Re: A mainline question about cgroup writeback

From: zhong jiang
Date: Thu Apr 21 2016 - 04:40:26 EST


On 2016/4/21 5:22, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 03:19:59PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
>> cgroup writeback support the filesystem both ext4 and ext2.
>> but, it appears to be not work when I test the function in the ext4.
>> The example is as follows:
>> echo "8:0 1048576" > blkio.throttle.write_bps_device
>> echo $$ > cgroup.procs
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/test.c bs=1M count=10240
>> 10240+0 records in
>> 10240+0 records out
>> 10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 49.8796 s, 215 MB/s
> How much memory does the cgroup have available to it? It's buffered
> write. It might not get throttled if there are enough pages to dirty.
>
> Thanks.
>
Maybe it's my fault. I just limit two fields in dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes ,
and I don't consider about the available memory in the cgroup.


Thanks
zhongjiang