Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754101Ab1BGPm4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:42:56 -0500 Received: from g6t0186.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.63]:12675 "EHLO g6t0186.atlanta.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752428Ab1BGPmz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:42:55 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 496 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:42:55 EST From: "Haefliger, Juerg" To: "vgoyal@redhat.com" , LKML Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:33:38 +0000 Subject: Block IO throttling disabled in distros Thread-Topic: Block IO throttling disabled in distros Thread-Index: AcvG3GPYzq6r1tPPQBCysfqUZ/+r/g== Message-ID: <59DD1BA8FD3C0F4C90771C18F2B5B53A653FF7284B@GVW0432EXB.americas.hpqcorp.net> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 535 Lines: 12 Hi, Both RHEL6 and Ubuntu 10.10 have block IO throttling disabled in their kernels. Does anybody know why that is? Are there performance or stability issues with the throttling controller or does it somehow negatively interfere with the rest of the kernel and/or system? Thanks ...Juerg -- 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/