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Currently, when a bio needs to be force-charged and there isn't enough budget, vtime is simply pushed into the future. This means that the cost of the whole bio is scaled using the current hweight and then charged immediately. Until the global vtime advances beyond this future vtime, the cgroup won't be allowed to issue normal IOs. This is incorrect and can lead to, for example, exploding vrate or extended stalls if vrate range is constrained. Consider the following scenario. 1. A cgroup with a very low hweight runs out of budget. 2. A storm of swap-out happens on it. All of them are scaled according to the current low hweight and charged to vtime pushing it to a far future. 3. All other cgroups go idle and now the above cgroup has access to the whole device. However, because vtime is already wound using the past low hweight, what its current hweight is doesn't matter until global vtime catches up to the local vtime. 4. As a result, either vrate gets ramped up extremely or the IOs stall while the underlying device is idle. This is because the hweight the overage is calculated at is different from the hweight that it's being paid at. Fix it by remembering the overage in absoulte vtime and continuously paying with the actual budget according to the current hweight at each period. Note that non-forced bios which wait already remembers the cost in absolute vtime. This brings forced-bio accounting in line. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.