block: add REQ_URGENT to request flags

This patch adds a new flag to be used in cmd_flags field of struct request
for marking request as urgent.
Urgent request is the one that should be given priority currently handled
(regular) request by the device driver. The decision of a request urgency
is taken by the scheduler.

Change-Id: Ic20470987ef23410f1d0324f96f00578f7df8717
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>

Conflicts:
	include/linux/blk_types.h
block:row: fix idling mechanism in ROW

This patch addresses the following issues found in the ROW idling
mechanism:
1. Fix the delay passed to queue_delayed_work (pass actual delay
   and not the time when to start the work)
2. Change the idle time and the idling-trigger frequency to be
   HZ dependent (instead of using msec_to_jiffies())
3. Destroy idle_workqueue() in queue_exit

Change-Id: If86513ad6b4be44fb7a860f29bd2127197d8d5bf
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>

Conflicts:
	block/row-iosched.c
block: row: Dispatch requests according to their io-priority

This patch implements "application-hints" which is a way the issuing
application can notify the scheduler on the priority of its request.
This is done by setting the io-priority of the request.
This patch reuses an already existing mechanism of io-priorities developed
for CFQ. Please refer to kernel/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt for
usage example and explanations.

Change-Id: I228ec8e52161b424242bb7bb133418dc8b73925a
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block: row: Idling mechanism re-factoring

At the moment idling in ROW is implemented by delayed work that uses
jiffies granularity which is not very accurate. This patch replaces
current idling mechanism implementation with hrtime API, which gives
nanosecond resolution (instead of jiffies).

Change-Id: I86c7b1776d035e1d81571894b300228c8b8f2d92
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block: row: Don't notify URGENT if there are un-completed urgent req

When ROW scheduler reports to the block layer that there is an urgent
request pending, the device driver may decide to stop the transmission
of the current request in order to handle the urgent one. If the current
transmitted request is an urgent request - we don't want it to be
stopped.
Due to the above ROW scheduler won't notify of an urgent request if
there are urgent requests in flight.

Change-Id: I2fa186d911b908ec7611682b378b9cdc48637ac7
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>

Conflicts:
	block/row-iosched.c
block: row: Update initial values of ROW data structures

This patch sets the initial values of internal ROW
parameters.

Change-Id: I38132062a7fcbe2e58b9cc757e55caac64d013dc
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
[smuckle@codeaurora.org: ported from msm-3.7]
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
block: row: Re-design urgent request notification mechanism

When ROW scheduler reports to the block layer that there is an urgent
request pending, the device driver may decide to stop the transmission
of the current request in order to handle the urgent one. This is done
in order to reduce the latency of an urgent request. For example:
long WRITE may be stopped to handle an urgent READ.

This patch updates the ROW URGENT notification policy to apply with the
below:

- Don't notify URGENT if there is an un-completed URGENT request in driver
- After notifying that URGENT request is present, the next request
  dispatched is the URGENT one.
- At every given moment only 1 request can be marked as URGENT.
  Independent of it's location (driver or scheduler)

Other changes to URGENT policy:
- Only READ queues are allowed to notify of an URGENT request pending.

CR fix:
If a pending urgent request (A) gets merged with another request (B)
A is removed from scheduler queue but is not removed from
rd->pending_urgent_rq.

CRs-Fixed: 453712
Change-Id: I321e8cf58e12a05b82edd2a03f52fcce7bc9a900
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block: urgent request: remove unnecessary urgent marking

An urgent request is marked by the scheduler in rq->cmd_flags with the
REQ_URGENT flag. There is no need to add an additional marking by
the block layer.

Change-Id: I05d5e9539d2f6c1bfa80240b0671db197a5d3b3f
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>

Conflicts:
	block/test-iosched.c

Conflicts:
	block/test-iosched.c
block: blk-core: add printk_ratelimit

On failure of requests the console is flooded with prints,
which result in a watchdog bark.
This patch limits the number of prints to console thus, avoiding
the bark.

