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SubjectRe: [PATCH BUGFIX/IMPROVEMENT 0/2] block, bfq: two pending patches
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On 1/13/18 4:05 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> here are again the two pending patches you asked me to resend [1]. One
> of them, fixing read-starvation problems, was accompanied by a cover
> letter. I'm pasting the content of that cover letter below.
>
> The patch addresses (serious) starvation problems caused by
> request-tag exhaustion, as explained in more detail in the commit
> message. I started from the solution in the function
> kyber_limit_depth, but then I had to define more articulate limits, to
> counter starvation also in cases not covered in kyber_limit_depth.
> If this solution proves to be effective, I'm willing to port it
> somehow to the other schedulers.

It's something we've been doing in the old request layer for tagging for
a long time (more than a decade), so a generic (and fast) solution that
covers all cases for blk-mq-tag would indeed be great.

For now, I have applied these for 4.16, thanks.

--
Jens Axboe

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