Re: [PATCH BUGFIX/IMPROVEMENT 0/4] bfq: two fixes and one improvement related to I/O control

From: Paolo Valente
Date: Fri Aug 17 2018 - 12:22:05 EST




> Il giorno 16 ago 2018, alle ore 21:10, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> On 8/16/18 10:51 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
>> Hi Jens,
>>
>> while working a little bit on cgroups I/O control, I found two nasty
>> bugs in bfq. They break bandwidth control in simple configurations
>> with one-process groups. These bugs are fixed by the first two patches
>> in this series.
>>
>> These fixes improved I/O control so much, that I could reduce the
>> write overcharge factor, used by bfq to counter write-induced
>> issues. This reduction is performed by the third patch.
>>
>> The fourth patch contains a little code improvement I made in a
>> function that has to do with I/O control.
>>
>> I hope we are still in time for 4.19.
>
> Patches look fine to me. You are in fact several weeks late for 4.19, I
> need to have anything that's going in to 4.19 by -rc6 or -rc7 time
> (depending on whether we have an -rc8 or not). This is to ensure that it
> gets plenty of time in linux-next as well. I've queued up patches this
> time (since they were small), but please send them in in due time next
> time.
>

Thanks for your patience. Next time I'll respect due time.

Paolo

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> Jens Axboe
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