blkio: Core implementation of throttle policy
o Actual implementation of throttling policy in block layer. Currently it
implements READ and WRITE bytes per second throttling logic. IOPS throttling
comes in later patches.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 2de5b1c..950ba26 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -634,11 +634,14 @@
Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
- to such task groups.
+ to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
+ block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
- One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it
- to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y).
+ One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
+ enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ seti
+ CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set
+ CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y.
See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.