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Christian Loehle authored
DM delay's current design of using timers and wq to realize the delays is insufficient for delays below ~50ms. This commit enhances the design to use a kthread to flush the expired delays, trading some CPU time (in some cases) for better delay accuracy and delays closer to what the user requested for smaller delays. The new design is chosen as long as all the delays are below 50ms. Since bios can't be completed in interrupt context using a kthread is probably the most reasonable way to approach this. Testing with echo "0 2097152 zero" | dmsetup create dm-zeros for i in $(seq 0 20); do echo "0 2097152 delay /dev/mapper/dm-zeros 0 $i" | dmsetup create dm-delay-${i}ms; done Some performance numbers for comparison, on beaglebone black (single core) CONFIG_HZ_1000=y: fio --name=1msread --rw=randread --bs=4k --runtime=60 --time_based \ --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-1ms Theoretical maximum: 1000 IOPS Previous: 250 IOPS Kthread: 500 IOPS fio --name=10msread --rw=randread --bs=4k --runtime=60 --time_based \ --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-10ms Theoretical maximum: 100 IOPS Previous: 45 IOPS Kthread: 50 IOPS fio --name=1mswrite --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --bs=4k --runtime=60 \ --time_based --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-1ms Theoretical maximum: 1000 IOPS Previous: 498 IOPS Kthread: 1000 IOPS fio --name=10mswrite --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --bs=4k --runtime=60 \ --time_based --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-10ms Theoretical maximum: 100 IOPS Previous: 90 IOPS Kthread: 100 IOPS (This one is just to prove the new design isn't impacting throughput, not really about delays): fio --name=10mswriteasync --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --bs=4k \ --runtime=60 --time_based --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-10ms \ --numjobs=32 --iodepth=64 --ioengine=libaio --group_reporting Previous: 13.3k IOPS Kthread: 13.3k IOPS Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com> [Harshit: kthread_create error handling fix in delay_ctr] Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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