Re: [PATCH] cgroup: limit block I/O bandwidth

From: Paul Menage
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 07:41:20 EST


On Jan 18, 2008 7:36 AM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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