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SubjectRe: [PATCH 08/10] blkcg: implement blk-iocost
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> Il giorno 1 nov 2019, alle ore 17:15, Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> ha scritto:
>
> Hello
>

Hi Michal,

> (I realize it's likely late for the remark but I'd like to bring it up
> anyway.)
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 08:36:43AM -0700, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
>> We likely can talk on the subject
>> for a really long time probalby because there's no clearly technically
>> better choice here, so...
> I agree with you that functionally the two options are equal and also
> from configuration POV they seem both sensible.
>
> I checked where BFQ stores its per-device parameters and its under the
> sysfs directory of given device's iosched directory. So from the user
> perspective it'd be more consistent if all similar tunables resided
> under that location.
>
> (OTOH, I admit I'm not that familiar with block layer internals to
> identify the overlap between IO scheduler and IO controller.)
>

If useful for you to know, BFQ parameters are not meant to changed
(apart from the low_latency tunable, if one wants full control on
weights). Parameters are a testing aid, to use in case of an anomaly.
After solving the anomaly, default values should be used again.

Thanks,
Paolo

>> Yeah, it's kinda unfortunate that it requires this many parameters but
>> at least my opinion is that that's reflecting the inherent
>> complexities of the underlying devices and how workloads interact with
>> them.
> After I learnt about the existence of BFQ tunables, I'm no longer
> concerned by the complexity of the parameter space.
>
> Thanks for the explanations of QoS purpose.
>
>> For QoS parameters, Andy is currently working on a method to determine
>> the set of parametesr which are at the edge of total work cliff -
>> ie. the point where tighetning QoS params further starts reducing the
>> total amount of work the device can do significantly.
> The QoS description in the Documentation/ describes the interpretation
> of the individual parameters, however, this purpose and how it works was
> not clear to be from that. I think the QoS policy would deserve similar
> description in the Documentation/.
>
>> Nothing can issue IOs indefinitely without some of them completing and
>> the total amount of work a workload can do is conjoined with the
>> completion latencies. [...]
> I may reply to this point later. However, if that provably works, I'm
> likely missing something in my understanding, so that'd be irrelevant.
>
> Cheers,
> Michal

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