block: annotate refault stalls from IO submission

psi tracks the time tasks wait for refaulting pages to become
uptodate, but it does not track the time spent submitting the IO. The
submission part can be significant if backing storage is contended or
when cgroup throttling (io.latency) is in effect - a lot of time is
spent in submit_bio(). In that case, we underreport memory pressure.

Annotate submit_bio() to account submission time as memory stall when
the bio is reading userspace workingset pages.

Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

2 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 24a496f5d2e2..54769659a434 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -806,6 +806,9 @@ void __bio_add_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
 
 	bio->bi_iter.bi_size += len;
 	bio->bi_vcnt++;
+
+	if (!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_WORKINGSET) && unlikely(PageWorkingset(page)))
+		bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_WORKINGSET);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__bio_add_page);
 
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 919629ce4015..834aea04718f 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <linux/blk-cgroup.h>
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 #include <linux/bpf.h>
+#include <linux/psi.h>
 
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/events/block.h>
@@ -1134,6 +1135,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(direct_make_request);
  */
 blk_qc_t submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
 {
+	bool workingset_read = false;
+	unsigned long pflags;
+	blk_qc_t ret;
+
 	if (blkcg_punt_bio_submit(bio))
 		return BLK_QC_T_NONE;
 
@@ -1152,6 +1157,8 @@ blk_qc_t submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
 		if (op_is_write(bio_op(bio))) {
 			count_vm_events(PGPGOUT, count);
 		} else {
+			if (bio_flagged(bio, BIO_WORKINGSET))
+				workingset_read = true;
 			task_io_account_read(bio->bi_iter.bi_size);
 			count_vm_events(PGPGIN, count);
 		}
@@ -1166,7 +1173,21 @@ blk_qc_t submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
 		}
 	}
 
-	return generic_make_request(bio);
+	/*
+	 * If we're reading data that is part of the userspace
+	 * workingset, count submission time as memory stall. When the
+	 * device is congested, or the submitting cgroup IO-throttled,
+	 * submission can be a significant part of overall IO time.
+	 */
+	if (workingset_read)
+		psi_memstall_enter(&pflags);
+
+	ret = generic_make_request(bio);
+
+	if (workingset_read)
+		psi_memstall_leave(&pflags);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(submit_bio);