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cfq-iosched: don't delay queue kick for a merged request 

"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> reports that commit
b029195dda introduced a regression
of about 50% with sequential threaded read workloads. The test
case is:

tiotest -k0 -k1 -k3 -f 80 -t 32

which starts 32 threads each reading a 80MB file. Twiddle the kick
queue logic so that we do start IO immediately, if it appears to be
a fully merged request. We can't really detect that, so just check
if the request is bigger than a page or not. The assumption is that
since single bio issues will first queue a single request with just
one page attached and then later do merges on that, if we already
have more than a page worth of data in the request, then the request
is most likely good to go.

Verified that this doesn't cause a regression with the test case that
commit b029195dda was fixing. It does not,
we still see maximum sized requests for the queue-then-merge cases.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This commit is contained in:
Jens Axboe 2009-04-14 14:18:16 +02:00
parent 053c525fcf
commit d6ceb25e8d
1 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -1903,10 +1903,17 @@ cfq_rq_enqueued(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *cfqq,
* Remember that we saw a request from this process, but
* don't start queuing just yet. Otherwise we risk seeing lots
* of tiny requests, because we disrupt the normal plugging
* and merging.
* and merging. If the request is already larger than a single
* page, let it rip immediately. For that case we assume that
* merging is already done.
*/
if (cfq_cfqq_wait_request(cfqq))
if (cfq_cfqq_wait_request(cfqq)) {
if (blk_rq_bytes(rq) > PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) {
del_timer(&cfqd->idle_slice_timer);
blk_start_queueing(cfqd->queue);
}
cfq_mark_cfqq_must_dispatch(cfqq);
}
} else if (cfq_should_preempt(cfqd, cfqq, rq)) {
/*
* not the active queue - expire current slice if it is