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* [PATCH V2 00/16] Introduce the BFQ I/O scheduler
@ 2017-03-31 12:47 Paolo Valente
  2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 01/16] block, bfq: introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler Paolo Valente
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From: Paolo Valente @ 2017-03-31 12:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe, Tejun Heo
  Cc: Fabio Checconi, Arianna Avanzini, linux-block, linux-kernel,
	ulf.hansson, linus.walleij, broonie, Paolo Valente

Hi,
with respect to the previous submission [1], these new patch series:
- contains all the changes suggested by Jens and Bart [1], apart from
  those for which I raised doubts that either have been acknowledged,
  or have not received a reply yet (I will of course apply also the
  latter changes if those threads restart);
- contains a fix to the bug causing the failure reported by Jens [2].

As for major changes, this patch series:
- solves the nesting problem between scheduler and io-context locks, by
  not taking any reference to io contexts anymore [3];
- splits the original, single source file into three files.

These last two contributions are provided by two additional patches in
the series. I've not merged these changes into the other patches for
the following reasons:

- Merging these changes would have implied splitting them into further
  smaller pieces, applying each piece to the right previous patch, and
  solving all the conflicts generated by each per-patch
  modification. This would have taken really a lot of time, and would
  have implied a certain probability of introducing subtle errors (I
  have tried for a few days, and then abandoned this solution).

- The removal of extra io-context references is a non-trivial change
  to code that has worked the other way, for probably about a decade,
  in CFQ.  The change seems to be fine, but in case of errors, it is
  probably much easier to find and clearly fix them, if they are
  confined in a single commit.

- A dedicated commit for the removal of extra io-context references
  also documents how it has been obtained, and what assumptions have
  been made.

- Similarly, an explicit split of the srouce file shows where each
  piece has gone, instead of exposing only the result of the split,
  with possible mistakes buried in it.

I have run all the tests I could.

Some patch still generates WARNINGS with checkpatch.pl, but these
WARNINGS seem to be either unavoidable for the involved pieces of code
(which the patch just extends), or false positives.

Thanks,
Paolo

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/4/148
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/6/887
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/18/34
Arianna Avanzini (4):
  block, bfq: add full hierarchical scheduling and cgroups support
  block, bfq: add Early Queue Merge (EQM)
  block, bfq: reduce idling only in symmetric scenarios
  block, bfq: handle bursts of queue activations

Paolo Valente (12):
  block, bfq: introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler
  block, bfq: improve throughput boosting
  block, bfq: modify the peak-rate estimator
  block, bfq: add more fairness with writes and slow processes
  block, bfq: improve responsiveness
  block, bfq: reduce I/O latency for soft real-time applications
  block, bfq: preserve a low latency also with NCQ-capable drives
  block, bfq: reduce latency during request-pool saturation
  block, bfq: boost the throughput on NCQ-capable flash-based devices
  block, bfq: boost the throughput with random I/O on NCQ-capable HDDs
  block, bfq: remove all get and put of I/O contexts
  block, bfq: split bfq-iosched.c into multiple source files

 Documentation/block/00-INDEX        |    2 +
 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt |  531 ++++
 block/Kconfig.iosched               |   21 +
 block/Makefile                      |    1 +
 block/bfq-cgroup.c                  | 1139 ++++++++
 block/bfq-iosched.c                 | 5030 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 block/bfq-iosched.h                 |  942 +++++++
 block/bfq-wf2q.c                    | 1616 +++++++++++
 include/linux/blkdev.h              |    2 +-
 9 files changed, 9283 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt
 create mode 100644 block/bfq-cgroup.c
 create mode 100644 block/bfq-iosched.c
 create mode 100644 block/bfq-iosched.h
 create mode 100644 block/bfq-wf2q.c

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2.10.0

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2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 02/16] block, bfq: add full hierarchical scheduling and cgroups support Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 03/16] block, bfq: improve throughput boosting Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 04/16] block, bfq: modify the peak-rate estimator Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 15:31   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-04 10:42     ` Paolo Valente
2017-04-04 15:28       ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-06 19:37         ` Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 05/16] block, bfq: add more fairness with writes and slow processes Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 06/16] block, bfq: improve responsiveness Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 07/16] block, bfq: reduce I/O latency for soft real-time applications Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 08/16] block, bfq: preserve a low latency also with NCQ-capable drives Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 09/16] block, bfq: reduce latency during request-pool saturation Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 10/16] block, bfq: add Early Queue Merge (EQM) Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 11/16] block, bfq: reduce idling only in symmetric scenarios Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 15:20   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-07  7:47     ` Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 12/16] block, bfq: boost the throughput on NCQ-capable flash-based devices Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 13/16] block, bfq: boost the throughput with random I/O on NCQ-capable HDDs Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 14/16] block, bfq: handle bursts of queue activations Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 15/16] block, bfq: remove all get and put of I/O contexts Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 16/16] block, bfq: split bfq-iosched.c into multiple source files Paolo Valente
2017-04-02 10:02   ` kbuild test robot
2017-04-11 11:00     ` Paolo Valente
2017-04-12  8:39       ` [kbuild-all] " Ye Xiaolong
2017-04-12  9:24         ` Paolo Valente
2017-04-12 16:05           ` Paolo Valente
2017-04-10 16:56 ` [PATCH V2 00/16] Introduce the BFQ I/O scheduler Bart Van Assche
2017-04-11  8:43   ` Paolo Valente

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