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  pipe: set lower and upper limit on max pages in the pipe page array
  pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes
  drbd: This is now equivalent to drbd release 8.3.8rc1
  drbd: Do not free p_uuid early, this is done in the exit code of the receiver
  drbd: Null pointer deref fix to the large "multi bio rewrite"
  drbd: Fix: Do not detach, if a bio with a barrier fails
  drbd: Ensure to not trigger late-new-UUID creation multiple times
  drbd: Do not Oops when C_STANDALONE when uuid gets generated
  writeback: fix mixed up arguments to bdi_start_writeback()
  writeback: fix problem with !CONFIG_BLOCK compilation
  block: improve automatic native capacity unlocking
  block: use struct parsed_partitions *state universally in partition check code
  block,ide: simplify bdops->set_capacity() to ->unlock_native_capacity()
  block: restart partition scan after resizing a device
  buffer: make invalidate_bdev() drain all percpu LRU add caches
  block: remove all rcu head initializations
  writeback: fixups for !dirty_writeback_centisecs
  writeback: bdi_writeback_task() must set task state before calling schedule()
  writeback: ensure that WB_SYNC_NONE writeback with sb pinned is sync
  drivers/block/drbd: Use kzalloc
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151 changes: 133 additions & 18 deletions Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
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You can do a very simple testing of running two dd threads in two different
cgroups. Here is what you can do.

- Enable Block IO controller
CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=y

- Enable group scheduling in CFQ
CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y

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Various user visible config options
===================================
CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
- Enables group scheduling in CFQ. Currently only 1 level of group
creation is allowed.

CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED
- Enables some debugging messages in blktrace. Also creates extra
cgroup file blkio.dequeue.

Config options selected automatically
=====================================
These config options are not user visible and are selected/deselected
automatically based on IO scheduler configuration.

CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
- Block IO controller. Selected by CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED.
- Block IO controller.

CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
- Debug help. Selected by CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED.
- Debug help. Right now some additional stats file show up in cgroup
if this option is enabled.

CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
- Enables group scheduling in CFQ. Currently only 1 level of group
creation is allowed.

Details of cgroup files
=======================
- blkio.weight
- Specifies per cgroup weight.

- Specifies per cgroup weight. This is default weight of the group
on all the devices until and unless overridden by per device rule.
(See blkio.weight_device).
Currently allowed range of weights is from 100 to 1000.

- blkio.weight_device
- One can specify per cgroup per device rules using this interface.
These rules override the default value of group weight as specified
by blkio.weight.

Following is the format.

#echo dev_maj:dev_minor weight > /path/to/cgroup/blkio.weight_device
Configure weight=300 on /dev/sdb (8:16) in this cgroup
# echo 8:16 300 > blkio.weight_device
# cat blkio.weight_device
dev weight
8:16 300

Configure weight=500 on /dev/sda (8:0) in this cgroup
# echo 8:0 500 > blkio.weight_device
# cat blkio.weight_device
dev weight
8:0 500
8:16 300

Remove specific weight for /dev/sda in this cgroup
# echo 8:0 0 > blkio.weight_device
# cat blkio.weight_device
dev weight
8:16 300

- blkio.time
- disk time allocated to cgroup per device in milliseconds. First
two fields specify the major and minor number of the device and
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third field specifies the number of sectors transferred by the
group to/from the device.

- blkio.io_service_bytes
- Number of bytes transferred to/from the disk by the group. These
are further divided by the type of operation - read or write, sync
or async. First two fields specify the major and minor number of the
device, third field specifies the operation type and the fourth field
specifies the number of bytes.

- blkio.io_serviced
- Number of IOs completed to/from the disk by the group. These
are further divided by the type of operation - read or write, sync
or async. First two fields specify the major and minor number of the
device, third field specifies the operation type and the fourth field
specifies the number of IOs.

- blkio.io_service_time
- Total amount of time between request dispatch and request completion
for the IOs done by this cgroup. This is in nanoseconds to make it
meaningful for flash devices too. For devices with queue depth of 1,
this time represents the actual service time. When queue_depth > 1,
that is no longer true as requests may be served out of order. This
may cause the service time for a given IO to include the service time
of multiple IOs when served out of order which may result in total
io_service_time > actual time elapsed. This time is further divided by
the type of operation - read or write, sync or async. First two fields
specify the major and minor number of the device, third field
specifies the operation type and the fourth field specifies the
io_service_time in ns.

