| Date | Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:39:55 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 19/23] io-controller: map async requests to appropriate cgroup |
| |
Vivek Goyal wrote: > o So far we were assuming that a bio/rq belongs to the task who is submitting > it. It did not hold good in case of async writes. This patch makes use of > blkio_cgroup pataches to attribute the aysnc writes to right group instead > of task submitting the bio. > > o For sync requests, we continue to assume that io belongs to the task > submitting it. Only in case of async requests, we make use of io tracking > patches to track the owner cgroup. > > o So far cfq always caches the async queue pointer. With async requests now > not necessarily being tied to submitting task io context, caching the > pointer will not help for async queues. This patch introduces a new config > option CONFIG_TRACK_ASYNC_CONTEXT. If this option is not set, cfq retains > old behavior where async queue pointer is cached in task context. If it > is set, async queue pointer is not cached and we take help of bio > tracking patches to determine group bio belongs to and then map it to > async queue of that group. > > Signed-off-by: Nauman Rafique <nauman@google.com> > Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
|