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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>,
	Chad Talbott <ctalbott@google.com>,
	Nauman Rafique <nauman@google.com>,
	Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: default group_isolation to 1, remove option
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:36:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7541E4.1000502@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110307203420.GJ9540@redhat.com>

On 2011-03-07 21:34, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> One side affect of limitless bio queueing is an AIO process can queue
> up lots of bios in a group and if one tries to kill the process, it
> waits for all the IOs to finish and can take up a very long time
> depending on throttling limits of the group.

But I doubt this is a problem, really. Sure you could queue tons of IO
with aio if you really wanted, but aio does maintain er per-system
limit. So it's not infinite. The fact that waiting for pending aios can
take a while if you ctrl-c or kill the process is not a real worry,
imho.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-07 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-01  0:19 RFC: default group_isolation to 1, remove option Justin TerAvest
2011-03-01 14:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-01 18:44   ` Justin TerAvest
2011-03-02 21:28     ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-06 16:06       ` Andrea Righi
2011-03-03  3:45   ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-03 15:30     ` Per iocontext request descriptor limits (Was: Re: RFC: default group_isolation to 1, remove option) Vivek Goyal
2011-03-03 15:44       ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-03 16:57         ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-03 18:03           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-04 11:01             ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 21:31               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-04 21:34                 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-07 18:20     ` RFC: default group_isolation to 1, remove option Justin TerAvest
2011-03-07 19:39       ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-07 20:24         ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-07 20:32           ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-07 20:46             ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-07 20:47               ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-07 23:41                 ` Justin TerAvest
2011-03-08  0:05             ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-07 20:34           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-07 20:36             ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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