iosched: prevent aliased requests from starving other I/O

Hi, Jens,

If you recall, I posted an RFC patch for this back in July of last year:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/13/279

The basic problem is that a process can issue a never-ending stream of
async direct I/Os to the same sector on a device, thus starving out
other I/O in the system (due to the way the alias handling works in both
cfq and deadline).  The solution I proposed back then was to start
dispatching from the fifo after a certain number of aliases had been
dispatched.  Vivek asked why we had to treat aliases differently at all,
and I never had a good answer.  So, I put together a simple patch which
allows aliases to be added to the rb tree (it adds them to the right,
though that doesn't matter as the order isn't guaranteed anyway).  I
think this is the preferred solution, as it doesn't break up time slices
in CFQ or batches in deadline.  I've tested it, and it does solve the
starvation issue.  Let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Jeff

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
(cherry picked from commit 796d5116c407690b14fd5bda136aa67a39e7061a)
Optimized ARM RWSEM algorithm

RWSEM implementation for ARM using atomic functions.
Heavily based on arch/sh/include/asm/rwsem.h

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinc@codeaurora.org>
(cherry picked from commit e3df5ca5821ba08f0d296cc6b6dcc9e0f213c6e7)
Revert "block: Adding ROW scheduling algorithm"

Preparation for bringing in MSM version

This reverts commit d184fe6498eeb52ef2597fc3b0197de97743a6e6.
block: Adding ROW scheduling algorithm

This patch adds the implementation of a new scheduling algorithm - ROW.
The policy of this algorithm is to prioritize READ requests over WRITE
as much as possible without starving the WRITE requests.

Change-Id: I4ed52ea21d43b0e7c0769b2599779a3d3869c519
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
(cherry picked from commit 1634906fde3140db973950ef4b0ed53a6767375e)
block: ROW: Correct minimum values of ROW tunable parameters

The ROW scheduling algorithm exposes several tunable parameters.
This patch updates the minimum allowed values for those parameters.

Change-Id: I5ec19d54b694e2e83ad5376bd99cc91f084967f5
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
(cherry picked from commit 0a0345a629176bc133a3552dc7548b69e44934dd)
block: ROW: Fix forced dispatch

This patch fixes forced dispatch in the ROW scheduling algorithm.
When the dispatch function is called with the forced flag on, we
can't delay the dispatch of the requests that are in scheduler queues.
Thus, when dispatch is called with forced turned on, we need to cancel
idling, or not to idle at all.

Change-Id: I3aa0da33ad7b59c0731c696f1392b48525b52ddc
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
(cherry picked from commit 25f3988ca0157c612975fa16b6792f20b1315d3d)
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>
(cherry picked from commit bfb04f6d22b94b8690bbbab004d80ea759e5e599)
block: row: Add some debug information on ROW queues

1. Add a counter for number of requests on queue.
2. Add function to print queues status (number requests
   currently on queue and number of already dispatched requests
   in current dispatch cycle).

Change-Id: I1e98b9ca33853e6e6a8ddc53240f6cd6981e6024
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
(cherry picked from commit bd56be3e85a8ba43160fab08e0f428219bd643ec)

Conflicts:
	block/row-iosched.c
block: row: Insert dispatch_quantum into struct row_queue

There is really no point in keeping the dispatch quantum
of a queue outside of it. By inserting it to the row_queue
structure we spare extra level in accessing it.

Change-Id: Ic77571818b643e71f9aafbb2ca93d0a92158b199
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
(cherry picked from commit 8a970bc0970d2c0ed896defc7f835505201d8606)

Conflicts:
	block/row-iosched.c
block: row: Aggregate row_queue parameters to one structure

Each ROW queues has several parameters which default values are defined
in separate arrays. This patch aggregates all default values into one
array.
The values in question are:
 - is idling enabled for the queue
 - queue quantum
 - can the queue notify on urgent request

Change-Id: I3821b0a042542295069b340406a16b1000873ec6
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
(cherry picked from commit 9375bcc97e5ee7b80c77e221a7dfa963203c5271)

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>
(cherry picked from commit 522778fb34ff5df270e8a591738b1e59949dea1e)

Conflicts:
	block/row-iosched.c
sched: Ensure cpu_power periodic update

With a lot of small tasks, the softirq sched is nearly never called
when no_hz is enabled. In this case load_balance() is mainly called
with the newly_idle mode which doesn't update the cpu_power.

Add a next_update field which ensure a maximum update period when
there is short activity.

Having stale cpu_power information can skew the load-balancing
decisions, this is cured by the guaranteed update.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323717668-2143-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
(cherry picked from commit 4ec4412e1e91f44a3dcb97b6c9172a13fc78bac9)

Conflicts:
	include/linux/sched.h