> Il giorno 23 apr 2018, alle ore 08:35, jianchao.wang 
> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> 
> Hi Paolo
> 
> On 04/23/2018 01:32 PM, Paolo Valente wrote:
>> Thanks for sharing this fix.  I tried it too, but nothing changes in
>> my test :(> 
> 
> That's really sad.
> 
>> At this point, my doubt is still: am I getting io.low limit right?  I
>> understand that an I/O-bound group should be guaranteed a rbps at
>> least equal to the rbps set with io.low for that group (of course,
>> provided that the sum of io.low limits is lower than the rate at which
>> the device serves all the I/O generated by the groups).  Is this
>> really what io.low shall guarantee?
> 
> I agree with your point about this even if I'm not qualified to judge it.
> 

ok, thank for your feedback.

> On the other hand, could you share your test case and blk-throl config here ?
> 

I wrote the description of the test, and the way I made it (and so the way you 
can easily reproduce it exactly) in my first email. I'm repeating it here for 
your convenience.

With
- one group, the interfered, containing one process that does sequential
 reads with fio
- io.low set to 100MB/s for the interfered
- six other groups, the interferers, with each interferer containing one
 process doing sequential read with fio
- io.low set to 10MB/s for each interferer
- the workload executed on an SSD, with a 500MB/s of overall throughput
the interfered gets only 75MB/s.

In particular, the throughput of the interfered becomes lower and
lower as the number of interferers is increased.  So you can make it
become even much lower than the 75MB/s in the example above.  There
seems to be no control on bandwidth.

Am I doing something wrong?  Or did I simply misunderstand the goal of
io.low, and the only parameter for guaranteeing the desired bandwidth to
a group is io.max (to be used indirectly, by limiting the bandwidth of
the interferers)?

If useful for you, you can reproduce the above test very quickly, by
using the S suite [1] and typing:

cd thr-lat-with-interference
sudo ./thr-lat-with-interference.sh -b t -w 100000000 -W "10000000 10000000 
10000000 10000000 10000000 10000000" -n 6 -T "read read read read read read" -R 
"0 0 0 0 0 0"

[1] https://github.com/Algodev-github/S

> Thanks
> Jianchao

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