Re: Regarding dm-ioband tests
From: Dhaval Giani
Date: Tue Sep 08 2009 - 13:07:54 EST
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> - dm-ioband can use without cgroup. (I remember Vivek said it's not an
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> advantage.)
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I think this is more of a disadvantage than advantage. We have a very well
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defined functionality of cgroup in kernel to group the tasks. Now you are
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coming up with your own method of grouping the tasks which will make life
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even more confusing for users and application writers.
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I would tend to agree with this. With other resource management
controllers using cgroups, having dm-ioband use something different will
require a different set of userspace tools/libraries to be used.
Something that will severly limit its usefulness froma programmer's
perspective.
thanks,
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regards,
Dhaval
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