Give a concrete example, a bio is throtted because of reaching bps limit. It is then dispatched to request layer after a delay. In the request layer, it is split and the split bio flagged with BIO_BPS_THROTTLED will re-enter blkthrottle. The bio with BIO_BPS_THROTTLED should not be throttled for its bytes again. However, when the bps_limit and iops_limit are both set and sq->queue is not empty, the bio will be throttled again even the tg is still within iops limit. Test scrips: cgpath=/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/test0 mkdir -p $cgpath echo "8:0 10485760" > $cgpath/blkio.throttle.write_bps_device echo "8:16 100000" > $cgpath/blkio.throttle.write_iops_device for ((i=0;i<50;i++));do fio -rw=write -direct=1 -bs=4M -iodepth=8 -size=200M -numjobs=1 \ -time_based=1 -runtime=30 -name=testt_$i -filename=testf_$i > /dev/null & echo $! > $cgpath/tasks done The output of iostat: Device: ... wMB/s ... sdb ... 3.75 ... sdb ... 2.50 ... sdb ... 3.75 ... sdb ... 2.50 ... sdb ... 3.75 ... In order to fix this problem, early throttled the bio only when sq->queue is no empty and the bio is not flagged with BIO_BPS_THROTTLED. Signed-off-by: zhoutaiyu <zhoutaiyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-throttle.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c index f4850a6..499c006 100644 --- a/block/blk-throttle.c +++ b/block/blk-throttle.c @@ -913,7 +913,8 @@ static bool tg_may_dispatch(struct throtl_grp *tg, struct bio *bio, * queued. */ BUG_ON(tg->service_queue.nr_queued[rw] && - bio != throtl_peek_queued(&tg->service_queue.queued[rw])); + bio != throtl_peek_queued(&tg->service_queue.queued[rw]) && + !bio_flagged(bio, BIO_BPS_THROTTLED)); /* If tg->bps = -1, then BW is unlimited */ if ((bps_limit == U64_MAX && iops_limit == UINT_MAX) || @@ -2201,7 +2202,7 @@ bool __blk_throtl_bio(struct bio *bio) throtl_downgrade_check(tg); throtl_upgrade_check(tg); /* throtl is FIFO - if bios are already queued, should queue */ - if (sq->nr_queued[rw]) + if (sq->nr_queued[rw] && !bio_flagged(bio, BIO_BPS_THROTTLED)) break; /* if above limits, break to queue */ -- 1.8.3.1