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    block: support to account io_ticks precisely · 99dc4223
    Yu Kuai authored
    Currently, io_ticks is accounted based on sampling, specifically
    update_io_ticks() will always account io_ticks by 1 jiffies from
    bdev_start_io_acct()/blk_account_io_start(), and the result can be
    inaccurate, for example(HZ is 250):
    
    Test script:
    fio -filename=/dev/sda -bs=4k -rw=write -direct=1 -name=test -thinktime=4ms
    
    Test result: util is about 90%, while the disk is really idle.
    
    This behaviour is introduced by commit 5b18b5a7 ("block: delete
    part_round_stats and switch to less precise counting"), however, there
    was a key point that is missed that this patch also improve performance
    a lot:
    
    Before the commit:
    part_round_stats:
      if (part->stamp != now)
       stats |= 1;
    
      part_in_flight()
      -> there can be lots of task here in 1 jiffies.
      part_round_stats_single()
       __part_stat_add()
      part->stamp = now;
    
    After the commit:
    update_io_ticks:
      stamp = part->bd_stamp;
      if (time_after(now, stamp))
       if (try_cmpxchg())
        __part_stat_add()
        -> only one task can reach here in 1 jiffies.
    
    Hence in order to account io_ticks precisely, we only need to know if
    there are IO inflight at most once in one jiffies. Noted that for
    rq-based device, iterating tags should not be used here because
    'tags->lock' is grabbed in blk_mq_find_and_get_req(), hence
    part_stat_lock_inc/dec() and part_in_flight() is used to trace inflight.
    The additional overhead is quite little:
    
     - per cpu add/dec for each IO for rq-based device;
     - per cpu sum for each jiffies;
    
    And it's verified by null-blk that there are no performance degration
    under heavy IO pressure.
    
    Fixes: 5b18b5a7 ("block: delete part_round_stats and switch to less precise counting")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240509123717.3223892-2-yukuai1@huaweicloud.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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