From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] writeback: dirty position control
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:02:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1315234979.3191.4.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110904020914.848566742@intel.com>
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 09:53 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> + * (o) bdi control lines
> + *
> + * The control lines for the global/bdi setpoints both stretch up to @limit.
> + * The below figure illustrates the main bdi control line with an auxiliary
> + * line extending it to @limit.
> + *
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o [o] main control line
> + * o [*] auxiliary control line
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o--------------------- balance point, rate scale = 1
> + * | o
> + * | o
> + * | o
> + * | o
> + * | o
> + * | o
> + * | o------- connect point, rate scale = 1/2
> + * | .*
> + * | . *
> + * | . *
> + * | . *
> + * | . *
> + * | . *
> + * | . *
> + * [--------------------+-----------------------------.--------------------*]
> + * 0 bdi_setpoint x_intercept limit
> + *
> + * The auxiliary control line allows smoothly throttling bdi_dirty down to
> + * normal if it starts high in situations like
> + * - start writing to a slow SD card and a fast disk at the same time. The SD
> + * card's bdi_dirty may rush to many times higher than bdi_setpoint.
> + * - the bdi dirty thresh drops quickly due to change of JBOD workload
In light of the global control thing already having a hard stop at
limit, what's the point of the auxiliary line? Why not simply run the
bdi control between [0.5, 1.5] and leave it at that?
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] writeback: dirty position control
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:02:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1315234979.3191.4.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110904020914.848566742@intel.com>
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 09:53 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> + * (o) bdi control lines
> + *
> + * The control lines for the global/bdi setpoints both stretch up to @limit.
> + * The below figure illustrates the main bdi control line with an auxiliary
> + * line extending it to @limit.
> + *
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o [o] main control line
> + * o [*] auxiliary control line
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o
> + * o--------------------- balance point, rate scale = 1
> + * | o
> + * | o
> + * | o
> + * | o
> + * | o
> + * | o
> + * | o------- connect point, rate scale = 1/2
> + * | .*
> + * | . *
> + * | . *
> + * | . *
> + * | . *
> + * | . *
> + * | . *
> + * [--------------------+-----------------------------.--------------------*]
> + * 0 bdi_setpoint x_intercept limit
> + *
> + * The auxiliary control line allows smoothly throttling bdi_dirty down to
> + * normal if it starts high in situations like
> + * - start writing to a slow SD card and a fast disk at the same time. The SD
> + * card's bdi_dirty may rush to many times higher than bdi_setpoint.
> + * - the bdi dirty thresh drops quickly due to change of JBOD workload
In light of the global control thing already having a hard stop at
limit, what's the point of the auxiliary line? Why not simply run the
bdi control between [0.5, 1.5] and leave it at that?
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2011-09-04 1:53 [PATCH 00/18] IO-less dirty throttling v11 Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 01/18] writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 02/18] writeback: dirty position control Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-05 15:02 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-09-05 15:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 2:10 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 2:10 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-05 15:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-05 15:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 2:43 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 2:43 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 18:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-09-06 18:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-09-08 2:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-08 2:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-12 5:44 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-12 5:44 ` Nai Xia
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 03/18] writeback: dirty rate control Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-29 11:57 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-29 11:57 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 04/18] writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 05/18] writeback: per task dirty rate limit Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 15:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 15:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 23:27 ` Jan Kara
2011-09-06 23:27 ` Jan Kara
2011-09-06 23:34 ` Jan Kara
2011-09-06 23:34 ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07 7:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 7:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 1:04 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 1:04 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 7:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 7:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 11:00 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 11:00 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 06/18] writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages() Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 12:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 12:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 2:46 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 2:46 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 07/18] writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 08/18] writeback: trace dirty_ratelimit Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 09/18] writeback: trace balance_dirty_pages Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 10/18] writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 14:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 14:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 12:31 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 12:31 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-12 10:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-12 10:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-18 14:17 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-18 14:37 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-18 14:37 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-18 14:47 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-18 14:47 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-28 14:02 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-28 14:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-28 14:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-29 3:32 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-29 3:32 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-29 8:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-29 8:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-29 11:05 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-29 11:05 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-29 12:15 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 11/18] block: add bdi flag to indicate risk of io queue underrun Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 14:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 14:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 2:37 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 2:37 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 7:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 7:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 12/18] writeback: balanced_rate cannot exceed write bandwidth Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 13/18] writeback: limit max dirty pause time Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 14:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 14:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 2:35 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 2:35 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-12 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-12 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-18 14:23 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-18 14:23 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 14/18] writeback: control " Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 15:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 15:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 2:02 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 2:02 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-12 10:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-12 10:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 15/18] writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 16:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 16:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 9:06 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 9:06 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 0:17 ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07 0:17 ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07 9:37 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 16/18] writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 17/18] writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 16:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 16:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 0:22 ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07 0:22 ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07 1:18 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 6:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-07 6:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-07 8:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 8:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 16:42 ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07 16:42 ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-07 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-08 8:51 ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-09-08 8:51 ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-09-04 1:53 ` [PATCH 18/18] btrfs: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04 1:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 13:32 ` [PATCH 00/18] IO-less dirty throttling v11 Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 13:32 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 19:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-07 19:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-28 14:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-28 14:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-29 4:11 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-29 4:11 ` Wu Fengguang
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