ioc->ioc_data is rcu protectd, so uses correct API to access it.
This doesn't change any behavior, but just make code consistent.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # after ab4bd22d
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
I got a rcu warnning at boot. the ioc->ioc_data is rcu_deferenced, but
doesn't hold rcu_read_lock.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # after ab4bd22d
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Use the compiler to verify format strings and arguments.
Fix fallout.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold
the lock protecting it around it.
This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq
io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long
time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed
to see it a lot.
Tracked in RH bugzilla here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968
Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue
was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his
hard work the issue is now fixed.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
queue_fail can only be reached if cic is NULL, so its check for cic must
be bogus.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When struct cfq_data allocation fails, cic_index need to be freed.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The 'group_changed' variable is initialized to 0 and never changed, so
checking the variable is meaningless.
It is a leftover from 0bbfeb8320 ("cfq-iosched: Always provide group
iosolation."). Let's get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Reduce the number of bit operations in cfq_choose_req() on average
(and worst) cases.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Simplify the calculation in cfq_prio_to_maxrq(), plus replace CFQ_PRIO_LISTS to
IOPRIO_BE_NR since they are the same and IOPRIO_BE_NR looks more reasonable in
this context IMHO.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
We allocated per cpu stats struct for root group but did not free it.
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Currently we take blkg_stat lock for even updating the stats. So even if
a group has no throttling rules (common case for root group), we end
up taking blkg_lock, for updating the stats.
Make dispatch stats per cpu so that these can be updated without taking
blkg lock.
If cpu goes offline, these stats simply disappear. No protection has
been provided for that yet. Do we really need anything for that?
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Currently, all the cfq_group or throtl_group allocations happen while
we are holding ->queue_lock and sleeping is not allowed.
Soon, we will move to per cpu stats and also need to allocate the
per group stats. As one can not call alloc_percpu() from atomic
context as it can sleep, we need to drop ->queue_lock, allocate the
group, retake the lock and continue processing.
In throttling code, I check the queue DEAD flag again to make sure
that driver did not call blk_cleanup_queue() in the mean time.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
blkg->key = cfqd is an rcu protected pointer and hence we used to do
call_rcu(cfqd->rcu_head) to free up cfqd after one rcu grace period.
The problem here is that even though cfqd is around, there are no
gurantees that associated request queue (td->queue) or q->queue_lock
is still around. A driver might have called blk_cleanup_queue() and
release the lock.
It might happen that after freeing up the lock we call
blkg->key->queue->queue_ock and crash. This is possible in following
path.
blkiocg_destroy()
blkio_unlink_group_fn()
cfq_unlink_blkio_group()
Hence, wait for an rcu peirod if there are groups which have not
been unlinked from blkcg->blkg_list. That way, if there are any groups
which are taking cfq_unlink_blkio_group() path, can safely take queue
lock.
This is how we have taken care of race in throttling logic also.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Nobody seems to be using cfq_find_alloc_cfqg() function parameter "create".
Get rid of that.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Currentlly we first map the task to cgroup and then cgroup to
blkio_cgroup. There is a more direct way to get to blkio_cgroup
from task using task_subsys_state(). Use that.
The real reason for the fix is that it also avoids a race in generic
cgroup code. During remount/umount rebind_subsystems() is called and
it can do following with and rcu protection.
cgrp->subsys[i] = NULL;
That means if somebody got hold of cgroup under rcu and then it tried
to do cgroup->subsys[] to get to blkio_cgroup, it would get NULL which
is wrong. I was running into this race condition with ltp running on a
upstream derived kernel and that lead to crash.
So ideally we should also fix cgroup generic code to wait for rcu
grace period before setting pointer to NULL. Li Zefan is not very keen
on introducing synchronize_wait() as he thinks it will slow
down moun/remount/umount operations.
So for the time being atleast fix the kernel crash by taking a more
direct route to blkio_cgroup.
One tester had reported a crash while running LTP on a derived kernel
and with this fix crash is no more seen while the test has been
running for over 6 days.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
For some configurations of CONFIG_PREEMPT that is not true. So
get rid of __call_for_each_cic() and always uses the explicitly
rcu_read_lock() protected call_for_each_cic() instead.
