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Josef Bacik
9f60511a02 blk-iolatency: deal with nr_requests == 1
Hitting the case where blk_queue_depth() returned 1 uncovered the fact
that iolatency doesn't actually handle this case properly, it simply
doesn't scale down anybody.  For this case we should go straight into
applying the time delay, which we weren't doing.  Since we already limit
the floor at 1 request this if statement is not needed, and this allows
us to set our depth to 1 which allows us to apply the delay if needed.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-09-28 11:47:28 -06:00
Josef Bacik
ff4cee0898 blk-iolatency: use q->nr_requests directly
We were using blk_queue_depth() assuming that it would return
nr_requests, but we hit a case in production on drives that had to have
NCQ turned off in order for them to not shit the bed which resulted in a
qd of 1, even though the nr_requests was much larger.  iolatency really
only cares about requests we are allowed to queue up, as any io that
get's onto the request list is going to be serviced soonish, so we want
to be throttling before the bio gets onto the request list.  To make
iolatency work as expected, simply use q->nr_requests instead of
blk_queue_depth() as that is what we actually care about.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-09-28 11:47:27 -06:00
Dennis Zhou (Facebook)
101246ec02 blkcg: rename blkg_try_get to blkg_tryget
blkg reference counting now uses percpu_ref rather than atomic_t. Let's
make this consistent with css_tryget. This renames blkg_try_get to
blkg_tryget and now returns a bool rather than the blkg or NULL.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-09-21 20:29:19 -06:00
Dennis Zhou (Facebook)
5bf9a1f3b4 blkcg: consolidate bio_issue_init to be a part of core
bio_issue_init among other things initializes the timestamp for an IO.
Rather than have this logic handled by policies, this consolidates it to
be on the init paths (normal, clone, bounce clone).

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Liu Bo <bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-09-21 20:29:08 -06:00
Dennis Zhou (Facebook)
a7b39b4e96 blkcg: always associate a bio with a blkg
Previously, blkg's were only assigned as needed by blk-iolatency and
blk-throttle. bio->css was also always being associated while blkg was
being looked up and then thrown away in blkcg_bio_issue_check.

This patch begins the cleanup of bio->css and bio->bi_blkg by always
associating a blkg in blkcg_bio_issue_check. This tries to create the
blkg, but if it is not possible, falls back to using the root_blkg of
the request_queue. Therefore, a bio will always be associated with a
blkg. The duplicate association logic is removed from blk-throttle and
blk-iolatency.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-09-21 20:29:06 -06:00
Dennis Zhou (Facebook)
49f4c2dc2b blkcg: update blkg_lookup_create to do locking
To know when to create a blkg, the general pattern is to do a
blkg_lookup and if that fails, lock and then do a lookup again and if
that fails finally create. It doesn't make much sense for everyone who
wants to do creation to write this themselves.

This changes blkg_lookup_create to do locking and implement this
pattern. The old blkg_lookup_create is renamed to __blkg_lookup_create.
If a call site wants to do its own error handling or already owns the
queue lock, they can use __blkg_lookup_create. This will be used in
upcoming patches.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Liu Bo <bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-09-21 20:29:03 -06:00
Dennis Zhou (Facebook)
27e6fa996c blkcg: fix ref count issue with bio_blkcg using task_css
The accessor function bio_blkcg either returns the blkcg associated with
the bio or finds one in the current context. This can cause an issue
when trying to associate a bio with a blkcg. Particularly, it's the
third case that is problematic:

	return css_to_blkcg(task_css(current, io_cgrp_id));

As the above may race against task migration and the cgroup exiting, it
is not always ok to take a reference on the blkcg returned from
bio_blkcg.

This patch adds association ahead of calling bio_blkcg rather than
after. This makes association a required and explicit step along the
code paths for calling bio_blkcg. blk_get_rl is modified as well to get
a reference to the blkcg it may use and blk_put_rl will always put the
reference back. Association is also moved above the bio_blkcg call to
ensure it will not return NULL in blk-iolatency.

BFQ and CFQ utilize this flaw, but due to the complexity, I do not want
to address this in this series. I've created a private version of the
function with notes not to use it describing the flaw. Hopefully soon,
that code can be cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-09-21 20:29:02 -06:00
YueHaibing
f8c0d7b16f blk-iolatency: remove set but not used variables 'changed' and 'blkiolat'
Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:

block/blk-iolatency.c: In function 'scale_change':
block/blk-iolatency.c:301:7: warning:
 variable 'changed' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

block/blk-iolatency.c: In function 'iolatency_set_limit':
block/blk-iolatency.c:765:24: warning:
 variable 'blkiolat' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-09-13 19:59:24 -06:00
Dennis Zhou (Facebook)
c480bcf97b block: make iolatency avg_lat exponentially decay
Currently, avg_lat is calculated by accumulating the mean of every
window in a long running cumulative average. As time goes on, the metric
becomes less and less useful due to the accumulated history.

