Re: dm-ioband + bio-cgroup benchmarks

2008-09-29 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Hirokazu Takahashi wrote: > Hi, Andrea, > Ok, I will give more details of the thought process. I was thinking of maintaing an rb-tree per request queue and not an rb-tree per cgroup. This tree can contain all the bios submitted to that request queue through __make_request(

Re: [PATCH 0/6 v3] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-09-29 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Saturday 27 September 2008, Zhao, Yu wrote: > Greetings, > > Following patches are intended to support SR-IOV capability in the Linux > kernel. With these patches, people can turn a PCI device with the > capability into multiple ones from software perspective, which can benefit > KVM and achieve

Re: dm-ioband + bio-cgroup benchmarks

2008-09-29 Thread Hirokazu Takahashi
Hi, Andrea, > >> Ok, I will give more details of the thought process. > >> > >> I was thinking of maintaing an rb-tree per request queue and not an > >> rb-tree per cgroup. This tree can contain all the bios submitted to that > >> request queue through __make_request(). Every node in the tree will

Re: dm-ioband + bio-cgroup benchmarks

2008-09-29 Thread Hirokazu Takahashi
Hi, > > It's possible the algorithm of dm-ioband can be placed in the block > > layer > > if it is really a big problem. > > But I doubt it can control every control block I/O as we wish since > > the interface the cgroup supports is quite poor. > Had a question regarding