Re: [PATCH RFC v2 5/6] blk-throttle: support to destroy throtl_data when blk-throttle is disabled

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Apr 17 2024 - 22:05:26 EST


Hello,

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 09:39:43AM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
..
> I guess I'll do lazy init first, and then modularization for rq_qos,
> and leave blk-throtl there for now. Perhaps add a new throtl model in
> iocost can replace blk-throtl in the future.

That sounds like a plan.

> BTW, currently during test of iocost, I found that iocost can already
> achieve that, for example, by following configure:
>
> echo "$dev enable=1 min=100 max=100" > qos
> echo "$dev wbps=4096 wseqiops=1 wrandiops=1" > model
>
> In the test, I found that wbps and iops is actually limited to the
> set value.

Yeah, it shouldn't be too difficult to add .max support to iocost so that
you can say something like "this cgroup subtree can't use more than 60% of
available capacity". That'd be really cool to have.

Thanks.

--
tejun