Re: blkcg throttle settings page cache writes

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Hello,

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:25:49AM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> Hello,
> So Tejun, my question is what is the problem for the blkcg information
> to be transferred alongside the bio (which I believed to be happening
> with the blkcg_association calls) so that even buffered writes are
> throttled via the cgroup policies? Or are the numbers I'm seeing in
> iostat actually the writes to the page-cache and not the underlying
> block device?

You gotta use cgroup v2 for that.  Controlling buffered writes
requires coordination between memory and io controllers which isn't
possible with cgroup v1.

Thanks.

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tejun
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