- blkio.io_wait_time
- Total amount of time the IOs for this cgroup spent waiting in the
scheduler queues for service. This can be greater than the total time
elapsed since it is cumulative io_wait_time for all IOs. It is not a
measure of total time the cgroup spent waiting but rather a measure of
the wait_time for its individual IOs. For devices with queue_depth > 1
this metric does not include the time spent waiting for service once
the IO is dispatched to the device but till it actually gets serviced
(there might be a time lag here due to re-ordering of requests by the
device). This is in nanoseconds to make it meaningful for flash
devices too. This time is further divided by the type of operation -
read or write, sync or async. First two fields specify the major and
minor number of the device, third field specifies the operation type
and the fourth field specifies the io_wait_time in ns.

- blkio.io_merged
- Total number of bios/requests merged into requests belonging to this
cgroup. This is further divided by the type of operation - read or
write, sync or async.

- blkio.io_queued
- Total number of requests queued up at any given instant for this
cgroup. This is further divided by the type of operation - read or
write, sync or async.

- blkio.avg_queue_size
- Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y.
The average queue size for this cgroup over the entire time of this
cgroup's existence. Queue size samples are taken each time one of the
queues of this cgroup gets a timeslice.

- blkio.group_wait_time
- Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y.
This is the amount of time the cgroup had to wait since it became busy
(i.e., went from 0 to 1 request queued) to get a timeslice for one of
its queues. This is different from the io_wait_time which is the
cumulative total of the amount of time spent by each IO in that cgroup
waiting in the scheduler queue. This is in nanoseconds. If this is
read when the cgroup is in a waiting (for timeslice) state, the stat
will only report the group_wait_time accumulated till the last time it
got a timeslice and will not include the current delta.

- blkio.empty_time
- Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y.
This is the amount of time a cgroup spends without any pending
requests when not being served, i.e., it does not include any time
spent idling for one of the queues of the cgroup. This is in
nanoseconds. If this is read when the cgroup is in an empty state,
the stat will only report the empty_time accumulated till the last
time it had a pending request and will not include the current delta.

- blkio.idle_time
- Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y.
This is the amount of time spent by the IO scheduler idling for a
given cgroup in anticipation of a better request than the exising ones
from other queues/cgroups. This is in nanoseconds. If this is read
when the cgroup is in an idling state, the stat will only report the
idle_time accumulated till the last idle period and will not include
the current delta.

- blkio.dequeue
- Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED=y. This
- Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y. This
gives the statistics about how many a times a group was dequeued
from service tree of the device. First two fields specify the major
and minor number of the device and third field specifies the number
of times a group was dequeued from a particular device.

- blkio.reset_stats
- Writing an int to this file will result in resetting all the stats
for that cgroup.

CFQ sysfs tunable
=================
/sys/block/<disk>/queue/iosched/group_isolation
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Expand Up @@ -77,29 +77,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
Protection. If in doubt, say N.

config BLK_CGROUP
tristate "Block cgroup support"
depends on CGROUPS
depends on CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
default n
---help---
Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
policies.

Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
to such task groups.

config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
bool
depends on BLK_CGROUP
default n
---help---
Enable some debugging help. Currently it stores the cgroup path
in the blk group which can be used by cfq for tracing various
group related activity.

endif # BLOCK

config BLOCK_COMPAT
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config IOSCHED_CFQ
tristate "CFQ I/O scheduler"
select BLK_CGROUP if CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
# If BLK_CGROUP is a module, CFQ has to be built as module.
depends on (BLK_CGROUP=m && m) || !BLK_CGROUP || BLK_CGROUP=y
default y
---help---
The CFQ I/O scheduler tries to distribute bandwidth equally
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This is the default I/O scheduler.

Note: If BLK_CGROUP=m, then CFQ can be built only as module.

config CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
bool "CFQ Group Scheduling support"
depends on IOSCHED_CFQ && CGROUPS
depends on IOSCHED_CFQ && BLK_CGROUP
default n
---help---
Enable group IO scheduling in CFQ.

config DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED
bool "Debug CFQ Scheduling"
depends on CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
select DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
default n
---help---
Enable CFQ IO scheduling debugging in CFQ. Currently it makes
blktrace output more verbose.

choice
prompt "Default I/O scheduler"
default DEFAULT_CFQ
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obj-$(CONFIG_BLOCK) := elevator.o blk-core.o blk-tag.o blk-sysfs.o \
blk-barrier.o blk-settings.o blk-ioc.o blk-map.o \
blk-exec.o blk-merge.o blk-softirq.o blk-timeout.o \
blk-iopoll.o ioctl.o genhd.o scsi_ioctl.o
blk-iopoll.o blk-lib.o ioctl.o genhd.o scsi_ioctl.o

obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG) += bsg.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP) += blk-cgroup.o
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