Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-uid/gid I/O throttling (was Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-task I/O throttling)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 07:49:02 EST


On Tue 2008-01-15 17:49:36, Andrea Righi wrote:
> Allow to limit the I/O bandwidth for specific uid(s) or gid(s) imposing
> additional delays on those processes that exceed the limits defined in a
> configfs tree.
>
> Examples:
>
> Limit the I/O bandwidth for user www-data (UID 33) to 4MB/s:
>
> root@linux:/config/io-throttle# mkdir uid:33
> root@linux:/config/io-throttle# cd uid:33/
> root@linux:/config/io-throttle/uid:33# cat io-rate
> io-rate: 0 KiB/sec
> requested: 0 KiB
> last_request: 0 jiffies
> delta: 388202 jiffies
> root@linux:/config/io-throttle/uid:33# echo 4096 > io-rate
> root@linux:/config/io-throttle/uid:33# cat io-rate
> io-rate: 4096 KiB/sec
> requested: 0 KiB
> last_request: 389271 jiffies
> delta: 91 jiffies
>
> Limit the I/O bandwidth of group backup (GID 34) to 512KB/s:

Maybe ionice from cfq should be improved, instead?
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