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authorJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>2018-07-03 11:15:01 -0400
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2018-07-09 09:07:54 -0600
commitd70675121546c35feaceebf7ed9caed8716640f3 (patch)
tree66a4546af8921f4298d9d411c6f71f40c78a4807 /block/Kconfig
parent67b42d0bf7a8fd1ec0cf1acdc9550e688d7c8578 (diff)
block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller
Current IO controllers for the block layer are less than ideal for our use case. The io.max controller is great at hard limiting, but it is not work conserving. This patch introduces io.latency. You provide a latency target for your group and we monitor the io in short windows to make sure we are not exceeding those latency targets. This makes use of the rq-qos infrastructure and works much like the wbt stuff. There are a few differences from wbt - It's bio based, so the latency covers the whole block layer in addition to the actual io. - We will throttle all IO types that comes in here if we need to. - We use the mean latency over the 100ms window. This is because writes can be particularly fast, which could give us a false sense of the impact of other workloads on our protected workload. - By default there's no throttling, we set the queue_depth to INT_MAX so that we can have as many outstanding bio's as we're allowed to. Only at throttle time do we pay attention to the actual queue depth. - We backcharge cgroups for root cg issued IO and induce artificial delays in order to deal with cases like metadata only or swap heavy workloads. In testing this has worked out relatively well. Protected workloads will throttle noisy workloads down to 1 io at time if they are doing normal IO on their own, or induce up to a 1 second delay per syscall if they are doing a lot of root issued IO (metadata/swap IO). Our testing has revolved mostly around our production web servers where we have hhvm (the web server application) in a protected group and everything else in another group. We see slightly higher requests per second (RPS) on the test tier vs the control tier, and much more stable RPS across all machines in the test tier vs the control tier. Another test we run is a slow memory allocator in the unprotected group. Before this would eventually push us into swap and cause the whole box to die and not recover at all. With these patches we see slight RPS drops (usually 10-15%) before the memory consumer is properly killed and things recover within seconds. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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@@ -149,6 +149,18 @@ config BLK_WBT
dynamically on an algorithm loosely based on CoDel, factoring in
the realtime performance of the disk.
+config BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY
+ bool "Enable support for latency based cgroup IO protection"
+ depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ Enabling this option enables the .latency interface for IO throttling.
+ The IO controller will attempt to maintain average IO latencies below
+ the configured latency target, throttling anybody with a higher latency
+ target than the victimized group.
+
+ Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday.
+
config BLK_WBT_SQ
bool "Single queue writeback throttling"
default n