On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:03:55PM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> Hi Vivek,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Here is another posting for IO controller patches. Last time I had posted
> > RFC patches for an IO controller which did bio control per cgroup.
> 
> 
> Did you develop any tests to test them ? if yes, can you kindly share them
> with LTP ?
> 

Hi Subrata,

Not yet. I am still in eary phases of development of IO controller. Once
patches are in little bit decent shapes, I can spend some time on test
cases. That time I will contribute the tests to LTP.

Thanks
Vivek

> Regards--
> Subrata
> 
> 
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/6/227
> >
> > One of the takeaway from the discussion in this thread was that let us
> > implement a common layer which contains the proportional weight scheduling
> > code which can be shared by all the IO schedulers.
> >
> > Implementing IO controller will not cover the devices which don't use
> > IO schedulers but it should cover the common case.
> >
> > There were more discussions regarding 2 level vs 1 level IO control at
> > following link.
> >
> >
> > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-January/015402.html
> >
> > So in the mean time we took the discussion off the list and spent time on
> > making the 1 level control apporoach work where majority of the
> > proportional
> > weight control is shared by the four schedulers instead of each one having
> > to replicate the code. We make use of BFQ code for fair queuing as posted
> > by Paolo and Fabio here.
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/11/148
> >
> > Details about design and howto have been put in documentation patch.
> >
> > I have done very basic testing of running 2 or 3 "dd" threads in different
> > cgroups. Wanted to get the patchset out for feedback/review before we dive
> > into more bug fixing, benchmarking, optimizations etc.
> >
> > Your feedback/comments are welcome.
> >
> > Patch series contains 10 patches. It should be compilable and bootable
> > after
> > every patch. Intial 2 patches implement flat fair queuing (no cgroup
> > support) and make cfq to use that. Later patches introduce hierarchical
> > fair queuing support in elevator layer and modify other IO schdulers to use
> > that.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Vivek
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> 
> 
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> Regards & Thanks--
> Subrata

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