This fixes a potential bug related to IO scheduler removal or
online switching.
Thanks to Paul McKenney for clarifying this.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly. I've kept
the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Removing think time checking. A high thinktime queue might means the queue
dispatches several requests and then do away. Limitting such queue seems
meaningless. And also this can simplify code. This is suggested by Vivek.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
For v2, I added back lines to cfq_preempt_queue() that were removed
during updates for accounting unaccounted_time. Thanks for pointing out
that I'd missed these, Vivek.
Previous commit "cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt" wrongly
cleared stats for preempting queues when it shouldn't have, because when
we choose a queue to preempt, it still isn't necessarily scheduled next.
Thanks to Vivek Goyal for figuring this out and understanding how the
preemption code works.
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Commit "Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used" changed the behavior of
cfq_preempt_queue to set cfqq active. Vivek pointed out that other
preemption rules might get involved, so we shouldn't manually set which
queue is active.
This cleans up the code to just clear the queue stats at preemption
time.
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Version 3 is updated to apply to for-2.6.39/core.
For version 2, I took Vivek's advice and made sure we update the group
weight from cfq_group_service_tree_add().
If a weight was updated while a group is on the service tree, the
calculation for the total weight of the service tree can be adjusted
improperly, which either leads to bad service tree weights, or
potentially crashes (if total_weight becomes 0).
This patch defers updates to the weight until a group is off the service
tree.
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
There are two kind of times that tasks are not charged for: the first
seek and the extra time slice used over the allocated timeslice. Both
of these exported as a new unaccounted_time stat.
I think it would be good to have this reported in 'time' as well, but
that is probably a separate discussion.
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The update_vdisktime logic is broken since commit
b54ce60eb7, st->min_vdisktime never makes
a progress. Fix it.
Thanks Vivek for pointing it out.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If there are a sync and an async queue and the sync queue's think time
is small, we can ignore the sync queue's dispatch quantum. Because the
sync queue will always preempt the async queue, we don't need to care
about async's latency. This can fix a performance regression of
aiostress test, which is introduced by commit f8ae6e3eb8. The issue
should exist even without the commit, but the commit amplifies the
impact.
The initial post does the same optimization for RT queue too, but since
I have no real workload for it, Vivek suggests to drop it.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
__blk_run_queue() automatically either calls q->request_fn() directly
or schedules kblockd depending on whether the function is recursed.
blk-flush implementation needs to be able to explicitly choose
kblockd. Add @force_kblockd.
All the current users are converted to specify %false for the
parameter and this patch doesn't introduce any behavior change.
stable: This is prerequisite for fixing ide oops caused by the new
blk-flush implementation.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Effectively, make group_isolation=1 the default and remove the tunable.
The setting group_isolation=0 was because by default we idle on
sync-noidle tree and on fast devices, this can be very harmful for
throughput.
However, this problem can also be addressed by tuning slice_idle and
possibly group_idle on faster storage devices.
This change simplifies the CFQ code by removing the feature entirely.
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Flush requests are never put on the IO scheduler. Convert request
structure's elevator_private* into an array and have the flush fields
share a union with it.
Reclaim the space lost in 'struct request' by moving 'completion_data'
back in the union with 'rb_node'.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Commit 7667aa0630 added logic to wait for
the last queue of the group to become busy (have at least one request),
so that the group does not lose out for not being continuously
backlogged. The commit did not check for the condition that the last
queue already has some requests. As a result, if the queue already has
requests, wait_busy is set. Later on, cfq_select_queue() checks the
flag, and decides that since the queue has a request now and wait_busy
is set, the queue is expired. This results in early expiration of the
queue.
This patch fixes the problem by adding a check to see if queue already
has requests. If it does, wait_busy is not set. As a result, time slices
do not expire early.
The queues with more than one request are usually buffered writers.
