btrfs: scrub: per-device bandwidth control

Add sysfs interface to limit io during scrub. We relied on the ionice
interface to do that, eg. the idle class let the system usable while
scrub was running. This has changed when mq-deadline got widespread and
did not implement the scheduling classes. That was a CFQ thing that got
deleted. We've got numerous complaints from users about degraded
performance.

Currently only BFQ supports that but it's not a common scheduler and we
can't ask everybody to switch to it.

Alternatively the cgroup io limiting can be used but that also a
non-trivial setup (v2 required, the controller must be enabled on the
system). This can still be used if desired.

Other ideas that have been explored: piggy-back on ionice (that is set
per-process and is accessible) and interpret the class and classdata as
bandwidth limits, but this does not have enough flexibility as there are
only 8 allowed and we'd have to map fixed limits to each value. Also
adjusting the value would need to lookup the process that currently runs
scrub on the given device, and the value is not sticky so would have to
be adjusted each time scrub runs.

Running out of options, sysfs does not look that bad:

- it's accessible from scripts, or udev rules
- the name is similar to what MD-RAID has
  (/proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max or /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_speed_max)
- the value is sticky at least for filesystem mount time
- adjusting the value has immediate effect
- sysfs is available in constrained environments (eg. system rescue)
- the limit also applies to device replace

Sysfs:

- raw value is in bytes
- values written to the file accept suffixes like K, M
- file is in the per-device directory /sys/fs/btrfs/FSID/devinfo/DEVID/scrub_speed_max
- 0 means use default priority of IO

The scheduler is a simple deadline one and the accuracy is up to nearest
128K.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.h b/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
index 9c0d84e5ec06..063ce999b9d3 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ struct btrfs_device {
 	struct completion kobj_unregister;
 	/* For sysfs/FSID/devinfo/devid/ */
 	struct kobject devid_kobj;
+
+	/* Bandwidth limit for scrub, in bytes */
+	u64 scrub_speed_max;
 };
 
 /*