Re: [PATCH 02/24] io-controller: Core of the elevator fair queuing

From: Jerome Marchand
Date: Wed Aug 19 2009 - 12:02:47 EST


Hi Vivek,

Vivek Goyal wrote:
> o This is core of the io scheduler implemented at elevator layer. This is a mix
> of cpu CFS scheduler and CFQ IO scheduler. Some of the bits from CFS have
> to be derived so that we can support hierarchical scheduling. Without
> cgroups or with-in group, we should essentially get same behavior as CFQ.
>
> o This patch only shows non-hierarchical bits. Hierarhical code comes in later
> patches.
>
> o This code is the building base of introducing fair queuing logic in common
> elevator layer so that it can be used by all the four IO schedulers.

> +static void enqueue_io_entity(struct io_entity *entity)
> +{
> + struct io_service_tree *st = entity->st;
> + struct io_sched_data *sd = io_entity_sched_data(entity);
> +
> + /* In case task ioprio class changed while entity was off tree */
> + io_entity_update_prio(entity);
> + st->nr_active++;
> + sd->nr_active++;
> + entity->on_st = 1;
> + place_entity(st, entity, 0);
> + __enqueue_io_entity(st, entity);
> +}

> +static void put_prev_io_entity(struct io_entity *entity)
> +{
> + struct io_service_tree *st = entity->st;
> + struct io_sched_data *sd = io_entity_sched_data(entity);
> +
> + st->active_entity = NULL;
> + sd->active_entity = NULL;
> +
> + if (unlikely(entity->ioprio_changed)) {
> + dequeue_io_entity(entity);
> + io_entity_update_prio(entity);

That call to io_entity_update_prio() looks redundant with the one in
enqueue_io_entity().

> + enqueue_io_entity(entity);
> + } else
> + __enqueue_io_entity(st, entity);
> +}

Jerome
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