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[PATCH 2/4] blk-iocost: charge zone appends as page-counted sequential writes

From: Tao Cui <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-08 02:22:06
Also in: linux-block, lkml
Subsystem: block layer, control group - block io controller (blkio), the rest · Maintainers: Jens Axboe, Tejun Heo, Josef Bacik, Linus Torvalds

From: Tao Cui <redacted>

Zone append is a primary write operation for zoned devices; zoned
btrfs and f2fs use it for data writes.  It is priced at zero, so the
zone append portion of zoned workloads runs outside the controller:
a 1%-weight cgroup issued 16000 appends at zero cost on a zoned
null_blk.

A zone append advances the zone write pointer and is therefore
sequential from the device's perspective; the actual sector is only
returned after completion, so the cursor-based seq/rand
classification doesn't apply.  Price it as a page-counted sequential
write.  After this patch, 16000 appends from the same cgroup are
charged 533264 usec (33us per append).

Also skip the cursor update for ZA bios: bi_sector is the zone
start, not the actual write position (which is only returned after
completion).  Setting the cursor from ZA would misclassify subsequent
READ/WRITE bios.

Fixes: 7caa47151ab2 ("blkcg: implement blk-iocost")
Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <redacted>
---
 block/blk-iocost.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-iocost.c b/block/blk-iocost.c
index abc512532ed9..d7860ec1ad49 100644
--- a/block/blk-iocost.c
+++ b/block/blk-iocost.c
@@ -2557,6 +2557,17 @@ static void calc_vtime_cost_builtin(struct bio *bio, struct ioc_gq *iocg,
 		coef_randio	= ioc->params.lcoefs[LCOEF_WRANDIO];
 		coef_page	= ioc->params.lcoefs[LCOEF_WPAGE];
 		break;
+	case REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND:
+		/*
+		 * A zone append advances the zone write pointer and is
+		 * therefore sequential from the device's perspective, so
+		 * the cursor-based classification below doesn't apply.
+		 * Compute the full cost here.
+		 */
+		if (!is_merge)
+			cost += ioc->params.lcoefs[LCOEF_WSEQIO];
+		cost += pages * ioc->params.lcoefs[LCOEF_WPAGE];
+		goto out;
 	default:
 		goto out;
 	}
@@ -2717,7 +2728,9 @@ static void ioc_rqos_throttle(struct rq_qos *rqos, struct bio *bio)
 	if (!iocg_activate(iocg, &now))
 		return;
 
-	iocg->cursor = bio_end_sector(bio);
+	/* ZA bi_sector is zone start, not the write position */
+	if (bio_op(bio) != REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND)
+		iocg->cursor = bio_end_sector(bio);
 	vtime = atomic64_read(&iocg->vtime);
 	cost = adjust_inuse_and_calc_cost(iocg, vtime, abs_cost, &now);
 
-- 
2.43.0
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