From 2b8bd423614c595540eaadcfbc702afe8e155e50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:07:04 +0300 Subject: block/diskstats: more accurate approximation of io_ticks for slow disks Currently io_ticks is approximated by adding one at each start and end of requests if jiffies counter has changed. This works perfectly for requests shorter than a jiffy or if one of requests starts/ends at each jiffy. If disk executes just one request at a time and they are longer than two jiffies then only first and last jiffies will be accounted. Fix is simple: at the end of request add up into io_ticks jiffies passed since last update rather than just one jiffy. Example: common HDD executes random read 4k requests around 12ms. fio --name=test --filename=/dev/sdb --rw=randread --direct=1 --runtime=30 & iostat -x 10 sdb Note changes of iostat's "%util" 8,43% -> 99,99% before/after patch: Before: Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util sdb 0,00 0,00 82,60 0,00 330,40 0,00 8,00 0,96 12,09 12,09 0,00 1,02 8,43 After: Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util sdb 0,00 0,00 82,50 0,00 330,00 0,00 8,00 1,00 12,10 12,10 0,00 12,12 99,99 Now io_ticks does not loose time between start and end of requests, but for queue-depth > 1 some I/O time between adjacent starts might be lost. For load estimation "%util" is not as useful as average queue length, but it clearly shows how often disk queue is completely empty. Fixes: 5b18b5a73760 ("block: delete part_round_stats and switch to less precise counting") Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Reviewed-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/genhd.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h index da62b44b15be..13bb51f37b3f 100644 --- a/include/linux/genhd.h +++ b/include/linux/genhd.h @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ void part_dec_in_flight(struct request_queue *q, struct hd_struct *part, void part_inc_in_flight(struct request_queue *q, struct hd_struct *part, int rw); -void update_io_ticks(struct hd_struct *part, unsigned long now); +void update_io_ticks(struct hd_struct *part, unsigned long now, bool end); /* block/genhd.c */ extern void device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk, -- cgit v1.2.3