linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/20] io-controller: map async requests to appropriate cgroup

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Message-ID: <4A3EE245.7030409@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:45:41 +0800
From:	Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/20] io-controller: map async requests to appropriate
 cgroup

Vivek Goyal wrote:
> o So far we were assuming that a bio/rq belongs to the task who is submitting
>   it. It did not hold good in case of async writes. This patch makes use of
>   blkio_cgroup pataches to attribute the aysnc writes to right group instead
>   of task submitting the bio.
> 
> o For sync requests, we continue to assume that io belongs to the task
>   submitting it. Only in case of async requests, we make use of io tracking
>   patches to track the owner cgroup.
> 
> o So far cfq always caches the async queue pointer. With async requests now
>   not necessarily being tied to submitting task io context, caching the
>   pointer will not help for async queues. This patch introduces a new config
>   option CONFIG_TRACK_ASYNC_CONTEXT. If this option is not set, cfq retains
>   old behavior where async queue pointer is cached in task context. If it
>   is not set, async queue pointer is not cached and we take help of bio

Here "If it is not set" should be "If it is set".


-- 
Regards
Gui Jianfeng

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