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From: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
To: Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@gmail.com>
Cc: "zhaoyang.huang" <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
	Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	steve.kang@unisoc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 1/1] block: introduce content activity based ioprio
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:53:45 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8be6eb7-05de-49a0-bdc0-b4d16dfe2966@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGWkznHk2GBrpc6w1az5Q59xj5BoVNrCoD4c=BQ4Jqe2QmkoVg@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/30/24 22:28, Zhaoyang Huang wrote:
>> That information does not belong to the ioprio. And which scheduler acts on a
>> number of pages anyway ? The scheduler sees requests and BIOs. It can determine
>> the number of pages they have if that is an information it needs to make
>> scheduling decisison. Using ioprio to pass that information down is a dirty hack.
> No. IO scheduler acts on IOPRIO_CLASS which is transferred from the
> page's activity by the current method. I will implement another
> version of iterating pages before submit_bio and feed back to the list

Then why are you modifying the ioprio user API to add the 7 bits of activity ?
If the scheduler only needs the priority class, then only set that and do not
touch the user facing API.

-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research



  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-30 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-30  8:42 zhaoyang.huang
2024-01-30  9:17 ` Damien Le Moal
2024-01-30 12:43   ` Zhaoyang Huang
2024-01-30 13:17     ` Damien Le Moal
2024-01-30 13:28       ` Zhaoyang Huang
2024-01-30 13:53         ` Damien Le Moal [this message]
2024-01-30 13:52 ` Matthew Wilcox

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