[PATCH 29.5/32] blk-throttle: add throtl_qnode for dispatch fairness

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Mon May 6 16:00:06 UTC 2013


On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 05:50:44PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:

[..]
> +	 * qnode_on_self is used when bios are directly queued to this
> +	 * throtl_grp so that local bios compete fairly with bios
> +	 * dispatched from children.  qnode_on_parent is used when bios are
> +	 * dispatched from this throtl_grp into its parent and will compete
> +	 * with the sibling qnode_on_parents and the parent's
> +	 * qnode_on_self.
> +	 */
> +	struct throtl_qnode qnode_on_self;
> +	struct throtl_qnode qnode_on_parent;

Do we need one throtl_qnode for each IO dir (read/write) so that we can
queue up the right direction throtl_node in right sq->queued[rw].

Thanks
Vivek


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