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Since IO can be issued from literally anywhere it's almost impossible to do throttling without having some sort of adverse effect somewhere else in the system because of locking or other dependencies. The best way to solve this is to do the throttling when we know we aren't holding any other kernel resources. Do this by tracking throttling in a per-blkg basis, and if we require throttling flag the task that it needs to check before it returns to user space and possibly sleep there. This is to address the case where a process is doing work that is generating IO that can't be throttled, whether that is directly with a lot of REQ_META IO, or indirectly by allocating so much memory that it is swamping the disk with REQ_SWAP. We can't use task_add_work as we don't want to induce a memory allocation in the IO path, so simply saving the request queue in the task and flagging it to do the notify_resume thing achieves the same result without the overhead of a memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.