blk-throttle: Trim/adjust slice_end once a bio has been dispatched
o During some testing I did following and noticed throttling stops working.
- Put a very low limit on a cgroup, say 1 byte per second.
- Start some reads, this will set slice_end to a very high value.
- Change the limit to higher value say 1MB/s
- Now IO unthrottles and finishes as expected.
- Try to do the read again but IO is not limited to 1MB/s as expected.
o What is happening.
- Initially low value of limit sets slice_end to a very high value.
- During updation of limit, slice_end is not being truncated.
- Very high value of slice_end leads to keeping the existing slice
valid for a very long time and new slice does not start.
- tg_may_dispatch() is called in blk_throtle_bio(), and trim_slice()
is not called in this path. So slice_start is some old value and
practically we are able to do huge amount of IO.
o There are many ways it can be fixed. I have fixed it by trying to
adjust/cleanup slice_end in trim_slice(). Generally we extend slices if bio
is big and can't be dispatched in one slice. After dispatch of bio, readjust
the slice_end to make sure we don't end up with huge values.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c
index 004be80..2d134b7 100644
--- a/block/blk-throttle.c
+++ b/block/blk-throttle.c
@@ -355,6 +355,12 @@
tg->slice_end[rw], jiffies);
}
+static inline void throtl_set_slice_end(struct throtl_data *td,
+ struct throtl_grp *tg, bool rw, unsigned long jiffy_end)
+{
+ tg->slice_end[rw] = roundup(jiffy_end, throtl_slice);
+}
+
static inline void throtl_extend_slice(struct throtl_data *td,
struct throtl_grp *tg, bool rw, unsigned long jiffy_end)
{
@@ -391,6 +397,16 @@
if (throtl_slice_used(td, tg, rw))
return;
+ /*
+ * A bio has been dispatched. Also adjust slice_end. It might happen
+ * that initially cgroup limit was very low resulting in high
+ * slice_end, but later limit was bumped up and bio was dispached
+ * sooner, then we need to reduce slice_end. A high bogus slice_end
+ * is bad because it does not allow new slice to start.
+ */
+
+ throtl_set_slice_end(td, tg, rw, jiffies + throtl_slice);
+
time_elapsed = jiffies - tg->slice_start[rw];
nr_slices = time_elapsed / throtl_slice;