Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] block: add queue idle timer

[Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>]

Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> writes:

> Add an idle timer that is set to some suitable timeout and would be
> added when the queue first goes empty. If nothing has happened during
> the timeout interval, then the queue is suspended.
>
> Queueing a new request could check the state and resume queue if it is
> supended.
>

[snip]

> @@ -1129,6 +1141,13 @@ void __blk_put_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req)
>  	if (unlikely(--req->ref_count))
>  		return;
>  
> +	/* PM request is not accounted */
> +	if (!(req->cmd_flags & REQ_PM)) {
> +		if (!(--q->nr_pending))
> +			/* Hard code to 20secs, will move to sysfs */
> +			mod_timer(&q->idle, jiffies + 20*HZ);
> +	}
> +

I'm pretty sure Jens wanted to avoid doing a mod_timer, here, given that
the queue can transition between empty and non-empty fairly rapidly for
dependent I/O.

> @@ -587,6 +590,13 @@ void __elv_add_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq, int where)
>  {
>  	trace_block_rq_insert(q, rq);
>  
> +	if (!(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_PM)) {
> +		if (!(q->pm_status != RPM_ACTIVE) &&

Uhh, re-read that line.  Not not equal?

Cheers,
Jeff