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diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
index 9e2fbb7d1fb6..6a3d05023300 100644
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -1428,17 +1428,19 @@ static int bfq_min_budget(struct bfq_data *bfqd)
* mechanism may be re-designed in such a way to make it possible to
* know whether preemption is needed without needing to update service
* trees). In addition, queue preemptions almost always cause random
- * I/O, and thus loss of throughput. Because of these facts, the next
- * function adopts the following simple scheme to avoid both costly
- * operations and too frequent preemptions: it requests the expiration
- * of the in-service queue (unconditionally) only for queues that need
- * to recover a hole, or that either are weight-raised or deserve to
- * be weight-raised.
+ * I/O, which may in turn cause loss of throughput. Finally, there may
+ * even be no in-service queue when the next function is invoked (so,
+ * no queue to compare timestamps with). Because of these facts, the
+ * next function adopts the following simple scheme to avoid costly
+ * operations, too frequent preemptions and too many dependencies on
+ * the state of the scheduler: it requests the expiration of the
+ * in-service queue (unconditionally) only for queues that need to
+ * recover a hole. Then it delegates to other parts of the code the
+ * responsibility of handling the above case 2.
*/
static bool bfq_bfqq_update_budg_for_activation(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
struct bfq_queue *bfqq,
- bool arrived_in_time,
- bool wr_or_deserves_wr)
+ bool arrived_in_time)
{
struct bfq_entity *entity = &bfqq->entity;
@@ -1493,7 +1495,7 @@ static bool bfq_bfqq_update_budg_for_activation(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
entity->budget = max_t(unsigned long, bfqq->max_budget,
bfq_serv_to_charge(bfqq->next_rq, bfqq));
bfq_clear_bfqq_non_blocking_wait_rq(bfqq);
- return wr_or_deserves_wr;
+ return false;
}
/*
@@ -1611,6 +1613,36 @@ static bool bfq_bfqq_idle_for_long_time(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
bfqd->bfq_wr_min_idle_time);
}
+
+/*
+ * Return true if bfqq is in a higher priority class, or has a higher
+ * weight than the in-service queue.
+ */
+static bool bfq_bfqq_higher_class_or_weight(struct bfq_queue *bfqq,
+ struct bfq_queue *in_serv_bfqq)
+{
+ int bfqq_weight, in_serv_weight;
+
+ if (bfqq->ioprio_class < in_serv_bfqq->ioprio_class)
+ return true;
+
+ if (in_serv_bfqq->entity.parent == bfqq->entity.parent) {
+ bfqq_weight = bfqq->entity.weight;
+ in_serv_weight = in_serv_bfqq->entity.weight;
+ } else {
+ if (bfqq->entity.parent)
+ bfqq_weight = bfqq->entity.parent->weight;
+ else
+ bfqq_weight = bfqq->entity.weight;
+ if (in_serv_bfqq->entity.parent)
+ in_serv_weight = in_serv_bfqq->entity.parent->weight;
+ else
+ in_serv_weight = in_serv_bfqq->entity.weight;
+ }
+
+ return bfqq_weight > in_serv_weight;
+}
+
static void bfq_bfqq_handle_idle_busy_switch(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
struct bfq_queue *bfqq,
int old_wr_coeff,
@@ -1655,8 +1687,7 @@ static void bfq_bfqq_handle_idle_busy_switch(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
*/
bfqq_wants_to_preempt =
bfq_bfqq_update_budg_for_activation(bfqd, bfqq,
- arrived_in_time,
- wr_or_deserves_wr);
+ arrived_in_time);
/*
* If bfqq happened to be activated in a burst, but has been
@@ -1721,16 +1752,40 @@ static void bfq_bfqq_handle_idle_busy_switch(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
/*
* Expire in-service queue only if preemption may be needed
- * for guarantees. In this respect, the function
- * next_queue_may_preempt just checks a simple, necessary
- * condition, and not a sufficient condition based on
- * timestamps. In fact, for the latter condition to be
- * evaluated, timestamps would need first to be updated, and
- * this operation is quite costly (see the comments on the
- * function bfq_bfqq_update_budg_for_activation).
+ * for guarantees. In particular, we care only about two
+ * cases. The first is that bfqq has to recover a service
+ * hole, as explained in the comments on
+ * bfq_bfqq_update_budg_for_activation(), i.e., that
+ * bfqq_wants_to_preempt is true. However, if bfqq does not
+ * carry time-critical I/O, then bfqq's bandwidth is less
+ * important than that of queues that carry time-critical I/O.
+ * So, as a further constraint, we consider this case only if
+ * bfqq is at least as weight-raised, i.e., at least as time
+ * critical, as the in-service queue.
+ *
+ * The second case is that bfqq is in a higher priority class,
+ * or has a higher weight than the in-service queue. If this
+ * condition does not hold, we don't care because, even if
+ * bfqq does not start to be served immediately, the resulting
+ * delay for bfqq's I/O is however lower or much lower than
+ * the ideal completion time to be guaranteed to bfqq's I/O.
+ *
+ * In both cases, preemption is needed only if, according to
+ * the timestamps of both bfqq and of the in-service queue,
+ * bfqq actually is the next queue to serve. So, to reduce
+ * useless preemptions, the return value of
+ * next_queue_may_preempt() is considered in the next compound
+ * condition too. Yet next_queue_may_preempt() just checks a
+ * simple, necessary condition for bfqq to be the next queue
+ * to serve. In fact, to evaluate a sufficient condition, the
+ * timestamps of the in-service queue would need to be
+ * updated, and this operation is quite costly (see the
+ * comments on bfq_bfqq_update_budg_for_activation()).
*/
- if (bfqd->in_service_queue && bfqq_wants_to_preempt &&
- bfqd->in_service_queue->wr_coeff < bfqq->wr_coeff &&
+ if (bfqd->in_service_queue &&
+ ((bfqq_wants_to_preempt &&
+ bfqq->wr_coeff >= bfqd->in_service_queue->wr_coeff) ||
+ bfq_bfqq_higher_class_or_weight(bfqq, bfqd->in_service_queue)) &&
next_queue_may_preempt(bfqd))
bfq_bfqq_expire(bfqd, bfqd->in_service_queue,
false, BFQQE_PREEMPTED);