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>
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