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Tejun Heo authored
A low weight iocg can amass a large amount of debt, for example, when anonymous memory gets reclaimed aggressively. If the system has a lot of memory paired with a slow IO device, the debt can span multiple seconds or more. If there are no other subsequent IO issuers, the in-debt iocg may end up blocked paying its debt while the IO device is idle. This patch implements a mechanism to protect against such pathological cases. If the device has been sufficiently idle for a substantial amount of time, the debts are halved. The criteria are on the conservative side as we want to resolve the rare extreme cases without impacting regular operation by forgiving debts too readily. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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