Testing shows improvement in isolation between buffered writers.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Rename a function to give it more approprate name. We are calculating
cfq queue slice and function name gives the impression as if cfq group
slice length is being calculated.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If a queue is preempted before it gets slice assigned, the queue doesn't get
compensation, which looks unfair. For such queue, we compensate it for a whole
slice.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
I got this:
fio-874 [007] 2157.724514: 8,32 m N cfq874 preempt
fio-874 [007] 2157.724519: 8,32 m N cfq830 slice expired t=1
fio-874 [007] 2157.724520: 8,32 m N cfq830 sl_used=1 disp=0 charge=1 iops=0 sect=0
fio-874 [007] 2157.724521: 8,32 m N cfq830 set_active wl_prio:0 wl_type:0
fio-874 [007] 2157.724522: 8,32 m N cfq830 Not idling. st->count:1
cfq830 is an async queue, and preempted by a sync queue cfq874. But since we
have cfqg->saved_workload_slice mechanism, the preempt is a nop.
Looks currently our preempt is totally broken if the two queues are not from
the same workload type.
Below patch fixes it. This will might make async queue starvation, but it's
what our old code does before cgroup is added.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
cfq_group->ref is used with queue_lock hold, the only exception is
cfq_set_request, which looks like a bug to me, so ref doesn't need
to be an atomic and atomic operation is slower.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
cfq_queue->ref is used with queue_lock hold, so ref doesn't need to be an atomic
and atomic operation is slower.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When cfq_choose_cfqg() is called in select_queue(), there must be at least one
backlogged CFQ queue waiting for dispatching, hence there must be at least one
backlogged CFQ group on service tree. So we never call choose_service_tree()
with cfqg == NULL.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If priority is changed, continuing to check workload_expires and service tree
count of the previous workload does not make sense. We should always choose
the workload with lowest key of new priority in such case.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
It's able to check whether a CFQ group on a service tree by
checking "cfqg->rb_node". There's no need to maintain an
extra flag here.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When a cfq group is running, it won't be dequeued from service tree, so
there's no need to store the active one in st->active. Just gid rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Vivek suggests we don't need schedule a dispatch when an idle queue
becomes nonidle. And he is right, cfq_should_preempt already covers
the logic.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If a deep seek queue slowly deliver requests but disk is much faster, idle
for the queue just wastes disk throughput. If the queue delevers all requests
before half its slice is used, the patch disable idle for it.
In my test, application delivers 32 requests one time, the disk can accept
128 requests at maxium and disk is fast. without the patch, the throughput
is just around 30m/s, while with it, the speed is about 80m/s. The disk is
a SSD, but is detected as a rotational disk. I can configure it as SSD, but
I thought the deep seek queue logic should be fixed too, for example,
considering a fast raid.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
A queue is idle at cfq_dispatch_requests(), but it gets noidle later. Unless
other task explictly does unplug or all requests are drained, we will not
deliever requests to the disk even cfq_arm_slice_timer doesn't make the
queue idle. For example, cfq_should_idle() returns true because of
service_tree->count == 1, and then other queues are added. Note, I didn't
see obvious performance impacts so far with the patch, but just thought
this could be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
- Andi encountedred following warning with gcc 4.5
linux/block/cfq-iosched.c: In function ‘cfq_dispatch_requests’:
linux/block/cfq-iosched.c:2156:3: warning: array subscript is above array
bounds
- Warning happens due to following code.
slice = group_slice * count /
max_t(unsigned, cfqg->busy_queues_avg[cfqd->serving_prio],
cfq_group_busy_queues_wl(cfqd->serving_prio, cfqd, cfqg));
gcc is complaining about cfqg->busy_queues_avg[] being indexed by CFQ
prio classes (RT, BE and IDLE) while the array size is only 2.
- At run time, we never access cfqg->busy_queues_avg[IDLE] and return from
function before this code hits.
- To fix warning increase the array size though it will remain unused. This
patch also puts some comments to clarify some of the confusions.
- I have taken Jens's patch and modified it a bit.
- Compile tested with gcc 4.4 and boot tested. I don't have gcc 4.5
running, Andi can you please test it with gcc 4.5 to make sure it
worked.
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Currently any cgroup throttle limit changes are processed asynchronousy and
the change does not take affect till a new bio is dispatched from same group.
o It might happen that a user sets a redicuously low limit on throttling.
