Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:41:33 +0900 (JST) | Subject | Implementation of dm-ioband as a dm-driver (Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] dm-ioband: I/O bandwidth controller v1.10.0: Source code and patch) | From | Ryo Tsuruta <> |
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Hi Vivek,
This mail is about implement IO controller as a dm-driver.
> In this case first you are forcing some functionalilty to go in a kernel > module and then coming up with tools for configuration. I never understood > that why don't you let the controller be inside the kernel, let it > directly interact with cgroup subsystem and work instead of first taking > the functionality out of kernel in a module and then justifying the case > that now we need new ways of configuring that module because cgroup > infrastructure is not sufficient.
It is possible the algorithm of dm-ioband can be directly implemented in the kernel. I've been investigating how to do it.
> > > - Need of a dm device for every device we want to control > > > > > > - This requirement looks odd. It forces everybody to use dm-tools > > > and if there are lots of disks in the system, configuation is > > > pain. > > > > I don't think it's so pain. I think you are already using LVM devices on > > your boxes. Setting up dm-ioband is the same as that for LVM. And some > > scripts or something similar will help you set up them. > > Not everybody uses LVM. Balbir had asked once, if there are thousands of > disks in the system, does that mean I need to create this dm-ioband device > for all the disks?
I think it could be easily done by a small script of several lines.
Thanks, Ryo Tsuruta
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