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<updated>2019-08-29T03:17:12Z</updated>
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<title>blkcg: implement blk-iocost</title>
<updated>2019-08-29T03:17:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2019-08-28T22:05:58Z</published>
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This patchset implements IO cost model based work-conserving
proportional controller.

While io.latency provides the capability to comprehensively prioritize
and protect IOs depending on the cgroups, its protection is binary -
the lowest latency target cgroup which is suffering is protected at
the cost of all others.  In many use cases including stacking multiple
workload containers in a single system, it's necessary to distribute
IO capacity with better granularity.

One challenge of controlling IO resources is the lack of trivially
observable cost metric.  The most common metrics - bandwidth and iops
- can be off by orders of magnitude depending on the device type and
IO pattern.  However, the cost isn't a complete mystery.  Given
several key attributes, we can make fairly reliable predictions on how
expensive a given stream of IOs would be, at least compared to other
IO patterns.

The function which determines the cost of a given IO is the IO cost
model for the device.  This controller distributes IO capacity based
on the costs estimated by such model.  The more accurate the cost
model the better but the controller adapts based on IO completion
latency and as long as the relative costs across differents IO
patterns are consistent and sensible, it'll adapt to the actual
performance of the device.

Currently, the only implemented cost model is a simple linear one with
a few sets of default parameters for different classes of device.
This covers most common devices reasonably well.  All the
infrastructure to tune and add different cost models is already in
place and a later patch will also allow using bpf progs for cost
models.

Please see the top comment in blk-iocost.c and documentation for
more details.

v2: Rebased on top of RQ_ALLOC_TIME changes and folded in Rik's fix
    for a divide-by-zero bug in current_hweight() triggered by zero
    inuse_sum.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Newell &lt;newella@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: remove legacy IO schedulers</title>
<updated>2018-11-07T20:42:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-12T16:14:46Z</published>
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Retain the deadline documentation, as that carries over to mq-deadline
as well.

Tested-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>block: remove legacy rq tagging</title>
<updated>2018-11-07T20:42:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-24T09:39:36Z</published>
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It's now unused, kill it.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Move power management code into a new source file</title>
<updated>2018-09-26T21:11:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bvanassche@acm.org</email>
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<published>2018-09-26T21:01:03Z</published>
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Move the code for runtime power management from blk-core.c into the
new source file blk-pm.c. Move the corresponding declarations from
&lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt; into &lt;linux/blk-pm.h&gt;. For CONFIG_PM=n, leave out
the declarations of the functions that are not used in that mode.
This patch not only reduces the number of #ifdefs in the block layer
core code but also reduces the size of header file &lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt;
and hence should help to reduce the build time of the Linux kernel
if CONFIG_PM is not defined.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jianchao Wang &lt;jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller</title>
<updated>2018-07-09T15:07:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>jbacik@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-03T15:15:01Z</published>
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Current IO controllers for the block layer are less than ideal for our
use case.  The io.max controller is great at hard limiting, but it is
not work conserving.  This patch introduces io.latency.  You provide a
latency target for your group and we monitor the io in short windows to
make sure we are not exceeding those latency targets.  This makes use of
the rq-qos infrastructure and works much like the wbt stuff.  There are
a few differences from wbt

 - It's bio based, so the latency covers the whole block layer in addition to
   the actual io.
 - We will throttle all IO types that comes in here if we need to.
 - We use the mean latency over the 100ms window.  This is because writes can
   be particularly fast, which could give us a false sense of the impact of
   other workloads on our protected workload.
 - By default there's no throttling, we set the queue_depth to INT_MAX so that
   we can have as many outstanding bio's as we're allowed to.  Only at
   throttle time do we pay attention to the actual queue depth.
 - We backcharge cgroups for root cg issued IO and induce artificial
   delays in order to deal with cases like metadata only or swap heavy
   workloads.

In testing this has worked out relatively well.  Protected workloads
will throttle noisy workloads down to 1 io at time if they are doing
normal IO on their own, or induce up to a 1 second delay per syscall if
they are doing a lot of root issued IO (metadata/swap IO).

Our testing has revolved mostly around our production web servers where
we have hhvm (the web server application) in a protected group and
everything else in another group.  We see slightly higher requests per
second (RPS) on the test tier vs the control tier, and much more stable
RPS across all machines in the test tier vs the control tier.

Another test we run is a slow memory allocator in the unprotected group.
Before this would eventually push us into swap and cause the whole box
to die and not recover at all.  With these patches we see slight RPS
drops (usually 10-15%) before the memory consumer is properly killed and
things recover within seconds.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>blk-rq-qos: refactor out common elements of blk-wbt</title>
<updated>2018-07-09T15:07:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>jbacik@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-03T15:32:35Z</published>
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blkcg-qos is going to do essentially what wbt does, only on a cgroup
basis.  Break out the common code that will be shared between blkcg-qos
and wbt into blk-rq-qos.* so they can both utilize the same
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>block: Make struct request_queue smaller for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED=n</title>
<updated>2018-07-09T15:07:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-15T21:55:21Z</published>
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Exclude zoned block device members from struct request_queue for
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED == n. Avoid breaking the build by only building
the code that uses these struct request_queue members if
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED != n.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Cc: Matias Bjorling &lt;mb@lightnvm.io&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>block: Add rdma affinity based queue mapping helper</title>
<updated>2017-08-08T18:58:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sagi Grimberg</name>
<email>sagi@grimberg.me</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-13T08:09:43Z</published>
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Like pci and virtio, we add a rdma helper for affinity
spreading. This achieves optimal mq affinity assignments
according to the underlying rdma device affinity maps.

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy &lt;maxg@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagi@grimberg.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>block, bfq: split bfq-iosched.c into multiple source files</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T14:48:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Valente</name>
<email>paolo.valente@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-19T14:48:24Z</published>
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The BFQ I/O scheduler features an optimal fair-queuing
(proportional-share) scheduling algorithm, enriched with several
mechanisms to boost throughput and reduce latency for interactive and
real-time applications. This makes BFQ a large and complex piece of
code. This commit addresses this issue by splitting BFQ into three
main, independent components, and by moving each component into a
separate source file:
1. Main algorithm: handles the interaction with the kernel, and
decides which requests to dispatch; it uses the following two further
components to achieve its goals.
2. Scheduling engine (Hierarchical B-WF2Q+ scheduling algorithm):
computes the schedule, using weights and budgets provided by the above
component.
3. cgroups support: handles group operations (creation, destruction,
move, ...).

Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente &lt;paolo.valente@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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