linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] cfq-iosched: Implement a new tunable group

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Message-ID: <20100719210434.GG32503@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:04:34 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Divyesh Shah <dpshah@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jens.axboe@...nel.dk,
	nauman@...gle.com, guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com, jmoyer@...hat.com,
	czoccolo@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] cfq-iosched: Implement a new tunable group_idle

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 01:54:53PM -0700, Divyesh Shah wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com> wrote:
> > @@ -3420,7 +3453,10 @@ static void cfq_completed_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
> >                 * the queue.
> >                 */
> >                if (cfq_should_wait_busy(cfqd, cfqq)) {
> > -                       cfqq->slice_end = jiffies + cfqd->cfq_slice_idle;
> > +                       unsigned long extend_sl = cfqd->cfq_slice_idle;
> > +                       if (!cfqd->cfq_slice_idle)
> > +                               extend_sl = cfqd->cfq_group_idle;
> > +                       cfqq->slice_end = jiffies + extend_sl;
> >                        cfq_mark_cfqq_wait_busy(cfqq);
> >                        cfq_log_cfqq(cfqd, cfqq, "will busy wait");
> >                }
> 
> Vivek, I haven't looked at this particular code snippet for some time.
> Can you tell me why we add the slice_idle (or w/ your change
> extend_sl) to slice_end instead of arming the idle timer with that
> amount of time?

Divyesh,

With wait busy we do arm the slice time also. wait busy is just saying
that extend the slice a bit so that we do arm the timer and select_queue()
does not expire the queue right away.

Vivek
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