linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cgroup: limit block I/O bandwidth

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Message-ID: <20080118123605.GB14339@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:06:05 +0530
From:	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrea Righi <righiandr@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: limit block I/O bandwidth

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?

Will try it out and give some more feedback.

Thanks,
-- 
regards,
Dhaval
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