On Jan 11, 2008 4:15 AM, Andrea Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allow to limit the bandwidth of I/O-intensive processes, like backup > tools running in background, large files copy, checksums on huge files, > etc. > > This kind of processes can noticeably impact the system responsiveness > for some time and playing with tasks' priority is not always an > acceptable solution. > > This patch allows to specify a maximum I/O rate in sectors per second > for each single process via /proc/<PID>/io_throttle (default is zero, > that specify no limit). > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, Andrea, We have been thinking of doing control group based I/O control. I have not reviewed your patch in detail. I can suggest looking at openvz's IO controller. I/O bandwidth control is definitely interesting. How did you test your solution? Balbir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
