blk-iocost: revamp debt handling
Debt handling had several issues. * How much inuse a debtor carries wasn't clearly defined. inuse would be driven down over time from not issuing IOs but it'd be better to clamp it to minimum immediately once in debt. * How much can be paid off was determined by hweight_inuse. As inuse was driven down, the payment amount would fall together regardless of the debtor's active weight. This means that the debtors were punished harshly. * ioc_rqos_merge() wasn't calling blkcg_schedule_throttle() after iocg_kick_delay(). This patch revamps debt handling so that * Debt handling owns inuse for iocgs in debt and keeps them at zero. * Payment amount is determined by hweight_active. This is more deterministic and safer than hweight_inuse but still far from ideal in that it doesn't factor in possible donations from other iocgs for debt payments. This likely needs further improvements in the future. * iocg_rqos_merge() now calls blkcg_schedule_throttle() as necessary. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Newell <newella@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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