Re: [PATCH v5 02/19] block: introduce ioprio hints

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On 4/4/23 20:24, Niklas Cassel wrote:
From: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

IO priorities currently only use 6-bits of the 16-bits ioprio value: the
3-upper bits are used to define up to 8 priority classes (4 of which are
valid) and the 3 lower bits of the value are used to define a priority
level for the real-time and best-effort class.

The remaining 10-bits between the IO priority class and level are
unused, and in fact, cannot be used by the user as doing so would
either result in the value being completely ignored, or in an error
returned by ioprio_check_cap().

Use these 10-bits of an ioprio value to allow a user to specify IO
hints. An IO hint is defined as a 10-bits value, allowing up to 1023
different hints to be specified, with the value 0 being reserved as the
"no hint" case. An IO hint can apply to any IO that specifies a valid
priority class other than NONE, regardless of the IO priority level
specified.

To do so, the macros IOPRIO_PRIO_HINT() and IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE_HINT() are
introduced in include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h to respectively allow a user
to get and set a hint in an ioprio value.

To support the ATA and SCSI command duration limits feature, 7 hints
are defined: IOPRIO_HINT_DEV_DURATION_LIMIT_1 to
IOPRIO_HINT_DEV_DURATION_LIMIT_7, allowing a user to specify which
command duration limit descriptor should be applied to the commands
serving an IO. Specifying these hints has for now no effect whatsoever
if the target block devices do not support the command duration limits
feature. However, in the future, block IO schedulers can be modified to
optimize IO issuing order based on these hints, even for devices that
do not support the command duration limits feature.

Given that the 7 duration limits hints defined have no effect on any
block layer component, the actual definition of the duration limits
implied by these hints remains at the device level.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@xxxxxxx>
---
  include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes




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