Say 1 bytes per second on reads. In such cases simple operations like mount
a disk can wait for a very long time.
o Once bio is throttled, there is no easy way to come out of that wait even if
user increases the read limit later.
o This patch fixes it. Now if a user changes the cgroup limits, we recalculate
the bio dispatch time according to new limits.
o Can't take queueu lock under blkcg_lock, hence after the change I wake
up the dispatch thread again which recalculates the time. So there are some
variables being synchronized across two threads without lock and I had to
make use of barriers. Hoping I have used barriers correctly. Any review of
memory barrier code especially will help.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Mike reported a kernel crash when a usb key hotplug is performed while all
kernel thrads are not in a root cgroup and are running in one of the child
cgroups of blkio controller.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000002c
IP: [<c11c7b08>] cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/host3/scsi_host/host3/uevent
[..]
Pid: 30039, comm: scsi_scan_3 Not tainted 2.6.35.2-fg.roam #1 Volvi2 /Aspire 4315
EIP: 0060:[<c11c7b08>] EFLAGS: 00010086 CPU: 0
EIP is at cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412
EAX: f705f9c0 EBX: e977abac ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
ESI: f00da400 EDI: f00da4ec EBP: e977a800 ESP: dff8fd00
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process scsi_scan_3 (pid: 30039, ti=dff8e000 task=f6b6c9a0 task.ti=dff8e000)
Stack:
00000000 00000000 00000001 01ff0000 f00da508 00000000 f00da524 f00da540
<0> e7994940 dd631750 f705f9c0 e977a820 e977ac44 f00da4d0 00000001 f6b6c9a0
<0> 00000010 00008010 0000000b 00000000 00000001 e977a800 dd76fac0 00000246
Call Trace:
[<c11c7f10>] ? cfq_set_request+0x228/0x34c
[<c11c7ce8>] ? cfq_set_request+0x0/0x34c
[<c11bb3b9>] ? elv_set_request+0xf/0x1c
[<c11bdd51>] ? get_request+0x1ad/0x22f
[<c11bddf2>] ? get_request_wait+0x1f/0x11a
[<c11d013b>] ? kvasprintf+0x33/0x3b
[<c127b537>] ? scsi_execute+0x1d/0x103
[<c127b675>] ? scsi_execute_req+0x58/0x83
[<c127c391>] ? scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x188/0x7c2
[<c12718c6>] ? attribute_container_add_device+0x15/0xfa
[<c11c95d1>] ? kobject_get+0xf/0x13
[<c126d1db>] ? get_device+0x10/0x14
[<c127be93>] ? scsi_alloc_target+0x217/0x24d
[<c127cbd8>] ? __scsi_scan_target+0x95/0x480
[<c10204eb>] ? dequeue_entity+0x14/0x1fe
[<c1020491>] ? update_curr+0x165/0x1ab
[<c1020491>] ? update_curr+0x165/0x1ab
[<c127d00d>] ? scsi_scan_channel+0x4a/0x76
[<c127d0b0>] ? scsi_scan_host_selected+0x77/0xad
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c127d137>] ? do_scsi_scan_host+0x51/0x56
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c127d14a>] ? do_scan_async+0xe/0x11a
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c10354c5>] ? kthread+0x5e/0x63
[<c1035467>] ? kthread+0x0/0x63
[<c1002af6>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
Code: 44 24 1c 54 83 44 24 18 54 83 fa 03 75 94 8b 06 c7 86 64 02 00 00 01 00 00 00 83 e0 03 09 f0 89 06 8b 44 24 28 8b 90 58 01 00 00 <8b> 42 2c 85 c0 75 03 8b 42 08 8d 54 24 48 52 8d 4c 24 50 51 68
EIP: [<c11c7b08>] cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412 SS:ESP 0068:dff8fd00
CR2: 000000000000002c
---[ end trace 9a88306573f69b12 ]---
The problem here is that we don't have bdi->dev information available when
thread does some IO. Hence when dev_name() tries to access bdi->dev, it
crashes.
This problem does not happen if kernel threads are in root group as root
group is statically allocated at device initialization time and we don't
hit this piece of code.
Fix it by delaying the filling of major and minor number information of
device in blk_group. Initially a blk_group is created with 0 as device
information and this information is filled later once some more IO comes
in from same group.
Reported-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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 <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Shaohua Li