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Message-ID: <166fe7950808051106m3fd9751aw32f8d577cf24d1e9@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:06:30 -0700
From: "Ranjit Manomohan" <ranjitm@...gle.com>
To: subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: ltp-list <ltp-list@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
Sudhir <sudhirkumarmalik@...ibm.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, menage@...gle.com, kaber@...sh.net,
"Balbir Singh" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 0/0] Traffic control cgroups subsystem
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Subrata Modak
<subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 05:18 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
>> Hi Ranjit,
>>
>> Good to see these Traffic control patches for the Linux kernel. Let me
>> take this opportunity to convey that we have:
>>
>> 1) CPU & Memory controller test cases (the corresponding features are
>> already in mainline kernel),
>> 2) The I/O bandwidth controller test cases (corresponding
>> infrastructure proposed by Andrea, but still not in any kernel tree)
>>
>> in LTP (http://ltp.sourceforge.net/).
>>
>> Could you kindly let me know if you have developed similar test cases
>> for your Traffic control features, and, if they can be contributed to
>> LTP under GPL.
>
> Ranjit,
>
> Would you like to tell us something on the test cases for this ?
Subrata,
We have some internal test cases but not under LTP. Let me take a
look at the existing LTP infrastructure and see if these can be ported
over.
-Thanks,
Ranjit
>
> Regards--
> Subrata
>
>>
>> Regards--
>> Subrata
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Ranjit Manomohan <ranjitm@...gle.com>
>> wrote:
>> [Take 4] incorporated additional comments from Patrick McHardy
>>
>> This patch provides a simple resource controller (cgroup_tc)
>> based on the
>> cgroups infrastructure to manage network traffic. The
>> cgroup_tc resource
>> controller can be used to schedule and shape traffic belonging
>> to the task(s)
>> in a particular cgroup.
>>
>> The implementation consists of two parts:
>>
>> 1) A resource controller (cgroup_tc) that is used to associate
>> packets from
>> a particular task belonging to a cgroup with a traffic
>> control class id (
>> tc_classid). This tc_classid is propagated to all sockets
>> created by tasks
>> in the cgroup and will be used for classifying packets at
>> the link layer.
>>
>> 2) A new traffic control classifier (cls_cgroup) that can
>> classify packets
>> based on the tc_classid field in the socket to specific
>> destination classes.
>>
>> An example of the use of this resource controller would be to
>> limit
>> the traffic from all tasks from a file_server cgroup to
>> 100Mbps. We could
>> achieve this by doing:
>>
>> # make a cgroup of file transfer processes and assign it a
>> arbitrary unique
>> # classid of 0x1234 - this will be used later to direct
>> packets.
>> mkdir -p /dev/cgroup
>> mount -t cgroup tc -otc /dev/cgroup
>> mkdir /dev/cgroup/file_transfer
>> echo 0x1234 > /dev/cgroup/file_transfer/tc.classid
>> echo $PID_OF_FILE_XFER_PROCESS
>> > /dev/cgroup/file_transfer/tasks
>>
>> # Now create a HTB class that rate limits traffic to 100mbits
>> and attach
>> # a filter to direct all traffic from cgroup file_transfer to
>> this new class.
>> tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: htb
>> tc class add dev eth0 parent 1: classid 1:10 htb rate 100mbit
>> ceil 100mbit
>> tc filter add dev eth0 parent 1: handle 800 protocol ip prio 1
>> cgroup value 0x1234 classid 1:10
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ranjit Manomohan <ranjitm@...gle.com>
>>
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>> Subrata
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