Re: [PATCH] blk-throtl: Introduce sync and async queues for blk-throtl

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

This looks generally fine to me. Some nits below.

> +static inline struct bio *throtl_qnode_bio_peek(struct throtl_qnode *qn)
> +{
> +	struct bio *bio1, *bio2;
> +
> +	/* qn for read ios */
> +	if (qn->dispatch_sync_cnt == UINT_MAX)
> +		return bio_list_peek(&qn->bios[SYNC]);
> +
> +	/* qn for write ios */
> +	bio1 = bio_list_peek(&qn->bios[SYNC]);
> +	bio2 = bio_list_peek(&qn->bios[ASYNC]);
> +
> +	if (bio1 && bio2) {
> +		if (qn->dispatch_sync_cnt == THROTL_SYNC_FACTOR)
> +			return bio2;
> +		return bio1;
> +	}
> +
> +	return bio1 ?: bio2;
> +}

Wouldn't it be simpler to write:

        if (qn->dispatch_sync_count < THROTL_SYNC_FACTOR)
                return bio1 ?: bio2;
        else
                return bio2 ?: bio1;

> +/**
> + * throtl_qnode_bio_pop: pop a bio from a qnode
> + * @qn: the qnode to pop a bio from
> + *
> + * For read io qn, just pop bio from sync queu and return.
> + * For write io qn, the target queue to pop was determined by the dispatch_sync_cnt.
> + * Try to pop bio from target queue, fetch the bio and return when it is not empty.
> + * If the target queue empty, pop bio from other queue instead.
> + */
> +static inline struct bio *throtl_qnode_bio_pop(struct throtl_qnode *qn)
> +{
> +	struct bio *bio;
> +
> +	/* qn for read ios */
> +	if (qn->dispatch_sync_cnt == UINT_MAX)
> +		return bio_list_pop(&qn->bios[SYNC]);
> +
> +	/* try to dispatch sync io */
> +	if (qn->dispatch_sync_cnt < THROTL_SYNC_FACTOR) {
> +		bio = bio_list_pop(&qn->bios[SYNC]);
> +		if (bio) {
> +			qn->dispatch_sync_cnt++;
> +			return bio;
> +		}
> +		bio = bio_list_pop(&qn->bios[ASYNC]);
> +		qn->dispatch_sync_cnt = 0;
> +		return bio;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* try to dispatch async io */
> +	bio = bio_list_pop(&qn->bios[ASYNC]);
> +	if (bio) {
> +		qn->dispatch_sync_cnt = 0;
> +		return bio;
> +	}
> +	bio = bio_list_pop(&qn->bios[SYNC]);
> +
> +	return bio;
> +}

This also seems like it can be simplified a bit.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun