Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752669AbYAPLbx (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:31:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751613AbYAPLbo (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:31:44 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:34644 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751595AbYAPLbn (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:31:43 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Andrea Righi , Peter Zijlstra , LKML Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-uid/gid I/O throttling (was Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-task I/O throttling) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:15:41 +0530." <20080116104541.GB25724@balbir.in.ibm.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <47869FFE.1050000@users.sourceforge.net> <661de9470801110759h318347acw5f08c91b48ca742d@mail.gmail.com> <47879A32.8060508@users.sourceforge.net> <3777.1200113861@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1200131197.7999.14.camel@lappy> <20080112105702.GC25388@balbir.in.ibm.com> <1200136245.7999.20.camel@lappy> <4789006C.2030804@users.sourceforge.net> <20080113044607.GA13633@balbir.in.ibm.com> <478CE41F.5010401@users.sourceforge.net> <20080116104541.GB25724@balbir.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1200483031_2966P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:30:31 -0500 Message-ID: <13594.1200483031@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1281 Lines: 35 --==_Exmh_1200483031_2966P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:15:41 +0530, Balbir Singh said: > Thanks for doing this. I am going to review the patches in greater > detail and also test them. Why do you use configfs when we have a > control group filesystem available for grouping tasks and providing a > file system based interface for control and accounting? And here I thought "There's more than one way to do it" was the Perl slogan. :) An equally valid question would be: "Why are we carrying around a control group filesystem when we have configfs?" (Honestly, I didn't know we *were* carrying around such a filesystem - and quite likely Andrea Righi didn't either...) --==_Exmh_1200483031_2966P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHjerXcC3lWbTT17ARAntkAKCPu9b8VlzBWuLyPrvf9y/FdbZLBwCeIa+X sivo2BAT8rQke6HaxmQQW7I= =Ul4v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1200483031_2966P-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/