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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | block/blk-cgroup.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | block/blk-throttle.c | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/cgroup.h | 2 |
4 files changed, 38 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt index da272c8f44e..cd556b91478 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt @@ -94,11 +94,13 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy Hierarchical Cgroups ==================== -- Currently only CFQ supports hierarchical groups. For throttling, - cgroup interface does allow creation of hierarchical cgroups and - internally it treats them as flat hierarchy. - If somebody created a hierarchy like as follows. +Both CFQ and throttling implement hierarchy support; however, +throttling's hierarchy support is enabled iff "sane_behavior" is +enabled from cgroup side, which currently is a development option and +not publicly available. + +If somebody created a hierarchy like as follows. root / \ @@ -106,21 +108,20 @@ Hierarchical Cgroups | test3 - CFQ will handle the hierarchy correctly but and throttling will - practically treat all groups at same level. For details on CFQ - hierarchy support, refer to Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt. - Throttling will treat the hierarchy as if it looks like the - following. +CFQ by default and throttling with "sane_behavior" will handle the +hierarchy correctly. For details on CFQ hierarchy support, refer to +Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt. For throttling, all limits apply +to the whole subtree while all statistics are local to the IOs +directly generated by tasks in that cgroup. + +Throttling without "sane_behavior" enabled from cgroup side will +practically treat all groups at same level as if it looks like the +following. pivot / / \ \ root test1 test2 test3 - Nesting cgroups, while allowed, isn't officially supported and blkio - genereates warning when cgroups nest. Once throttling implements - hierarchy support, hierarchy will be supported and the warning will - be removed. - Various user visible config options =================================== CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c index d0747605f56..290792a13e3 100644 --- a/block/blk-cgroup.c +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c @@ -911,14 +911,6 @@ struct cgroup_subsys blkio_subsys = { .subsys_id = blkio_subsys_id, .base_cftypes = blkcg_files, .module = THIS_MODULE, - - /* - * blkio subsystem is utterly broken in terms of hierarchy support. - * It treats all cgroups equally regardless of where they're - * located in the hierarchy - all cgroups are treated as if they're - * right below the root. Fix it and remove the following. - */ - .broken_hierarchy = true, }; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blkio_subsys); diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c index 27f006bb363..08a32dfd384 100644 --- a/block/blk-throttle.c +++ b/block/blk-throttle.c @@ -397,10 +397,30 @@ static void throtl_pd_init(struct blkcg_gq *blkg) { struct throtl_grp *tg = blkg_to_tg(blkg); struct throtl_data *td = blkg->q->td; + struct throtl_service_queue *parent_sq; unsigned long flags; int rw; - throtl_service_queue_init(&tg->service_queue, &td->service_queue); + /* + * If sane_hierarchy is enabled, we switch to properly hierarchical + * behavior where limits on a given throtl_grp are applied to the + * whole subtree rather than just the group itself. e.g. If 16M + * read_bps limit is set on the root group, the whole system can't + * exceed 16M for the device. + * + * If sane_hierarchy is not enabled, the broken flat hierarchy + * behavior is retained where all throtl_grps are treated as if + * they're all separate root groups right below throtl_data. + * Limits of a group don't interact with limits of other groups + * regardless of the position of the group in the hierarchy. + */ + parent_sq = &td->service_queue; + + if (cgroup_sane_behavior(blkg->blkcg->css.cgroup) && blkg->parent) + parent_sq = &blkg_to_tg(blkg->parent)->service_queue; + + throtl_service_queue_init(&tg->service_queue, parent_sq); + for (rw = READ; rw <= WRITE; rw++) { throtl_qnode_init(&tg->qnode_on_self[rw], tg); throtl_qnode_init(&tg->qnode_on_parent[rw], tg); diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h index 5047355b9a0..09f1a1408ae 100644 --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h @@ -272,6 +272,8 @@ enum { * - memcg: use_hierarchy is on by default and the cgroup file for * the flag is not created. * + * - blkcg: blk-throttle becomes properly hierarchical. + * * The followings are planned changes. * * - release_agent will be disallowed once replacement notification |