[RFC]cfq-iosched: quantum check tweak

[Shaohua Li]

Currently a queue can only dispatch up to 4 requests if there are other queues.
This isn't optimal, device can handle more requests, for example, AHCI can
handle 31 requests. I can understand the limit is for fairness, but we could
do some tweaks:
1. if the queue still has a lot of slice left, sounds we could ignore the limit
2. we could keep the check only when cfq_latency is on. For uses who don't care
about latency should be happy to have device fully piped on.

I have a test of random direct io of two threads, each has 32 requests one time
without patch: 78m/s
with tweak 1: 138m/s
with two tweaks and disable latency: 156m/s

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 block/cfq-iosched.c |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/block/cfq-iosched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ linux-2.6/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -2242,6 +2242,18 @@ static int cfq_forced_dispatch(struct cf
 	return dispatched;
 }
 
+static inline bool cfq_slice_used_soon(struct cfq_data *cfqd,
+	struct cfq_queue *cfqq)
+{
+	/* the queue hasn't finished any request, can't estimate */
+	if (cfq_cfqq_slice_new(cfqq))
+		return 1;
+	if (time_after(jiffies + cfqd->cfq_slice_idle, cfqq->slice_end))
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static bool cfq_may_dispatch(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *cfqq)
 {
 	unsigned int max_dispatch;
@@ -2275,7 +2287,8 @@ static bool cfq_may_dispatch(struct cfq_
 		/*
 		 * We have other queues, don't allow more IO from this one
 		 */
-		if (cfqd->busy_queues > 1)
+		if (cfqd->busy_queues > 1 && cfq_slice_used_soon(cfqd, cfqq)
+			&& cfqd->cfq_latency)
 			return false;
 
 		/*
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