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From: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
To: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] kiothrottled: throttle buffered (writeback) IO
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:53:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F01E8F.80807@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240090712-1058-6-git-send-email-righi.andrea-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

Andrea Righi wrote:
> Together with cgroup_io_throttle() the kiothrottled kernel thread
> represents the core of the io-throttle subsystem.
> 
> All the writeback IO requests that need to be throttled are not
> dispatched immediately in submit_bio(). Instead, they are added into an
> rbtree by iothrottle_make_request() and processed asynchronously by
> kiothrottled.
> 
> A deadline is associated to each request depending on the bandwidth
> usage of the cgroup it belongs. When a request is inserted into the
> rbtree kiothrottled is awakened. This thread selects all the requests
> with an expired deadline and submit the bunch of selected requests to
> the underlying block devices using generic_make_request().

  Hi Andrea,

  What if an user issues "sync", will the bios still be buffered in the rb-tree?
  Do we need to flush the whole tree?

-- 
Regards
Gui Jianfeng

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-23  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1240090712-1058-1-git-send-email-righi.andrea@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <1240090712-1058-1-git-send-email-righi.andrea-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-18 21:38   ` [PATCH 1/7] io-throttle documentation Andrea Righi
2009-04-18 21:38   ` [PATCH 2/7] res_counter: introduce ratelimiting attributes Andrea Righi
2009-04-18 21:38   ` [PATCH 3/7] page_cgroup: provide a generic page tracking infrastructure Andrea Righi
2009-04-18 21:38   ` [PATCH 4/7] io-throttle controller infrastructure Andrea Righi
2009-04-18 21:38   ` [PATCH 5/7] kiothrottled: throttle buffered (writeback) IO Andrea Righi
2009-04-18 21:38   ` [PATCH 6/7] io-throttle instrumentation Andrea Righi
2009-04-18 21:38   ` [PATCH 7/7] export per-task io-throttle statistics to userspace Andrea Righi
     [not found] ` <1240090712-1058-5-git-send-email-righi.andrea@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <1240090712-1058-5-git-send-email-righi.andrea-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-20 17:59     ` [PATCH 4/7] io-throttle controller infrastructure Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]   ` <20090420175904.GD6822@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
     [not found]     ` <20090420175904.GD6822-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-20 21:22       ` Andrea Righi
     [not found]     ` <20090420212225.GA5819@linux>
2009-04-21  4:15       ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]       ` <20090421041524.GB6939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
     [not found]         ` <20090421041524.GB6939-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-21 12:58           ` Andrea Righi
     [not found]         ` <20090421125829.GD13699@linux>
2009-04-21 14:03           ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found] ` <1240090712-1058-3-git-send-email-righi.andrea@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <1240090712-1058-3-git-send-email-righi.andrea-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-21  0:15     ` [PATCH 2/7] res_counter: introduce ratelimiting attributes KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-04-21 10:13     ` Balbir Singh
     [not found]   ` <20090421091534.971f676f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
     [not found]     ` <20090421091534.971f676f.kamezawa.hiroyu-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-21  9:55       ` Andrea Righi
     [not found]     ` <20090421095525.GA13699@linux>
2009-04-21 10:16       ` Balbir Singh
2009-04-21 10:19       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
     [not found]       ` <20090421101659.GF19637@balbir.in.ibm.com>
     [not found]         ` <20090421101659.GF19637-SINUvgVNF2CyUtPGxGje5AC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-21 14:17           ` Andrea Righi
     [not found]   ` <20090421101326.GE19637@balbir.in.ibm.com>
     [not found]     ` <20090421101326.GE19637-SINUvgVNF2CyUtPGxGje5AC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-21 11:16       ` Andrea Righi
     [not found] ` <1240090712-1058-6-git-send-email-righi.andrea@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <1240090712-1058-6-git-send-email-righi.andrea-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-23  7:53     ` Gui Jianfeng [this message]
     [not found]       ` <49F01E8F.80807-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-23 10:25         ` [PATCH 5/7] kiothrottled: throttle buffered (writeback) IO Andrea Righi
     [not found]       ` <20090423102551.GB16768@linux>
2009-04-24  6:36         ` Gui Jianfeng
     [not found] ` <1240090712-1058-4-git-send-email-righi.andrea@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <1240090712-1058-4-git-send-email-righi.andrea-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-24  2:11     ` [PATCH 3/7] page_cgroup: provide a generic page tracking infrastructure Gui Jianfeng
     [not found]   ` <49F11FBD.3070705@cn.fujitsu.com>
     [not found]     ` <49F11FBD.3070705-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-24  8:31       ` Andrea Righi
     [not found]     ` <20090424083116.GB8535@linux>
2009-04-24  9:14       ` Gui Jianfeng
     [not found]       ` <49F1830F.8020609@cn.fujitsu.com>
     [not found]         ` <49F1830F.8020609-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-26 17:19           ` Andrea Righi
     [not found] <1241350583-9871-1-git-send-email-righi.andrea@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <1241350583-9871-1-git-send-email-righi.andrea-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-05-03 11:36   ` [PATCH 5/7] kiothrottled: throttle buffered (writeback) IO Andrea Righi

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