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Tejun Heo
2b566fa55b block: remove ioc_*_changed()
After the previous patch to cfq, there's no ioc_get_changed() user
left.  This patch yanks out ioc_{ioprio|cgroup|get}_changed() and all
related stuff.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-20 12:47:48 +01:00
Tejun Heo
f6e8d01bee block: add io_context->active_ref
Currently ioc->nr_tasks is used to decide two things - whether an ioc
is done issuing IOs and whether it's shared by multiple tasks.  This
patch separate out the first into ioc->active_ref, which is acquired
and released using {get|put}_io_context_active() respectively.

This will be used to associate bio's with a given task.  This patch
doesn't introduce any visible behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:24 +01:00
Tejun Heo
3d48749d93 block: ioc_task_link() can't fail
ioc_task_link() is used to share %current's ioc on clone.  If
%current->io_context is set, %current is guaranteed to have refcount
on the ioc and, thus, ioc_task_link() can't fail.

Replace error checking in ioc_task_link() with WARN_ON_ONCE() and make
it just increment refcount and nr_tasks.

-v2: Description typo fix (Vivek).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:24 +01:00
Tejun Heo
621032ad6e block: exit_io_context() should call elevator_exit_icq_fn()
While updating locking, b2efa05265 "block, cfq: unlink
cfq_io_context's immediately" moved elevator_exit_icq_fn() invocation
from exit_io_context() to the final ioc put.  While this doesn't cause
catastrophic failure, it effectively removes task exit notification to
elevator and cause noticeable IO performance degradation with CFQ.

On task exit, CFQ used to immediately expire the slice if it was being
used by the exiting task as no more IO would be issued by the task;
however, after b2efa05265, the notification is lost and disk could sit
idle needlessly, leading to noticeable IO performance degradation for
certain workloads.

This patch renames ioc_exit_icq() to ioc_destroy_icq(), separates
elevator_exit_icq_fn() invocation into ioc_exit_icq() and invokes it
from exit_io_context().  ICQ_EXITED flag is added to avoid invoking
the callback more than once for the same icq.

Walking icq_list from ioc side and invoking elevator callback requires
reverse double locking.  This may be better implemented using RCU;
unfortunately, using RCU isn't trivial.  e.g. RCU protection would
need to cover request_queue and queue_lock switch on cleanup makes
grabbing queue_lock from RCU unsafe.  Reverse double locking should
do, at least for now.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-bisected-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <CANejiEVzs=pUhQSTvUppkDcc2TNZyfohBRLygW5zFmXyk5A-xQ@mail.gmail.com>
Tested-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-15 09:45:53 +01:00
Tejun Heo
d705ae6b13 block: replace icq->changed with icq->flags
icq->changed was used for ICQ_*_CHANGED bits.  Rename it to flags and
access it under ioc->lock instead of using atomic bitops.
ioc_get_changed() is added so that the changed part can be fetched and
cleared as before.

icq->flags will be used to carry other flags.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-15 09:45:49 +01:00
Tejun Heo
11a3122f6c block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context()
put_io_context() performed a complex trylock dancing to avoid
deferring ioc release to workqueue.  It was also broken on UP because
trylock was always assumed to succeed which resulted in unbalanced
preemption count.

While there are ways to fix the UP breakage, even the most
pathological microbench (forced ioc allocation and tight fork/exit
loop) fails to show any appreciable performance benefit of the
optimization.  Strip it out.  If there turns out to be workloads which
are affected by this change, simpler optimization from the discussion
thread can be applied later.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1328514611.21268.66.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-07 07:51:30 +01:00
Tejun Heo
f1f8cc9465 block, cfq: move icq creation and rq->elv.icq association to block core
Now block layer knows everything necessary to create and associate
icq's with requests.  Move ioc_create_icq() to blk-ioc.c and update
get_request() such that, if elevator_type->icq_size is set, requests
are automatically associated with their matching icq's before
elv_set_request().  io_context reference is also managed by block core
on request alloc/free.

