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Tahsin Erdogan 41c0126b3f block: Make CFQ default to IOPS mode on SSDs
CFQ idling causes reduced IOPS throughput on non-rotational disks.
Since disk head seeking is not applicable to SSDs, it doesn't really
help performance by anticipating future near-by IO requests.

By turning off idling (and switching to IOPS mode), we allow other
processes to dispatch IO requests down to the driver and so increase IO
throughput.

Following FIO benchmark results were taken on a cloud SSD offering with
idling on and off:

Idling     iops    avg-lat(ms)    stddev            bw
------------------------------------------------------
    On     7054    90.107         38.697     28217KB/s
   Off    29255    21.836         11.730    117022KB/s

fio --name=temp --size=100G --time_based --ioengine=libaio \
    --randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --verify=0 \
    --verify_fatal=0 --rw=randread --blocksize=4k --group_reporting=1 \
    --filename=/dev/sdb --runtime=10 --iodepth=64 --numjobs=10

And the following is from a local SSD run:

Idling     iops    avg-lat(ms)    stddev            bw
------------------------------------------------------
    On    19320    33.043         14.068     77281KB/s
   Off    21626    29.465         12.662     86507KB/s

fio --name=temp --size=5G --time_based --ioengine=libaio \
    --randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --verify=0 \
    --verify_fatal=0 --rw=randread --blocksize=4k --group_reporting=1 \
    --filename=/fio_data --runtime=10 --iodepth=64 --numjobs=10

Reviewed-by: Nauman Rafique <nauman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-05 19:21:15 -06:00
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partitions Merge branch 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-02-12 14:13:23 -08:00
bio-integrity.c block: remove management of bi_remaining when restoring original bi_end_io 2015-05-22 08:58:55 -06:00
bio.c block: remove management of bi_remaining when restoring original bi_end_io 2015-05-22 08:58:55 -06:00
blk-cgroup.c blkcg: remove blkcg->id 2014-09-08 09:55:37 -06:00
blk-cgroup.h blkcg: remove blkcg->id 2014-09-08 09:55:37 -06:00
blk-core.c block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones 2015-05-22 08:58:57 -06:00
blk-exec.c block: move PM request support to IDE 2015-05-05 13:40:42 -06:00
blk-flush.c blk-mq: support per-distpatch_queue flush machinery 2014-09-25 15:22:45 -06:00
blk-integrity.c block: Don't merge requests if integrity flags differ 2014-09-27 09:14:57 -06:00
blk-ioc.c block: Substitute rcu_access_pointer() for rcu_dereference_raw() 2014-02-18 12:21:26 -08:00
blk-iopoll.c Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
blk-lib.c block: Quiesce zeroout wrapper 2015-02-05 10:14:54 -07:00
blk-map.c blk_rq_map_user(): use import_single_range() 2015-04-11 22:27:13 -04:00
blk-merge.c block: only honor SG gap prevention for merges that contain data 2015-05-29 13:10:23 -06:00
blk-mq-cpu.c blk-mq: add file comments and update copyright notices 2014-05-28 10:15:41 -06:00
blk-mq-cpumap.c blk-mq: Use all available hardware queues 2014-12-09 09:08:21 -07:00
blk-mq-sysfs.c blk-mq: add blk_mq_init_allocated_queue and export blk_mq_register_disk 2015-03-13 08:26:53 -06:00
blk-mq-tag.c blk-mq: Shared tag enhancements 2015-06-01 14:35:56 -06:00
blk-mq-tag.h blk-mq: Shared tag enhancements 2015-06-01 14:35:56 -06:00
blk-mq.c blk-mq: Shared tag enhancements 2015-06-01 14:35:56 -06:00
blk-mq.h blk-mq: release mq's kobjects in blk_release_queue() 2015-01-29 08:30:51 -08:00
blk-settings.c block: fix blk_stack_limits() regression due to lcm() change 2015-03-31 09:45:50 -06:00
blk-softirq.c block: fix regression with block enabled tagging 2014-04-09 21:54:06 -06:00
blk-sysfs.c blk-mq: release mq's kobjects in blk_release_queue() 2015-01-29 08:30:51 -08:00
blk-tag.c block: support different tag allocation policy 2015-01-23 14:15:46 -07:00
blk-throttle.c blk-throttle: check stats_cpu before reading it from sysfs 2015-02-20 22:11:58 -08:00
blk-timeout.c blk-mq: Allow requests to never expire 2015-01-08 08:59:01 -07:00
blk.h blk-mq: make plug work for mutiple disks and queues 2015-05-08 14:17:23 -06:00
bounce.c block: remove BIO_EOPNOTSUPP 2015-05-19 09:17:03 -06:00
bsg-lib.c bsg: Remove unused function bsg_goose_queue() 2012-12-06 14:33:02 +01:00
bsg.c block: Simplify bsg complete all 2015-02-04 09:57:52 -07:00
cfq-iosched.c block: Make CFQ default to IOPS mode on SSDs 2015-06-05 19:21:15 -06:00
cmdline-parser.c block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol 2014-01-21 20:18:26 -08:00
compat_ioctl.c block, bdi: an active gendisk always has a request_queue associated with it 2014-09-08 10:00:35 -06:00
deadline-iosched.c block: Stop abusing csd.list for fifo_time 2014-02-24 14:46:32 -08:00
elevator.c block / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM 2014-12-04 01:00:23 +01:00
genhd.c genhd: check for int overflow in disk_expand_part_tbl() 2014-11-19 13:09:07 -07:00
ioctl.c block: replace trylock with mutex_lock in blkdev_reread_part() 2015-05-20 09:05:45 -06:00
ioprio.c block: Fix computation of merged request priority 2014-10-31 08:30:43 -06:00
Kconfig block: Add T10 Protection Information functions 2014-09-27 09:14:59 -06:00
Kconfig.iosched blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool 2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
Makefile block: Add T10 Protection Information functions 2014-09-27 09:14:59 -06:00
noop-iosched.c elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching 2013-07-03 13:25:24 +02:00
partition-generic.c block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime 2014-09-03 15:01:02 -06:00
scsi_ioctl.c sg_io(): use import_iovec() 2015-04-11 22:27:13 -04:00
t10-pi.c block: Add T10 Protection Information functions 2014-09-27 09:14:59 -06:00