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| author | Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com> | 2026-08-24 01:18:14 +0900 |
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| committer | Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> | 2026-08-23 22:12:11 +0200 |
| commit | 2bd30b8dc75b823dd7bbef9d7bc68e1fd7ecee5c (patch) | |
| tree | dcc4da1d99f17541c5590ac63c77da4bf372a4ab /Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst | |
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coccinelle: alloc_cast: drop removed allocatorsgrafted
- pci_alloc_consistent() and pci_zalloc_consistent() were removed by
commit 7968778914e5
("PCI: Remove the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API")
- kmem_alloc() was removed by commit f078d4ea8276
("xfs: convert kmem_alloc() to kmalloc()")
- kmem_zalloc() was removed by commit 10634530f7ba
("xfs: convert kmem_zalloc() to kzalloc()")
- kmem_zone_alloc() and kmem_zone_zalloc() were removed by commit
bae633a4a283 ("xfs: remove xfs_zone_{alloc,zalloc} helpers")
So drop them from the rules.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
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diff --git a/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9f5c5a4c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +============================== +Deadline IO scheduler tunables +============================== + +This little file attempts to document how the deadline io scheduler works. +In particular, it will clarify the meaning of the exposed tunables that may be +of interest to power users. + +Selecting IO schedulers +----------------------- +Refer to Documentation/block/switching-sched.rst for information on +selecting an io scheduler on a per-device basis. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +read_expire (in ms) +----------------------- + +The goal of the deadline io scheduler is to attempt to guarantee a start +service time for a request. As we focus mainly on read latencies, this is +tunable. When a read request first enters the io scheduler, it is assigned +a deadline that is the current time + the read_expire value in units of +milliseconds. + + +write_expire (in ms) +----------------------- + +Similar to read_expire mentioned above, but for writes. + + +fifo_batch (number of requests) +------------------------------------ + +Requests are grouped into ``batches`` of a particular data direction (read or +write) which are serviced in increasing sector order. To limit extra seeking, +deadline expiries are only checked between batches. fifo_batch controls the +maximum number of requests per batch. + +This parameter tunes the balance between per-request latency and aggregate +throughput. When low latency is the primary concern, smaller is better (where +a value of 1 yields first-come first-served behaviour). Increasing fifo_batch +generally improves throughput, at the cost of latency variation. + + +writes_starved (number of dispatches) +-------------------------------------- + +When we have to move requests from the io scheduler queue to the block +device dispatch queue, we always give a preference to reads. However, we +don't want to starve writes indefinitely either. So writes_starved controls +how many times we give preference to reads over writes. When that has been +done writes_starved number of times, we dispatch some writes based on the +same criteria as reads. + + +front_merges (bool) +---------------------- + +Sometimes it happens that a request enters the io scheduler that is contiguous +with a request that is already on the queue. Either it fits in the back of that +request, or it fits at the front. That is called either a back merge candidate +or a front merge candidate. Due to the way files are typically laid out, +back merges are much more common than front merges. For some work loads, you +may even know that it is a waste of time to spend any time attempting to +front merge requests. Setting front_merges to 0 disables this functionality. +Front merges may still occur due to the cached last_merge hint, but since +that comes at basically 0 cost we leave that on. We simply disable the +rbtree front sector lookup when the io scheduler merge function is called. + + +Nov 11 2002, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> |
