Re: [RFC] IO scheduler based IO controller V6

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Wed Jul 08 2009 - 09:42:31 EST


On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:26:21AM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> * Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> [2009-07-02 16:01:32]:
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Here is the V6 of the IO controller patches generated on top of 2.6.31-rc1.
> >
> > Previous versions of the patches was posted here.
> >
> > (V1) http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/11/486
> > (V2) http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/5/275
> > (V3) http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/26/472
> > (V4) http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/8/580
> > (V5) http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/19/279
> >
> > This patchset is still work in progress but I want to keep on getting the
> > snapshot of my tree out at regular intervals to get the feedback hence V6.
> >
>
> Hi, Vivek,
>
> I was able to compile and boot a 2.6.31-rc1 kernel with this patchset.
> I have a request could you fold up all patches and make one
> consolidated patch available somewhere (makes it easier to test), may
> be a git tree?
>

Thanks for trying it out balbir. Ok, for ease of patching and testing, I
will also maintain a consolidated patch. For V6 you can download the patch
from here.

http://people.redhat.com/~vgoyal/io-controller/io-scheduler-based-io-controller-v6.patch

> I did some quick tests with some io benchmarks and found in a simple
> scenario that the scheduler worked as expected, except that it took
> very long. I'll investigate further and revert back.

Thanks. I will wait for details.

Vivek
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