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** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Title:
  cgroup blkio throttle does not work on root group

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  from kernel document, 
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt
  ```
  Throttling/Upper Limit policy
  -----------------------------
  - Enable Block IO controller
        CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=y

  - Enable throttling in block layer
        CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y

  - Mount blkio controller (see cgroups.txt, Why are cgroups needed?)
          mount -t cgroup -o blkio none /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio

  - Specify a bandwidth rate on particular device for root group. The format
    for policy is "<major>:<minor>  <bytes_per_second>".

          echo "8:16  1048576" >
  /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device

    Above will put a limit of 1MB/second on reads happening for root group
    on device having major/minor number 8:16.

  - Run dd to read a file and see if rate is throttled to 1MB/s or not.

          # dd iflag=direct if=/mnt/common/zerofile of=/dev/null bs=4K 
count=1024
          1024+0 records in
          1024+0 records out
          4194304 bytes (4.2 MB) copied, 4.0001 s, 1.0 MB/s

   Limits for writes can be put using blkio.throttle.write_bps_device file.
  ```

  tested with ubuntu 16.04(xenial) and seems throttle not working, but
  on my virtual machine, ubuntu 14.04(trusty) works.

  ```
  ubuntu16.04(xenial)

  root@i-x3mn8m8i:~# lsblk
  NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
  vda 253:0 0 20G 0 disk
  `-vda1 253:1 0 20G 0 part /
  vdb 253:16 0 1G 0 disk [SWAP]
  root@i-x3mn8m8i:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=4k oflag=direct
  ^C16246+0 records in
  16246+0 records out
  66543616 bytes (67 MB, 63 MiB) copied, 3.15081 s, 21.1 MB/s

  root@i-x3mn8m8i:~# echo 253:0 1000 > 
/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.throttle.write_iops_device
  root@i-x3mn8m8i:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=4k oflag=direct
  ^C26702+0 records in
  26702+0 records out
  109371392 bytes (109 MB, 104 MiB) copied, 5.2413 s, 20.9 MB/s

  ubuntu14.04(trusty)

  root@i-ulhx27oo:~# lsblk
  NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
  vda 253:0 0 20G 0 disk
  `-vda1 253:1 0 20G 0 part /
  vdb 253:16 0 1G 0 disk [SWAP]

  root@i-ulhx27oo:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=4k oflag=direct
  ^C27679+0 records in
  27679+0 records out
  113373184 bytes (113 MB) copied, 5.43766 s, 20.8 MB/s

  root@i-ulhx27oo:~# echo 253:0 1000 > 
/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.throttle.write_iops_device
  root@i-ulhx27oo:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=4k oflag=direct
  ^C7553+0 records in
  7553+0 records out
  30937088 bytes (31 MB) copied, 7.60268 s, 4.1 MB/s
  ```

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