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SubjectRe: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller
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On 6/12/19 10:46 PM, Paolo Valente wrote:
>
>> Il giorno 12 giu 2019, alle ore 00:34, Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu> ha scritto:
>>
[...]
>>
>> Hi Paolo,
>>
>
> Hi
>
>> Hope you are doing great!
>>
>
> Sort of, thanks :)
>
>> I was wondering if you got a chance to post these patches to LKML for
>> review and inclusion... (No hurry, of course!)
>>
>
>
> I'm having troubles testing these new patches on 5.2-rc4. As it
> happened with the first release candidates for 5.1, the CPU of my test
> machine (Intel Core i7-2760QM@2.40GHz) is so slowed down that results
> are heavily distorted with every I/O scheduler.
>

Oh, that's unfortunate!

> Unfortunately, I'm not competent enough to spot the cause of this
> regression in a feasible amount of time. I hope it'll go away with
> next release candidates, or I'll test on 5.1.
>

Sounds good to me!

>> Also, since your fixes address the performance issues in BFQ, do you
>> have any thoughts on whether they can be adapted to CFQ as well, to
>> benefit the older stable kernels that still support CFQ?
>>
>
> I have implanted my fixes on the existing throughput-boosting
> infrastructure of BFQ. CFQ doesn't have such an infrastructure.
>
> If you need I/O control with older kernels, you may want to check my
> version of BFQ for legacy block, named bfq-sq and available in this
> repo:
> https://github.com/Algodev-github/bfq-mq/
>

Great! Thank you for sharing this!

> I'm willing to provide you with any information or help if needed.
>
Thank you!

Regards,
Srivatsa
VMware Photon OS

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