block/diskstats: more accurate approximation of io_ticks for slow disks

Currently io_ticks is approximated by adding one at each start and end of
requests if jiffies counter has changed. This works perfectly for requests
shorter than a jiffy or if one of requests starts/ends at each jiffy.

If disk executes just one request at a time and they are longer than two
jiffies then only first and last jiffies will be accounted.

Fix is simple: at the end of request add up into io_ticks jiffies passed
since last update rather than just one jiffy.

Example: common HDD executes random read 4k requests around 12ms.

fio --name=test --filename=/dev/sdb --rw=randread --direct=1 --runtime=30 &
iostat -x 10 sdb

Note changes of iostat's "%util" 8,43% -> 99,99% before/after patch:

Before:

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
sdb               0,00     0,00   82,60    0,00   330,40     0,00     8,00     0,96   12,09   12,09    0,00   1,02   8,43

After:

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
sdb               0,00     0,00   82,50    0,00   330,00     0,00     8,00     1,00   12,10   12,10    0,00  12,12  99,99

Now io_ticks does not loose time between start and end of requests, but
for queue-depth > 1 some I/O time between adjacent starts might be lost.

For load estimation "%util" is not as useful as average queue length,
but it clearly shows how often disk queue is completely empty.

Fixes: 5b18b5a73760 ("block: delete part_round_stats and switch to less precise counting")
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 209715765a7a..68f65ef2ceba 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1768,14 +1768,14 @@ defer:
 	schedule_work(&bio_dirty_work);
 }
 
-void update_io_ticks(struct hd_struct *part, unsigned long now)
+void update_io_ticks(struct hd_struct *part, unsigned long now, bool end)
 {
 	unsigned long stamp;
 again:
 	stamp = READ_ONCE(part->stamp);
 	if (unlikely(stamp != now)) {
 		if (likely(cmpxchg(&part->stamp, stamp, now) == stamp)) {
-			__part_stat_add(part, io_ticks, 1);
+			__part_stat_add(part, io_ticks, end ? now - stamp : 1);
 		}
 	}
 	if (part->partno) {
@@ -1791,7 +1791,7 @@ void generic_start_io_acct(struct request_queue *q, int op,
 
 	part_stat_lock();
 
-	update_io_ticks(part, jiffies);
+	update_io_ticks(part, jiffies, false);
 	part_stat_inc(part, ios[sgrp]);
 	part_stat_add(part, sectors[sgrp], sectors);
 	part_inc_in_flight(q, part, op_is_write(op));
@@ -1809,7 +1809,7 @@ void generic_end_io_acct(struct request_queue *q, int req_op,
 
 	part_stat_lock();
 
-	update_io_ticks(part, now);
+	update_io_ticks(part, now, true);
 	part_stat_add(part, nsecs[sgrp], jiffies_to_nsecs(duration));
 	part_stat_add(part, time_in_queue, duration);
 	part_dec_in_flight(q, part, op_is_write(req_op));