Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-task I/O throttling | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:46:37 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 23:57 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > 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)?
I was considering a time scheduler, you can fill your time slot with seeks or data, it might be what CFQ does, but I've never even read the code.
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