Re: [PATCH] blk-throttle: ignore discard request size

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On 08/18/2017 09:13 AM, Shaohua Li wrote:
> discard request usually is very big and easily use all bandwidth budget
> of a cgroup. discard request size doesn't really mean the size of data
> written, so it doesn't make sense to account it into bandwidth budget.
> This patch ignores discard requests size. It makes sense to account
> discard request into iops budget though.

Some (most) devices to touch media for a discard operation, but the
cost tends to be fairly constant and independent of discard size.
Would it make sense to just treat it as a constant cost? Zero
cost seems wrong.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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