linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2 V2] io-controller: Document for blkio.weight

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Message-ID: <4B8F62C7.10500@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:35:35 +0800
From:	Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>
To:	vgoyal@...hat.com, jens.axboe@...cle.com
CC:	Chad Talbott <ctalbott@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nauman Rafique <nauman@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2 V2] io-controller: Document for blkio.weight_device

Here is the document for blkio.weight_device

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>
---
 Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
index 630879c..dcd6bdc 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
 Details of cgroup files
 =======================
 - blkio.weight
-	- Specifies per cgroup weight.
+	- Specifies per cgroup weight. This is default weight of the group
+	  on all the devices until and unless overridden by per device rule.
+	  (See blkio.weight_device).
 
 	  Currently allowed range of weights is from 100 to 1000.
 
@@ -99,6 +101,37 @@ Details of cgroup files
 	  and minor number of the device and third field specifies the number
 	  of times a group was dequeued from a particular device.
 
+- blkio.weight_device
+	- One can specify per cgroup per device rules using this interface.
+	  These rules override the default value of group weight as specified
+	  by blkio.weight.
+
+	  Following is the format.
+
+	  #echo dev_maj:dev_minor weight > /patch/to/cgroup/blkio.weight_device
+
+	  weight=0 means removing weight on a given device.
+
+	  Examples:
+	  Configure weight=300 on /dev/sdb (8:16) in this cgroup
+	  # echo 8:16 300 > blkio.weight_device
+	  # cat blkio.weight_device
+	  dev     weight
+	  8:16    300
+
+	  Configure weight=500 on /dev/sda (8:0) in this cgroup
+	  # echo 8:0 500 > blkio.weight_device
+	  # cat blkio.weight_device
+	  dev     weight
+	  8:0     500
+	  8:16    300
+
+	  Remove specific weight for /dev/sda in this cgroup
+	  # echo 8:0 0 > blkio.weight_device
+	  # cat blkio.weight_device
+	  dev     weight
+	  8:16    300
+
 CFQ sysfs tunable
 =================
 /sys/block/<disk>/queue/iosched/group_isolation
-- 
1.5.4.rc3 



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