This patch reuses the same calculation done in load averages to make the
avg_lat metric more lively. Unlike load averages, the avg only advances
when a window elapses (due to an io). Idle periods extend the most
recent window. Bucketing is used to limit the history of avg_lat by
binding it to the window size. So, the window range for 1/exp (decay
rate) is [1 min, 2.5 min) when windows elapse immediately.

The current sample window size is exposed in the debug info to enable
calculation of the window range.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-08-02 09:58:14 -06:00
Josef Bacik
52a1199ccd blk-iolatency: fix blkg leak in timer_fn
At this point we have a ref on the blkg, we need to drop it if we don't
have a iolat.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-08-01 09:16:01 -06:00
Josef Bacik
71e9690b59 blk-iolatency: truncate our current time
In our longer tests we noticed that some boxes would degrade to the
point of uselessness.  This is because we truncate the current time when
saving it in our bio, but I was using the raw current time to subtract
from.  So once the box had been up a certain amount of time it would
appear as if our IO's were taking several years to complete.  Fix this
by truncating the current time so it matches the issue time.  Verified
this worked by running with this patch for a week on our test tier.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-16 10:15:19 -06:00
Josef Bacik
d607eefa3b blk-iolatency: don't change the latency window
Early versions of these patches had us waiting for seconds at a time
during submission, so we had to adjust the timing window we monitored
for latency.  Now we don't do things like that so this is unnecessary
code.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-16 10:15:17 -06:00
Josef Bacik
a284390b39 blk-iolatency: fix max_depth comparisons
max_depth used to be a u64, but I changed it to a unsigned int but
didn't convert my comparisons over everywhere.  Fix by using UINT_MAX
everywhere instead of (u64)-1.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-11 08:37:38 -06:00
Arnd Bergmann
88b7210c81 block: iolatency: avoid 64-bit division
On 32-bit architectures, dividing a 64-bit number needs to use the
do_div() function or something like it to avoid a link failure:

block/blk-iolatency.o: In function `iolatency_prfill_limit':
blk-iolatency.c:(.text+0x8cc): undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'

Using div_u64() gives us the best output and avoids the need for an
explicit cast.

Fixes: d706751215 ("block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller")
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-10 12:26:09 -06:00
Josef Bacik
d706751215 block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller
Current IO controllers for the block layer are less than ideal for our
use case.  The io.max controller is great at hard limiting, but it is
not work conserving.  This patch introduces io.latency.  You provide a
latency target for your group and we monitor the io in short windows to
make sure we are not exceeding those latency targets.  This makes use of
the rq-qos infrastructure and works much like the wbt stuff.  There are
a few differences from wbt

 - It's bio based, so the latency covers the whole block layer in addition to
   the actual io.
 - We will throttle all IO types that comes in here if we need to.
 - We use the mean latency over the 100ms window.  This is because writes can
   be particularly fast, which could give us a false sense of the impact of
   other workloads on our protected workload.
 - By default there's no throttling, we set the queue_depth to INT_MAX so that
   we can have as many outstanding bio's as we're allowed to.  Only at
   throttle time do we pay attention to the actual queue depth.
 - We backcharge cgroups for root cg issued IO and induce artificial
   delays in order to deal with cases like metadata only or swap heavy
   workloads.

In testing this has worked out relatively well.  Protected workloads
will throttle noisy workloads down to 1 io at time if they are doing
normal IO on their own, or induce up to a 1 second delay per syscall if
they are doing a lot of root issued IO (metadata/swap IO).

Our testing has revolved mostly around our production web servers where
we have hhvm (the web server application) in a protected group and
everything else in another group.  We see slightly higher requests per
second (RPS) on the test tier vs the control tier, and much more stable
RPS across all machines in the test tier vs the control tier.

Another test we run is a slow memory allocator in the unprotected group.
Before this would eventually push us into swap and cause the whole box
to die and not recover at all.  With these patches we see slight RPS
drops (usually 10-15%) before the memory consumer is properly killed and
things recover within seconds.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-09 09:07:54 -06:00