No description
  • C 98.2%
  • Assembly 1%
  • Makefile 0.3%
  • Shell 0.2%
  • Python 0.1%
Find a file
Repository files (latest commit first)
Filename Latest commit message Latest commit date
Tejun Heo 36a524814f blk-iocost: Account force-charged overage in absolute vtime
Currently, when a bio needs to be force-charged and there isn't enough
budget, vtime is simply pushed into the future.  This means that the
cost of the whole bio is scaled using the current hweight and then
charged immediately.  Until the global vtime advances beyond this
future vtime, the cgroup won't be allowed to issue normal IOs.

This is incorrect and can lead to, for example, exploding vrate or
extended stalls if vrate range is constrained.  Consider the following
scenario.

1. A cgroup with a very low hweight runs out of budget.

2. A storm of swap-out happens on it.  All of them are scaled
   according to the current low hweight and charged to vtime pushing
   it to a far future.

3. All other cgroups go idle and now the above cgroup has access to
   the whole device.  However, because vtime is already wound using
   the past low hweight, what its current hweight is doesn't matter
   until global vtime catches up to the local vtime.

4. As a result, either vrate gets ramped up extremely or the IOs stall
   while the underlying device is idle.

This is because the hweight the overage is calculated at is different
from the hweight that it's being paid at.

Fix it by remembering the overage in absoulte vtime and continuously
paying with the actual budget according to the current hweight at each
period.

Note that non-forced bios which wait already remembers the cost in
absolute vtime.  This brings forced-bio accounting in line.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-09-10 12:31:39 -06:00
arch powerpc fixes for 5.3 #3 2019-08-04 10:30:47 -07:00
block blk-iocost: Account force-charged overage in absolute vtime 2019-09-10 12:31:39 -06:00
certs
crypto
Documentation Documentation:kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: Remove reference to elevator= 2019-09-03 08:05:37 -06:00
drivers sd: Set ELEVATOR_F_ZBD_SEQ_WRITE for ZBC disks 2019-09-05 19:52:34 -06:00
fs writeback: add tracepoints for cgroup foreign writebacks 2019-08-30 07:42:49 -06:00
include block: Delay default elevator initialization 2019-09-05 19:52:34 -06:00
init
ipc
kernel memremap: move from kernel/ to mm/ 2019-08-03 07:02:01 -07:00
lib lib: scatterlist: Fix to support no mapped sg 2019-08-08 07:45:01 -06:00
LICENSES
mm writeback: add tracepoints for cgroup foreign writebacks 2019-08-30 07:42:49 -06:00
net
samples
scripts kconfig: Clear "written" flag to avoid data loss 2019-08-04 12:44:15 +09:00
security selinux/stable-5.3 PR 20190801 2019-08-02 18:40:49 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.3-rc3 2019-08-02 08:53:34 -07:00
tools blkcg: add tools/cgroup/iocost_coef_gen.py 2019-08-28 21:17:17 -06:00
usr
virt
.clang-format
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes
.gitignore
.mailmap
COPYING
CREDITS
Kbuild
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add Geert as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-08-04 10:23:23 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.3-rc3 2019-08-04 18:40:12 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.