block, bfq: refactor the counting of 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs'

Currently, bfq can't handle sync io concurrently as long as they
are not issued from root group. This is because
'bfqd->num_groups_with_pending_reqs > 0' is always true in
bfq_asymmetric_scenario().

The way that bfqg is counted into 'num_groups_with_pending_reqs':

Before this patch:
 1) root group will never be counted.
 2) Count if bfqg or it's child bfqgs have pending requests.
 3) Don't count if bfqg and it's child bfqgs complete all the requests.

After this patch:
 1) root group is counted.
 2) Count if bfqg have pending requests.
 3) Don't count if bfqg complete all the requests.

With this change, the occasion that only one group is activated can be
detected, and next patch will support concurrent sync io in the
occasion.

Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220916071942.214222-4-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.h b/block/bfq-iosched.h
index 35b366eb702a..5bfb7fb3dc2b 100644
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.h
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.h
@@ -492,27 +492,27 @@ struct bfq_data {
 	struct rb_root_cached queue_weights_tree;
 
 	/*
-	 * Number of groups with at least one descendant process that
+	 * Number of groups with at least one process that
 	 * has at least one request waiting for completion. Note that
 	 * this accounts for also requests already dispatched, but not
 	 * yet completed. Therefore this number of groups may differ
 	 * (be larger) than the number of active groups, as a group is
 	 * considered active only if its corresponding entity has
-	 * descendant queues with at least one request queued. This
+	 * queues with at least one request queued. This
 	 * number is used to decide whether a scenario is symmetric.
 	 * For a detailed explanation see comments on the computation
 	 * of the variable asymmetric_scenario in the function
 	 * bfq_better_to_idle().
 	 *
 	 * However, it is hard to compute this number exactly, for
-	 * groups with multiple descendant processes. Consider a group
-	 * that is inactive, i.e., that has no descendant process with
+	 * groups with multiple processes. Consider a group
+	 * that is inactive, i.e., that has no process with
 	 * pending I/O inside BFQ queues. Then suppose that
 	 * num_groups_with_pending_reqs is still accounting for this
-	 * group, because the group has descendant processes with some
+	 * group, because the group has processes with some
 	 * I/O request still in flight. num_groups_with_pending_reqs
 	 * should be decremented when the in-flight request of the
-	 * last descendant process is finally completed (assuming that
+	 * last process is finally completed (assuming that
 	 * nothing else has changed for the group in the meantime, in
 	 * terms of composition of the group and active/inactive state of child
 	 * groups and processes). To accomplish this, an additional
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ struct bfq_data {
 	 * we resort to the following tradeoff between simplicity and
 	 * accuracy: for an inactive group that is still counted in
 	 * num_groups_with_pending_reqs, we decrement
-	 * num_groups_with_pending_reqs when the first descendant
+	 * num_groups_with_pending_reqs when the first
 	 * process of the group remains with no request waiting for
 	 * completion.
 	 *
@@ -529,12 +529,12 @@ struct bfq_data {
 	 * carefulness: to avoid multiple decrements, we flag a group,
 	 * more precisely an entity representing a group, as still
 	 * counted in num_groups_with_pending_reqs when it becomes
-	 * inactive. Then, when the first descendant queue of the
+	 * inactive. Then, when the first queue of the
 	 * entity remains with no request waiting for completion,
 	 * num_groups_with_pending_reqs is decremented, and this flag
 	 * is reset. After this flag is reset for the entity,
 	 * num_groups_with_pending_reqs won't be decremented any
-	 * longer in case a new descendant queue of the entity remains
+	 * longer in case a new queue of the entity remains
 	 * with no request waiting for completion.
 	 */
 	unsigned int num_groups_with_pending_reqs;