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Some IOs may span multiple periods. As latencies are collected on completion, the inbetween periods won't register them and may incorrectly decide to increase vrate. nr_lagging tracks these IOs to avoid those situations. Currently, whenever there are IOs which are spanning from the previous period, busy_level is reset to 0 if negative thus suppressing vrate increase. This has the following two problems. * When latency target percentiles aren't set, vrate adjustment should only be governed by queue depth depletion; however, the current code keeps nr_lagging active which pulls in latency results and can keep down vrate unexpectedly. * When lagging condition is detected, it resets the entire negative busy_level. This turned out to be way too aggressive on some devices which sometimes experience extended latencies on a small subset of commands. In addition, a lagging IO will be accounted as latency target miss on completion anyway and resetting busy_level amplifies its impact unnecessarily. This patch fixes the above two problems by disabling nr_lagging counting when latency target percentiles aren't set and blocking vrate increases when there are lagging IOs while leaving busy_level as-is. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.