linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3] block/throttle: Add IO throttled information in blkio.throttle

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Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:49:45 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Robin Dong <robin.k.dong@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Robin Dong <sanbai@...bao.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] block/throttle: Add IO throttled information in
 blkio.throttle

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 04:27:06PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:

[..]
> > Changelog from v2:
> > 	Use nr-queued[] of struct throtl_grp for stats instaed of adding new blkg_rwstat.
> 
> As I wrote last time, I would prefer exposing the total number queued
> to blk-throttle rather than exposing the number of bios being
> currently held and let userland calculate from the difference from
> throttle.io_serviced.  That is simpler and more inline with all other
> stats.

Hi Tejun,

Can you explain a bit more. Whe do you mean by "total number queued". I
think throttle.io_queued will total number of bios queued in the cgroup
at the time of query.

Thanks
Vivek
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