Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:36:49 +0530 | From | Dhaval Giani <> | Subject | Re: Regarding dm-ioband tests |
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> > - dm-ioband can use without cgroup. (I remember Vivek said it's not an > > advantage.) > > I think this is more of a disadvantage than advantage. We have a very well > defined functionality of cgroup in kernel to group the tasks. Now you are > coming up with your own method of grouping the tasks which will make life > even more confusing for users and application writers. >
I would tend to agree with this. With other resource management controllers using cgroups, having dm-ioband use something different will require a different set of userspace tools/libraries to be used. Something that will severly limit its usefulness froma programmer's perspective.
thanks, -- regards, Dhaval
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