From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760832AbYALE7V (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:59:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757472AbYALE7M (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:59:12 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:36878 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757416AbYALE7M (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:59:12 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: righiandr@users.sourceforge.net Cc: Balbir Singh , LKML , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-task I/O throttling In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:32:49 +0100." <47879A32.8060508@users.sourceforge.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <47869FFE.1050000@users.sourceforge.net> <661de9470801110759h318347acw5f08c91b48ca742d@mail.gmail.com> <47879A32.8060508@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1200113861_2766P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:57:41 -0500 Message-ID: <3777.1200113861@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1200113861_2766P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:32:49 +0100, Andrea Righi said: > The interesting feature is that it allows to set a priority for each > process container, but AFAIK it doesn't allow to "partition" the > bandwidth between different containers (that would be a nice feature > IMHO). For example it would be great to be able to define per-container > limits, like assign 10MB/s for processes in container A, 30MB/s to > container B, 20MB/s to container C, etc. Has anybody considered allocating based on *seeks* rather than bytes moved, or counting seeks as "virtual bytes" for the purposes of accounting (if the disk can do 50mbytes/sec, and a seek takes 5millisecs, then count it as 100K of data)? --==_Exmh_1200113861_2766P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHiEjFcC3lWbTT17ARAmeuAKD6jYLikX635wJ2Z1oCMU4JiH58SQCfV5Cx AH0bnDayZ9BOm4CPoSvlNM0= =/+by -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1200113861_2766P--