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When cgroup IO scheduling is used with BFQ it does not really provide service differentiation if the cgroup drives a big IO depth. That for example happens with writeback which asynchronously submits lots of IO but it can happen with AIO as well. The problem is that if we have two cgroups that submit IO with different weights, the cgroup with higher weight properly gets more IO time and is able to dispatch more IO. However this causes lower weight cgroup to accumulate more requests inside BFQ and eventually lower weight cgroup consumes most of IO scheduler tags. At that point higher weight cgroup stops getting better service as it is mostly blocked waiting for a scheduler tag while its queues inside BFQ are empty and thus lower weight cgroup gets served. Check how many requests submitting cgroup has allocated in bfq_limit_depth() and if it consumes more requests than what would correspond to its weight limit available depth to 1 so that the cgroup cannot consume many more requests. With this limitation the higher weight cgroup gets proper service even with writeback. Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211125133645.27483-4-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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.