[Devel] [PATCH RFC] fsio: filesystem io accounting cgroup

[Konstantin Khlebnikov]

Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Another major problem with this concept is that it lumps all I/O's
> into a single cgroup.  So I/O's from pseudo filesystems (such as
> reading from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe), networked file
> systems such as NFS, and I/O to various different block devices all
> get counted in a single per-cgroup limit.
>
> This doesn't seem terribly useful to me.  Network resources and block
> resources are quite different, and counting pseudo file systems and
> ram disks makes no sense at all.

Yep, I know it. I've already mentioned about this as first planned improvement:

|* Split bdi into several tiers and account them separately. For example:
|  hdd/ssd/usb/nfs. In complicated containerized environments that might be
|  different kinds of storages with different limits and billing. This is more
|  usefull that independent per-disk accounting and much easier to implement
|  because all per-tier structures are allocated before disk appearance.

Accounting each BDI separately doesn't very useful too, so I've chosen
something in the middle.

>
> Regards,
>
> 					- Ted
>
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