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author | Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> | 2012-09-12 22:34:11 -0700 |
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committer | Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> | 2012-09-12 22:34:11 -0700 |
commit | 025c95a6826ad8acfe871f33c2fa9208beeb38df (patch) | |
tree | 220fe156ff60db13bd3a1319f5e20d6b723de5f4 /Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt | |
parent | 0558d7a8ed44e6e53aadb04d2e23145efb2aa8a4 (diff) | |
parent | 7f744b17140af1a9c8804a1c81c9dae6bb52a7fb (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'clk' of git://github.com/hzhuang1/linux into next/cleanup
* 'clk' of git://github.com/hzhuang1/linux:
ARM: mmp: remove unused definition in APBC and APMU
ARM: mmp: move mmp2 clock definition to separated file
arm: mmp: move pxa910 clock definition to separated file
arm: mmp: move pxa168 clock definition to separated file
arm: mmp: make private clock definition exclude from common clock
+ Linux 3.6-rc4
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diff --git a/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt index 6d670f570451..d89b4fe724d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +CFQ (Complete Fairness Queueing) +=============================== + +The main aim of CFQ scheduler is to provide a fair allocation of the disk +I/O bandwidth for all the processes which requests an I/O operation. + +CFQ maintains the per process queue for the processes which request I/O +operation(syncronous requests). In case of asynchronous requests, all the +requests from all the processes are batched together according to their +process's I/O priority. + CFQ ioscheduler tunables ======================== @@ -25,6 +36,72 @@ there are multiple spindles behind single LUN (Host based hardware RAID controller or for storage arrays), setting slice_idle=0 might end up in better throughput and acceptable latencies. +back_seek_max +------------- +This specifies, given in Kbytes, the maximum "distance" for backward seeking. +The distance is the amount of space from the current head location to the +sectors that are backward in terms of distance. + +This parameter allows the scheduler to anticipate requests in the "backward" +direction and consider them as being the "next" if they are within this +distance from the current head location. + +back_seek_penalty +----------------- +This parameter is used to compute the cost of backward seeking. If the +backward distance of request is just 1/back_seek_penalty from a "front" +request, then the seeking cost of two requests is considered equivalent. + +So scheduler will not bias toward one or the other request (otherwise scheduler +will bias toward front request). Default value of back_seek_penalty is 2. + +fifo_expire_async +----------------- +This parameter is used to set the timeout of asynchronous requests. Default +value of this is 248ms. + +fifo_expire_sync +---------------- +This parameter is used to set the timeout of synchronous requests. Default +value of this is 124ms. In case to favor synchronous requests over asynchronous +one, this value should be decreased relative to fifo_expire_async. + +slice_async +----------- +This parameter is same as of slice_sync but for asynchronous queue. The +default value is 40ms. + +slice_async_rq +-------------- +This parameter is used to limit the dispatching of asynchronous request to +device request queue in queue's slice time. The maximum number of request that +are allowed to be dispatched also depends upon the io priority. Default value +for this is 2. + +slice_sync +---------- +When a queue is selected for execution, the queues IO requests are only +executed for a certain amount of time(time_slice) before switching to another +queue. This parameter is used to calculate the time slice of synchronous +queue. + +time_slice is computed using the below equation:- +time_slice = slice_sync + (slice_sync/5 * (4 - prio)). To increase the +time_slice of synchronous queue, increase the value of slice_sync. Default +value is 100ms. + +quantum +------- +This specifies the number of request dispatched to the device queue. In a +queue's time slice, a request will not be dispatched if the number of request +in the device exceeds this parameter. This parameter is used for synchronous +request. + +In case of storage with several disk, this setting can limit the parallel +processing of request. Therefore, increasing the value can imporve the +performace although this can cause the latency of some I/O to increase due +to more number of requests. + CFQ IOPS Mode for group scheduling =================================== Basic CFQ design is to provide priority based time slices. Higher priority |