Hello, Parav.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:17:42PM +0530, Parav Pandit wrote:

IO controller and applications are mature in nature.
When IO controller throttles the IO, applications are pretty mature
where if IO takes longer to complete, there is possibly almost no way
to cancel the system call or rather application might not want to
cancel the IO at least the non asynchronous one.

I was more talking about the fact that they allow resources to be
consumed when they aren't contended.

So application just notice lower performance than throttled way.
Its really not possible at RDMA level with RDMA resource to hold up
resource creation call for longer time, because reusing existing
resource with failed status can likely to give better performance.
As Doug explained in his example, many RDMA resources as its been used
by applications are relatively long lived. So holding ups resource
creation while its taken by other process will certainly will look bad
on application performance front compare to returning failure and
reusing existing one once its available or once new one is available.

I'm not really sold on the idea that this can be used to implement
performance based resource distribution.  I'll write more about that
on the other subthread.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun