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dm verity: enable WQ_HIGHPRI on verify_wq 

WQ_HIGHPRI increases throughput and decreases disk latency when using
dm-verity. This is important in Android for camera startup speed.

The following tests were run by doing 60 seconds of random reads using
a dm-verity device backed by two ramdisks.

Without WQ_HIGHPRI
lat (usec): min=13, max=3947, avg=69.53, stdev=50.55
READ: bw=51.1MiB/s (53.6MB/s), 51.1MiB/s-51.1MiB/s (53.6MB/s-53.6MB/s)

With WQ_HIGHPRI:
lat (usec): min=13, max=7854, avg=31.15, stdev=30.42
READ: bw=116MiB/s (121MB/s), 116MiB/s-116MiB/s (121MB/s-121MB/s)

Further testing was done by measuring how long it takes to open a
camera on an Android device.

Without WQ_HIGHPRI
Total verity work queue wait times (ms):
880.960, 789.517, 898.852

With WQ_HIGHPRI:
Total verity work queue wait times (ms):
528.824, 439.191, 433.300

The average time to open the camera is reduced by 350ms (or 40-50%).

Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Nathan Huckleberry 2022-08-30 18:44:44 +00:00 committed by Mike Snitzer
parent cea446630f
commit afd41fff9c
1 changed files with 10 additions and 8 deletions
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drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
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@ -1401,14 +1401,16 @@ static int verity_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv)
/* WQ_UNBOUND greatly improves performance when running on ramdisk */
wq_flags = WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_UNBOUND;
if (v->use_tasklet) {
/*
* Allow verify_wq to preempt softirq since verification in
* tasklet will fall-back to using it for error handling
* (or if the bufio cache doesn't have required hashes).
*/
wq_flags |= WQ_HIGHPRI;
}
/*
* Using WQ_HIGHPRI improves throughput and completion latency by
* reducing wait times when reading from a dm-verity device.
*
* Also as required for the "try_verify_in_tasklet" feature: WQ_HIGHPRI
* allows verify_wq to preempt softirq since verification in tasklet
* will fall-back to using it for error handling (or if the bufio cache
* doesn't have required hashes).
*/
wq_flags |= WQ_HIGHPRI;
v->verify_wq = alloc_workqueue("kverityd", wq_flags, num_online_cpus());
if (!v->verify_wq) {
ti->error = "Cannot allocate workqueue";