On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/09/2012 01:31 AM, S, Venkatraman wrote: > >> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 05/03/2012 11:22 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: >>> >>>> Standard eMMC (Embedded MultiMedia Card) specification expects to execute >>>> one request at a time. If some requests are more important than others, they >>>> can't be aborted while the flash procedure is in progress. >>>> >>>> New versions of the eMMC standard (4.41 and above) specfies a feature >>>> called High Priority Interrupt (HPI). This enables an ongoing transaction >>>> to be aborted using a special command (HPI command) so that the card is ready >>>> to receive new commands immediately. Then the new request can be submitted >>>> to the card, and optionally the interrupted command can be resumed again. >>>> >>>> Some restrictions exist on when and how the command can be used. For example, >>>> only write and write-like commands (ERASE) can be preempted, and the urgent >>>> request must be a read. >>>> >>>> In order to support this in software, >>>> a) At the top level, some policy decisions have to be made on what is >>>> worth preempting for. >>>> This implementation uses the demand paging requests and swap >>>> read requests as potential reads worth preempting an ongoing long write. >>>> This is expected to provide improved responsiveness for smarphones >>>> with multitasking capabilities - example would be launch a email application >>>> while a video capture session (which causes long writes) is ongoing. >>> >>> >>> Do you have a number to prove it's really big effective? >> >> What type of benchmarks would be appropriate to post ? >> As you know, the response time of a card would vary depending on >> whether the flash device >> has enough empty blocks to write into and doesn't have to resort to GC during >> write requests. >> Macro benchmarks like iozone etc would be inappropriate here, as they won't show >> the latency effects of individual write requests hung up doing page >> reclaim, which happens >> once in a while. > > > We don't have such special benchmark so you need time to think how to prove it. > IMHO, you can use run-many-x-apps.sh which checks elapsed time to activate programs > by posting by Wu long time ago. > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg09653.html > > Of course, your eMMC is used above 80~90% for triggering GC stress and > your memory should be used up by dirty pages to happen reclaim. > > >>> >>> What I have a concern is when we got low memory situation. >>> Then, writing speed for page reclaim is important for response. >>> If we allow read preempt write and write is delay, it means read path takes longer time to >>> get a empty buffer pages in reclaim. In such case, it couldn't be good. >>> >> >> I agree. But when writes are delayed anyway as it exceeds >> hpi_time_threshold (the window >> available for invoking HPI), it means that the device is in GC mode >> and either read or write >> could be equally delayed. Note that even in case of interrupting a >> write, a single block write >> (which usually is too short to be interrupted, as designed) is >> sufficient for doing a page reclaim, >> and further write requests (including multiblock) would not be subject >> to HPI, as they will >> complete within the average time. > > > My point is that it would be better for read to not preempt write-for-page_reclaim. > And we can identify it by PG_reclaim. You can get the idea. > > Anyway, HPI is only feature of a device of many storages and you are requiring modification > of generic layers although it's not big. So for getting justification and attracting many > core guys(MM,FS,BLOCK), you should provide data at least. > Hi Kim, Apologies for a delayed response. I am studying your suggestions and will get back with some changes and also some profiling data. Regards, Venkat. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
