Motivation:
In order to decrease the latency of a prioritized request (such as READ
requests) the device driver might decide to stop the transmission of a
current "low priority" request in order to handle the "high priority" one.
The urgency of the request is decided by the block layer I/O scheduler.
When the block layer notifies the underlying device driver (eMMC for
example) of an urgent request, the device driver might decide to stop
the current request transmission. The remainder of the stopped request
will be re-inserted back to the scheduler, to be re-scheduled after
handling the urgent request.
This patch depends on following patches (in this order):
1. [PATCH/RESEND v8 1/4] block: Add support for reinsert a dispatched req
2. [PATCH/RESEND v8 2/4] block: Extend cmd_flags in struct request
3. [PATCH v8 3/4] block: Add API for urgent request handling
In order to benefit in terms of read request latency I/O scheduler
should implement urgent request classify and schedule policy, like one
implemented by:
[PATCH v6 0/3] block: Adding ROW scheduling algorithm
by Tanya Brokhman <tlinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tlinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
These patches are introducing a new api's of the block layer, supporting
its ability to classify incoming requests as urgent:
- blk_urgent_request() - set a notifier function, which will be called upon
urgent request arraiving at block layer
- blk_reinsert_request() - used to re-insert back request unserved by
MMC requests
Besides block layer dependencies, following eMMC device and host controller
capabilities needed:
- eMMC card HPI functionality to be able to interrupt undergoing write request
- stop_request() api implemented by host controller driver to correctly stop
undergoing write transaction
- MMC_CAP2_STOP_REQUEST capability bit used to enable/disable the feature
The change extends existing MMC layer wait event functionality, that was
introduced by following commit:
6035d97 mmc: fix async request mechanism for sequential read scenarios
Test was done with kernel 3.4 on msm platform. Latency measured using
blktrace and custom instrumentation. Test was running parallel
read/write lmdd stream. Latency is measured in ms. CFQ scheduler used as
baseline, compared with ROW scheduler with the feature turned on.
Parallel lmdd:
./data/lmdd if=internal of=/data/write.dat bs=128k count=2500 sync=1
./data/lmdd of=internal if=/data/readfile.dat bs=128k count=2500
Throughput [Mb/sec] Worst latency [msec]
read write read write
ROW 150 40 55 3800
CFQ 134 40 500 3280
Above is the average of 5 runs. Resulting worst case latency improved by
factor 9.
Konstantin Dorfman (1):
mmc: Add support to handle Urgent data transfer request
drivers/mmc/card/block.c | 151 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/mmc/card/queue.c | 54 ++++++++++++-
drivers/mmc/card/queue.h | 5 +-
drivers/mmc/core/core.c | 208 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/mmc/card.h | 5 +-
include/linux/mmc/host.h | 16 ++++-
include/linux/mmc/mmc.h | 1 +
7 files changed, 425 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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