Vivek Goyal wrote: > o It is not always that IO from a process or group is continuous. There are > cases of dependent reads where next read is not issued till previous read > has finished. For such cases, CFQ introduced the notion of slice_idle, > where we idle on the queue for sometime hoping next request will come > and that's how fairness is provided otherwise queue will be deleted > immediately from the service tree and this process will not get the > fair share. > > o This patch introduces the similar concept at group level. Idle on the group > for a period of "group_idle" which is tunable through sysfs interface. So > if a group is empty and about to be deleted, we idle for the next request. > > o This patch also introduces the notion of wait busy where we wait for one > extra group_idle period even if queue has consumed its time slice. The > reason being that group will loose its share upon removal from service > tree as some other entity will be picked for dispatch and vtime jump will > take place. > > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> -- All rights reversed. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
