[Devel] Re: [patch 0/4] [RFC] Another proportional weight IO controller

[Gui Jianfeng]

vgoyal at redhat.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If you are not already tired of so many io controller implementations, here
> is another one.
> 
> This is a very eary very crude implementation to get early feedback to see
> if this approach makes any sense or not.
> 
> This controller is a proportional weight IO controller primarily
> based on/inspired by dm-ioband. One of the things I personally found little
> odd about dm-ioband was need of a dm-ioband device for every device we want
> to control.  I thought that probably we can make this control per request
> queue and get rid of device mapper driver. This should make configuration
> aspect easy.
> 
> I have picked up quite some amount of code from dm-ioband especially for
> biocgroup implementation.
> 
> I have done very basic testing and that is running 2-3 dd commands in different
> cgroups on x86_64. Wanted to throw out the code early to get some feedback.
> 
> More details about the design and how to are in documentation patch.
> 
> Your comments are welcome.

  Which kernel version is this patch set based on?

> 
> Thanks
> Vivek
> 

-- 
Regards
Gui Jianfeng

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