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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/12] unify the interface of the proportional-share policy in blkio/io
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Forgot to CC Lennart, sorry.

> Il giorno 12 nov 2018, alle ore 10:56, Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> ha scritto:
>
> Hi Jens, Tejun, all,
> about nine months ago, we agreed on a solution for unifying the
> interface of the proportional-share policy in blkio/io [1]. Angelo
> and I finally completed it. Let me briefly recall the problem and the
> solution.
>
> The current implementation of cgroups doesn't allow two or more
> entities, e.g., I/O schedulers, to share the same files. So, if CFQ
> creates its files for the proportional-share policy, such as, e.g,
> weight files for blkio/io groups, BFQ cannot attach somehow to them.
> Thus, to enable people to set group weights with BFQ, I resorted to
> making BFQ create its own version of these common files, by prepending
> a bfq prefix.
>
> Actually, no legacy code uses these different names, or is likely to
> do so. Having these two sets of names is simply a source of
> confusion, as pointed out also, e.g., by Lennart Poettering (CCed
> here), and acknowledged by Tejun [2].
>
> In [1] we agreed on a solution that solves this problem, by actually
> making it possible to share cgroups files. Both writing to and
> reading from a shared file trigger the appropriate operation for each
> of the entities that share the file. In particular, in case of
> reading,
> - if all entities produce the same output, the this common output is
> shown only once;
> - if the outputs differ, then every per-entity output is shown,
> preceded by the name of the entity that produced that output.
>
> With this solution, legacy code that, e.g., sets group weights, just
> works, regardless of the I/O scheduler actually implementing
> proportional share.
>
> But note that this extension is not restricted to only blkio/io. The
> general group interface now enables files to be shared among multiple
> entities of any kind.
>
> (I have also added a patch to fix some clerical errors in bfq doc,
> which I found while making the latter consistent with the new
> interface.)
>
> Thanks,
> Paolo
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/4/667
> [2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7057
>
> Angelo Ruocco (7):
> kernfs: add function to find kernfs_node without increasing ref
> counter
> cgroup: link cftypes of the same subsystem with the same name
> cgroup: add owner name to cftypes
> block, bfq: align min and default weights with cfq
> cgroup: make all functions of all cftypes be invoked
> block, cfq: allow cgroup files to be shared
> block, throttle: allow sharing cgroup statistic files
>
> Paolo Valente (5):
> cgroup: add hook seq_show_cft with also the owning cftype as parameter
> block, cgroup: pass cftype to functions that need to use it
> block, bfq: use standard file names for the proportional-share policy
> doc, bfq-iosched: fix a few clerical errors
> doc, bfq-iosched: make it consistent with the new cgroup interface
>
> Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt | 31 +++--
> block/bfq-cgroup.c | 148 +++++++++++++-------
> block/bfq-iosched.h | 4 +-
> block/blk-cgroup.c | 22 +--
> block/blk-throttle.c | 24 ++--
> block/cfq-iosched.c | 105 +++++++++++----
> fs/kernfs/dir.c | 13 ++
> include/linux/blk-cgroup.h | 10 +-
> include/linux/cgroup-defs.h | 14 +-
> include/linux/cgroup.h | 13 ++
> include/linux/kernfs.h | 7 +
> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 262 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> 12 files changed, 483 insertions(+), 170 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.16.1

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