Re: [PATCH 0/9] Improve I/O priority support

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On 2021/5/27 2:25 PM, Wang Jianchao wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2021/5/27 9:01 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> Hi Jens,
>>
>> A feature that is missing from the Linux kernel for storage devices that
>> support I/O priorities is to set the I/O priority in requests involving page
>> cache writeback. Since the identity of the process that triggers page cache
>> writeback is not known in the writeback code, the priority set by ioprio_set()
>> is ignored. However, an I/O cgroup is associated with writeback requests
>> by certain filesystems. Hence this patch series that implements the following
>> changes for the mq-deadline scheduler:
> Hi Bart
> 
> How about implement this feature based on the rq-qos framework ?
> Maybe it is better to make mq-deadline a pure io-scheduler.

In addition, it is more flexible to combine different io-scheduler and rq-qos policy
if we take io priority as a new policy ;)

> 
> Best regards
> Jianchao
> 
>> * Make the I/O priority configurable per I/O cgroup.
>> * Change the I/O priority of requests to the lower of (request I/O priority,
>>   cgroup I/O priority).
>> * Introduce one queue per I/O priority in the mq-deadline scheduler.
>>
>> Please consider this patch series for kernel v5.14.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bart.
>>
>> Bart Van Assche (9):
>>   block/mq-deadline: Add several comments
>>   block/mq-deadline: Add two lockdep_assert_held() statements
>>   block/mq-deadline: Remove two local variables
>>   block/mq-deadline: Rename dd_init_queue() and dd_exit_queue()
>>   block/mq-deadline: Improve compile-time argument checking
>>   block/mq-deadline: Reduce the read expiry time for non-rotational
>>     media
>>   block/mq-deadline: Reserve 25% of tags for synchronous requests
>>   block/mq-deadline: Add I/O priority support
>>   block/mq-deadline: Add cgroup support
>>
>>  block/Kconfig.iosched      |   6 +
>>  block/Makefile             |   1 +
>>  block/mq-deadline-cgroup.c | 206 +++++++++++++++
>>  block/mq-deadline-cgroup.h |  73 ++++++
>>  block/mq-deadline.c        | 524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>  5 files changed, 695 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 block/mq-deadline-cgroup.c
>>  create mode 100644 block/mq-deadline-cgroup.h
>>



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