[PATCH] cfq-iosched: Detect idle process issuing async request
If we are anticipating a sync request from this process and we are
waiting for that and see an async request come in, expire that slice
and move on.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index d582433..93ba546 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -1747,14 +1747,24 @@
cfqq->next_crq = cfq_choose_req(cfqd, cfqq->next_crq, crq);
+ cic = crq->io_context;
+
/*
* we never wait for an async request and we don't allow preemption
* of an async request. so just return early
*/
- if (!cfq_crq_is_sync(crq))
+ if (!cfq_crq_is_sync(crq)) {
+ /*
+ * sync process issued an async request, if it's waiting
+ * then expire it and kick rq handling.
+ */
+ if (cic == cfqd->active_cic &&
+ del_timer(&cfqd->idle_slice_timer)) {
+ cfq_slice_expired(cfqd, 0);
+ cfq_start_queueing(cfqd, cfqq);
+ }
return;
-
- cic = crq->io_context;
+ }
cfq_update_io_thinktime(cfqd, cic);
cfq_update_io_seektime(cfqd, cic, crq);