ROW Scheduler

block: Adding ROW scheduling algorithm Date Thu, 1 Nov 2012 13:59:09 +0200

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.

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

block: compile ROW statically into the kernel Date Thu, 1 Nov 2012 14:00:02 +0200

ROW is a new scheduling algorithm. Similar to the existing scheduling
algorithms it should be compiled to the kernel statically giving the user
the ability to switch to it without kernel recompilation.

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

row: Adding support for reinsert already dispatched req Date Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:43:19 +0200

Add support for reinserting already dispatched request back to the
schedulers internal data structures.
The request will be reinserted back to the queue (head) it was
dispatched from as if it was never dispatched.

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

row: Add support for urgent request handling Date Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:43:20 +0200

This patch add support for handling urgent requests.
ROW queue can be marked as "urgent". If an urgent queue was
un-served in a previous dispatch cycle and a request was added
to it - it will trigger issuing urgent request to the device driver.

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>

row-iosched: sync with CAF from the original LKML patch sets

Signed-off-by: faux123 <reioux@gmail.com>

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: 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: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request

Using wait_for_completion() for waiting for a IO request to be executed
results in wrong iowait time accounting. For example, a system having
the only task doing write() and fdatasync() on a block device can be
reported being idle instead of iowaiting as it should because
blkdev_issue_flush() calls wait_for_completion() which in turn calls
schedule() that does not increment the iowait proc counter and thus does
not turn on iowait time accounting.

The patch makes block layer use wait_for_completion_io() instead of
wait_for_completion() where appropriate to account iowait time
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>

block: Add support for reinsert a dispatched req

Add support for reinserting a dispatched request back to the
scheduler's internal data structures.
This capability is used by the device driver when it chooses to
interrupt the current request transmission and execute another (more
urgent) pending request. For example: interrupting long write in order
to handle pending read. The device driver re-inserts the
remaining write request back to the scheduler, to be rescheduled
for transmission later on.

Add API for verifying whether the current scheduler
supports reinserting requests mechanism. If reinsert mechanism isn't
supported by the scheduler, this code path will never be activated.

Change-Id: I5c982a66b651ebf544aae60063ac8a340d79e67f
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>

block: Add API for urgent request handling

This patch add support in block & elevator layers for handling
urgent requests. The decision if a request is urgent or not is taken
by the scheduler. Urgent request notification is passed to the underlying
block device driver (eMMC for example). Block device driver may decide to
interrupt the currently running low priority request to serve the new
urgent request. By doing so READ latency is greatly reduced in read&write
collision scenarios.

Note that if the current scheduler doesn't implement the urgent request
mechanism, this code path is never activated.

Change-Id: I8aa74b9b45c0d3a2221bd4e82ea76eb4103e7cfa
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>

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>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>

block: add runtime pm helpers

Add runtime pm helper functions:

void blk_pm_runtime_init(struct request_queue *q, struct device *dev)
  - Initialization function for drivers to call.

int blk_pre_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q)
  - If any requests are in the queue, mark last busy and return -EBUSY.
    Otherwise set q->rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDING and return 0.

void blk_post_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q, int err)
  - If the suspend succeeded then set q->rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDED.
    Otherwise set it to RPM_ACTIVE and mark last busy.

void blk_pre_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q)
  - Set q->rpm_status to RPM_RESUMING.

void blk_post_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q, int err)
  - If the resume succeeded then set q->rpm_status to RPM_ACTIVE
    and call __blk_run_queue, then mark last busy and autosuspend.
    Otherwise set q->rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDED.

The idea and API is designed by Alan Stern and described here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=133727953625963&w=2

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>

block: implement runtime pm strategy

When a request is added:
    If device is suspended or is suspending and the request is not a
    PM request, resume the device.

When the last request finishes:
    Call pm_runtime_mark_last_busy().

When pick a request:
    If device is resuming/suspending, then only PM request is allowed
    to go.

The idea and API is designed by Alan Stern and described here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=133727953625963&w=2

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>

block: recursive merge requests

In a workload, thread 1 accesses a, a+2, ..., thread 2 accesses a+1, a+3,....
When the requests are flushed to queue, a and a+1 are merged to (a, a+1), a+2
and a+3 too to (a+2, a+3), but (a, a+1) and (a+2, a+3) aren't merged.

If we do recursive merge for such interleave access, some workloads throughput
get improvement. A recent worload I'm checking on is swap, below change
boostes the throughput around 5% ~ 10%.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>

deadline: Allow 0ms deadline latency, increase the read speed

Change a timer compare from after to after-equals, thus allowing
0 timeout and making deadline schedule FIFO.

Signed-off-by: xiaobing tu <xiaobing.tu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>

block: queue work on power efficient wq

Adapted for 3.4 from lsk-v3.10

Block layer uses workqueues for multiple purposes. There is no real dependency
of scheduling these on the cpu which scheduled them.

On a idle system, it is observed that and idle cpu wakes up many times just to
service this work. It would be better if we can schedule it on a cpu which the
scheduler believes to be the most appropriate one.

This patch replaces normal workqueues with power efficient versions.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>