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Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:44:46 +0800
From:	Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
CC:	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Divyesh Shah <dpshah@...gle.com>,
	Nauman Rafique <nauman@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blk-cgroup: config options re-arrangement

Vivek Goyal wrote:
> This patch fixes few usability and configurability issues.
> 
> o All the cgroup based controller options are configurable from
>   "Genral Setup/Control Group Support/" menu. blkio is the only exception.
>   Hence make this option visible in above menu and make it configurable from
>   there to bring it inline with rest of the cgroup based controllers.
> 
> o Get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED.
> 
>   This option currently does two things.
> 
>   - Enable printing of cgroup paths in blktrace
>   - Enables CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP, which in turn displays additional stat
>     files in cgroup.
> 
>   If we are using group scheduling, blktrace data is of not really much use
>   if cgroup information is not present. To get this data, currently one has to
>   also enable CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED, which in turn brings the overhead of
>   all the additional debug stat files which is not desired.
> 
>   Hence, this patch moves printing of cgroup paths under
>   CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED.
> 
>   This allows us to get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED completely. Now all
>   the debug stat files are controlled only by CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP which
>   can be enabled through config menu.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>

This patch looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>

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