Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] blk-throttle: fix that io throttle can only work for single bio

From: Yu Kuai
Date: Tue Aug 23 2022 - 21:15:43 EST


Hi, Tejun

在 2022/08/24 2:07, Tejun Heo 写道:
Hello,

Should have asked you earlier but with the BIO_THROTTLED flag setting from
clone removed, with single BIO_THROTTLED flag, does the fix still require
bytes subtraction? If we can do single flag and we don't need the bytes
subtraction, might as well just stay with single flag?

Do you mean 'compensate the over-accounting' for bytes subtraction? If
so, yes, it's not required.

This patch actually set two flags when bio is throttled and
dispatched, and only iops flag is cleared after the original bio is
split. If only one flag can be used, the way that I come up with is
that let iops limit become default, which means bio is always counted
for iops limit each time blk_throtl_bio() is called. I'm not quite
sure yet if iops limit can be counted excessively this way in some
special scenario...

Thanks,
Kuai

Thanks.