Re: [PATCH 1/3] block, bfq: do not idle if only one cgroup is activated

[Paolo Valente]

> Il giorno 31 lug 2021, alle ore 09:10, yukuai (C) <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
> 
> On 2021/07/24 15:12, Paolo Valente wrote:
>>> Il giorno 14 lug 2021, alle ore 11:45, Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> If only one group is activated, specifically
>>> 'bfqd->num_groups_with_pending_reqs == 1', there is no need to guarantee
>>> the same share of the throughput of queues in the same group.
>>> 
>>> Thus change the condition from '> 0' to '> 1' in
>>> bfq_asymmetric_scenario().
>> I see your point, and I agree with your goal.  Yet, your change seems
>> not to suffer from the following problem.
>> In addition to the groups that are created explicitly, there is the
>> implicit root group.  So, when bfqd->num_groups_with_pending_reqs ==
>> 1, there may be both active processes in the root group and active
>> processes in the only group created explicitly.  In this case, idling
>> is needed to preserve service guarantees.
>> Probably your idea should be improved by making sure that there is
>> pending I/O only from either the root group or the explicit group.
>> Thanks,
>> Paolo
> 
> 
> Hi, Paolo
> 

Hi

> I'm trying to add support to judge if root group have pending rqs, the
> implementation involve setting and clearing the busy state.
> 

I wouldn't use the busy state, as it does not take in-flight requests
into account.  For I/O control, the latter are as important as the
ones still queued in the scheduler.  For this reason, I take in-flight
requests into account when counting
bfqd->num_groups_with_pending_reqs.

See, e.g., this

	if (!bfqq->dispatched && !bfq_bfqq_busy(bfqq)) {
		...
		bfq_weights_tree_remove(bfqd, bfqq);
	}

in bfq_completed_request.

I would replicate the same logic in deciding whether the root group
has pending I/O.


> I'm thinking about setting busy in __bfq_activate_entity() if
> bfq_entity_to_bfqq() return valid bfqq, however I'm not sure where to
> clear the busy state.
> 
> On the other hand, do you think the way I record rq size info in patch 2
> is OK?

First, let's see what you reply to my suggestion above.

Thanks,
Paolo

>  If so, I can do this the similar way: say that root group doesn't
> have any pending requests if bfq haven't dispatch rq from root group for
> a period of time.
> 
> Thanks
> Kuai