Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: adjust CFS request expire time

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Feb 20 2024 - 04:46:19 EST


On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 02:15:42PM +0800, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
> From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> According to current policy, CFS's may suffer involuntary IO-latency by
> being preempted by RT/DL tasks or IRQ since they possess the privilege for
> both of CPU and IO scheduler.

What is 'current policy', what is CFS, what is RT/DL? What privilege
is possessed?

> 1. All types of sched class's load(util) are tracked and calculated in the
> same way(using a geometric series which known as PELT)
> 2. Keep the legacy policy by NOT adjusting rq's position in fifo_list
> but only make changes over expire_time.
> 3. The fixed expire time(hundreds of ms) is in the same range of cpu
> avg_load's account series(the utilization will be decayed to 0.5 in 32ms)

What problem does this fix, i.e. what performance number are improved
or what other effects does it have?

> + * The expire time is adjusted via calculating the proportion of
> + * CFS's activation among whole cpu time during last several
> + * dazen's ms.Whearas, this would NOT affect the rq's position in
> + * fifo_list but only take effect when this rq is checked for its
> + * expire time when at head.
> */

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