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    • Jeff Moyer's avatar
      iosched: prevent aliased requests from starving other I/O · 796d5116
      Jeff Moyer authored
      Hi, Jens,
      
      If you recall, I posted an RFC patch for this back in July of last year:
      http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/13/279
      
      The basic problem is that a process can issue a never-ending stream of
      async direct I/Os to the same sector on a device, thus starving out
      other I/O in the system (due to the way the alias handling works in both
      cfq and deadline).  The solution I proposed back then was to start
      dispatching from the fifo after a certain number of aliases had been
      dispatched.  Vivek asked why we had to treat aliases differently at all,
      and I never had a good answer.  So, I put together a simple patch which
      allows aliases to be added to the rb tree (it adds them to the right,
      though that doesn't matter as the order isn't guaranteed anyway).  I
      think this is the preferred solution, as it doesn't break up time slices
      in CFQ or batches in deadline.  I've tested it, and it does solve the
      starvation issue.  Let me know what you think.
      
      Cheers,
      Jeff
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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