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Single-LUN multi-actuator SCSI drives, as well as all multi-actuator SATA drives appear as a single device to the I/O subsystem [1]. Yet they address commands to different actuators internally, as a function of Logical Block Addressing (LBAs). A given sector is reachable by only one of the actuators. For example, Seagate’s Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) version contains two actuators and maps the lower half of the SATA LBA space to the lower actuator and the upper half to the upper actuator. Evidently, to fully utilize actuators, no actuator must be left idle or underutilized while there is pending I/O for it. The block layer must somehow control the load of each actuator individually. This commit lays the ground for allowing BFQ to provide such a per-actuator control. BFQ associates an I/O-request sync bfq_queue with each process doing synchronous I/O, or with a group of processes, in case of queue merging. Then BFQ serves one bfq_queue at a time. While in service, a bfq_queue is emptied in request-position order. Yet the same process, or group of processes, may generate I/O for different actuators. In this case, different streams of I/O (each for a different actuator) get all inserted into the same sync bfq_queue. So there is basically no individual control on when each stream is served, i.e., on when the I/O requests of the stream are picked from the bfq_queue and dispatched to the drive. This commit enables BFQ to control the service of each actuator individually for synchronous I/O, by simply splitting each sync bfq_queue into N queues, one for each actuator. In other words, a sync bfq_queue is now associated to a pair (process, actuator). As a consequence of this split, the per-queue proportional-share policy implemented by BFQ will guarantee that the sync I/O generated for each actuator, by each process, receives its fair share of service. This is just a preparatory patch. If the I/O of the same process happens to be sent to different queues, then each of these queues may undergo queue merging. To handle this event, the bfq_io_cq data structure must be properly extended. In addition, stable merging must be disabled to avoid loss of control on individual actuators. Finally, also async queues must be split. These issues are described in detail and addressed in next commits. As for this commit, although multiple per-process bfq_queues are provided, the I/O of each process or group of processes is still sent to only one queue, regardless of the actuator the I/O is for. The forwarding to distinct bfq_queues will be enabled after addressing the above issues. [1] https://www.linaro.org/blog/budget-fair-queueing-bfq-linux-io-scheduler-optimizations-for-multi-actuator-sata-hard-drives/ Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Gabriele Felici <felicigb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Carmine Zaccagnino <carmine@carminezacc.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230103145503.71712-2-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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