linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH BUGFIX/IMPROVEMENT 0/4] bfq: two fixes and one improvement related to I/O control

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Date:   Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:10:01 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ulf.hansson@...aro.org, linus.walleij@...aro.org,
        broonie@...nel.org, bfq-iosched@...glegroups.com,
        oleksandr@...alenko.name
Subject: Re: [PATCH BUGFIX/IMPROVEMENT 0/4] bfq: two fixes and one improvement
 related to I/O control

On 8/16/18 10:51 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> while working a little bit on cgroups I/O control, I found two nasty
> bugs in bfq. They break bandwidth control in simple configurations
> with one-process groups. These bugs are fixed by the first two patches
> in this series.
> 
> These fixes improved I/O control so much, that I could reduce the
> write overcharge factor, used by bfq to counter write-induced
> issues. This reduction is performed by the third patch.
> 
> The fourth patch contains a little code improvement I made in a
> function that has to do with I/O control.
> 
> I hope we are still in time for 4.19.

Patches look fine to me. You are in fact several weeks late for 4.19, I
need to have anything that's going in to 4.19 by -rc6 or -rc7 time
(depending on whether we have an -rc8 or not). This is to ensure that it
gets plenty of time in linux-next as well. I've queued up patches this
time (since they were small), but please send them in in due time next
time.

-- 
Jens Axboe