* Only ioprio/cgroup changed handling remains from cfq_get_cic().
  Collapsed into cfq_set_request().

* This removes queue kicking on icq allocation failure (for now).  As
  icq allocation failure is rare and the only effect of queue kicking
  achieved was possibily accelerating queue processing, this change
  shouldn't be noticeable.

  There is a larger underlying problem.  Unlike request allocation,
  icq allocation is not guaranteed to succeed eventually after
  retries.  The number of icq is unbound and thus mempool can't be the
  solution either.  This effectively adds allocation dependency on
  memory free path and thus possibility of deadlock.

  This usually wouldn't happen because icq allocation is not a hot
  path and, even when the condition triggers, it's highly unlikely
  that none of the writeback workers already has icq.

  However, this is still possible especially if elevator is being
  switched under high memory pressure, so we better get it fixed.
  Probably the only solution is just bypassing elevator and appending
  to dispatch queue on any elevator allocation failure.

* Comment added to explain how icq's are managed and synchronized.

This completes cleanup of io_context interface.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:42 +01:00
Tejun Heo
7e5a879449 block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.c
With kmem_cache managed by blk-ioc, io_cq exit/release can be moved to
blk-ioc too.  The odd ->io_cq->exit/release() callbacks are replaced
with elevator_ops->elevator_exit_icq_fn() with unlinking from both ioc
and q, and freeing automatically handled by blk-ioc.  The elevator
operation only need to perform exit operation specific to the elevator
- in cfq's case, exiting the cfqq's.

Also, clearing of io_cq's on q detach is moved to block core and
automatically performed on elevator switch and q release.

Because the q io_cq points to might be freed before RCU callback for
the io_cq runs, blk-ioc code should remember to which cache the io_cq
needs to be freed when the io_cq is released.  New field
io_cq->__rcu_icq_cache is added for this purpose.  As both the new
field and rcu_head are used only after io_cq is released and the
q/ioc_node fields aren't, they are put into unions.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:42 +01:00
Tejun Heo
c586980732 block, cfq: reorganize cfq_io_context into generic and cfq specific parts
Currently io_context and cfq logics are mixed without clear boundary.
Most of io_context is independent from cfq but cfq_io_context handling
logic is dispersed between generic ioc code and cfq.

cfq_io_context represents association between an io_context and a
request_queue, which is a concept useful outside of cfq, but it also
contains fields which are useful only to cfq.

This patch takes out generic part and put it into io_cq (io
context-queue) and the rest into cfq_io_cq (cic moniker remains the
same) which contains io_cq.  The following changes are made together.

* cfq_ttime and cfq_io_cq now live in cfq-iosched.c.

* All related fields, functions and constants are renamed accordingly.

* ioc->ioc_data is now "struct io_cq *" instead of "void *" and
  renamed to icq_hint.

This prepares for io_context API cleanup.  Documentation is currently
sparse.  It will be added later.

Changes in this patch are mechanical and don't cause functional
change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:41 +01:00
Tejun Heo
1238033c79 block, cfq: kill cic->key
Now that lazy paths are removed, cfqd_dead_key() is meaningless and
cic->q can be used whereever cic->key is used.  Kill cic->key.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:40 +01:00
Tejun Heo
b2efa05265 block, cfq: unlink cfq_io_context's immediately
cic is association between io_context and request_queue.  A cic is
linked from both ioc and q and should be destroyed when either one
goes away.  As ioc and q both have their own locks, locking becomes a
bit complex - both orders work for removal from one but not from the
other.

Currently, cfq tries to circumvent this locking order issue with RCU.
ioc->lock nests inside queue_lock but the radix tree and cic's are
also protected by RCU allowing either side to walk their lists without
grabbing lock.

This rather unconventional use of RCU quickly devolves into extremely
fragile convolution.  e.g. The following is from cfqd going away too
soon after ioc and q exits raced.

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU 2
 Modules linked in:
 [   88.503444]
 Pid: 599, comm: hexdump Not tainted 3.1.0-rc10-work+ #158 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81397628>]  [<ffffffff81397628>] cfq_exit_single_io_context+0x58/0xf0
 ...
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81395a4a>] call_for_each_cic+0x5a/0x90
  [<ffffffff81395ab5>] cfq_exit_io_context+0x15/0x20
  [<ffffffff81389130>] exit_io_context+0x100/0x140
  [<ffffffff81098a29>] do_exit+0x579/0x850
  [<ffffffff81098d5b>] do_group_exit+0x5b/0xd0
  [<ffffffff81098de7>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
  [<ffffffff81b02f2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The only real hot path here is cic lookup during request
initialization and avoiding extra locking requires very confined use
of RCU.  This patch makes cic removal from both ioc and request_queue
perform double-locking and unlink immediately.

* From q side, the change is almost trivial as ioc->lock nests inside
  queue_lock.  It just needs to grab each ioc->lock as it walks
  cic_list and unlink it.

* From ioc side, it's a bit more difficult because of inversed lock
  order.  ioc needs its lock to walk its cic_list but can't grab the
  matching queue_lock and needs to perform unlock-relock dancing.

  Unlinking is now wholly done from put_io_context() and fast path is
  optimized by using the queue_lock the caller already holds, which is
  by far the most common case.  If the ioc accessed multiple devices,
  it tries with trylock.  In unlikely cases of fast path failure, it
  falls back to full double-locking dance from workqueue.

Double-locking isn't the prettiest thing in the world but it's *far*
simpler and more understandable than RCU trick without adding any
meaningful overhead.

This still leaves a lot of now unnecessary RCU logics.  Future patches
will trim them.

-v2: Vivek pointed out that cic->q was being dereferenced after
     cic->release() was called.  Updated to use local variable @this_q
     instead.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:39 +01:00
Tejun Heo
dc86900e0a block, cfq: move ioc ioprio/cgroup changed handling to cic
ioprio/cgroup change was handled by marking the changed state in ioc
and, on the following access to the ioc, performing RCU-protected
iteration through all cic's grabbing the matching queue_lock.

This patch moves the changed state to each cic.  When ioprio or cgroup
changes, the respective bit is set on all cic's of the ioc and when
each of those cic (not ioc) is accessed, change is applied for that
specific ioc-queue pair.

This also fixes the following two race conditions between setting and
clearing of changed states.

* Missing barrier between assign/load of ioprio and ioprio_changed
  allowed applying old ioprio.

* Change requests could happen between application of change and
  clearing of changed variables.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo
283287a52e block, cfq: misc updates to cfq_io_context
Make the following changes to prepare for ioc/cic management cleanup.

* Add cic->q so that ioc can determine the associated queue without
  querying cfq.  This will eventually replace ->key.

* Factor out cfq_release_cic() from cic_free_func().  This function
  assumes that the caller handled locking.

* Rename __cfq_exit_single_io_context() to cfq_exit_cic() and make it
  take only @cic.

* Restructure cfq_cic_link() for future updates.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo
6e736be7f2 block: make ioc get/put interface more conventional and fix race on alloction
Ignoring copy_io() during fork, io_context can be allocated from two
places - current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio().  The former is
always called from local task while the latter can be called from
different task.  The synchornization between them are peculiar and
dubious.

* current_io_context() doesn't grab task_lock() and assumes that if it
  saw %NULL ->io_context, it would stay that way until allocation and
  assignment is complete.  It has smp_wmb() between alloc/init and
  assignment.

* set_task_ioprio() grabs task_lock() for assignment and does
  smp_read_barrier_depends() between "ioc = task->io_context" and "if
  (ioc)".  Unfortunately, this doesn't achieve anything - the latter
  is not a dependent load of the former.  ie, if ioc itself were being
  dereferenced "ioc->xxx", it would mean something (not sure what tho)
  but as the code currently stands, the dependent read barrier is
  noop.

