Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 0/4] [RFC] Another proportional weight IO controller | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:49:53 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 10:30 -0500, vgoyal@redhat.com wrote: > Hi, > > If you are not already tired of so many io controller implementations, here > is another one. > > This is a very eary very crude implementation to get early feedback to see > if this approach makes any sense or not. > > This controller is a proportional weight IO controller primarily > based on/inspired by dm-ioband. One of the things I personally found little > odd about dm-ioband was need of a dm-ioband device for every device we want > to control. I thought that probably we can make this control per request > queue and get rid of device mapper driver. This should make configuration > aspect easy. > > I have picked up quite some amount of code from dm-ioband especially for > biocgroup implementation. > > I have done very basic testing and that is running 2-3 dd commands in different > cgroups on x86_64. Wanted to throw out the code early to get some feedback. > > More details about the design and how to are in documentation patch. > > Your comments are welcome.
please include
QUILT_REFRESH_ARGS="--diffstat --strip-trailing-whitespace"
in your environment or .quiltrc
I would expect all those bio* files to be placed in block/ not mm/
Does this still require I use dm, or does it also work on regular block devices? Patch 4/4 isn't quite clear on this.
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