linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH for-6.8/block RFC v2] block: support to account io

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 18:13:19 +0800
From: Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>, Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
Cc: hch@....de, bvanassche@....org, axboe@...nel.dk,
 linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 yi.zhang@...wei.com, yangerkun@...wei.com, "yukuai (C)" <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-6.8/block RFC v2] block: support to account io_ticks
 precisely

Hi, Ming!

在 2024/01/05 10:49, Ming Lei 写道:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 03:15:15PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
>> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
>>
>> Currently, io_ticks is accounted based on sampling, specifically
>> update_io_ticks() will always account io_ticks by 1 jiffies from
>> bdev_start_io_acct()/blk_account_io_start(), and the result can be
>> inaccurate, for example(HZ is 250):
>>
>> Test script:
>> fio -filename=/dev/sda -bs=4k -rw=write -direct=1 -name=test -thinktime=4ms
>>
>> Test result: util is about 90%, while the disk is really idle.
>>
>> In order to account io_ticks precisely, update_io_ticks() must know if
>> there are IO inflight already, and this requires overhead slightly,
>> hence precise io accounting is disabled by default, and user can enable
>> it through sysfs entry.
>>
>> Noted that for rq-based devcie, part_stat_local_inc/dec() and
>> part_in_flight() is used to track inflight instead of iterating tags,
>> which is not supposed to be used in fast path because 'tags->lock' is
>> grabbed in blk_mq_find_and_get_req().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>>   - remove the new parameter for update_io_ticks();
>>   - simplify update_io_ticks();
>>   - use swith in queue_iostats_store();
>>   - add missing part_stat_local_dec() in blk_account_io_merge_request()
> 
> Looks fine,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>

Thanks for the review, however, I made a mistake while "simplify
update_io_ticks()" that first IO will still account by 1 jiffies even if
precise iostat is enabled:

+       if (unlikely(time_after(now, stamp)) &&
+           likely(try_cmpxchg(&part->bd_stamp, &stamp, now))) {
+               if (end || (blk_queue_precise_io_stat(part->bd_queue) &&
+                           part_in_flight(part)))
+                       __part_stat_add(part, io_ticks, now - stamp);
+               else
-> here, should be else if (!blk_queue_precise_io_stat(part->bd_queue))
+                       __part_stat_add(part, io_ticks, 1);

Alough this is RFC, my apologize for sending this version without fully
test the functionally. I'll send a formal version soon.

Thanks,
Kuai

> 
> 
> thanks,
> Ming
> 
> .
>