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* [RFC] Block IO Controller V3
@ 2009-11-13 17:39 Vivek Goyal
  2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 01/16] blkio: Introduce the notion of cfq groups Vivek Goyal
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  0 siblings, 17 replies; 25+ messages in thread
From: Vivek Goyal @ 2009-11-13 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, jens.axboe
  Cc: nauman, dpshah, lizf, ryov, fernando, s-uchida, taka, guijianfeng,
	jmoyer, balbir, righi.andrea, m-ikeda, vgoyal, akpm, riel,
	kamezawa.hiroyu, czoccolo

Hi Jens,

This is V3 of the Block IO controller patches on top of "for-2.6.33" branch
of block tree.

A consolidated patch can be found here:

http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/io-controller/blkio-controller/blkio-controller-v3.patch

Changed from V2:
- Made group target latency calculations in proportion to group weight
  instead of evenly dividing the slice among all the groups.

- Modified cfq_rb_first() to check "count" and return NULL if service tree
  is empty.

- Did some reshuffling in patch order. Moved Documentation patch to the end.
  Also moved group idling patch down the order.

- Fixed the "slice_end" issue raised by Gui during slice usage calculation.
  
Changes from V1:

- Rebased the patches for "for-2.6.33" branch. 
- Currently dropped the support for priority class of groups. For the time
  being only BE class groups are supported.
 
After the discussions at IO minisummit at Tokyo, Japan, it was agreed that
one single IO control policy at either leaf nodes or at higher level nodes
does not meet all the requirements and we need something so that we have
the capability to support more than one IO control policy (like proportional
weight division and max bandwidth control) and also have capability to
implement some of these policies at higher level logical devices.

It was agreed that CFQ is the right place to implement time based proportional
weight division policy. Other policies like max bandwidth control/throttling
will make more sense at higher level logical devices.

This patch introduces blkio cgroup controller. It provides the management
interface for the block IO control. The idea is that keep the interface
common and in the background we should be able to switch policies based on
user options. Hence user can control the IO throughout the IO stack with
a single cgroup interface.

Apart from blkio cgroup interface, this patchset also modifies CFQ to implement
time based proportional weight division of disk. CFQ already does it in flat
mode. It has been modified to do group IO scheduling also.

IO control is a huge problem and the moment we start addressing all the
issues in one patchset, it bloats to unmanageable proportions and then nothing
gets inside the kernel. So at io mini summit we agreed that lets take small
steps and once a piece of code is inside the kernel and stablized, take the
next step. So this is the first step.

Some parts of the code are based on BFQ patches posted by Paolo and Fabio.

Your feedback is welcome.

TODO
====
- Support async IO control (buffered writes).

 Buffered writes is a beast and requires changes at many a places to solve the
 problem and patchset becomes huge. Hence first we plan to support only sync
 IO in control then work on async IO too.

 Some of the work items identified are.

	- Per memory cgroup dirty ratio
	- Possibly modification of writeback to force writeback from a
	  particular cgroup.
	- Implement IO tracking support so that a bio can be mapped to a cgroup.
	- Per group request descriptor infrastructure in block layer.
	- At CFQ level, implement per cfq_group async queues.	

  In this patchset, all the async IO goes in system wide queues and there are
  no per group async queues. That means we will see service differentiation
  only for sync IO only. Async IO willl be handled later.

- Support for higher level policies like max BW controller.
- Support groups of RT class also.

Thanks
Vivek

 Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt |  100 +++
 block/Kconfig                              |   22 +
 block/Kconfig.iosched                      |   17 +
 block/Makefile                             |    1 +
 block/blk-cgroup.c                         |  312 ++++++++++
 block/blk-cgroup.h                         |   90 +++
 block/cfq-iosched.c                        |  922 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h              |    6 +
 include/linux/iocontext.h                  |    4 +
 9 files changed, 1365 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)


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2009-11-13 17:39 [RFC] Block IO Controller V3 Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 01/16] blkio: Introduce the notion of cfq groups Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 02/16] blkio: Keep queue on service tree until we expire it Vivek Goyal
2009-11-17 18:07   ` Alan D. Brunelle
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 03/16] blkio: Introduce the root service tree for cfq groups Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 04/16] blkio: Implement per cfq group latency target and busy queue avg Vivek Goyal
2009-11-16 13:05   ` Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 05/16] blkio: Introduce blkio controller cgroup interface Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 06/16] blkio: Introduce per cfq group weights and vdisktime calculations Vivek Goyal
2009-11-17 18:07   ` Alan D. Brunelle
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 07/16] blkio: Group time used accounting and workload context save restore Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 08/16] blkio: Dynamic cfq group creation based on cgroup tasks belongs to Vivek Goyal
2009-11-17 18:07   ` Alan D. Brunelle
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 09/16] blkio: Take care of cgroup deletion and cfq group reference counting Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 10/16] blkio: Some debugging aids for CFQ Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 11/16] blkio: Export disk time and sectors used by a group to user space Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 12/16] blkio: Provide some isolation between groups Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 13/16] blkio: Drop the reference to queue once the task changes cgroup Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 14/16] blkio: Propagate cgroup weight updation to cfq groups Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 15/16] blkio: Idle on a group for some time on rotational media Vivek Goyal
2009-11-13 17:40 ` [PATCH 16/16] blkio: Documentation Vivek Goyal
2009-11-17 18:07   ` Alan D. Brunelle
2009-11-30  7:29 ` [RFC] Block IO Controller V3 Gui Jianfeng
2009-11-30 17:13   ` Vivek Goyal
2009-12-01  2:59     ` Gui Jianfeng

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