[RFC] writeback and cgroup
Tejun Heo
tj at kernel.org
Thu Apr 5 16:31:13 UTC 2012
Hey, Vivek.
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 04:18:16PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Hey how about reconsidering my other proposal for which I had posted
> the patches. And that is keep throttling still at device level. Reads
> and direct IO get throttled asynchronously but buffered writes get
> throttled synchronously.
>
> Advantages of this scheme.
>
> - There are no separate knobs.
>
> - All the IO (read, direct IO and buffered write) is controlled using
> same set of knobs and goes in queue of same cgroup.
>
> - Writeback logic has no knowledge of throttling. It just invokes a
> hook into throttling logic of device queue.
>
> I guess this is a hybrid of active writeback throttling and back pressure
> mechanism.
>
> But it still does not solve the NFS issue as well as for direct IO,
> filesystems still can get serialized, so metadata issue still needs to
> be resolved. So one can argue that why not go for full "back pressure"
> method, despite it being more complex.
>
> Here is the link, just to refresh the memory. Something to keep in mind
> while assessing alternatives.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/28/243
Hmmm... so, this only works for blk-throttle and not with the weight.
How do you manage interaction between buffered writes and direct
writes for the same cgroup?
Thanks.
--
tejun
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