linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/14] block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller

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Message-ID: <e1f98f78-bf01-272f-3121-02612d01d57e@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 3 Jul 2018 12:32:12 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>, axboe@...nel.dk,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        hannes@...xchg.org, tj@...nel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Cc:     Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller

On 07/03/2018 08:15 AM, Josef Bacik wrote:
> diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig
> index 28ec55752b68..074c6099c31f 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
> +	the configured latency target, throttling anybody with a higher latency

	Could that be:                            any process {or any task}
	I don't want to see it throttling any bodies.

> +	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