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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2013-05-15 00:52:38 +0400 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2013-05-15 00:52:38 +0400 |
| commit | 9138125beabbb76b4a373d4a619870f6f5d86fc5 (patch) | |
| tree | 61ccabf042ff21b81c6dcd074ea8edeb77fedfa8 /Documentation/cgroups | |
| parent | 693e751e70843c29884cde326016e746fa16073a (diff) | |
| download | linux-9138125beabbb76b4a373d4a619870f6f5d86fc5.tar.xz | |
blk-throttle: implement proper hierarchy support
With the recent updates, blk-throttle is finally ready for proper
hierarchy support. Dispatching now honors service_queue->parent_sq
and propagates correctly. The only thing missing is setting
->parent_sq correctly so that throtl_grp hierarchy matches the cgroup
hierarchy.
This patch updates throtl_pd_init() such that service_queues form the
same hierarchy as the cgroup hierarchy if sane_behavior is enabled.
As this concludes proper hierarchy support for blkcg, the shameful
.broken_hierarchy tag is removed from blkio_subsys.
v2: Updated blkio-controller.txt as suggested by Vivek.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt | 29 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt index da272c8f44e7..cd556b914786 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt @@ -94,11 +94,13 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy Hierarchical Cgroups ==================== -- Currently only CFQ supports hierarchical groups. For throttling, - cgroup interface does allow creation of hierarchical cgroups and - internally it treats them as flat hierarchy. - If somebody created a hierarchy like as follows. +Both CFQ and throttling implement hierarchy support; however, +throttling's hierarchy support is enabled iff "sane_behavior" is +enabled from cgroup side, which currently is a development option and +not publicly available. + +If somebody created a hierarchy like as follows. root / \ @@ -106,21 +108,20 @@ Hierarchical Cgroups | test3 - CFQ will handle the hierarchy correctly but and throttling will - practically treat all groups at same level. For details on CFQ - hierarchy support, refer to Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt. - Throttling will treat the hierarchy as if it looks like the - following. +CFQ by default and throttling with "sane_behavior" will handle the +hierarchy correctly. For details on CFQ hierarchy support, refer to +Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt. For throttling, all limits apply +to the whole subtree while all statistics are local to the IOs +directly generated by tasks in that cgroup. + +Throttling without "sane_behavior" enabled from cgroup side will +practically treat all groups at same level as if it looks like the +following. pivot / / \ \ root test1 test2 test3 - Nesting cgroups, while allowed, isn't officially supported and blkio - genereates warning when cgroups nest. Once throttling implements - hierarchy support, hierarchy will be supported and the warning will - be removed. - Various user visible config options =================================== CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP |