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SubjectRe: [PATCH -next v6 2/3] block, bfq: refactor the counting of 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs'
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在 2022/05/28 16:27, Paolo Valente 写道:
>
>
>> Il giorno 23 mag 2022, alle ore 15:18, Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com> ha scritto:
>>
>> Currently, bfq can't handle sync io concurrently as long as they
>> are not issued from root group. This is because
>> 'bfqd->num_groups_with_pending_reqs > 0' is always true in
>> bfq_asymmetric_scenario().
>>
>> The way that bfqg is counted into 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs':
>>
>> Before this patch:
>> 1) root group will never be counted.
>> 2) Count if bfqg or it's child bfqgs have pending requests.
>> 3) Don't count if bfqg and it's child bfqgs complete all the requests.
>>
>> After this patch:
>> 1) root group is counted.
>> 2) Count if bfqg have at least one bfqq that is marked busy.
>> 3) Don't count if bfqg doesn't have any busy bfqqs.
>>
>> The main reason to use busy state of bfqq instead of 'pending requests'
>> is that bfqq can stay busy after dispatching the last request if idling
>> is needed for service guarantees.
>>
>> With this change, the occasion that only one group is activated can be
>> detected, and next patch will support concurrent sync io in the
>> occasion.
>>
>> This patch also rename 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs' to
>> 'num_groups_with_busy_queues'.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
>> ---
>> block/bfq-iosched.c | 46 ++-----------------------------------
>> block/bfq-iosched.h | 55 ++++++---------------------------------------
>> block/bfq-wf2q.c | 19 ++++------------
>> 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
>> index e47c75f1fa0f..609b4e894684 100644
>> --- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
>> +++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
>> @@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ static bool bfq_asymmetric_scenario(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
>>
>> return varied_queue_weights || multiple_classes_busy
>> #ifdef CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
>> - || bfqd->num_groups_with_pending_reqs > 0
>> + || bfqd->num_groups_with_busy_queues > 0
>> #endif
>> ;
>> }
>> @@ -962,48 +962,6 @@ void __bfq_weights_tree_remove(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
>> void bfq_weights_tree_remove(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
>> struct bfq_queue *bfqq)
>> {
>> - struct bfq_entity *entity = bfqq->entity.parent;
>> -
>> - for_each_entity(entity) {
>> - struct bfq_sched_data *sd = entity->my_sched_data;
>> -
>> - if (sd->next_in_service || sd->in_service_entity) {
>> - /*
>> - * entity is still active, because either
>> - * next_in_service or in_service_entity is not
>> - * NULL (see the comments on the definition of
>> - * next_in_service for details on why
>> - * in_service_entity must be checked too).
>> - *
>> - * As a consequence, its parent entities are
>> - * active as well, and thus this loop must
>> - * stop here.
>> - */
>> - break;
>> - }
>> -
>> - /*
>> - * The decrement of num_groups_with_pending_reqs is
>> - * not performed immediately upon the deactivation of
>> - * entity, but it is delayed to when it also happens
>> - * that the first leaf descendant bfqq of entity gets
>> - * all its pending requests completed. The following
>> - * instructions perform this delayed decrement, if
>> - * needed. See the comments on
>> - * num_groups_with_pending_reqs for details.
>> - */
>> - if (entity->in_groups_with_pending_reqs) {
>> - entity->in_groups_with_pending_reqs = false;
>> - bfqd->num_groups_with_pending_reqs--;
>> - }
>> - }
>> -
>> - /*
>> - * Next function is invoked last, because it causes bfqq to be
>> - * freed if the following holds: bfqq is not in service and
>> - * has no dispatched request. DO NOT use bfqq after the next
>> - * function invocation.
>> - */
>> __bfq_weights_tree_remove(bfqd, bfqq,
>> &bfqd->queue_weights_tree);
>> }
>> @@ -7107,7 +7065,7 @@ static int bfq_init_queue(struct request_queue *q, struct elevator_type *e)
>> bfqd->idle_slice_timer.function = bfq_idle_slice_timer;
>>
>> bfqd->queue_weights_tree = RB_ROOT_CACHED;
>> - bfqd->num_groups_with_pending_reqs = 0;
>> + bfqd->num_groups_with_busy_queues = 0;
>>
>> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bfqd->active_list);
>> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bfqd->idle_list);
>> diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.h b/block/bfq-iosched.h
>> index 3847f4ab77ac..b71a088a7f1d 100644
>> --- a/block/bfq-iosched.h
>> +++ b/block/bfq-iosched.h
>> @@ -197,9 +197,6 @@ struct bfq_entity {
>> /* flag, set to request a weight, ioprio or ioprio_class change */
>> int prio_changed;
>>
>> - /* flag, set if the entity is counted in groups_with_pending_reqs */
>> - bool in_groups_with_pending_reqs;
>> -
>> /* last child queue of entity created (for non-leaf entities) */
