Re: [PATCH RFC 0/9] support concurrent sync io for bfq on a specail occasion

["yukuai (C)" <yukuai3@huawei.com>]

On 2021/11/27 18:11, Yu Kuai wrote:
> Bfq can't handle sync io concurrently as long as the io are not issued
> from root group currently.
> 
> Previous patch set:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211014014556.3597008-2-yukuai3@huawei.com/t/
> 
> During implemting the method mentioned by the above patch set, I found
> more problems that will block implemting concurrent sync io. The
> modifications of this patch set are as follows:
> 
> 1) count root group into 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs';
> 2) don't idle if 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs' is 1;
> 3) If the group doesn't have pending requests while it's child groups
> have pending requests, don't count the group.
> 4) Once the group doesn't have pending requests, decrease
> 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs' immediately. Don't delay to when all
> it's child groups don't have pending requests.
> 

friendly ping ...
> Noted that I just tested basic functionality of this patchset, and I
> think it's better to see if anyone have suggestions or better
> solutions.
> 
> Yu Kuai (9):
>    block, bfq: add new apis to iterate bfq entities
>    block, bfq: apply news apis where root group is not expected
>    block, bfq: handle the case when for_each_entity() access root group
>    block, bfq: count root group into 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs'
>    block, bfq: do not idle if only one cgroup is activated
>    block, bfq: only count group that the bfq_queue belongs to
>    block, bfq: record how many queues have pending requests in bfq_group
>    block, bfq: move forward __bfq_weights_tree_remove()
>    block, bfq: decrease 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs' earlier
> 
>   block/bfq-cgroup.c  |  3 +-
>   block/bfq-iosched.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>   block/bfq-iosched.h | 41 +++++++++++++-------
>   block/bfq-wf2q.c    | 44 +++++++++++++++-------
>   4 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
>