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Subject[PATCH 3/3] Mention that the util-linux package provides an ionice command.
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Am Montag, 28. November 2011 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Hi jens und Vivek,
>
> Vivek, I cc'd you, cause you wrote the new cfq-iosched.txt.
>
>
> In trying to understand how I/O priorities actually really work, I tried to
> dd with
>
> rm nullen-id ; sync ; /usr/bin/time ionice -c3 dd if=/dev/zero of=nullen-id
> count=500 bs=1M conv=fsync
>
> versus
>
> rm nullen-rl; sync ; /usr/bin/time ionice -c1 -n0 dd if=/dev/zero
> of=nullen-rl count=500 bs=1M conv=fsync
>
> concurrently. No differences. At first I was puzzled, then I thought maybe
> direct I/O makes a difference. So I tried with oflag=direct.
>
> And it does.
>
> Then I actually read the documentation block/ioprio.txt (3.1 here):
> > With the introduction of cfq v3 (aka cfq-ts or time sliced cfq), basic io
> > priorities are supported for reads on files. This enables users to io
> > nice processes or process groups, similar to what has been possible with
> > cpu scheduling for ages. This document mainly details the current
> > possibilities with cfq; other io schedulers do not support io priorities
> > thus far.
>
> According to it I/O priorities will even only work on reads. Is that
> correct? I mean they do work on reads, I tested it, but *only* on reads?
>
> From what I see here, it also works for direct I/O write requests
>
> So from what I conclude is that CFQ I/O priorities work for all requests
> that are issued via synchronous system calls, but not for those issued via
> asynchronous calls, i. e. everything that goes through the pagecache.
>
> Is that correct?
>
>
> Vivek, one thing on cfq-iosched.txt: Could slice_idle=0 make sense on SSDs?
> Later on you write that there are some SSD optimizations in place that cut
> down idling already.

And mentioned that ionice is available from the util-linux package:


From 182d2e06d65ea784c2bbf2e756ce0452fdebef8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:16:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Mention that the util-linux package provides an ionice
command.

---
Documentation/block/ioprio.txt | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt b/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
index 4775a95..5b79a29 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ For a running process, you can give the pid instead:

will change pid 100 to run at the realtime scheduling class, at priority 2.

+The util-linux package includes an ionice command that basically works like
+described here.
+
---> snip ionice.c tool <---

#include <stdio.h>
--
1.7.7.3
Thanks,
--
Martin Steigerwald - teamix GmbH - http://www.teamix.de
gpg: 19E3 8D42 896F D004 08AC A0CA 1E10 C593 0399 AE90


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