Hi, while testing the read-write unfairness issues reported by Mel, I found BFQ failing to guarantee good responsiveness against heavy random sync writes in the background, i.e., multiple writers doing random writes and systematic fdatasync [1]. The failure was caused by three related bugs, because of which BFQ failed to guarantee to high-weight processes the expected fraction of the throughput. The three patches in this series fix these bugs. These fixes restore the usual BFQ service guarantees (and thus optimal responsiveness too), against the above background workload and, probably, against other similar workloads. Thanks, Paolo [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/9/957 Paolo Valente (3): block, bfq: make lookup_next_entity push up vtime on expirations block, bfq: remove direct switch to an entity in higher class block, bfq: guarantee update_next_in_service always returns an eligible entity block/bfq-iosched.c | 4 +-- block/bfq-iosched.h | 4 +-- block/bfq-wf2q.c | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) -- 2.10.0
