Hi Vivek, > How does your ioband setup looks like. Have you created at least one more > competing ioband device? Because I think only in that case you have got > this ad-hoc logic of waiting for the group which has not finished the > tokens yet and you will end up buffering the bio in a FIFO. I created two ioband devices and ran the dd commands only on the first device. > Do let me know if you think there is something wrong with my > configuration. >From a quick look at your configuration, there seems to be no problem. > Can you also send bio-cgroup patches which apply to 2.6.30-rc1 so that > I can do testing for async writes. I've just posted the patches to related mailing lists. Please try it. > Why have you split the regular patch and bio-cgroup patch? Do you want > to address only reads and sync writes? For the first step, my goal is to merge dm-ioband into device-mapper, and bio-cgroup is not necessary for all situations such as bandwidth control on a per partition basis. I'll also try to do more test and report you back. Thank you for your help, Ryo Tsuruta -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel