From fe0714377ee2ca161bf2afb7773e22f15f1786d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vivek Goyal Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:49:49 +0200 Subject: blkio: Recalculate the throttled bio dispatch time upon throttle limit change o Currently any cgroup throttle limit changes are processed asynchronousy and the change does not take affect till a new bio is dispatched from same group. o It might happen that a user sets a redicuously low limit on throttling. Say 1 bytes per second on reads. In such cases simple operations like mount a disk can wait for a very long time. o Once bio is throttled, there is no easy way to come out of that wait even if user increases the read limit later. o This patch fixes it. Now if a user changes the cgroup limits, we recalculate the bio dispatch time according to new limits. o Can't take queueu lock under blkcg_lock, hence after the change I wake up the dispatch thread again which recalculates the time. So there are some variables being synchronized across two threads without lock and I had to make use of barriers. Hoping I have used barriers correctly. Any review of memory barrier code especially will help. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/cfq-iosched.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'block/cfq-iosched.c') diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c index 6845926..86338d5 100644 --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c @@ -951,8 +951,8 @@ static inline struct cfq_group *cfqg_of_blkg(struct blkio_group *blkg) return NULL; } -void -cfq_update_blkio_group_weight(struct blkio_group *blkg, unsigned int weight) +void cfq_update_blkio_group_weight(void *key, struct blkio_group *blkg, + unsigned int weight) { cfqg_of_blkg(blkg)->weight = weight; } -- cgit v1.1