Currently, bfq can't handle sync io concurrently as long as they are not issued from root group. This is because 'bfqd->num_groups_with_pending_reqs > 0' is always true in bfq_asymmetric_scenario(). This patchset tries to support concurrent sync io if all the sync ios are issued from the same cgroup: 1) Count root_group into 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs', patch 1-5; 2) Don't idle if 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs' is 1, patch 6; 3) Don't count the group if the group doesn't have pending requests, while it's child groups may have pending requests, patch 7; This is because, for example: if sync ios are issued from cgroup /root/c1/c2, root, c1 and c2 will all be counted into 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs', which makes it impossible to handle sync ios concurrently. 4) Decrease 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs' when the last queue completes all the requests, while child groups may still have pending requests, patch 8-10; This is because, for example: t1 issue sync io on root group, t2 and t3 issue sync io on the same child group. num_groups_with_pending_reqs is 2 now. After t1 stopped, num_groups_with_pending_reqs is still 2. sync io from t2 and t3 still can't be handled concurrently. fio test script: startdelay is used to avoid queue merging [global] filename=/dev/nvme0n1 allow_mounted_write=0 ioengine=psync direct=1 ioscheduler=bfq offset_increment=10g group_reporting rw=randwrite bs=4k [test1] numjobs=1 [test2] startdelay=1 numjobs=1 [test3] startdelay=2 numjobs=1 [test4] startdelay=3 numjobs=1 [test5] startdelay=4 numjobs=1 [test6] startdelay=5 numjobs=1 [test7] startdelay=6 numjobs=1 [test8] startdelay=7 numjobs=1 test result: running fio on root cgroup v5.17-rc6: 550 Mib/s v5.17-rc6-patched: 550 Mib/s running fio on non-root cgroup v5.17-rc6: 349 Mib/s v5.17-rc6-patched: 550 Mib/s Yu Kuai (11): block, bfq: add new apis to iterate bfq entities block, bfq: apply news apis where root group is not expected block, bfq: cleanup for __bfq_activate_requeue_entity() block, bfq: move the increasement of 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs' to it's caller block, bfq: count root group into 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs' block, bfq: do not idle if only one cgroup is activated block, bfq: only count parent bfqg when bfqq is activated block, bfq: record how many queues have pending requests in bfq_group block, bfq: move forward __bfq_weights_tree_remove() block, bfq: decrease 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs' earlier block, bfq: cleanup bfqq_group() block/bfq-cgroup.c | 13 +++---- block/bfq-iosched.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- block/bfq-iosched.h | 41 +++++++++++++-------- block/bfq-wf2q.c | 56 +++++++++++++++-------------- 4 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-) -- 2.31.1