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From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>
To: "ming.lei@redhat.com" <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
	"axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>,
	"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>,
	"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	"sagi@grimberg.me" <sagi@grimberg.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] blk-mq: use EWMA to estimate congestion threshold
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:39:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1499873952.2554.5.camel@wdc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170712023028.GB13036@ming.t460p>

On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 10:30 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:25:16PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > What happens with fluid congestion boundaries, with shared tags?
>=20
> The approach in this patch should work, but the threshold may not
> be accurate in this way, one simple method is to use the average
> tag weight in EWMA, like this:
>=20
> 	sbitmap_weight() / hctx->tags->active_queues

Hello Ming,

That approach would result in a severe performance degradation. "active_que=
ues"
namely represents the number of queues against which I/O ever has been queu=
ed.
If e.g. 64 LUNs would be associated with a single SCSI host and all 64 LUNs=
 are
responding and if the queue depth would also be 64 then the approach you
proposed will reduce the effective queue depth per LUN from 64 to 1.

Bart.=

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-12 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-11 18:20 [PATCH 0/6] blk-mq: introduce congestion control Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:20 ` [PATCH 1/6] xen-blkfront: avoid to use start/stop queue Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:41   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-07-12  2:52     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:41   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-12  2:59     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-12  3:05     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-11 21:24   ` Roger Pau Monné
2017-07-12  3:12     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:20 ` [PATCH 2/6] SCSI: use blk_mq_run_hw_queues() in scsi_kick_queue() Ming Lei
2017-07-11 19:57   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-12  3:15     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-12 15:12       ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-13 10:23         ` Ming Lei
2017-07-13 17:44           ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-11 18:21 ` [PATCH 3/6] blk-mq: send the request to dispatch list if direct issue returns busy Ming Lei
2017-07-11 20:18   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-12  3:45     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:21 ` [PATCH 4/6] blk-mq: use EWMA to estimate congestion threshold Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:25   ` Jens Axboe
2017-07-12  2:30     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-12 15:39       ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2017-07-13 10:43         ` Ming Lei
2017-07-13 14:56           ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-13 15:32             ` Ming Lei
2017-07-13 17:35               ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-11 18:39   ` Jens Axboe
2017-07-12  3:20     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-11 21:02   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-12  3:43     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:21 ` [PATCH 5/6] blk-mq: introduce basic congestion control Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:21 ` [PATCH 6/6] blk-mq: unexport APIs for start/stop queues Ming Lei

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