From b53d1ed734a2b9af8da115b836b658daa7d47a48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:34:48 +0200 Subject: Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs." We have a kernel build regression since 3.1-rc1, which is about 10% regression. The kernel source is in an ext3 filesystem. Alex Shi bisect it to commit: commit a07405b7802691d29ab3b23bdc76ee6d006aad0b Author: Justin TerAvest Date: Sun Jul 10 22:09:19 2011 +0200 cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs. Apparently this is caused by lack metadata preemption, where ext3/ext4 do use READ_META. I didn't see a way to fix the issue, so suggest reverting the patch. This reverts commit a07405b7802691d29ab3b23bdc76ee6d006aad0b. Reported-by: Alex Shi Reported-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/cfq-iosched.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'block') diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c index 650834537606..a33bd4377c61 100644 --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c @@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ struct cfq_queue { unsigned long slice_end; long slice_resid; + /* pending metadata requests */ + int meta_pending; /* number of requests that are on the dispatch list or inside driver */ int dispatched; @@ -682,6 +684,9 @@ cfq_choose_req(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct request *rq1, struct request *rq2, if (rq_is_sync(rq1) != rq_is_sync(rq2)) return rq_is_sync(rq1) ? rq1 : rq2; + if ((rq1->cmd_flags ^ rq2->cmd_flags) & REQ_META) + return rq1->cmd_flags & REQ_META ? rq1 : rq2; + s1 = blk_rq_pos(rq1); s2 = blk_rq_pos(rq2); @@ -1607,6 +1612,10 @@ static void cfq_remove_request(struct request *rq) cfqq->cfqd->rq_queued--; cfq_blkiocg_update_io_remove_stats(&(RQ_CFQG(rq))->blkg, rq_data_dir(rq), rq_is_sync(rq)); + if (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_META) { + WARN_ON(!cfqq->meta_pending); + cfqq->meta_pending--; + } } static int cfq_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request **req, @@ -3359,6 +3368,13 @@ cfq_should_preempt(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *new_cfqq, RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&cfqq->sort_list)) return true; + /* + * So both queues are sync. Let the new request get disk time if + * it's a metadata request and the current queue is doing regular IO. + */ + if ((rq->cmd_flags & REQ_META) && !cfqq->meta_pending) + return true; + /* * Allow an RT request to pre-empt an ongoing non-RT cfqq timeslice. */ @@ -3423,6 +3439,8 @@ cfq_rq_enqueued(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *cfqq, struct cfq_io_context *cic = RQ_CIC(rq); cfqd->rq_queued++; + if (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_META) + cfqq->meta_pending++; cfq_update_io_thinktime(cfqd, cfqq, cic); cfq_update_io_seektime(cfqd, cfqq, rq); -- cgit v1.2.3