The general structure is borrowed from CFQ, as much of the code for
handling I/O contexts. Over time, several useful features have been
ported from CFQ as well (details in the changelog in README.BFQ). A
(bfq_)queue is associated to each task doing I/O on a device, and each
time a scheduling decision has to be made a queue is selected and served
until it expires.
- Slices are given in the service domain: tasks are assigned
budgets, measured in number of sectors. Once got the disk, a task
must however consume its assigned budget within a configurable
maximum time (by default, the maximum possible value of the
budgets is automatically computed to comply with this timeout).
This allows the desired latency vs "throughput boosting" tradeoff
to be set.
- Budgets are scheduled according to a variant of WF2Q+, implemented
using an augmented rb-tree to take eligibility into account while
preserving an O(log N) overall complexity.
- A low-latency tunable is provided; if enabled, both interactive
and soft real-time applications are guaranteed a very low latency.
- Latency guarantees are preserved also in the presence of NCQ.
- Also with flash-based devices, a high throughput is achieved
while still preserving latency guarantees.
- BFQ features Early Queue Merge (EQM), a sort of fusion of the
cooperating-queue-merging and the preemption mechanisms present
in CFQ. EQM is in fact a unified mechanism that tries to get a
sequential read pattern, and hence a high throughput, with any
set of processes performing interleaved I/O over a contiguous
sequence of sectors.
- BFQ supports full hierarchical scheduling, exporting a cgroups
interface. Since each node has a full scheduler, each group can
be assigned its own weight.
- If the cgroups interface is not used, only I/O priorities can be
assigned to processes, with ioprio values mapped to weights
with the relation weight = IOPRIO_BE_NR - ioprio.
- ioprio classes are served in strict priority order, i.e., lower
priority queues are not served as long as there are higher
priority queues. Among queues in the same class the bandwidth is
distributed in proportion to the weight of each queue. A very
thin extra bandwidth is however guaranteed to the Idle class, to
prevent it from starving.
Change-Id: I1c789ca3c2eb93972d742f82ee729cfe5fb7170c
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it>
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini@google.com>
The new request notification test checks the following scenario:
A new request arrives after a NULL request was sent to the mmc_queue,
which is waiting for completion of a former request.
Change-Id: I05db0959ded400e292eb5e84e1ecfc579b78ee62
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Dorfman <kdorfman@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Susman <lsusman@codeaurora.org>
[merez@codeaurora.org: fixed conflicts due to removal of BKOPS tests]
Signed-off-by: Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org>
[venkatg@codeaurora.org: Drop changes to mmc_block_test.c]
Signed-off-by: Venkat Gopalakrishnan <venkatg@codeaurora.org>
Enable the compilation of eMMC4.5 unit-tests, required by APT team.
This will allow the APT team to test the storage activity on released
builds.
The storage tests are disabled in normal operation and in order to
activate them a test I/O scheduler should be chosen and the test should
be triggered via debugfs. Therefore they have no effect on normal eMMC
driver operation.
Change-Id: I179c567f67cc8fab9ed1edab8246483de18bc76a
Signed-off-by: Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org>
[venkatg@codeaurora.org: Fixed trivial merge conflict]
Signed-off-by: Venkat Gopalakrishnan <venkatg@codeaurora.org>
The test scheduler allows testing a block device by dispatching
specific requests according to the test case and declare PASS/FAIL
according to the requests completion error code
Change-Id: Ief91f9fed6e3c3c75627d27264d5252ea14f10ad
Signed-off-by: Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org>
Block cgroup core can be built as module; however, it isn't too useful
as blk-throttle can only be built-in and cfq-iosched is usually the
default built-in scheduler. Scheduled blkcg cleanup requires calling
into blkcg from block core. To simplify that, disallow building blkcg
as module by making CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool.
If building blkcg core as module really matters, which I doubt, we can
revisit it after blkcg API cleanup.
-v2: Vivek pointed out that IOSCHED_CFQ was incorrectly updated to
depend on BLK_CGROUP. Fixed.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This patch fixes few usability and configurability issues.
o All the cgroup based controller options are configurable from
"Genral Setup/Control Group Support/" menu. blkio is the only exception.
Hence make this option visible in above menu and make it configurable from
there to bring it inline with rest of the cgroup based controllers.
o Get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED.
This option currently does two things.
- Enable printing of cgroup paths in blktrace
- Enables CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP, which in turn displays additional stat
files in cgroup.
If we are using group scheduling, blktrace data is of not really much use
if cgroup information is not present. To get this data, currently one has to
also enable CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED, which in turn brings the overhead of
all the additional debug stat files which is not desired.
Hence, this patch moves printing of cgroup paths under
CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED.
This allows us to get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED completely. Now all
the debug stat files are controlled only by CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP which
can be enabled through config menu.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Modify the Block I/O cgroup subsystem to be able to be built as a module.
As the CFQ disk scheduler optionally depends on blk-cgroup, config options
in block/Kconfig, block/Kconfig.iosched, and block/blk-cgroup.h are
enhanced to support the new module dependency.
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
o Now issues of blkio controller and CFQ in module mode should be fixed.
Enable the cfq group scheduling support in module mode.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
o Bring in the per cfq group weight and how vdisktime is calculated for the
group. Also bring in the functionality of updating the min_vdisktime of
the group service tree.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
o This is basic implementation of blkio controller cgroup interface. This is
the common interface visible to user space and should be used by different
IO control policies as we implement those.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
AS is mostly a subset of CFQ, so there's little point in still
providing this separate IO scheduler. Hopefully at some point we
can get down to one single IO scheduler again, at least this brings
us closer by having only one intelligent IO scheduler.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Change I/O scheduler description to correctly show CFQ as being the default
scheduler and not the anticipatory scheduler that previously was default.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.
This patch does the following:
(*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
support.
(*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
an item that uses the block layer. This includes:
(*) Block I/O tracing.
(*) Disk partition code.
(*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.
(*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.
(*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
drivers.
(*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.
(*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.
(*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is,
however, still used in places, and so is still available.
(*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
parts of linux/fs.h.
(*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
is not enabled.
(*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:
(*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).
(*) Makes some /proc changes:
(*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.
(*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.
(*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.
(*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).
(*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
With the recent reorg of the io scheduler selection, it unfortunately
became possible to select an io scheduler to be the default even if it
wasn't builtin. Fix this by requiring the default scheduler to be
builtin.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01:00
Renamed from drivers/block/Kconfig.iosched (Browse further)
