Re: [PATCH 0/6] buffered write IO controller in balance_dirty_pages()

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

(2012/03/28 21:13), Fengguang Wu wrote:

> Here is one possible solution to "buffered write IO controller", based on Linux
> v3.3
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux.git  buffered-write-io-controller
> 
> Features:
> - support blkio.weight
> - support blkio.throttle.buffered_write_bps
> 
> Possibilities:
> - it's trivial to support per-bdi .weight or .buffered_write_bps
> 
> Pros:
> 1) simple
> 2) virtually no space/time overheads
> 3) independent of the block layer and IO schedulers, hence
> 3.1) supports all filesystems/storages, eg. NFS/pNFS, CIFS, sshfs, ...
> 3.2) supports all IO schedulers. One may use noop for SSDs, inside virtual machines, over iSCSI, etc.
> 
> Cons:
> 1) don't try to smooth bursty IO submission in the flusher thread (*)
> 2) don't support IOPS based throttling
> 3) introduces semantic differences to blkio.weight, which will be
>    - working by "bandwidth" for buffered writes
>    - working by "device time" for direct IO
> 
> (*) Maybe not a big concern, since the bursties are limited to 500ms: if one dd
> is throttled to 50% disk bandwidth, the flusher thread will be waking up on
> every 1 second, keep the disk busy for 500ms and then go idle for 500ms; if
> throttled to 10% disk bandwidth, the flusher thread will wake up on every 5s,
> keep busy for 500ms and stay idle for 4.5s.
> 
> The test results included in the last patch look pretty good in despite of the
> simple implementation.
> 

yes, seems very good.

>  [PATCH 1/6] blk-cgroup: move blk-cgroup.h in include/linux/blk-cgroup.h
>  [PATCH 2/6] blk-cgroup: account dirtied pages
>  [PATCH 3/6] blk-cgroup: buffered write IO controller - bandwidth weight
>  [PATCH 4/6] blk-cgroup: buffered write IO controller - bandwidth limit
>  [PATCH 5/6] blk-cgroup: buffered write IO controller - bandwidth limit interface
>  [PATCH 6/6] blk-cgroup: buffered write IO controller - debug trace
> 
> The changeset is dominated by the blk-cgroup.h move.
> The core changes (to page-writeback.c) are merely 77 lines.
> 
>  block/blk-cgroup.c               |   27 +
>  block/blk-cgroup.h               |  364 --------------------------
>  block/blk-throttle.c             |    2 
>  block/cfq.h                      |    2 
>  include/linux/blk-cgroup.h       |  396 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/trace/events/writeback.h |   34 ++
>  mm/page-writeback.c              |   77 +++++
>  7 files changed, 530 insertions(+), 372 deletions(-)
> 


Thank you very much. I like this simple implementation.
I have 3 questions..

- Do you have any plan to enhance this to support hierarchical accounting ?
- Can we get wait-time-for-dirty-pages summary per blkio cgroup ?
- Can we get status (dirty/sec) per blkio cgroup ?

Thanks,
-Kame

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