Re: [PATCH for-6.12 2/2] blk-throttle: support prioritized processing of metadata

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On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 09:51:49PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, blk-throttle handle all IO fifo, hence if data IO is
> throttled and then meta IO is dispatched, the meta IO will have to wait
> for the data IO, causing priority inversion problems.
> 
> This patch support to handle metadata first and then pay debt while
> throttling data.
> 
> Test script: use cgroup v1 to throttle root cgroup, then create new
> dir and file while write back is throttled
> 
> test() {
>   mkdir /mnt/test/xxx
>   touch /mnt/test/xxx/1
>   sync /mnt/test/xxx
>   sync /mnt/test/xxx
> }
> 
> mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/nvme0n1 -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0
> mount /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt/test
> 
> echo "259:0 $((1024*1024))" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.throttle.write_bps_device
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test/foo1 bs=16M count=1 conv=fdatasync status=none &
> sleep 4
> 
> time test
> echo "259:0 0" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.throttle.write_bps_device
> 
> sleep 1
> umount /dev/nvme0n1
> 
> Test result: time cost for creating new dir and file
> before this patch:  14s
> after this patch:   0.1s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is a lot simpler than I expected. Great.

 Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun




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