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8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Shaohua Li
88eeca495b block: track request size in blk_issue_stat
Currently there is no way to know the request size when the request is
finished. Next patch will need this info. We could add extra field to
record the size, but blk_issue_stat has enough space to record it, so
this patch just overloads blk_issue_stat. With this, we will have 49bits
to track time, which still is very long time.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Omar Sandoval
34dbad5d26 blk-stat: convert to callback-based statistics reporting
Currently, statistics are gathered in ~0.13s windows, and users grab the
statistics whenever they need them. This is not ideal for both in-tree
users:

1. Writeback throttling wants its own dynamically sized window of
   statistics. Since the blk-stats statistics are reset after every
   window and the wbt windows don't line up with the blk-stats windows,
   wbt doesn't see every I/O.
2. Polling currently grabs the statistics on every I/O. Again, depending
   on how the window lines up, we may miss some I/Os. It's also
   unnecessary overhead to get the statistics on every I/O; the hybrid
   polling heuristic would be just as happy with the statistics from the
   previous full window.

This reworks the blk-stats infrastructure to be callback-based: users
register a callback that they want called at a given time with all of
the statistics from the window during which the callback was active.
Users can dynamically bucketize the statistics. wbt and polling both
currently use read vs. write, but polling can be extended to further
subdivide based on request size.

The callbacks are kept on an RCU list, and each callback has percpu
stats buffers. There will only be a few users, so the overhead on the
I/O completion side is low. The stats flushing is also simplified
considerably: since the timer function is responsible for clearing the
statistics, we don't have to worry about stale statistics.

wbt is a trivial conversion. After the conversion, the windowing problem
mentioned above is fixed.

For polling, we register an extra callback that caches the previous
window's statistics in the struct request_queue for the hybrid polling
heuristic to use.

Since we no longer have a single stats buffer for the request queue,
this also removes the sysfs and debugfs stats entries. To replace those,
we add a debugfs entry for the poll statistics.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-21 10:03:11 -06:00
Jens Axboe
d62118b6dd blk-wbt: allow wbt to be enabled always through sysfs
Currently there's no way to enable wbt if it's not enabled in the
kernel config by default for a device. Allow a write to the
'wbt_lat_usec' queue sysfs file to enable wbt.

This is useful for both the kernel config case, but also if the
device is CFQ managed and it was turned off by default.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-28 10:27:03 -07:00
Jens Axboe
fa224eed2b blk-wbt: cleanup disable-by-default for CFQ
Make it clear that we are disabling wbt for the specified queued,
if it was enabled by default. This is in preparation for allowing
users to re-enable wbt, and not have it disabled automatically
again.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-28 10:27:03 -07:00
Jens Axboe
80e091d10e blk-wbt: allow reset of default latency through sysfs
Allow a write of '-1' to reset the default latency target for
a given device. This removes knowledge of the different default
settings for rotational vs non-rotational from user space.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-28 10:27:03 -07:00
Jens Axboe
8054b89f8f blk-wbt: remove stat ops
Again a leftover from when the throttling code was generic. Now that we
just have the block user, get rid of the stat ops and indirections.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-11 16:18:24 -07:00
Jens Axboe
d8a0cbfd73 blk-wbt: store queue instead of bdi
The bdi was a leftover from when the code was block layer agnostic.
Now that we just support a block layer user, store the queue directly.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-11 16:18:18 -07:00
Jens Axboe
e34cbd3074 blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism
We can hook this up to the block layer, to help throttle buffered
writes.

wbt registers a few trace points that can be used to track what is
happening in the system:

wbt_lat: 259:0: latency 2446318
wbt_stat: 259:0: rmean=2446318, rmin=2446318, rmax=2446318, rsamples=1,
               wmean=518866, wmin=15522, wmax=5330353, wsamples=57
wbt_step: 259:0: step down: step=1, window=72727272, background=8, normal=16, max=32

This shows a sync issue event (wbt_lat) that exceeded it's time. wbt_stat
dumps the current read/write stats for that window, and wbt_step shows a
step down event where we now scale back writes. Each trace includes the
device, 259:0 in this case.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-10 13:53:32 -07:00