linux/lib
Tom Herbert 75957ba36c dql: Dynamic queue limits
Implementation of dynamic queue limits (dql).  This is a libary which
allows a queue limit to be dynamically managed.  The goal of dql is
to set the queue limit, number of objects to the queue, to be minimized
without allowing the queue to be starved.

dql would be used with a queue which has these properties:

1) Objects are queued up to some limit which can be expressed as a
   count of objects.
2) Periodically a completion process executes which retires consumed
   objects.
3) Starvation occurs when limit has been reached, all queued data has
   actually been consumed but completion processing has not yet run,
   so queuing new data is blocked.
4) Minimizing the amount of queued data is desirable.

A canonical example of such a queue would be a NIC HW transmit queue.

The queue limit is dynamic, it will increase or decrease over time
depending on the workload.  The queue limit is recalculated each time
completion processing is done.  Increases occur when the queue is
starved and can exponentially increase over successive intervals.
Decreases occur when more data is being maintained in the queue than
needed to prevent starvation.  The number of extra objects, or "slack",
is measured over successive intervals, and to avoid hysteresis the
limit is only reduced by the miminum slack seen over a configurable
time period.

dql API provides routines to manage the queue:
- dql_init is called to intialize the dql structure
- dql_reset is called to reset dynamic values
- dql_queued called when objects are being enqueued
- dql_avail returns availability in the queue
- dql_completed is called when objects have be consumed in the queue

Configuration consists of:
- max_limit, maximum limit
- min_limit, minimum limit
- slack_hold_time, time to measure instances of slack before reducing
  queue limit

