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Luca Miccio a33801e8b4 block, bfq: move debug blkio stats behind CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
BFQ currently creates, and updates, its own instance of the whole
set of blkio statistics that cfq creates. Yet, from the comments
of Tejun Heo in [1], it turned out that most of these statistics
are meant/useful only for debugging. This commit makes BFQ create
the latter, debugging statistics only if the option
CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP is set.

By doing so, this commit also enables BFQ to enjoy a high perfomance
boost. The reason is that, if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP is not set, then
BFQ has to update far fewer statistics, and, in particular, not the
heaviest to update.  To give an idea of the benefits, if
CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP is not set, then, on an Intel i7-4850HQ, and
with 8 threads doing random I/O in parallel on null_blk (configured
with 0 latency), the throughput of BFQ grows from 310 to 400 KIOPS
(+30%). We have measured similar or even much higher boosts with other
CPUs: e.g., +45% with an ARM CortexTM-A53 Octa-core. Our results have
been obtained and can be reproduced very easily with the script in [1].

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg18943.html

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Lee Tibbert <lee.tibbert@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Luca Miccio <lucmiccio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-14 20:13:33 -07:00
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ABI This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.15 kernel cycle: 2017-11-14 17:23:44 -08:00
accounting
acpi
admin-guide Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 17:33:11 -08:00
aoe
arm
arm64
auxdisplay
backlight
blackfin
block block, bfq: move debug blkio stats behind CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 2017-11-14 20:13:33 -07:00
blockdev
bus-devices
cdrom
cgroup-v1
cma
connector
console
core-api A relatively calm cycle for the docs tree again. 2017-11-13 08:25:06 -08:00
cpu-freq cpufreq: stats: Handle the case when trans_table goes beyond PAGE_SIZE 2017-11-08 23:41:25 +01:00
cpuidle
cris
crypto crypto: doc - adapt api sample to use async. op wait 2017-11-03 22:11:23 +08:00
dev-tools
device-mapper
devicetree DeviceTree for 4.15: 2017-11-14 18:25:40 -08:00
doc-guide
driver-api SCSI misc on 20171114 2017-11-14 16:23:44 -08:00
driver-model
early-userspace
EDID
extcon
fault-injection cpu/hotplug: Get rid of CPU hotplug notifier leftovers 2017-11-13 10:03:53 +01:00
fb documentation: fb: update list of available compiled-in fonts 2017-11-08 03:39:52 -07:00
features
filesystems Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2017-11-14 14:13:11 -08:00
firmware_class
fmc
fpga
frv
gpio gpio: Move irq_valid_mask into struct gpio_irq_chip 2017-11-08 14:10:18 +01:00
gpu
hid
hwmon pmbus: Add driver for Maxim MAX31785 Intelligent Fan Controller 2017-11-05 06:06:33 -08:00
i2c
ia64
ide
iio
infiniband
input
ioctl
isdn
kbuild DeviceTree for 4.15: 2017-11-14 18:25:40 -08:00
kdump
kernel-hacking
laptops
leds Documentation: leds: Update 00-INDEX file 2017-10-23 20:17:03 +02:00
lightnvm
livepatch
locking
m68k
md md-cluster: update document for raid10 2017-11-01 21:32:25 -07:00
media
memory-devices
metag
mic
mips
misc-devices
mmc
mn10300
mtd
namespaces
netlabel
networking A relatively calm cycle for the docs tree again. 2017-11-13 08:25:06 -08:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm
nvmem
openrisc Documentation: openrisc: Updates to README 2017-10-30 21:37:53 +09:00
parisc
PCI
pcmcia
perf
phy
platform
power Power management updates for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-13 19:43:50 -08:00
powerpc
pps
process A relatively calm cycle for the docs tree again. 2017-11-13 08:25:06 -08:00
pti
ptp
rapidio
RCU Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 12:18:10 -08:00
s390
scheduler
scsi scsi: smartpqi: correct spelling error in documentation 2017-10-23 04:15:17 -04:00
security
serial
sh
sound sound updates for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-14 18:01:46 -08:00
sparc
sphinx
sphinx-static
spi
sysctl
target
thermal
timers
trace ftrace/docs: Add documentation on how to use ftrace from within the kernel 2017-11-05 09:55:29 -07:00
translations locking/barriers: Kill lockless_dereference() 2017-10-24 13:17:33 +02:00
usb
userspace-api
virtual
vm
w1
watchdog
wimax
x86 Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 19:05:19 -08:00
xtensa
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00-INDEX
atomic_bitops.txt
atomic_t.txt
bcache.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
cachetlb.txt
cgroup-v2.txt
Changes
circular-buffers.txt
clk.txt
CodingStyle
conf.py
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
DMA-API.txt
DMA-attributes.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
docutils.conf
dontdiff
efi-stub.txt
eisa.txt
errseq.rst
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcc-plugins.txt
highuid.txt
hw_random.txt
hwspinlock.txt
index.rst
intel_txt.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isa.txt
isapnp.txt
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
kobject.txt
kprobes.txt
kref.txt
ldm.txt
lockup-watchdogs.txt
logo.gif
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lsm.txt
lzo.txt
mailbox.txt
Makefile
memory-barriers.txt Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 12:38:26 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt
men-chameleon-bus.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
ntb.txt
numastat.txt
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt
pi-futex.txt
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt
pwm.txt
rbtree.txt
remoteproc.txt
rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt
rtc.txt
SAK.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
siphash.txt
SM501.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt
static-keys.txt
SubmittingPatches
svga.txt
switchtec.txt
sync_file.txt
tee.txt
this_cpu_ops.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt
vfio-mediated-device.txt
vfio.txt
video-output.txt
xillybus.txt
xz.txt
zorro.txt