linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/15] block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:53:22 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hannes@...xchg.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tj@...nel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller

On 06/27/2018 12:06 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>

Hi,

> ---
>  block/Kconfig             |  12 +
>  block/Makefile            |   1 +
>  block/blk-iolatency.c     | 903 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  block/blk-sysfs.c         |   2 +
>  block/blk.h               |   6 +
>  include/linux/blk_types.h |   2 -
>  6 files changed, 924 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 block/blk-iolatency.c
> 
> diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig
> index 28ec55752b68..c3205b2003a0 100644
> --- a/block/Kconfig
> +++ b/block/Kconfig
> @@ -149,6 +149,18 @@ config BLK_WBT
>  	dynamically on an algorithm loosely based on CoDel, factoring in
>  	the realtime performance of the disk.
>  
> +config BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY
> +	bool "Enable support for latency based cgroup IO protection"
> +	depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
> +	default n
> +	---help---
> +	Enabling this option enables the .latency interface for IO throttling.
> +	The IO controller will attempt to maintain average io latencies below

	                                                   IO
please.

> +	the configured latency target, throttling anybody with a higher latency
> +	target than the victimized group.
> +
> +	Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday.
> +
>  config BLK_WBT_SQ
>  	bool "Single queue writeback throttling"
>  	default n


-- 
~Randy