As only one of the the two test-assignment sequences is task_lock()
protected, the task_lock() can't do much about race between the two.
Nothing prevents current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio() allocating
its own ioc for the same task and overwriting the other's.

Also, set_task_ioprio() can race with exiting task and create a new
ioc after exit_io_context() is finished.

ioc get/put doesn't have any reason to be complex.  The only hot path
is accessing the existing ioc of %current, which is simple to achieve
given that ->io_context is never destroyed as long as the task is
alive.  All other paths can happily go through task_lock() like all
other task sub structures without impacting anything.

This patch updates ioc get/put so that it becomes more conventional.

* alloc_io_context() is replaced with get_task_io_context().  This is
  the only interface which can acquire access to ioc of another task.
  On return, the caller has an explicit reference to the object which
  should be put using put_io_context() afterwards.

* The functionality of current_io_context() remains the same but when
  creating a new ioc, it shares the code path with
  get_task_io_context() and always goes through task_lock().

* get_io_context() now means incrementing ref on an ioc which the
  caller already has access to (be that an explicit refcnt or implicit
  %current one).

* PF_EXITING inhibits creation of new io_context and once
  exit_io_context() is finished, it's guaranteed that both ioc
  acquisition functions return %NULL.

* All users are updated.  Most are trivial but
  smp_read_barrier_depends() removal from cfq_get_io_context() needs a
  bit of explanation.  I suppose the original intention was to ensure
  ioc->ioprio is visible when set_task_ioprio() allocates new
  io_context and installs it; however, this wouldn't have worked
  because set_task_ioprio() doesn't have wmb between init and install.
  There are other problems with this which will be fixed in another
  patch.

* While at it, use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1 for wildcard node
  specification.

-v2: Vivek spotted contamination from debug patch.  Removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo
42ec57a8f6 block: misc ioc cleanups
* int return from put_io_context() wasn't used by anybody.  Make it
  return void like other put functions and docbook-fy the function
  comment.

* Reorder dummy declarations for !CONFIG_BLOCK case a bit.

* Make alloc_ioc_context() use __GFP_ZERO allocation, take init out of
  if block and drop 0'ing.

* Docbook-fy current_io_context() comment.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Shaohua Li
383cd7213f CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate struct
Move the variables to do think time check to a sepatate struct. This is
to prepare adding think time check for service tree and group. No
functional change.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-12 14:24:35 +02:00
Jens Axboe
cedb4a7d9f block: remove unused copy_io_context()
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-11 13:40:11 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
4d2deb40b2 kernel: __rcu annotations
This adds annotations for RCU operations in core kernel components

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19 17:18:03 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov
bca4b914b5 cfq-iosched: remove dead_key from cfq_io_context
Remove ->dead_key field from cfq_io_context to shrink its size to 128 bytes.
(64 bytes for 32-bit hosts)

Use lower bit in ->key as dead-mark, instead of moving key to separate field.
After this for dead cfq_io_context we got cic->key != cfqd automatically.
Thus, io_context's last-hit cache should work without changing.

Now to check ->key for non-dead state compare it with cfqd,
instead of checking ->key for non-null value as it was before.

Plus remove obsolete race protection in cfq_cic_lookup.
This race gone after v2.6.24-1728-g4ac845a

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-24 09:06:59 +02:00
Ben Blum
67523c48aa cgroups: blkio subsystem as module
Modify the Block I/O cgroup subsystem to be able to be built as a module.
As the CFQ disk scheduler optionally depends on blk-cgroup, config options
in block/Kconfig, block/Kconfig.iosched, and block/blk-cgroup.h are
enhanced to support the new module dependency.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:36 -08:00
Richard Kennedy
58c24a6161 block: remove padding from io_context on 64bit builds
On 64 bit builds when CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=n (the default) this removes 8
bytes of padding from structure io_context and drops its size from 72 to
64 bytes, so needing one fewer cachelines and allowing more objects per
slab in it's kmem_cache.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>

----
patch against 2.6.33
compiled & test on x86_64 AMDX2
regards
Richard
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 14:00:43 +01:00
Kirill Afonshin
ce289321b7 block: removed unused as_io_context
It isn't used anymore, since AS was deleted.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-11 14:29:20 +01:00
Louis Rilling
b69f229206 block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO
With CLONE_IO, parent's io_context->nr_tasks is incremented, but never
decremented whenever copy_process() fails afterwards, which prevents
exit_io_context() from calling IO schedulers exit functions.

Give a task_struct to exit_io_context(), and call exit_io_context() instead of
put_io_context() in copy_process() cleanup path.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04 16:36:18 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
31e4c28d95 blkio: Introduce blkio controller cgroup interface
o This is basic implementation of blkio controller cgroup interface. This is
  the common interface visible to user space and should be used by different
  IO control policies as we implement those.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:51 +01:00
Jeff Moyer
b2c18e1e08 cfq: calculate the seek_mean per cfq_queue not per cfq_io_context
async cfq_queue's are already shared between processes within the same
priority, and forthcoming patches will change the mapping of cic to sync
cfq_queue from 1:1 to 1:N.  So, calculate the seekiness of a process
based on the cfq_queue instead of the cfq_io_context.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-26 14:34:46 +01:00
Li Zefan
cbb4f2646d io context: fix ref counting
Commit d9c7d394a8
("block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow") mistakenly
changed atomic_inc(&ioc->nr_tasks) to atomic_long_inc(&ioc->refcount).

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-31 08:55:48 +02:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
d9c7d394a8 block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
Currently io_context has an atomic_t(32-bit) as refcount.  In the case of
cfq, for each device against whcih a task does I/O, a reference to the
io_context would be taken.  And when there are multiple process sharing
io_contexts(CLONE_IO) would also have a reference to the same io_context.

Theoretically the possible maximum number of processes sharing the same
io_context + the number of disks/cfq_data referring to the same io_context
can overflow the 32-bit counter on a very high-end machine.

Even though it is an improbable case, let us make it atomic_long_t.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-10 23:07:15 +02:00
Jens Axboe
da9cbc8739 block: blkdev.h cleanup, move iocontext stuff to iocontext.h
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:14 +02:00
Jens Axboe
d237e5c7ce io context: increment task attachment count in ioc_task_link()
Thanks to Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> for reporting this.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-15 09:25:33 +02:00
Fabio Checconi
34e6bbf23c cfq-iosched: fix rcu freeing of cfq io contexts
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is not a direct substitute for normal call_rcu()
freeing, since it'll page freeing but NOT object freeing. So change
cfq to do the freeing on its own.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-02 15:42:20 +02:00
Jens Axboe
ffc4e75957 cfq-iosched: add hlist for browsing parallel to the radix tree
It's cumbersome to browse a radix tree from start to finish, especially
since we modify keys when a process exits. So add a hlist for the single
purpose of browsing over all known cfq_io_contexts, used for exit,
io prio change, etc.

This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9948

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-19 10:04:00 +01:00
Jens Axboe
4ac845a2e9 block: cfq: make the io contect sharing lockless
The io context sharing introduced a per-ioc spinlock, that would protect
the cfq io context lookup. That is a regression from the original, since
we never needed any locking there because the ioc/cic were process private.

The cic lookup is changed from an rbtree construct to a radix tree, which
we can then use RCU to make the reader side lockless. That is the performance
critical path, modifying the radix tree is only done on process creation
(when that process first does IO, actually) and on process exit (if that
process has done IO).

As it so happens, radix trees are also much faster for this type of
lookup where the key is a pointer. It's a very sparse tree.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-28 10:50:33 +01:00
Jens Axboe
d38ecf935f io context sharing: preliminary support
Detach task state from ioc, instead keep track of how many processes
are accessing the ioc.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-28 10:50:31 +01:00
Jens Axboe
fd0928df98 ioprio: move io priority from task_struct to io_context
This is where it belongs and then it doesn't take up space for a
process that doesn't do IO.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-28 10:50:29 +01:00