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    SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC 10/22] block, bfq: add full hierarchical scheduling and cgroups support
    Hello, Paolo.

    On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:32:23AM +0200, Paolo wrote:
    > This malfunction seems related to a blkcg behavior that I did not
    > expect: the sequential writer changes group continuously. It moves
    > from the root group to its correct group, and back. Here is the
    > output of
    >
    > egrep 'insert_request|changed cgroup' trace
    >
    > over a trace taken with the original version of cfq (seq_write is of
    > course the group of the writer):
    ...
    > For reasons that I don't yet know, group changes are much more
    > frequent with bfq, which ultimately causes bfq to fail to isolate the
    > writer from the reader.
    >
    > While I go on trying to understand why, could you please tell me
    > whether this fluctuation is normal, and/or point me to documentation from
    > which I can better understand this behavior, without bothering you
    > further?

    So, a kworker would jump through different workqueues and issue IOs
    for different writeback domains and the context can't be tied to the
    issuing task. The cgroup membership should be determined directly
    from the bio. cfq uses per-cgroup async queue. I'm not sure how this
    would map to bfq tho.

    Thanks.

    --
    tejun

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