From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: "Benoît Canet" <benoit@irqsave.net>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 for-1.6 0/5] Leaky bucket throttling and features
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:08:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130725120822.GA14010@T430s.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1374596968-20181-1-git-send-email-benoit@irqsave.net>
On Tue, 07/23 18:29, Benoît Canet wrote:
> The first patch fixes the throttling which was broken by a previous commit.
>
> The next patch replace the existing throttling algorithm by the well described
> leaky bucket algorithm.
>
> Third patch implement bursting by adding *_threshold parameters to
> qmp_block_set_io_throttle.
>
> The last one allow to define the max size of an io when throttling by iops via
> iops_sector_count to avoid vm users cheating on the iops limit.
>
> The last patch adds a metric reflecting how much the I/O are throttled.
>
My ignorant question: Besides the fix, how is io throttling improved
from previously, what are the advantages of leaky bucket algorithm?
Thanks.
Fam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-25 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-23 16:29 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 for-1.6 0/5] Leaky bucket throttling and features Benoît Canet
2013-07-23 16:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 for-1.6 1/5] block: Repair the throttling code Benoît Canet
2013-07-26 19:16 ` Eric Blake
2013-07-26 19:42 ` Alex Bligh
2013-07-23 16:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 for-1.6 2/5] block: Modify the throttling code to implement the leaky bucket algorithm Benoît Canet
2013-07-26 3:40 ` Fam Zheng
2013-07-26 9:48 ` Benoît Canet
2013-07-23 16:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 for-1.6 3/5] block: Add support for throttling burst threshold in QMP and the command line Benoît Canet
2013-07-26 3:07 ` Fam Zheng
2013-07-26 19:24 ` Eric Blake
2013-07-26 20:55 ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-08 13:37 ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-09 7:09 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-07-23 16:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 for-1.6 4/5] block: Add iops_sector_count to do the iops accounting for a given io size Benoît Canet
2013-07-23 16:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 for-1.6 5/5] block: Add throttling percentage metrics Benoît Canet
2013-07-26 2:55 ` Fam Zheng
2013-07-26 9:49 ` Benoît Canet
2013-07-25 12:08 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2013-07-25 12:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 for-1.6 0/5] Leaky bucket throttling and features Benoît Canet
2013-07-26 19:07 ` Eric Blake
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