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Paolo Valente 44e44a1b32 block, bfq: improve responsiveness
This patch introduces a simple heuristic to load applications quickly,
and to perform the I/O requested by interactive applications just as
quickly. To this purpose, both a newly-created queue and a queue
associated with an interactive application (we explain in a moment how
BFQ decides whether the associated application is interactive),
receive the following two special treatments:

1) The weight of the queue is raised.

2) The queue unconditionally enjoys device idling when it empties; in
fact, if the requests of a queue are sync, then performing device
idling for the queue is a necessary condition to guarantee that the
queue receives a fraction of the throughput proportional to its weight
(see [1] for details).

For brevity, we call just weight-raising the combination of these
two preferential treatments. For a newly-created queue,
weight-raising starts immediately and lasts for a time interval that:
1) depends on the device speed and type (rotational or
non-rotational), and 2) is equal to the time needed to load (start up)
a large-size application on that device, with cold caches and with no
additional workload.

Finally, as for guaranteeing a fast execution to interactive,
I/O-related tasks (such as opening a file), consider that any
interactive application blocks and waits for user input both after
starting up and after executing some task. After a while, the user may
trigger new operations, after which the application stops again, and
so on. Accordingly, the low-latency heuristic weight-raises again a
queue in case it becomes backlogged after being idle for a
sufficiently long (configurable) time. The weight-raising then lasts
for the same time as for a just-created queue.

According to our experiments, the combination of this low-latency
heuristic and of the improvements described in the previous patch
allows BFQ to guarantee a high application responsiveness.

[1] P. Valente, A. Avanzini, "Evolution of the BFQ Storage I/O
    Scheduler", Proceedings of the First Workshop on Mobile System
    Technologies (MST-2015), May 2015.
    http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/mst-2015.pdf

Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-19 08:30:26 -06:00
arch Merge branch 'regset' (PTRACE_SETREGSET data leakage) 2017-03-29 08:55:25 -07:00
block block, bfq: improve responsiveness 2017-04-19 08:30:26 -06:00
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crypto net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets 2017-03-09 18:23:27 -08:00
Documentation block, bfq: improve responsiveness 2017-04-19 08:30:26 -06:00
drivers nbd: set the max segment size to UINT_MAX 2017-04-19 08:16:06 -06:00
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fs block_dev: use blkdev_issue_zerout for hole punches 2017-04-08 11:25:38 -06:00
include block, bfq: add full hierarchical scheduling and cgroups support 2017-04-19 08:30:26 -06:00
init Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and 2017-03-11 09:08:47 -08:00
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lib sbitmap: add sbitmap_get_shallow() operation 2017-04-14 14:06:52 -06:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-4.12/block 2017-04-07 12:45:20 -06:00
net net: off by one in inet6_pton() 2017-04-14 14:08:54 -06:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.