Introduce parameter reada_expire to the deadline elevator.
It avoids readahead requests contending with read requests,
and helps improve latency/throughput when there's many concurrent readers.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]>
---
--- linux-2.6.17-rc6-mm2.orig/block/deadline-iosched.c
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc6-mm2/block/deadline-iosched.c
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
/*
* See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt
*/
-static const int read_expire = HZ / 2; /* max time before a read is submitted. */
+static const int read_expire = HZ / 2; /* max time before an _impending_ read is submitted. */
+static const int reada_expire = 60 * HZ;/* max time before a read-ahead is submitted. */
static const int write_expire = 5 * HZ; /* ditto for writes, these limits are SOFT! */
static const int writes_starved = 2; /* max times reads can starve a write */
static const int fifo_batch = 16; /* # of sequential requests treated as one
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ struct deadline_data {
/*
* settings that change how the i/o scheduler behaves
*/
- int fifo_expire[2];
+ int fifo_expire[4];
int fifo_batch;
int writes_starved;
int front_merges;
@@ -711,7 +712,9 @@ static void *deadline_init_queue(request
dd->sort_list[READ] = RB_ROOT;
dd->sort_list[WRITE] = RB_ROOT;
dd->fifo_expire[READ] = read_expire;
+ dd->fifo_expire[READA] = reada_expire;
dd->fifo_expire[WRITE] = write_expire;
+ dd->fifo_expire[WRITEA] = write_expire;
dd->writes_starved = writes_starved;
dd->front_merges = 1;
dd->fifo_batch = fifo_batch;
@@ -780,6 +783,7 @@ static ssize_t __FUNC(elevator_t *e, cha
return deadline_var_show(__data, (page)); \
}
SHOW_FUNCTION(deadline_read_expire_show, dd->fifo_expire[READ], 1);
+SHOW_FUNCTION(deadline_reada_expire_show, dd->fifo_expire[READA], 1);
SHOW_FUNCTION(deadline_write_expire_show, dd->fifo_expire[WRITE], 1);
SHOW_FUNCTION(deadline_writes_starved_show, dd->writes_starved, 0);
SHOW_FUNCTION(deadline_front_merges_show, dd->front_merges, 0);
@@ -803,6 +807,7 @@ static ssize_t __FUNC(elevator_t *e, con
return ret; \
}
STORE_FUNCTION(deadline_read_expire_store, &dd->fifo_expire[READ], 0, INT_MAX, 1);
+STORE_FUNCTION(deadline_reada_expire_store, &dd->fifo_expire[READA], 0, INT_MAX, 1);
STORE_FUNCTION(deadline_write_expire_store, &dd->fifo_expire[WRITE], 0, INT_MAX, 1);
STORE_FUNCTION(deadline_writes_starved_store, &dd->writes_starved, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, 0);
STORE_FUNCTION(deadline_front_merges_store, &dd->front_merges, 0, 1, 0);
@@ -815,6 +820,7 @@ STORE_FUNCTION(deadline_fifo_batch_store
static struct elv_fs_entry deadline_attrs[] = {
DD_ATTR(read_expire),
+ DD_ATTR(reada_expire),
DD_ATTR(write_expire),
DD_ATTR(writes_starved),
DD_ATTR(front_merges),
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