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

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On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 09:35:01AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.

that would be hard to find the cost. Would this make sense?

min_t(unsigned int, bio->bi_iter.bi_size, queue_max_sectors(q) << 9)



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