tree 55b2dcd151cd40b622c2c5e41d29d6cb1f38960e
parent 93fdf1478aaba6c397ba54f4cc534bf5019831b4
author Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> 1467097441 +0200
committer Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> 1467123708 -0600

cfq-iosched: Fix regression in bonnie++ rewrite performance

Commit 9a7f38c42c2 (cfq-iosched: Convert from jiffies to nanoseconds)
broke the condition for detecting starved sync IO in
cfq_completed_request() because rq->start_time remained in jiffies but
we compared it with nanosecond values. This manifested as a regression
in bonnie++ rewrite performance because we always ended up considering
sync IO starved and thus never increased async IO queue depth.

Since rq->start_time is used in a lot of places, converting it to ns
values would be non-trivial. So just revert the condition in CFQ to use
comparison with jiffies. This will lead to suboptimal results if
cfq_fifo_expire[1] will ever come close to 1 jiffie but so far we are
relatively far from that with the storage used with CFQ (the default
value is 128 ms).

Fixes: 9a7f38c42c2b92391d9dabaf9f51df7cfe5608e4
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>