Re: [RFC PATCH] blk-throttle: dispatch more sync writes in block throttle layer

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Hello,

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 01:16:26PM +0800, xuejiufei wrote:
> From: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xjf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Cgroup writeback is supported since v4.2. But there exists a problem
> in the following case.
> 
> A cgroup may send both buffer and direct/sync IOs. The foreground
> thread will be stalled when periodic writeback IOs is flushed because
> the service queue in block throttle layer already has a plenty of
> writeback IOs, then foreground IOs should be enqueued with its FIFO
> policy. The current policy is dispatching 6 reads and 2 writes during
> each round, sync writes will be significantly delayed.
> 
> This patch adds another queue in block throttle. Now there are 3 queues
> in a service queue: read, sync write, async write, and we can dispatch
> more sync writes than aync writes.

We usually handle sync writes together with reads instead of
introducing a separate queue for sync writes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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