[PATCH] Update cfq io scheduler to time sliced design

This updates the CFQ io scheduler to the new time sliced design (cfq
v3).  It provides full process fairness, while giving excellent
aggregate system throughput even for many competing processes.  It
supports io priorities, either inherited from the cpu nice value or set
directly with the ioprio_get/set syscalls.  The latter closely mimic
set/getpriority.

This import is based on my latest from -mm.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 87 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ioprio.h b/include/linux/ioprio.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7811300d88ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/ioprio.h
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+#ifndef IOPRIO_H
+#define IOPRIO_H
+
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+
+/*
+ * Gives us 8 prio classes with 13-bits of data for each class
+ */
+#define IOPRIO_BITS		(16)
+#define IOPRIO_CLASS_SHIFT	(13)
+#define IOPRIO_PRIO_MASK	((1UL << IOPRIO_CLASS_SHIFT) - 1)
+
+#define IOPRIO_PRIO_CLASS(mask)	((mask) >> IOPRIO_CLASS_SHIFT)
+#define IOPRIO_PRIO_DATA(mask)	((mask) & IOPRIO_PRIO_MASK)
+
+#define ioprio_valid(mask)	(IOPRIO_PRIO_CLASS((mask)) != IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE)
+
+/*
+ * These are the io priority groups as implemented by CFQ. RT is the realtime
+ * class, it always gets premium service. BE is the best-effort scheduling
+ * class, the default for any process. IDLE is the idle scheduling class, it
+ * is only served when no one else is using the disk.
+ */
+enum {
+	IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE,
+	IOPRIO_CLASS_RT,
+	IOPRIO_CLASS_BE,
+	IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE,
+};
+
+/*
+ * 8 best effort priority levels are supported
+ */
+#define IOPRIO_BE_NR	(8)
+
+asmlinkage int sys_ioprio_set(int, int, int);
+asmlinkage int sys_ioprio_get(int, int);
+
+enum {
+	IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS = 1,
+	IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP,
+	IOPRIO_WHO_USER,
+};
+
+/*
+ * if process has set io priority explicitly, use that. if not, convert
+ * the cpu scheduler nice value to an io priority
+ */
+#define IOPRIO_NORM	(4)
+static inline int task_ioprio(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	WARN_ON(!ioprio_valid(task->ioprio));
+	return IOPRIO_PRIO_DATA(task->ioprio);
+}
+
+static inline int task_nice_ioprio(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	return (task_nice(task) + 20) / 5;
+}
+
+/*
+ * For inheritance, return the highest of the two given priorities
+ */
+static inline int ioprio_best(unsigned short aprio, unsigned short bprio)
+{
+	unsigned short aclass = IOPRIO_PRIO_CLASS(aprio);
+	unsigned short bclass = IOPRIO_PRIO_CLASS(bprio);
+
+	if (!ioprio_valid(aprio))
+		return bprio;
+	if (!ioprio_valid(bprio))
+		return aprio;
+
+	if (aclass == IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE)
+		aclass = IOPRIO_CLASS_BE;
+	if (bclass == IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE)
+		bclass = IOPRIO_CLASS_BE;
+
+	if (aclass == bclass)
+		return min(aprio, bprio);
+	if (aclass > bclass)
+		return bprio;
+	else
+		return aprio;
+}
+
+#endif