It looks like a bug on cgroup writeback. Is this a regression or consistent issue? If it's a regression, you may could do bisect to find out the buggy commit.
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:19 PM, zhong jiang <zhongji...@huawei.com> wrote: > cgroup writeback support the filesystem both ext4 and ext2. > but, it appears to be not work when I test the function in the ext4. > The example is as follows: > echo "8:0 1048576" > blkio.throttle.write_bps_device > echo $$ > cgroup.procs > dd if=/dev/zero of=/test.c bs=1M count=10240 > 10240+0 records in > 10240+0 records out > 10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 49.8796 s, 215 MB/s > > Furthering test find that the ratelimit will be limited if it write data > to disk directly. Additionly, The read ratelimit is limited whther it go > through > the page cache or not. > > The kernel version is 4.6 I have tested, And the corresponding files > in the attachment -- Thanks Alex