Tejun Heo a051661ca6 blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation ... Currently, request_queue has one request_list to allocate requests from regardless of blkcg of the IO being issued. When the unified request pool is used up, cfq proportional IO limits become meaningless - whoever grabs the next request being freed wins the race regardless of the configured weights. This can be easily demonstrated by creating a blkio cgroup w/ very low weight, put a program which can issue a lot of random direct IOs there and running a sequential IO from a different cgroup. As soon as the request pool is used up, the sequential IO bandwidth crashes. This patch implements per-blkg request_list. Each blkg has its own request_list and any IO allocates its request from the matching blkg making blkcgs completely isolated in terms of request allocation. * Root blkcg uses the request_list embedded in each request_queue, which was renamed to @q->root_rl from @q->rq. While making blkcg rl handling a bit harier, this enables avoiding most overhead for root blkcg. * Queue fullness is properly per request_list but bdi isn't blkcg aware yet, so congestion state currently just follows the root blkcg. As writeback isn't aware of blkcg yet, this works okay for async congestion but readahead may get the wrong signals. It's better than blkcg completely collapsing with shared request_list but needs to be improved with future changes. * After this change, each block cgroup gets a full request pool making resource consumption of each cgroup higher. This makes allowing non-root users to create cgroups less desirable; however, note that allowing non-root users to directly manage cgroups is already severely broken regardless of this patch - each block cgroup consumes kernel memory and skews IO weight (IO weights are not hierarchical). v2: queue-sysfs.txt updated and patch description udpated as suggested by Vivek. v3: blk_get_rl() wasn't checking error return from blkg_lookup_create() and may cause oops on lookup failure. Fix it by falling back to root_rl on blkg lookup failures. This problem was spotted by Rakesh Iyer <rni@google.com>. v4: Updated to accomodate 458f27a982 "block: Avoid missed wakeup in request waitqueue". blk_drain_queue() now wakes up waiters on all blkg->rl on the target queue. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>		2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
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00-INDEX	block: update documentation for REQ_FLUSH / REQ_FUA	2010-09-10 12:35:37 +02:00
biodoc.txt	doc: fix broken references	2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
capability.txt
cfq-iosched.txt	cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling	2011-08-05 09:42:20 +02:00
data-integrity.txt	Trivial typo fixes in Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt.	2009-07-01 10:56:25 +02:00
deadline-iosched.txt	trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes	2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
ioprio.txt
queue-sysfs.txt	blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation	2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
request.txt
stat.txt
switching-sched.txt	Documentation: drop as block elevator reference in switching-sched.txt	2011-11-04 12:01:48 -07:00
writeback_cache_control.txt	block: update documentation for REQ_FLUSH / REQ_FUA	2010-09-10 12:35:37 +02:00