On Sun 06-02-11 19:54:37, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 02/04/2011 03:38 AM, Jan Kara wrote: > > The basic idea (implemented in the third patch) is that processes throttled > > in balance_dirty_pages() wait for enough IO to complete. The waiting is > > implemented as follows: Whenever we decide to throttle a task in > > balance_dirty_pages(), task adds itself to a list of tasks that are throttled > > against that bdi and goes to sleep waiting to receive specified amount of page > > IO completions. Once in a while (currently HZ/10, in patch 5 the interval is > > autotuned based on observed IO rate), accumulated page IO completions are > > distributed equally among waiting tasks. > > > > This waiting scheme has been chosen so that waiting time in > > balance_dirty_pages() is proportional to > > number_waited_pages * number_of_waiters. > > In particular it does not depend on the total number of pages being waited for, > > thus providing possibly a fairer results. > > > > I gave the patches some basic testing (multiple parallel dd's to a single > > drive) and they seem to work OK. The dd's get equal share of the disk > > throughput (about 10.5 MB/s, which is nice result given the disk can do > > about 87 MB/s when writing single-threaded), and dirty limit does not get > > exceeded. Of course much more testing needs to be done but I hope it's fine > > for the first posting :). > > So what is the disposition of Wu's patches in light of these ones? > * Do they replace Wu's, or Wu's just get rebased ontop of these at a > later stage? They are meant as a replacement. > * Did you find any hard problems with Wu's patches that delay them for > a long time? Wu himself wrote that the current patchset probably won't fly because it fluctuates too much. So he decided to try to rewrite patches from per-bdi limits to global limits when he has time... > * Some of the complicated stuff in Wu's patches are the statistics and > rate control mechanics. Are these the troubled area? Because some of > these are actually some things that I'm interested in, and that appeal > to me the most. Basically yes, this logic seems to be the problematic one. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>