Re: [RFC 3/3] blk-throttling: detect inactive cgroup

From: Shaohua Li
Date: Thu Jan 21 2016 - 16:05:59 EST


On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 03:44:05PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 09:49:19AM -0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > If a cgroup is inactive for some time, it should be excluded from
> > bandwidth calculation.
>
> I am not sure why do we require this patch. If group is inactive, it
> will not be on service tree and will not contribute to weight hence
> will not contrinute to share.

The share calculation is based on existing cgroups (with this patch,
existing active cgroups). a cgroup is on service tree when it has pending
bios, right? Not having pending bios isn't a condition we should exclude
a cgroup.

Thanks,
Shaohua