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-29 12:46:19 -05:00
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lzo lib: add support for LZO-compressed kernels 2010-01-11 09:34:04 -08:00
raid6 md: Add in export.h for files using EXPORT_SYMBOL 2011-10-31 19:31:19 -04:00
reed_solomon
xz XZ: Fix incorrect XZ_BUF_ERROR 2011-09-21 13:39:59 -07:00
zlib_deflate zlib: slim down zlib_deflate() workspace when possible 2011-03-22 17:44:17 -07:00
zlib_inflate inflate_fast: sout is already a short so ptr arith was off by one. 2010-03-12 15:52:44 -08:00
.gitignore
Kconfig dql: Dynamic queue limits 2011-11-29 12:46:19 -05:00
Kconfig.debug lib/Kconfig.debug: fix help message for DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 2011-10-31 17:30:51 -07:00
Kconfig.kgdb mips,kgdb: kdb low level trap catch and stack trace 2010-05-20 21:04:26 -05:00
Kconfig.kmemcheck kmemcheck: depend on HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK 2009-07-01 22:28:44 +02:00
Makefile dql: Dynamic queue limits 2011-11-29 12:46:19 -05:00
argv_split.c tree-wide: convert open calls to remove spaces to skip_spaces() lib function 2009-12-15 08:53:32 -08:00
atomic64.c lib: atomic64: Change the type of local lock to raw_spinlock_t 2011-09-14 13:14:11 +02:00
atomic64_test.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
audit.c audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h> 2011-05-04 14:41:28 -04:00
average.c lib: Improve EWMA efficiency by using bitshifts 2010-12-06 15:58:43 -05:00
bcd.c
bch.c lib: add shared BCH ECC library 2011-03-11 14:25:50 +00:00
bitmap.c lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
bitrev.c
bsearch.c lib: Add generic binary search function to the kernel. 2011-05-19 16:55:27 +09:30
btree.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
bug.c modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
bust_spinlocks.c
check_signature.c
checksum.c lib/checksum.c: optimize do_csum a bit 2011-07-07 04:52:24 -07:00
cmdline.c
cordic.c lib: cordic: add library module providing cordic angle calculation 2011-06-03 15:01:07 -04:00
cpu-notifier-error-inject.c fault-injection: add CPU notifier error injection module 2010-05-27 09:12:48 -07:00
cpu_rmap.c lib: cpu_rmap: CPU affinity reverse-mapping 2011-01-24 14:51:56 -08:00
cpumask.c cpumask: alloc_cpumask_var() use NUMA_NO_NODE 2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
crc-ccitt.c
crc-itu-t.c
crc-t10dif.c
crc7.c
crc8.c lib: crc8: add new library module providing crc8 algorithm 2011-06-03 15:01:06 -04:00
crc16.c
crc32.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
crc32defs.h
ctype.c ctype: constify read-only _ctype string 2009-12-15 08:53:32 -08:00
debug_locks.c Revert "debug_locks: set oops_in_progress if we will log messages." 2010-11-29 15:18:28 -08:00
debugobjects.c debugobjects: Fix boot crash when kmemleak and debugobjects enabled 2011-06-20 14:38:43 +02:00
dec_and_lock.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
decompress.c decompressors: add boot-time XZ support 2011-01-13 08:03:25 -08:00
decompress_bunzip2.c Decompressors: include <linux/slab.h> in <linux/decompress/mm.h> 2011-01-13 08:03:23 -08:00
decompress_inflate.c decompressors: check input size in decompress_inflate.c 2011-01-13 08:03:25 -08:00
decompress_unlzma.c Decompressors: validate match distance in decompress_unlzma.c 2011-01-13 08:03:24 -08:00
decompress_unlzo.c Decompressors: fix callback-to-callback mode in decompress_unlzo.c 2011-01-13 08:03:24 -08:00
decompress_unxz.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
devres.c devres: fix possible use after free 2011-07-25 20:57:14 -07:00
div64.c div64_u64(): improve precision on 32bit platforms 2010-10-26 16:52:19 -07:00
dma-debug.c lib: dma-debug needs export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL 2011-10-31 19:32:23 -04:00
dump_stack.c
dynamic_debug.c Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core 2011-10-25 12:13:59 +02:00
dynamic_queue_limits.c dql: Dynamic queue limits 2011-11-29 12:46:19 -05:00
extable.c module: trim exception table on init free. 2009-06-12 21:47:04 +09:30
fault-inject.c fault-inject: export setup_fault_attr() 2011-10-26 16:32:11 -04:00
find_last_bit.c bitops: add #ifndef for each of find bitops 2011-05-26 17:12:38 -07:00
find_next_bit.c arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,BIT_LE,LAST_BIT} 2011-05-26 17:12:38 -07:00
flex_array.c flex_array: avoid divisions when accessing elements 2011-05-26 17:12:33 -07:00
gcd.c lib: add lib/gcd.c 2009-06-18 13:04:05 -07:00
gen_crc32table.c crc32: major optimization 2010-05-25 08:07:06 -07:00
genalloc.c lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless 2011-08-03 11:15:57 -04:00
halfmd4.c
hexdump.c lib: add error checking to hex2bin 2011-09-20 23:24:44 -04:00
hweight.c x86: Add optimized popcnt variants 2010-04-06 15:52:11 -07:00
idr.c ida: make ida_simple_get/put() IRQ safe 2011-11-02 16:07:00 -07:00
inflate.c MN10300: Don't try and #include <linux/slab.h> in lib/inflate.c from bootloader 2010-08-12 09:51:35 -07:00
int_sqrt.c
iomap.c iomap: make IOPORT/PCI mapping functions conditional 2011-07-22 18:46:26 +02:00
iomap_copy.c
iommu-helper.c iommu: inline iommu_num_pages 2010-08-09 20:45:05 -07:00
ioremap.c ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source POLL/IRQ/NMI notification type support 2011-01-12 03:06:19 -05:00
irq_regs.c
is_single_threaded.c kernel: is_current_single_threaded: don't use ->mmap_sem 2009-07-17 09:11:31 +10:00
kasprintf.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
klist.c
kobject.c Delay struct net freeing while there's a sysfs instance refering to it 2011-06-12 17:45:41 -04:00
kobject_uevent.c kobj_uevent: Ignore if some listeners cannot handle message 2011-08-22 18:31:24 -07:00
kref.c kref: Add a kref_sub function 2010-11-22 13:25:13 +10:00
kstrtox.c lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
kstrtox.h lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
lcm.c lib/lcm.c: quiet sparse noise 2011-07-25 20:57:15 -07:00
libcrc32c.c
list_debug.c Expand CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST to several other list operations 2011-02-18 11:32:28 -08:00
list_sort.c lib/list_sort: test: check element addresses 2010-10-26 16:52:19 -07:00
llist.c llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops 2011-10-04 12:44:03 +02:00
locking-selftest-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-mutex.h
locking-selftest-rlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock.h
locking-selftest-rsem.h
locking-selftest-softirq.h
locking-selftest-spin-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-spin-softirq.h
locking-selftest-spin.h
locking-selftest-wlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock.h
locking-selftest-wsem.h
locking-selftest.c rcu: Fix unpaired rcu_irq_enter() from locking selftests 2011-05-26 09:42:19 -07:00
lru_cache.c lru_cache: use correct type in sizeof for allocation 2011-05-25 08:39:52 -07:00
md5.c crypto: Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c 2011-08-06 18:32:45 -07:00
nlattr.c netlink: validate NLA_MSECS length 2011-11-04 17:47:34 -04:00
parser.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
percpu_counter.c lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
plist.c plist: Remove the need to supply locks to plist heads 2011-07-08 14:02:53 +02:00
prio_heap.c
prio_tree.c
proportions.c locking, lib/proportions: Annotate prop_local_percpu::lock as raw 2011-09-13 11:11:50 +02:00
radix-tree.c radix_tree: clean away saw_unset_tag leftovers 2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
random32.c Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2010-06-16 18:08:13 +02:00
ratelimit.c locking, printk: Annotate logbuf_lock as raw 2011-09-13 11:11:54 +02:00
rational.c lib/rational.c needs module.h 2010-01-11 09:34:05 -08:00
rbtree.c Export the augmented rbtree helper functions 2011-01-28 12:16:59 +10:00
reciprocal_div.c
rwsem-spinlock.c locking, rwsem: Annotate inner lock as raw 2011-09-13 11:11:59 +02:00
rwsem.c locking, rwsem: Annotate inner lock as raw 2011-09-13 11:11:59 +02:00
scatterlist.c scatterlist: prevent invalid free when alloc fails 2010-08-30 19:55:09 +02:00
sha1.c lib/sha1.c: quiet sparse noise about symbol not declared 2011-09-13 16:09:41 -07:00
show_mem.c arch, mm: filter disallowed nodes from arch specific show_mem functions 2011-05-25 08:39:03 -07:00
smp_processor_id.c sched: Wrap scheduler p->cpus_allowed access 2011-10-06 12:46:56 +02:00
sort.c
spinlock_debug.c lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
string.c lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
string_helpers.c
swiotlb.c swiotlb: Export swioltb_nr_tbl and utilize it as appropiate. 2011-06-06 15:41:16 -04:00
syscall.c
test-kstrtox.c kstrtox: fix compile warnings in test 2011-04-14 16:06:54 -07:00
textsearch.c textsearch: doc - fix spelling in lib/textsearch.c. 2011-01-24 23:33:30 -08:00
timerqueue.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
ts_bm.c
ts_fsm.c
ts_kmp.c
uuid.c Unified UUID/GUID definition 2010-05-19 22:40:47 -04:00
vsprintf.c net: introduce and use netdev_features_t for device features sets 2011-11-16 17:43:10 -05:00