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Message-ID: <54d06657-a5e2-a94d-c9af-2f10900e7f32@huawei.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 May 2022 09:17:23 +0800
From:   "yukuai (C)" <yukuai3@...wei.com>
To:     Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
CC:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v2 2/2] block, bfq: make bfq_has_work() more
 accurate

在 2022/05/17 23:06, Paolo Valente 写道:
> 
> 
>> Il giorno 17 mag 2022, alle ore 16:21, Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org> ha scritto:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Il giorno 16 mag 2022, alle ore 11:56, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> ha scritto:
>>>
>>> On Fri 13-05-22 10:35:07, Yu Kuai wrote:
>>>> bfq_has_work() is using busy_queues currently, which is not accurate
>>>> because bfq_queue is busy doesn't represent that it has requests. Since
>>>> bfqd aready has a counter 'queued' to record how many requests are in
>>>> bfq, use it instead of busy_queues.
>>>>
>>
>> The number of requests queued is not equal to the number of busy
>> queues (it is >=).
> 
> No, sorry. It is actually != in general.
Hi, Paolo

I'm aware that number of requests queued is not equal to the number of
busy queues, and that is the motivation of this patch.

> 
> In particular, if queued == 0 but there are busy queues (although
> still waiting for I/O to arrive), then responding that there is no
> work caused blk-mq to stop asking, and hence an I/O freeze.  IOW I/O
> eventually arrives for a busy queue, but blk-mq does not ask for a new
> request any longer.  But maybe things have changed around bfq since
> then.

The problem is that if queued == 0 while there are busy queues, is there
any point to return true in bfq_has_work() ? IMO, it will only cause
unecessary run queue. And if new request arrives,
blk_mq_sched_insert_request() will trigger a run queue.

Thanks,
Kuai
> 
> Paolo
> 
>>   If this patch is based on this assumption then
>> unfortunately it is wrong :(
>>
>> Paolo
>>
>>>> Noted that bfq_has_work() can be called with 'bfqd->lock' held, thus the
>>>> lock can't be held in bfq_has_work() to protect 'bfqd->queued'.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
>>>
>>> Looks good. Feel free to add:
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
>>>
>>> 								Honza
>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> block/bfq-iosched.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>>>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
>>>> index 61750696e87f..740dd83853a6 100644
>>>> --- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
>>>> +++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
>>>> @@ -2210,7 +2210,11 @@ static void bfq_add_request(struct request *rq)
>>>>
>>>> 	bfq_log_bfqq(bfqd, bfqq, "add_request %d", rq_is_sync(rq));
>>>> 	bfqq->queued[rq_is_sync(rq)]++;
>>>> -	bfqd->queued++;
>>>> +	/*
>>>> +	 * Updating of 'bfqd->queued' is protected by 'bfqd->lock', however, it
>>>> +	 * may be read without holding the lock in bfq_has_work().
>>>> +	 */
>>>> +	WRITE_ONCE(bfqd->queued, bfqd->queued + 1);
>>>>
>>>> 	if (RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&bfqq->sort_list) && bfq_bfqq_sync(bfqq)) {
>>>> 		bfq_check_waker(bfqd, bfqq, now_ns);
>>>> @@ -2402,7 +2406,11 @@ static void bfq_remove_request(struct request_queue *q,
>>>> 	if (rq->queuelist.prev != &rq->queuelist)
>>>> 		list_del_init(&rq->queuelist);
>>>> 	bfqq->queued[sync]--;
>>>> -	bfqd->queued--;
>>>> +	/*
>>>> +	 * Updating of 'bfqd->queued' is protected by 'bfqd->lock', however, it
>>>> +	 * may be read without holding the lock in bfq_has_work().
>>>> +	 */
>>>> +	WRITE_ONCE(bfqd->queued, bfqd->queued - 1);
>>>> 	elv_rb_del(&bfqq->sort_list, rq);
>>>>
>>>> 	elv_rqhash_del(q, rq);
>>>> @@ -5063,11 +5071,11 @@ static bool bfq_has_work(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
>>>> 	struct bfq_data *bfqd = hctx->queue->elevator->elevator_data;
>>>>
>>>> 	/*
>>>> -	 * Avoiding lock: a race on bfqd->busy_queues should cause at
>>>> +	 * Avoiding lock: a race on bfqd->queued should cause at
>>>> 	 * most a call to dispatch for nothing
>>>> 	 */
>>>> 	return !list_empty_careful(&bfqd->dispatch) ||
>>>> -		bfq_tot_busy_queues(bfqd) > 0;
>>>> +		READ_ONCE(bfqd->queued);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> static struct request *__bfq_dispatch_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
>>>> -- 
>>>> 2.31.1
>>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
>>> SUSE Labs, CR
>>
> 
> .
>