On Tuesday 14 August 2007 05:46, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > The throttling of the virtual device must begin in
> > generic_make_request and last to ->endio. You release the throttle
> > of the virtual device at the point you remap the bio to an
> > underlying device, which you have convinced your
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:32:29AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:50, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:35:43AM -0700, Daniel Phillips
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:30, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:50, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:35:43AM -0700, Daniel Phillips
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:30, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > > And it will not solve the deadlock problem in general. (Maybe
> > > > it works for y
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:35:43AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:30, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > And it will not solve the deadlock problem in general. (Maybe it
> > > works for your virtual device, but I wonder...) If the virtual
> > > device
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:30, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > And it will not solve the deadlock problem in general. (Maybe it
> > works for your virtual device, but I wonder...) If the virtual
> > device allocates memory during generic_make_request then the memory
> > needs to be throttled.
>
> D
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:13:10AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> On Tuesday 14 August 2007 01:46, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 06:04:06AM -0700, Daniel Phillips
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > Perhaps you never worried about the resources that the d
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 01:46, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 06:04:06AM -0700, Daniel Phillips
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Perhaps you never worried about the resources that the device
> > mapper mapping function allocates to handle each bio and so did not
> > consider thi
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 06:04:06AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Perhaps you never worried about the resources that the device mapper
> mapping function allocates to handle each bio and so did not consider
> this hole significant. These resources can be significant, as is
On Monday 13 August 2007 05:18, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > Say you have a device mapper device with some physical device
> > sitting underneath, the classic use case for this throttle code.
> > Say 8,000 threads each submit an IO in parallel. The device mapper
> > mapping function will be called
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 05:18:14AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> > If limit is for
> > 1gb of pending block io, and system has for example 2gbs of ram (or
> > any other resonable parameters), then there is no way we can deadlock
> > in allocation, since it will not force pag
On Monday 13 August 2007 05:04, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:04:26AM -0700, Daniel Phillips
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Monday 13 August 2007 01:14, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > > Oops, and there is also:
> > > >
> > > > 3) The bio throttle, which is supposed to prev
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:18:03AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> > No. Since all requests for virtual device end up in physical devices,
> > which have limits, this mechanism works. Virtual device will
> > essentially call either generic_make_request() for new physical
> > de
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:04:26AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> On Monday 13 August 2007 01:14, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > Oops, and there is also:
> > >
> > > 3) The bio throttle, which is supposed to prevent deadlock, can
> > > itself deadlock. Let me see if I can reme
On Monday 13 August 2007 01:23, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:36:23PM -0700, Daniel Phillips
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > (previous incomplete message sent accidentally)
> >
> > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:54, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:55:
On Monday 13 August 2007 01:14, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > Oops, and there is also:
> >
> > 3) The bio throttle, which is supposed to prevent deadlock, can
> > itself deadlock. Let me see if I can remember how it goes.
> >
> > * generic_make_request puts a bio in flight
> > * the bio gets pas
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:36:23PM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> (previous incomplete message sent accidentally)
>
> On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:54, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:55:38PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > So, what did we decide? To
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:44:00PM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Sunday 12 August 2007 22:36, I wrote:
> > Note! There are two more issues I forgot to mention earlier.
>
> Oops, and there is also:
>
> 3) The bio throttle, which is supposed to prevent deadlock, can itsel
On Sunday 12 August 2007 22:36, I wrote:
> Note! There are two more issues I forgot to mention earlier.
Oops, and there is also:
3) The bio throttle, which is supposed to prevent deadlock, can itself
deadlock. Let me see if I can remember how it goes.
* generic_make_request puts a bio in fl
(previous incomplete message sent accidentally)
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:54, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:55:38PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> So, what did we decide? To bloat bio a bit (add a queue pointer) or
> to use physical device limits? The latter requires to r
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:54, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:55:38PM +0200, Jens Axboe
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> So, what did we decide? To bloat bio a bit (add a queue pointer) or
> to use physical device limits? The latter requires to replace all
> occurence of bi
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