From 749ef9f8423054e326f3a246327ed2db4b6d395f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corrado Zoccolo Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:24:50 +0200 Subject: cfq: improve fsync performance for small files Fsync performance for small files achieved by cfq on high-end disks is lower than what deadline can achieve, due to idling introduced between the sync write happening in process context and the journal commit. Moreover, when competing with a sequential reader, a process writing small files and fsync-ing them is starved. This patch fixes the two problems by: - marking journal commits as WRITE_SYNC, so that they get the REQ_NOIDLE flag set, - force all queues that have REQ_NOIDLE requests to be put in the noidle tree. Having the queue associated to the fsync-ing process and the one associated to journal commits in the noidle tree allows: - switching between them without idling, - fairness vs. competing idling queues, since they will be serviced only after the noidle tree expires its slice. Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Tested-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/cfq-iosched.c | 18 ++++-------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'block/cfq-iosched.c') diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c index b9f8619..6845926 100644 --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c @@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ struct cfq_data { enum wl_type_t serving_type; unsigned long workload_expires; struct cfq_group *serving_group; - bool noidle_tree_requires_idle; /* * Each priority tree is sorted by next_request position. These @@ -2126,7 +2125,6 @@ static void choose_service_tree(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_group *cfqg) slice = max_t(unsigned, slice, CFQ_MIN_TT); cfq_log(cfqd, "workload slice:%d", slice); cfqd->workload_expires = jiffies + slice; - cfqd->noidle_tree_requires_idle = false; } static struct cfq_group *cfq_get_next_cfqg(struct cfq_data *cfqd) @@ -3108,7 +3106,9 @@ cfq_update_idle_window(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *cfqq, if (cfqq->queued[0] + cfqq->queued[1] >= 4) cfq_mark_cfqq_deep(cfqq); - if (!atomic_read(&cic->ioc->nr_tasks) || !cfqd->cfq_slice_idle || + if (cfqq->next_rq && (cfqq->next_rq->cmd_flags & REQ_NOIDLE)) + enable_idle = 0; + else if (!atomic_read(&cic->ioc->nr_tasks) || !cfqd->cfq_slice_idle || (!cfq_cfqq_deep(cfqq) && CFQQ_SEEKY(cfqq))) enable_idle = 0; else if (sample_valid(cic->ttime_samples)) { @@ -3421,17 +3421,7 @@ static void cfq_completed_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq) cfq_slice_expired(cfqd, 1); else if (sync && cfqq_empty && !cfq_close_cooperator(cfqd, cfqq)) { - cfqd->noidle_tree_requires_idle |= - !(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_NOIDLE); - /* - * Idling is enabled for SYNC_WORKLOAD. - * SYNC_NOIDLE_WORKLOAD idles at the end of the tree - * only if we processed at least one !REQ_NOIDLE request - */ - if (cfqd->serving_type == SYNC_WORKLOAD - || cfqd->noidle_tree_requires_idle - || cfqq->cfqg->nr_cfqq == 1) - cfq_arm_slice_timer(cfqd); + cfq_arm_slice_timer(cfqd); } } -- cgit v1.1