linux-kernel - [PATCH 12/20] io-controller: deadline changes for hierarchical fair queuing

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Message-Id: <1245443858-8487-13-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:37:30 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH 12/20] io-controller: deadline changes for hierarchical fair queuing

This patch changes deadline to use queue scheduling code from elevator layer.
One can go back to old deadline by selecting CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE_HIER.

Signed-off-by: Nauman Rafique <nauman@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
---
 block/Kconfig.iosched    |   11 +++++++++++
 block/deadline-iosched.c |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/Kconfig.iosched b/block/Kconfig.iosched
index 9da6657..3a9e7d7 100644
--- a/block/Kconfig.iosched
+++ b/block/Kconfig.iosched
@@ -55,6 +55,17 @@ config IOSCHED_DEADLINE
 	  a disk at any one time, its behaviour is almost identical to the
 	  anticipatory I/O scheduler and so is a good choice.
 
+config IOSCHED_DEADLINE_HIER
+	bool "Deadline Hierarchical Scheduling support"
+	depends on IOSCHED_DEADLINE && CGROUPS
+	select ELV_FAIR_QUEUING
+	select GROUP_IOSCHED
+	default n
+	---help---
+	  Enable hierarhical scheduling in deadline. In this mode deadline keeps
+	  one IO queue per cgroup instead of a global queue. Elevator
+	  fair queuing logic ensures fairness among various queues.
+
 config IOSCHED_CFQ
 	tristate "CFQ I/O scheduler"
 	select ELV_FAIR_QUEUING
diff --git a/block/deadline-iosched.c b/block/deadline-iosched.c
index 3a195ce..bae8e44 100644
--- a/block/deadline-iosched.c
+++ b/block/deadline-iosched.c
@@ -460,6 +460,11 @@ static struct elv_fs_entry deadline_attrs[] = {
 	DD_ATTR(writes_starved),
 	DD_ATTR(front_merges),
 	DD_ATTR(fifo_batch),
+#ifdef CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE_HIER
+	ELV_ATTR(fairness),
+	ELV_ATTR(slice_idle),
+	ELV_ATTR(slice_sync),
+#endif
 	__ATTR_NULL
 };
 
@@ -477,6 +482,9 @@ static struct elevator_type iosched_deadline = {
 		.elevator_alloc_sched_queue_fn = deadline_alloc_deadline_queue,
 		.elevator_free_sched_queue_fn = deadline_free_deadline_queue,
 	},
+#ifdef CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE_HIER
+	.elevator_features = ELV_IOSCHED_NEED_FQ | ELV_IOSCHED_SINGLE_IOQ,
+#endif
 	.elevator_attrs = deadline_attrs,
 	.elevator_name = "deadline",
 	.elevator_owner = THIS_MODULE,
-- 
1.6.0.6

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