Re: [PATCH] io stalls

[Nick Piggin]

Chris Mason wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 19:51, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
>>>The latency results are better, with average time spent in
>>>__get_request_wait being around 28 jiffies, and a max of 170 jiffies. 
>>>The cost is throughput, further benchmarking needs to be done but, but I
>>>wanted to get this out for review and testing.  It should at least help
>>>us decide if the request allocation code really is causing our problems.
>>>
>>>
>>Well the latency numbers are good - is this with dbench 90?
>>
>>
>
>Yes, that number was dbench 90, but dbench 50,90, and 120 gave about the
>same stats with the final patch.
>

Great.

>
>>snip
>>
>
>>>+
>>>+static inline int queue_full(request_queue_t *q, int rw)
>>>+{
>>>+	rmb();
>>>+	if (rw == READ)
>>>+		return q->read_full;
>>>+	else
>>>+		return q->write_full;
>>>+}
>>>+
>>>
>>>
>>I don't think you need the barriers here, do you?
>>
>>
>
>I put the barriers in early on when almost all the calls were done
>outside spin locks, the current flavor of the patch only does one
>clear_queue_full without the io_request_lock held.  It should be enough
>to toss a barrier in just that one spot.  But I wanted to leave them in
>so I could move things around until the final version (if there ever is
>one ;-)
>

Yeah I see.