Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/3] The intro for QEMU disk I/O limits

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* Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2011-08-01 01:30]:
> The main goal of the patch is to effectively cap the disk I/O speed or counts of one single VM.It is only one draft, so it unavoidably has some drawbacks, if you catch them, please let me know.
> 
> The patch will mainly introduce one block I/O throttling algorithm, one timer and one block queue for each I/O limits enabled drive.
> 
> When a block request is coming in, the throttling algorithm will check if its I/O rate or counts exceed the limits; if yes, then it will enqueue to the block queue; The timer will handle the I/O requests in it.
> 
> Some available features follow as below:
> (1) global bps limit.
>     -drive bps=xxx            in bytes/s
> (2) only read bps limit
>     -drive bps_rd=xxx         in bytes/s
> (3) only write bps limit
>     -drive bps_wr=xxx         in bytes/s
> (4) global iops limit
>     -drive iops=xxx           in ios/s
> (5) only read iops limit
>     -drive iops_rd=xxx        in ios/s
> (6) only write iops limit
>     -drive iops_wr=xxx        in ios/s
> (7) the combination of some limits.
>     -drive bps=xxx,iops=xxx
> 
> Known Limitations:
> (1) #1 can not coexist with #2, #3
> (2) #4 can not coexist with #5, #6
> (3) When bps/iops limits are specified to a small value such as 511 bytes/s, this VM will hang up. We are considering how to handle this senario.
> 
> 
> Zhi Yong Wu (3):
>   v4: fix memory leaking based on ryan's feedback. 

It looks like the leak has been fixed, but I think we need to rework how
the blk-queue is using the AIOPool.  I'll reply to that patch.



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Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx
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