> Il giorno 29 gen 2021, alle ore 12:18, Lin Feng <linf@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> This reverts commit 6d4d273588378c65915acaf7b2ee74e9dd9c130a.
>
> bfq.limit_depth passes word_depths[] as shallow_depth down to sbitmap core
> sbitmap_get_shallow, which uses just the number to limit the scan depth of
> each bitmap word, formula:
> scan_percentage_for_each_word = shallow_depth / (1 << sbimap->shift) * 100%
>
> That means the comments's percentiles 50%, 75%, 18%, 37% of bfq are correct.
> But after commit patch 'bfq: Fix computation of shallow depth', we use
> sbitmap.depth instead, as a example in following case:
>
> sbitmap.depth = 256, map_nr = 4, shift = 6; sbitmap_word.depth = 64.
> The resulsts of computed bfqd->word_depths[] are {128, 192, 48, 96}, and
> three of the numbers exceed core dirver's 'sbitmap_word.depth=64' limit
> nothing. Do we really don't want limit depth for such workloads, or we
> just want to bump up the percentiles to 100%?
>
Bumping to 100% would be a mistake.
Thanks,
Paolo
> Please correct me if I miss something, thanks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> block/bfq-iosched.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
> index 9e4eb0fc1c16..9e81d1052091 100644
> --- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
> +++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
> @@ -6332,13 +6332,13 @@ static unsigned int bfq_update_depths(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
> * limit 'something'.
> */
> /* no more than 50% of tags for async I/O */
> - bfqd->word_depths[0][0] = max(bt->sb.depth >> 1, 1U);
> + bfqd->word_depths[0][0] = max((1U << bt->sb.shift) >> 1, 1U);
> /*
> * no more than 75% of tags for sync writes (25% extra tags
> * w.r.t. async I/O, to prevent async I/O from starving sync
> * writes)
> */
> - bfqd->word_depths[0][1] = max((bt->sb.depth * 3) >> 2, 1U);
> + bfqd->word_depths[0][1] = max(((1U << bt->sb.shift) * 3) >> 2, 1U);
>
> /*
> * In-word depths in case some bfq_queue is being weight-
> @@ -6348,9 +6348,9 @@ static unsigned int bfq_update_depths(struct bfq_data *bfqd,
> * shortage.
> */
> /* no more than ~18% of tags for async I/O */
> - bfqd->word_depths[1][0] = max((bt->sb.depth * 3) >> 4, 1U);
> + bfqd->word_depths[1][0] = max(((1U << bt->sb.shift) * 3) >> 4, 1U);
> /* no more than ~37% of tags for sync writes (~20% extra tags) */
> - bfqd->word_depths[1][1] = max((bt->sb.depth * 6) >> 4, 1U);
> + bfqd->word_depths[1][1] = max(((1U << bt->sb.shift) * 6) >> 4, 1U);
>
> for (i = 0; i < 2; i++)
> for (j = 0; j < 2; j++)
> --
> 2.25.4
>
