row: Add support for urgent request handling

This patch adds support for handling urgent requests.
ROW queue can be marked as "urgent" so if it was un-served in last
dispatch cycle and a request was added to it - it will trigger
issuing an urgent-request-notification to the block device driver.
The block device driver may choose at stop the transmission of current
ongoing request to handle the urgent one. Foe example: long WRITE may
be stopped to handle an urgent READ. This decreases READ latency.

Change-Id: I84954c13f5e3b1b5caeadc9fe1f9aa21208cb35e
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
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>
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>
block: row: fix sysfs functions - idle_time conversion

idle_time was updated to be stored in msec instead of jiffies.
So there is no need to convert the value when reading from user or
displaying the value to him.

Change-Id: I58e074b204e90a90536d32199ac668112966e9cf
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
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>
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>
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: 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>
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: 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: 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>
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>
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>
mm: pass readahead info down to the i/o scheduler

Some i/o schedulers (i.e. row-iosched, cfq-iosched) deploy an idling
algorithm in order to be better synced with the readahead algorithm.
Idling is a prediction algorithm for incoming read requests.

In this patch we mark pages which are part of a readahead window, by
setting a newly introduced flag. With this flag, the i/o scheduler can
identify a request which is associated with a readahead page. This
enables the i/o scheduler's idling mechanism to be en-sync with the
readahead mechanism and, in turn, can increase read throughput.

Change-Id: I0654f23315b6d19d71bcc9cc029c6b281a44b196
Signed-off-by: Lee Susman <lsusman@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>
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: 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>