Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760778AbYARMg1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:36:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757005AbYARMgT (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:36:19 -0500 Received: from e28smtp01.in.ibm.com ([59.145.155.1]:40921 "EHLO e28smtp01.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756931AbYARMgS (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:36:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:06:05 +0530 From: Dhaval Giani To: Andrea Righi Cc: Balbir Singh , Paul Menage , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: limit block I/O bandwidth Message-ID: <20080118123605.GB14339@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: Dhaval Giani References: <4790904F.5000101@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4790904F.5000101@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 805 Lines: 23 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 -- 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/