   block/cfq-iosched.c | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
> index 0fb78fb..15cad96 100644
> --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
> +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
> @@ -2934,7 +2934,8 @@ static void cfq_arm_slice_timer(struct cfq_data *cfqd)
>   	 * for devices that support queuing, otherwise we still have a problem
>   	 * with sync vs async workloads.
>   	 */
> -	if (blk_queue_nonrot(cfqd->queue) && cfqd->hw_tag)
> +	if (blk_queue_nonrot(cfqd->queue) && cfqd->hw_tag &&
> +		!cfqd->cfq_group_idle)
>   		return;
>   
>   	WARN_ON(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&cfqq->sort_list));
> 

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