Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] Enabling ATA Command Priorities

[Tejun Heo]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:27:27AM -0700, Adam Manzanares wrote:
> This patch builds ATA commands with high priority if the iocontext of a process
> is set to real time. The goal of the patch is to improve tail latencies of 
> workloads that use higher queue depths. This requires setting the iocontext 
> ioprio on the request when it is initialized
> 
> This patch has been tested with an Ultrastar HE8 HDD and cuts the 
> the p99.99 tail latency of foreground IO from 2s down to 72ms when
> using the deadline scheduler. This patch works independently of the
> scheduler so it can be used with all of the currently available 
> request based schedulers. 
> 
> Foreground IO, for the previously described results, is an async fio job 
> submitting 4K read requests at a QD of 1 to the HDD. The foreground IO is set 
> with the iopriority class of real time. The background workload is another fio
> job submitting read requests at a QD of 32 to the same HDD with default 
> iopriority.
> 
> This feature is enabled for ATA devices by setting the ata ncq_prio_on device 
> attribute to 1. An ATA device is also checked to see if the device supports per
> command priority.

Applied 1-3 to libata/for-4.10 w/ some modifications.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun