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authorCorrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>2009-12-06 11:48:52 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>2009-12-09 12:32:55 +0100
commit573412b29586e58477adb70e022193a337763319 (patch)
tree757ebcc4da3ba7b8d8beb8e8e0ff6a4fe4428f52 /block
parent2b876f95d03e226394b5d360c86127cbefaf614b (diff)
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cfq-iosched: reduce write depth only if sync was delayed
The introduction of ramp-up formula for async queue depths has slowed down dirty page reclaim, by reducing async write performance. This patch makes sure the formula kicks in only when sync request was recently delayed. Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/cfq-iosched.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index cfb0b2f5f63d..5009af490a0c 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ struct cfq_data {
*/
struct cfq_queue oom_cfqq;
- unsigned long last_end_sync_rq;
+ unsigned long last_delayed_sync;
/* List of cfq groups being managed on this device*/
struct hlist_head cfqg_list;
@@ -2264,7 +2264,7 @@ static bool cfq_may_dispatch(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *cfqq)
* based on the last sync IO we serviced
*/
if (!cfq_cfqq_sync(cfqq) && cfqd->cfq_latency) {
- unsigned long last_sync = jiffies - cfqd->last_end_sync_rq;
+ unsigned long last_sync = jiffies - cfqd->last_delayed_sync;
unsigned int depth;
depth = last_sync / cfqd->cfq_slice[1];
@@ -3273,7 +3273,8 @@ static void cfq_completed_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
if (sync) {
RQ_CIC(rq)->last_end_request = now;
- cfqd->last_end_sync_rq = now;
+ if (!time_after(rq->start_time + cfqd->cfq_fifo_expire[1], now))
+ cfqd->last_delayed_sync = now;
}
/*
@@ -3711,7 +3712,7 @@ static void *cfq_init_queue(struct request_queue *q)
cfqd->cfq_latency = 1;
cfqd->cfq_group_isolation = 0;
cfqd->hw_tag = -1;
- cfqd->last_end_sync_rq = jiffies;
+ cfqd->last_delayed_sync = jiffies - HZ;
INIT_RCU_HEAD(&cfqd->rcu);
return cfqd;
}