Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753571AbZDUIh2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:37:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752472AbZDUIhL (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:37:11 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f163.google.com ([209.85.218.163]:45659 "EHLO mail-bw0-f163.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751559AbZDUIhJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:37:09 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=OTcHG64K6Mx2q4gG3F1/04Jgwm0w3LF0CmEy5gocbkn7ALJ+Nqqdm7VwyecabXi97B Wf768FSIUVHmZjz8+0QBy0MxRhAuZ0tBZZg5pKBfkKx02Nvxhi776pm3tpsUUOjGf7Ph X0WtEgoFsLd7pKs/yfpgFcEpn0Jg+3raFkWp4= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:37:03 +0200 From: Andrea Righi To: Vivek Goyal Cc: Paul Menage , Balbir Singh , Gui Jianfeng , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , agk@sourceware.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, axboe@kernel.dk, baramsori72@gmail.com, Carl Henrik Lunde , dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Divyesh Shah , eric.rannaud@gmail.com, fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp, Hirokazu Takahashi , Li Zefan , matt@bluehost.com, dradford@bluehost.com, ngupta@google.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, roberto@unbit.it, Ryo Tsuruta , Satoshi UCHIDA , subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com, yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp, Theodore Tso , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] io-throttle documentation Message-ID: <20090421083702.GC8441@linux> References: <1239740480-28125-1-git-send-email-righi.andrea@gmail.com> <1239740480-28125-2-git-send-email-righi.andrea@gmail.com> <20090417173955.GF29086@redhat.com> <20090417231244.GB6972@linux> <20090419134201.GF8493@redhat.com> <20090419154717.GB5514@linux> <20090420212827.GA9080@redhat.com> <20090420220511.GA8740@linux> <20090421010846.GA15850@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090421010846.GA15850@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3910 Lines: 83 On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:08:46PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:05:12AM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote: > > [..] > > > > > Are we not already controlling submission of request (at crude level). > > > > > If application is doing writeout at high rate, then it hits vm_dirty_ratio > > > > > hits and this application is forced to do write out and hence it is slowed > > > > > down and is not allowed to submit writes at high rate. > > > > > > > > > > Just that it is not a very fair scheme right now as during right out > > > > > a high prio/high weight cgroup application can start writing out some > > > > > other cgroups' pages. > > > > > > > > > > For this we probably need to have some combination of solutions like > > > > > per cgroup upper limit on dirty pages. Secondly probably if an application > > > > > is slowed down because of hitting vm_drity_ratio, it should try to > > > > > write out the inode it is dirtying first instead of picking any random > > > > > inode and associated pages. This will ensure that a high weight > > > > > application can quickly get through the write outs and see higher > > > > > throughput from the disk. > > > > > > > > For the first, I submitted a patchset some months ago to provide this > > > > feature in the memory controller: > > > > > > > > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2008-September/013140.html > > > > > > > > We focused on the best interface to use for setting the dirty pages > > > > limit, but we didn't finalize it. I can rework on that and repost an > > > > updated version. Now that we have the dirty_ratio/dirty_bytes to set the > > > > global limit I think we can use the same interface and the same semantic > > > > within the cgroup fs, something like: > > > > > > > > memory.dirty_ratio > > > > memory.dirty_bytes > > > > > > > > For the second point something like this should be enough to force tasks > > > > to write out only the inode they're actually dirtying when they hit the > > > > vm_dirty_ratio limit. But it should be tested carefully and may cause > > > > heavy performance regressions. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi > > > > --- > > > > mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +- > > > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > > > > > diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c > > > > index 2630937..1e07c9d 100644 > > > > --- a/mm/page-writeback.c > > > > +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c > > > > @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) > > > > * been flushed to permanent storage. > > > > */ > > > > if (bdi_nr_reclaimable) { > > > > - writeback_inodes(&wbc); > > > > + sync_inode(mapping->host, &wbc); > > > > pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; > > > > get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, > > > > &bdi_thresh, bdi); > > > > > > This patch seems to be helping me a bit in getting more service > > > differentiation between two writer dd of different weights. But strangely > > > it is helping only for ext3 and not ext4. Debugging is on. > > > > Are you explicitly mounting ext3 with data=ordered? > > Yes. Still using 29-rc8 and data=ordered was the default then. > > I got two partitions on same disk and created one ext3 filesystem on each > partition (just to take journaling intereference out of two dd threads > for the time being). > > Two dd threads doing writes to each partition. ...and if you're using data=writeback with ext4 sync_inode() should sync the metadata only. If this is the case, could you check data=ordered also for ext4? -Andrea -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/