Re: [PATCH V5 07/17] blk-throttle: make sure expire time isn't too big

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:32:58PM -0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> cgroup could be throttled to a limit but when all cgroups cross high
> limit, queue enters a higher state and so the group should be throttled
> to a higher limit. It's possible the cgroup is sleeping because of
> throttle and other cgroups don't dispatch IO any more. In this case,
> nobody can trigger current downgrade/upgrade logic. To fix this issue,
> we could either set up a timer to wakeup the cgroup if other cgroups are
> idle or make sure this cgroup doesn't sleep too long. Setting up a timer
> means we must change the timer very frequently. This patch chooses the
> latter. Making cgroup sleep time not too big wouldn't change cgroup
> bps/iops, but could make it wakeup more frequently, which isn't a big
> issue because throtl_slice * 8 is already quite big.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
> ---
>  block/blk-throttle.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c
> index 0f65fce..41ec72c 100644
> --- a/block/blk-throttle.c
> +++ b/block/blk-throttle.c
> @@ -588,6 +588,10 @@ static void throtl_dequeue_tg(struct throtl_grp *tg)
>  static void throtl_schedule_pending_timer(struct throtl_service_queue *sq,
>  					  unsigned long expires)
>  {
> +	unsigned long max_expire = jiffies + 8 * throtl_slice;
> +
> +	if (time_after(expires, max_expire))
> +		expires = max_expire;

A comment explaining why we need this would be nice.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun