Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrea Righi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cgroup: limit block I/O bandwidth | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:02:49 +0100 (MET) |
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Paul Menage wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 7:36 AM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:41:03PM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote: >>> Allow to limit the block I/O bandwidth for specific process containers >>> (cgroups) imposing additional delays on I/O requests for those processes >>> that exceed the limits defined in the control group filesystem. >>> >>> Example: >>> # mkdir /dev/cgroup >>> # mount -t cgroup -oio-throttle io-throttle /dev/cgroup >> Just a minor nit, can't we name it as io, keeping in mind that other >> controllers are known as cpu and memory? > > Or maybe "blockio"?
Agree, blockio seems better. Not all I/O is performed on block devices and in this case we're considering block devices only.
-Andrea
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