linux/block
Corrado Zoccolo a6d44e982d cfq-iosched: enable idling for last queue on priority class
cfq can disable idling for queues in various circumstances.
When workloads of different priorities are competing, if the higher
priority queue has idling disabled, lower priority queues may steal
its disk share. For example, in a scenario with an RT process
performing seeky reads vs a BE process performing sequential reads,
on an NCQ enabled hardware, with low_latency unset,
the RT process will dispatch only the few pending requests every full
slice of service for the BE process.

The patch solves this issue by always performing idle on the last
queue at a given priority class > idle. If the same process, or one
that can pre-empt it (so at the same priority or higher), submits a
new request within the idle window, the lower priority queue won't
dispatch, saving the disk bandwidth for higher priority ones.

Note: this doesn't touch the non_rotational + NCQ case (no hardware
to test if this is a benefit in that case).

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-28 09:23:26 +01:00
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blk-barrier.c block: allow large discard requests 2009-10-01 21:19:34 +02:00
blk-core.c block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2 2009-10-06 20:16:55 +02:00
blk-exec.c block: don't set REQ_NOMERGE unnecessarily 2009-04-28 07:37:33 +02:00
blk-integrity.c block: fix improper kobject release in blk_integrity_unregister 2009-07-28 09:11:14 +02:00
blk-ioc.c block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow 2009-06-10 23:07:15 +02:00
blk-iopoll.c block: use interrupts disabled version of raise_softirq_irqoff() 2009-09-11 14:33:32 +02:00
blk-map.c block: Use accessor functions for queue limits 2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
blk-merge.c block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2 2009-10-06 20:16:55 +02:00
blk-settings.c blk-settings: fix function parameter kernel-doc notation 2009-10-12 08:20:47 +02:00
blk-softirq.c generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAIT 2009-02-25 14:13:44 +01:00
blk-sysfs.c Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs 2009-10-01 21:15:46 +02:00
blk-tag.c block: use proper BLK_RW_ASYNC in blk_queue_start_tag() 2009-10-06 20:19:02 +02:00
blk-timeout.c block: clean up misc stuff after block layer timeout conversion 2009-04-28 07:37:34 +02:00
blk.h block: implement mixed merge of different failfast requests 2009-09-11 14:33:30 +02:00
bsg.c Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions 2009-09-19 12:50:38 -07:00
cfq-iosched.c cfq-iosched: enable idling for last queue on priority class 2009-10-28 09:23:26 +01:00
compat_ioctl.c block: Topology ioctls 2009-10-03 20:52:01 +02:00
deadline-iosched.c block: convert to pos and nr_sectors accessors 2009-05-11 09:50:54 +02:00
elevator.c Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-2.6.33 2009-10-13 12:29:45 +02:00
genhd.c block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2 2009-10-06 20:16:55 +02:00
ioctl.c block: Topology ioctls 2009-10-03 20:52:01 +02:00
Kconfig Make SCSI SG v4 driver enabled by default and remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency, since udev depends on BSG 2009-08-04 22:10:17 +02:00
Kconfig.iosched block: CFQ is more than a desktop scheduler 2009-10-03 09:40:47 +02:00
Makefile block: remove the anticipatory IO scheduler 2009-10-03 09:37:51 +02:00
noop-iosched.c block: get rid of elevator_t typedef 2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
scsi_ioctl.c block: call blk_scsi_ioctl_init() 2009-07-10 20:31:53 +02:00