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From: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Kernel-team@fb.com, jmoyer@redhat.com,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 00/11] block-throttle: add .high limit
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 21:02:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F9A2F063-F5A2-49A6-8DFE-91ACDE380645@unimore.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161004185413.GF4205@htj.duckdns.org>


> Il giorno 04 ott 2016, alle ore 20:54, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> ha scritto:
> 
> Hello, Paolo.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 07:43:48PM +0200, Paolo Valente wrote:
>>> I don't think IO bandwidth does not matter. The problem is bandwidth can't
>>> measure IO cost. For example, you can't say 8k IO costs 2x IO resource than 4k
>>> IO.
>> 
>> For what goal do you need to be able to say this, once you succeeded
>> in guaranteeing bandwidth and low latency to each
>> process/client/group/node/user?
> 
> For resource partitioning mostly.  It's not a single user or purpose
> use case.  The same device gets shared across unrelated workloads and
> we need to guarantee differing levels of quality of service to each
> regardless of the specifics of workload.

That's exactly what BFQ has succeeded in doing in all the tests
devised so far.  Can you give me a concrete example for which I can
try with BFQ and with any other mechanism you deem better.  If
you are right, numbers will just make your point.

Thanks,
Paolo

>  We actually need to be able
> to control IO resources.
> 


> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> tejun


--
Paolo Valente
Algogroup
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche
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41125 Modena - Italy
http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/






  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-04 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-03 21:20 [PATCH V3 00/11] block-throttle: add .high limit Shaohua Li
2016-10-03 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] block-throttle: prepare support multiple limits Shaohua Li
2016-10-03 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] block-throttle: add .high interface Shaohua Li
2016-10-03 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] block-throttle: configure bps/iops limit for cgroup in high limit Shaohua Li
2016-10-03 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] block-throttle: add upgrade logic for LIMIT_HIGH state Shaohua Li
2016-10-03 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] block-throttle: add downgrade logic Shaohua Li
2016-10-03 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] blk-throttle: make sure expire time isn't too big Shaohua Li
2016-10-03 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] blk-throttle: make throtl_slice tunable Shaohua Li
2016-10-03 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] blk-throttle: detect completed idle cgroup Shaohua Li
2016-10-03 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] block-throttle: make bandwidth change smooth Shaohua Li
2016-10-03 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] block-throttle: add a simple idle detection Shaohua Li
2016-10-03 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] blk-throttle: ignore idle cgroup limit Shaohua Li
2016-10-04 13:28 ` [PATCH V3 00/11] block-throttle: add .high limit Vivek Goyal
2016-10-04 15:56   ` Tejun Heo
2016-10-04 16:22     ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-04 16:27       ` Tejun Heo
2016-10-04 17:01         ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-04 17:28           ` Shaohua Li
2016-10-04 17:43             ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-04 18:28               ` Shaohua Li
2016-10-04 19:49                 ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-04 18:54               ` Tejun Heo
2016-10-04 19:02                 ` Paolo Valente [this message]
2016-10-04 19:14                   ` Tejun Heo
2016-10-04 19:29                     ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-04 20:27                       ` Tejun Heo
2016-10-05 12:37                         ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-05 13:12                           ` Vivek Goyal
2016-10-05 14:04                             ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-05 14:49                           ` Tejun Heo
2016-10-05 18:30                             ` Shaohua Li
2016-10-05 19:08                               ` Shaohua Li
2016-10-05 19:57                                 ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-05 20:36                                   ` Shaohua Li
2016-10-06  7:22                                     ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-05 19:47                               ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-05 20:07                                 ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-05 20:46                                 ` Shaohua Li
2016-10-06  7:58                                   ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-06 13:15                                     ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-06 17:49                                       ` Vivek Goyal
2016-10-06 18:01                                         ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-06 18:32                                           ` Vivek Goyal
2016-10-06 20:51                                             ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-06 19:44                                         ` Mark Brown
2016-10-06 19:57                                     ` Shaohua Li
2016-10-06 22:24                                       ` Paolo Valente
     [not found]                         ` <CACsaVZ+AqSXHTRdpdrQQp6PuynEPeB-5YOyweWsenjvuKsD12w@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-09  1:15                           ` Fwd: " Kyle Sanderson
2016-10-14 16:40                             ` Tejun Heo
2016-10-14 17:13                               ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-14 18:35                                 ` Tejun Heo
2016-10-16 19:02                                   ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-18  5:15                                     ` Kyle Sanderson
2016-10-06  8:04                     ` Linus Walleij
2016-10-06 11:03                       ` Mark Brown
2016-10-06 11:57                         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-10-06 12:50                           ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-06 13:52                             ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-10-06 15:05                               ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-06 15:10                                 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-10-08 10:46                       ` Heinz Diehl
2016-10-04 18:12     ` Vivek Goyal
2016-10-04 18:50       ` Tejun Heo
2016-10-04 18:56         ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-04 17:08   ` Shaohua Li

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