Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751617AbbESU46 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2015 16:56:58 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f178.google.com ([209.85.223.178]:36145 "EHLO mail-ie0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750956AbbESU4z (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2015 16:56:55 -0400 From: Tahsin Erdogan To: Jens Axboe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tahsin Erdogan Subject: [PATCH] block: Make CFQ default to IOPS mode on SSDs Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 13:55:21 -0700 Message-Id: <1432068921-17184-1-git-send-email-tahsin@google.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2455 Lines: 60 CFQ idling causes reduced IOPS throughput on non-rotational disks. Since disk head seeking is not applicable to SSDs, it doesn't really help performance by anticipating future near-by IO requests. By turning off idling (and switching to IOPS mode), we allow other processes to dispatch IO requests down to the driver and so increase IO throughput. Following FIO benchmark results were taken on a cloud SSD offering with idling on and off: Idling iops avg-lat(ms) stddev bw ------------------------------------------------------ On 7054 90.107 38.697 28217KB/s Off 29255 21.836 11.730 117022KB/s fio --name=temp --size=100G --time_based --ioengine=libaio \ --randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --verify=0 \ --verify_fatal=0 --rw=randread --blocksize=4k --group_reporting=1 \ --filename=/dev/sdb --runtime=10 --iodepth=64 --numjobs=10 And the following is from a local SSD run: Idling iops avg-lat(ms) stddev bw ------------------------------------------------------ On 19320 33.043 14.068 77281KB/s Off 21626 29.465 12.662 86507KB/s fio --name=temp --size=5G --time_based --ioengine=libaio \ --randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --verify=0 \ --verify_fatal=0 --rw=randread --blocksize=4k --group_reporting=1 \ --filename=/fio_data --runtime=10 --iodepth=64 --numjobs=10 Reviewed-by: Nauman Rafique Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan --- block/cfq-iosched.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c index 5da8e6e..402be01 100644 --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c @@ -4460,7 +4460,7 @@ static int cfq_init_queue(struct request_queue *q, struct elevator_type *e) cfqd->cfq_slice[1] = cfq_slice_sync; cfqd->cfq_target_latency = cfq_target_latency; cfqd->cfq_slice_async_rq = cfq_slice_async_rq; - cfqd->cfq_slice_idle = cfq_slice_idle; + cfqd->cfq_slice_idle = blk_queue_nonrot(q) ? 0 : cfq_slice_idle; cfqd->cfq_group_idle = cfq_group_idle; cfqd->cfq_latency = 1; cfqd->hw_tag = -1; -- 2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/