Re: [PATCH 29.5/32] blk-throttle: add throtl_qnode for dispatchfairness

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon May 06 2013 - 14:35:20 EST


On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:00:06PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 05:50:44PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> [..]
> > + * qnode_on_self is used when bios are directly queued to this
> > + * throtl_grp so that local bios compete fairly with bios
> > + * dispatched from children. qnode_on_parent is used when bios are
> > + * dispatched from this throtl_grp into its parent and will compete
> > + * with the sibling qnode_on_parents and the parent's
> > + * qnode_on_self.
> > + */
> > + struct throtl_qnode qnode_on_self;
> > + struct throtl_qnode qnode_on_parent;
>
> Do we need one throtl_qnode for each IO dir (read/write) so that we can
> queue up the right direction throtl_node in right sq->queued[rw].

Yes, we do. Thanks for spotting it. Will post an updated version soon.

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tejun
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