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Writeback throttling does not play well with CFQ since that also tries
to throttle async writes. As a result async writeback can get starved in
presence of readers. As an example take a benchmark simulating
postgreSQL database running over a standard rotating SATA drive. There
are 16 processes doing random reads from a huge file (2*machine memory),
1 process doing random writes to the huge file and calling fsync once
per 50000 writes and 1 process doing sequential 8k writes to a
relatively small file wrapping around at the end of the file and calling
fsync every 5 writes. Under this load read latency easily exceeds the
target latency of 75 ms (just because there are so many reads happening
against a relatively slow disk) and thus writeback is throttled to a
point where only 1 write request is allowed at a time. Blktrace data
then looks like:
8,0 1 0 8.347751764 0 m N cfq workload slice:40000000
8,0 1 0 8.347755256 0 m N cfq293A / set_active wl_class: 0 wl_type:0
8,0 1 0 8.347784100 0 m N cfq293A / Not idling. st->count:1
8,0 1 3814 8.347763916 5839 UT N [kworker/u9:2] 1
8,0 0 0 8.347777605 0 m N cfq293A / Not idling. st->count:1
8,0 1 0 8.347784100 0 m N cfq293A / Not idling. st->count:1
8,0 3 1596 8.354364057 0 C R 156109528 + 8 (6906954) [0]
8,0 3 0 8.354383193 0 m N cfq6196SN / complete rqnoidle 0
8,0 3 0 8.354386476 0 m N cfq schedule dispatch
8,0 3 0 8.354399397 0 m N cfq293A / Not idling. st->count:1
8,0 3 0 8.354404705 0 m N cfq293A / dispatch_insert
8,0 3 0 8.354409454 0 m N cfq293A / dispatched a request
8,0 3 0 8.354412527 0 m N cfq293A / activate rq, drv=1
8,0 3 1597 8.354414692 0 D W 145961400 + 24 (
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| partitions | ||
| badblocks.c | ||
| bio-integrity.c | ||
| bio.c | ||
| blk-cgroup.c | ||
| blk-core.c | ||
| blk-exec.c | ||
| blk-flush.c | ||
| blk-integrity.c | ||
| blk-ioc.c | ||
| blk-lib.c | ||
| blk-map.c | ||
| blk-merge.c | ||
| blk-mq-cpumap.c | ||
| blk-mq-debugfs.c | ||
| blk-mq-pci.c | ||
| blk-mq-sched.c | ||
| blk-mq-sched.h | ||
| blk-mq-sysfs.c | ||
| blk-mq-tag.c | ||
| blk-mq-tag.h | ||
| blk-mq-virtio.c | ||
| blk-mq.c | ||
| blk-mq.h | ||
| blk-settings.c | ||
| blk-softirq.c | ||
| blk-stat.c | ||
| blk-stat.h | ||
| blk-sysfs.c | ||
| blk-tag.c | ||
| blk-throttle.c | ||
| blk-timeout.c | ||
| blk-wbt.c | ||
| blk-wbt.h | ||
| blk-zoned.c | ||
| blk.h | ||
| bounce.c | ||
| bsg-lib.c | ||
| bsg.c | ||
| cfq-iosched.c | ||
| cmdline-parser.c | ||
| compat_ioctl.c | ||
| deadline-iosched.c | ||
| elevator.c | ||
| genhd.c | ||
| ioctl.c | ||
| ioprio.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.iosched | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mq-deadline.c | ||
| noop-iosched.c | ||
| opal_proto.h | ||
| partition-generic.c | ||
| scsi_ioctl.c | ||
| sed-opal.c | ||
| t10-pi.c | ||