On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 02:02:20PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Thank you for having run this test. I propose that users who want better > fairness than what my patch supports use an appropriate mechanism for > improving fairness (e.g. blk-iocost or blk-iolat). This leaves the choice > between maximum performance and maximum fairness to the user. Does this > sound good to you? I really don't know, I generally test with low latency devices and disable those blk services because their overhead is too high. I'm probably not the target demographic for those mechanisms. :) I just wanted to push the edge cases to see where things diverge. Perhaps Jens can weigh in on the impact and suggested remedies?