>> struct bfq_queue *last_bfqq_created;
>> };
>> @@ -495,52 +492,14 @@ struct bfq_data {
>> struct rb_root_cached queue_weights_tree;
>>
>> /*
>> - * Number of groups with at least one descendant process that
>> - * has at least one request waiting for completion. Note that
>> - * this accounts for also requests already dispatched, but not
>> - * yet completed. Therefore this number of groups may differ
>> - * (be larger) than the number of active groups, as a group is
>> - * considered active only if its corresponding entity has
>> - * descendant queues with at least one request queued. This
>> - * number is used to decide whether a scenario is symmetric.
>> - * For a detailed explanation see comments on the computation
>> - * of the variable asymmetric_scenario in the function
>> - * bfq_better_to_idle().
>> - *
>> - * However, it is hard to compute this number exactly, for
>> - * groups with multiple descendant processes. Consider a group
>> - * that is inactive, i.e., that has no descendant process with
>> - * pending I/O inside BFQ queues. Then suppose that
>> - * num_groups_with_pending_reqs is still accounting for this
>> - * group, because the group has descendant processes with some
>> - * I/O request still in flight. num_groups_with_pending_reqs
>> - * should be decremented when the in-flight request of the
>> - * last descendant process is finally completed (assuming that
>> - * nothing else has changed for the group in the meantime, in
>> - * terms of composition of the group and active/inactive state of child
>> - * groups and processes). To accomplish this, an additional
>> - * pending-request counter must be added to entities, and must
>> - * be updated correctly. To avoid this additional field and operations,
>> - * we resort to the following tradeoff between simplicity and
>> - * accuracy: for an inactive group that is still counted in
>> - * num_groups_with_pending_reqs, we decrement
>> - * num_groups_with_pending_reqs when the first descendant
>> - * process of the group remains with no request waiting for
>> - * completion.
>> - *
>> - * Even this simpler decrement strategy requires a little
>> - * carefulness: to avoid multiple decrements, we flag a group,
>> - * more precisely an entity representing a group, as still
>> - * counted in num_groups_with_pending_reqs when it becomes
>> - * inactive. Then, when the first descendant queue of the
>> - * entity remains with no request waiting for completion,
>> - * num_groups_with_pending_reqs is decremented, and this flag
>> - * is reset. After this flag is reset for the entity,
>> - * num_groups_with_pending_reqs won't be decremented any
>> - * longer in case a new descendant queue of the entity remains
>> - * with no request waiting for completion.
>> + * Number of groups with at least one bfqq that is marked busy,
>> + * and this number is used to decide whether a scenario is symmetric.
>> + * Note that bfqq is busy doesn't mean that the bfqq contains requests.
>> + * If idling is needed for service guarantees, bfqq will stay busy
>> + * after dispatching the last request, see details in
>> + * __bfq_bfqq_expire().
>> */
>> - unsigned int num_groups_with_pending_reqs;
>> + unsigned int num_groups_with_busy_queues;
>>
>> /*
>> * Per-class (RT, BE, IDLE) number of bfq_queues containing
>> diff --git a/block/bfq-wf2q.c b/block/bfq-wf2q.c
>> index d9ff33e0be38..42464e6ff40c 100644
>> --- a/block/bfq-wf2q.c
>> +++ b/block/bfq-wf2q.c
>> @@ -220,12 +220,14 @@ static bool bfq_no_longer_next_in_service(struct bfq_entity *entity)
>>
>> static void bfq_inc_busy_queues(struct bfq_queue *bfqq)
>> {
>> - bfqq_group(bfqq)->busy_queues++;
>> + if (!(bfqq_group(bfqq)->busy_queues++))
>> + bfqq->bfqd->num_groups_with_busy_queues++;
>> }
>>
>> static void bfq_dec_busy_queues(struct bfq_queue *bfqq)
>> {
>> - bfqq_group(bfqq)->busy_queues--;
>> + if (!(--bfqq_group(bfqq)->busy_queues))
>
> Are you sure this is correct? You want to decrement
> num_groups_with_busy_queues if busy_queues switches from 1 to 0. But
> if busy_queues == 1, then !(busy_queues) is false.

Hi, Paolo

I'm sure this is correct.

if busy_queues == 1, then !(--busy_queues) is true; while
!(busy_queues--) is false.

Thanks,
Kuai
>
> Paolo
>
>> + bfqq->bfqd->num_groups_with_busy_queues--;
>> }
>>
>> #else /* CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED */
>> @@ -1002,19 +1004,6 @@ static void __bfq_activate_entity(struct bfq_entity *entity,
>> entity->on_st_or_in_serv = true;
>> }
>>
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
>> - if (!bfq_entity_to_bfqq(entity)) { /* bfq_group */
>> - struct bfq_group *bfqg =
>> - container_of(entity, struct bfq_group, entity);
>> - struct bfq_data *bfqd = bfqg->bfqd;
>> -
>> - if (!entity->in_groups_with_pending_reqs) {
>> - entity->in_groups_with_pending_reqs = true;
>> - bfqd->num_groups_with_pending_reqs++;
>> - }
>> - }
>> -#endif
>> -
>> bfq_update_fin_time_enqueue(entity, st, backshifted);
>> }
>>
>> --
>> 2.31.1
>>
>
> .
>

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