Re: RFC: I/O bandwidth controller

James.Smart@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote:
BTW as I said in a previous email, an interesting path to
be explored
IMHO could be to think in terms of IO time. So, look at the
time an IO
request is issued to the drive, look at the time the
request is served,
evaluate the difference and charge the consumed IO time to the
appropriate cgroup. Then dispatch IO requests in function of the
consumed IO time debts / credits, using for example a token-bucket
strategy. And probably the best place to implement the IO time
accounting is the elevator.
Please note that the seek time for a specific IO request is strongly
correlated with the IO requests that preceded it, which means that the
owner of that request is not the only one to blame if it
takes too long
to process it. In other words, with the algorithm you propose
we may end
up charging the wrong guy.

I assume all of these discussions are focused on simple storage - disks
direct attached to a single server - and are not targeted at SANs with
arrays, multi-initiator accesses, and fabric/network impacts. True ?
Such algorithms can be seriously off-base in these latter configurations.

Accounting the IO cost using time values should be in principle a
topology-agnostic solution, so it should work both for LUs from SAN,
magnetic disks, USB drive, optical drives, etc. because we're actually
looking at the time spent to execute each IO operation (and you don't
need to know the details of the particular IO operation, because you
automatically know the actual cost).

If you mean that trying to evaluate or even predict the cost of the seek
ops is so meaningful in those "complex" environments, well.. yes, in
this case I agree.

-Andrea
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