Revert "block: row: Re-design urgent request notification mechanism"

The revert fixes frequent boot up failures on 8974.

This reverts commit 0c3b048d1fae87db150e9ff729a9608e5346e042.

Change-Id: I181513382a128724ce08980ad2f14cd5943c27bd
Signed-off-by: Shashank Babu Chinta Venkata <sbchin@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
block: urgent: Fix dispatching of URGENT mechanism

There are cases when blk_peek_request is called not from blk_fetch_request
thus the URGENT request may be started but the flag q->dispatched_urgent is
not updated.

Change-Id: I4fb588823f1b2949160cbd3907f4729767932e12
CRs-fixed: 471736
CRs-fixed: 473036
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
block: Remove "requeuing urgent req" error messages

It is possible for URGENT request to be requeued/reinserted if it was
fetched during the creation of a packed list. This end case is rare and is
not handled at the moment.
This patch changes the messages notifying of the above to debug level
(instead of error) in order to clear the dmesg log.

Change-Id: Ie8bc067e61559a6f702077b95c5dbcc426404232
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
block: row-iosched idling triggered by readahead pages

In the current implementation idling is triggered only by request
insertion frequency. This heuristic is not very accurate and may hit
random requests that shouldn't trigger idling. This patch uses the
PG_readahead flag in struct page's flags, which indicates that the page
is part of a readahead window, to start idling upon dispatch of a request
associated with a readahead page.

The above readehead flag is used together with the existing
insertion-frequency trigger. The frequency timer will catch read requests
which are not part of a readahead window, but are still part of a
sequential stream (and therefore dispatched in small time intervals).

Change-Id: Icb7145199c007408de3f267645ccb842e051fd00
Signed-off-by: Lee Susman <lsusman@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
block: row: change hrtimer_cancel to hrtimer_try_to_cancel

Calling hrtimer_cancel with interrupts disabled can result in a livelock.
When flushing plug list in the block layer interrupts are disabled and an
hrtimer is used when adding requests from that plug list to the scheduler.
In this code flow, if the hrtimer (which is used for idling) is set, it's
being canceled by calling hrtimer_cancel. hrtimer_cancel will perform
the following in an endless loop:
1. try cancel the timer
2. if fails - rest_cpu
the cancellation can fail if the timer function already started. Since
interrupts are disabled it can never complete.
This patch reduced the number of times the hrtimer lock is taken while
interrupts are disabled by calling hrtimer_try_co_cancel. the later will
try to cancel the timer just once and return with an error code if fails.

CRs-fixed: 499887
Change-Id: I25f79c357426d72ad67c261ce7cb503ae97dc7b9
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
block: Add URGENT request notification support to CFQ scheduler

When the 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.

Change-Id: I3072b8a1423870fed9c04c28d93caaf9557a7b89
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>