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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:41:03 -0500
From: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
To: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: limit block I/O bandwidth
Cc: "Andrea Righi" <righiandr@users.sourceforge.net>,
       "Balbir Singh" <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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On Jan 18, 2008 7:36 AM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 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?

Or maybe "blockio"?

Paul
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