CRs-Fixed: 458071
Change-Id: I614002cc1305ab7b5c6a64d278139291c1baa3c4
Signed-off-by: Asutosh Das <asutoshd@codeaurora.org>
block: row: Prevent starvation of regular priority by high priority

At the moment all REGULAR and LOW priority requests are starved as long as
there are HIGH priority requests to dispatch.
This patch prevents the above starvation by setting a starvation limit the
REGULAR\LOW priority requests can tolerate.

Change-Id: Ibe24207982c2c55d75c0b0230f67e013d1106017
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block: row: Update sysfs functions

All ROW (time related) configurable parameters are stored in ms so there
is no need to convert from/to ms when reading/updating them via sysfs.

Change-Id: Ib6a1de54140b5d25696743da944c076dd6fc02ae
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block: urgent request: Update dispatch_urgent in case of requeue/reinsert

The block layer implements a mechanism for verifying that the device
driver won't be notified of an URGENT request if there is already an
URGENT request in flight. This is due to the fact that interrupting an
URGENT request isn't efficient.
This patch fixes the above described mechanism in case the URGENT request
was returned back to the block layer from some reason: by requeue or
reinsert.

CRs-fixed: 473376, 473036, 471736
Change-Id: Ie8b8208230a302d4526068531616984825f1050d
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block: row: Fix starvation tolerance values

The current starvation tolerance values increase the boot time
since high priority SW requests are delayed by regular priority requests.
In order to overcome this, increase the starvation tolerance values.

Change-Id: I9947fca9927cbd39a1d41d4bd87069df679d3103
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org>
Add fiops ioscheduler core

FIOPS (Fair IOPS) ioscheduler is IOPS based ioscheduler, so only targets
for drive without I/O seek. It's quite similar like CFQ, but the dispatch
decision is made according to IOPS instead of slice.

The algorithm is simple. Drive has a service tree, and each task lives in
the tree. The key into the tree is called vios (virtual I/O). Every request
has vios, which is calculated according to its ioprio, request size and so
on. Task's vios is the sum of vios of all requests it dispatches. FIOPS
always selects task with minimum vios in the service tree and let the task
dispatch request. The dispatched request's vios is then added to the task's
vios and the task is repositioned in the sevice tree.

Unlike CFQ, FIOPS doesn't have separate sync/async queues, because with I/O
less writeback, usually a task can only dispatch either sync or async requests.
Bias read or write request can still be done with read/write scale.

One issue is if workload iodepth is lower than drive queue_depth, IOPS
share of a task might not be strictly according to its priority, request
size and so on. In this case, the drive is in idle actually. Solving the
problem need make drive idle, so impact performance. I believe CFQ isn't
completely fair between tasks in such case too.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>

Conflicts:
	block/Kconfig.iosched
	block/Makefile

Change-Id: I618b36b51ce02e5b219e99e2e69157f746f57c41
block: fiops read/write request scale

read/write speed of Flash based storage usually is different. For example,
in my SSD maxium thoughput of read is about 3 times faster than that of
write. Add a scale to differenate read and write. Also add a tunable, so
user can assign different scale for read and write.

By default, the scale is 1:1, which means the scale is a noop.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
block: fiops sync/async scale

CFQ gives 2.5 times more share to sync workload. This matches CFQ.

Note this is different with the read/write scale. We have 3 types of
requests:
1. read
2. sync write
3. write
CFQ doesn't differentitate type 1 and 2, but request cost of 1 and 2
are usually different for flash based storage. So we have both sync/async
and read/write scale here.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
block: fiops add ioprio support

Add CFQ-like ioprio support. Priority A will get 20% more share than priority
A+1, which matches CFQ.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
block: fiops preserve vios key for deep queue depth workload

If the task has running request, even it's added into service tree newly,
we preserve its vios key, so it will not lost its share. This should work
for task driving big queue depth. For single depth task, there is no approach
to preserve its vios key.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
block: fiops bias sync workload

If there are async requests running, delay async workload. Otherwise
async workload (usually very deep iodepth) will use all queue iodepth
and later sync requests will get long delayed. The idea is from CFQ.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Bump kernel version to 0.328

Change-Id: I93e27783730a8b96a3d7ca1ecc0932bec50f98b3