cfq-iosched: improve preemption for cooperating tasks

When testing the syslet async io approach, I discovered that CFQ
sometimes didn't perform as well as expected. cfq_should_preempt()
needs to better check for cooperating tasks, so fix that by allowing
preemption of an equal priority queue if the recently queued request
is as good a candidate for IO as the one we are currently waiting for.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index f92ba2a869b..bfb396774cb 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -867,15 +867,11 @@ static int cfq_arm_slice_timer(struct cfq_data *cfqd)
 
 static void cfq_dispatch_insert(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq)
 {
-        struct cfq_data *cfqd = q->elevator->elevator_data;
         struct cfq_queue *cfqq = RQ_CFQQ(rq);
 
         cfq_remove_request(rq);
         cfqq->on_dispatch[rq_is_sync(rq)]++;
         elv_dispatch_sort(q, rq);
-
-        rq = list_entry(q->queue_head.prev, struct request, queuelist);
-        cfqd->last_sector = rq->sector + rq->nr_sectors;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1585,6 +1581,7 @@ cfq_should_preempt(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *new_cfqq,
                    struct request *rq)
 {
         struct cfq_queue *cfqq = cfqd->active_queue;
+        sector_t dist;
 
         if (cfq_class_idle(new_cfqq))
                 return 0;
@@ -1594,14 +1591,14 @@ cfq_should_preempt(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *new_cfqq,
 
         if (cfq_class_idle(cfqq))
                 return 1;
-        if (!cfq_cfqq_wait_request(new_cfqq))
-                return 0;
+
         /*
          * if the new request is sync, but the currently running queue is
          * not, let the sync request have priority.
          */
         if (rq_is_sync(rq) && !cfq_cfqq_sync(cfqq))
                 return 1;
+
         /*
          * 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.
@@ -1609,6 +1606,21 @@ cfq_should_preempt(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *new_cfqq,
         if (rq_is_meta(rq) && !cfqq->meta_pending)
                 return 1;
 
+        if (!cfqd->active_cic || !cfq_cfqq_wait_request(cfqq))
+                return 0;
+
+        /*
+         * if this request is as-good as one we would expect from the
+         * current cfqq, let it preempt
+         */
+        if (rq->sector > cfqd->last_sector)
+                dist = rq->sector - cfqd->last_sector;
+        else
+                dist = cfqd->last_sector - rq->sector;
+
+        if (dist <= cfqd->active_cic->seek_mean)
+                return 1;
+
         return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1719,6 +1731,8 @@ static void cfq_completed_request(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq)
         cfqq->on_dispatch[sync]--;
         cfqq->service_last = now;
 
+        cfqd->last_sector = rq->hard_sector + rq->hard_nr_sectors;
+
         if (!cfq_class_idle(cfqq))
                 cfqd->last_end_request = now;