Hi Vivek, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ryo, > > I decided to play a bit more with dm-ioband and started doing some > testing. I am doing a simple two dd threads doing reads and don't seem > to be gettting the fairness. So thought will ask you what's the issue > here. Is there an issue with my testing procedure. Thank you for testing dm-ioband. dm-ioband is designed to start throttling bandwidth when multiple IO requests are issued to devices simultaneously, IOW, to start throttling when IO load exceeds a certain level. Here is my test script that runs multiple dd threads on each directory. Each directory stores 20 files of 2GB. #!/bin/sh tmout=60 for nr_threads in 1 4 8 12 16 20; do sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches for i in $(seq $nr_threads); do dd if=/mnt1/ioband1.${i}.0 of=/dev/null & dd if=/mnt2/ioband2.${i}.0 of=/dev/null & done iostat -k 1 $tmout > ${nr_threads}.log killall -ws TERM dd done exit 0 Here is the result. The average throughputs of each device are according to the proportion of the weight settings when the number of thread is over four. Average thoughput in 60 seconds [KB/s] ioband1 ioband2 threads weight 200 weight 100 total 1 26642 (54.9%) 21925 (45.1%) 48568 4 33974 (67.7%) 16181 (32.3%) 50156 8 31952 (66.2%) 16297 (33.8%) 48249 12 32062 (67.8%) 15236 (32.2%) 47299 16 31780 (67.7%) 15165 (32.3%) 46946 20 29955 (66.3%) 15239 (33.7%) 45195 Please try to run the above script on your envirionment and I would be glad if you let me know the result. Thanks, Ryo Tsuruta -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel