FROMGIT: loop: Select I/O scheduler 'none' from inside add_disk()
We noticed that the user interface of Android devices becomes very slow under memory pressure. This is because Android uses the zram driver on top of the loop driver for swapping, because under memory pressure the swap code alternates reads and writes quickly, because mq-deadline is the default scheduler for loop devices and because mq-deadline delays writes by five seconds for such a workload with default settings. Fix this by making the kernel select I/O scheduler 'none' from inside add_disk() for loop devices. This default can be overridden at any time from user space, e.g. via a udev rule. This approach has an advantage compared to changing the I/O scheduler from userspace from 'mq-deadline' into 'none', namely that synchronize_rcu() does not get called. Additionally, this patch reduces the Android boot time on my test setup with 0.5 seconds compared to configuring the loop I/O scheduler from user space. Signed-off-by:Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Bug: 194450129 (cherry picked from commit 2112f5c1 git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block/ for-5.15/block) Change-Id: I6f9579b4cd2cb22fcb5c858d4f292f1870336fdd Signed-off-by:
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@google.com>
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