linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 5/9] blk-throttle: improve handling of re-entered bio for bps limit

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Date:   Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:02:24 -1000
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
Cc:     mkoutny@...e.com, axboe@...nel.dk, ming.lei@...hat.com,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yukuai3@...wei.com,
        yi.zhang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 5/9] blk-throttle: improve handling of re-entered bio
 for bps limit

On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:04:11PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
> 
> Currently, if new slice is started while bio is re-entered, such bio
> will count multiple times for bps limit. Since 'bytes_skipped'
> represents how many bytes will be skipped while dispatching bios, which
> can handle that case, increasing it instead of decreasing 'bytes_disp'.

The same thing. I think we're working around the problem in the wrong place.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun