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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>2010-04-26 13:27:56 -0400
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2010-04-26 13:27:56 -0400
commitafc24d49c1e5dbeef745c1c1246f5ae6ebd97c71 (patch)
treec936676ed21d032bf1d27f9ff1451f6242c8b3b6 /Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
parente5ff082e8a68d9a6874990597497c7e6a96ad752 (diff)
blk-cgroup: config options re-arrangement
This patch fixes few usability and configurability issues. o All the cgroup based controller options are configurable from "Genral Setup/Control Group Support/" menu. blkio is the only exception. Hence make this option visible in above menu and make it configurable from there to bring it inline with rest of the cgroup based controllers. o Get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED. This option currently does two things. - Enable printing of cgroup paths in blktrace - Enables CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP, which in turn displays additional stat files in cgroup. If we are using group scheduling, blktrace data is of not really much use if cgroup information is not present. To get this data, currently one has to also enable CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED, which in turn brings the overhead of all the additional debug stat files which is not desired. Hence, this patch moves printing of cgroup paths under CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED. This allows us to get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED completely. Now all the debug stat files are controlled only by CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP which can be enabled through config menu. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com> Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
index d422b410a995..48e0b21b0059 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ HOWTO
17You can do a very simple testing of running two dd threads in two different 17You can do a very simple testing of running two dd threads in two different
18cgroups. Here is what you can do. 18cgroups. Here is what you can do.
19 19
20- Enable Block IO controller
21 CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=y
22
20- Enable group scheduling in CFQ 23- Enable group scheduling in CFQ
21 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y 24 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y
22 25
@@ -54,24 +57,16 @@ cgroups. Here is what you can do.
54 57
55Various user visible config options 58Various user visible config options
56=================================== 59===================================
57CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
58 - Enables group scheduling in CFQ. Currently only 1 level of group
59 creation is allowed.
60
61CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED
62 - Enables some debugging messages in blktrace. Also creates extra
63 cgroup file blkio.dequeue.
64
65Config options selected automatically
66=====================================
67These config options are not user visible and are selected/deselected
68automatically based on IO scheduler configuration.
69
70CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP 60CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
71 - Block IO controller. Selected by CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED. 61 - Block IO controller.
72 62
73CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 63CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
74 - Debug help. Selected by CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED. 64 - Debug help. Right now some additional stats file show up in cgroup
65 if this option is enabled.
66
67CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
68 - Enables group scheduling in CFQ. Currently only 1 level of group
69 creation is allowed.
75 70
76Details of cgroup files 71Details of cgroup files
77======================= 72=======================
@@ -174,13 +169,13 @@ Details of cgroup files
174 write, sync or async. 169 write, sync or async.
175 170
176- blkio.avg_queue_size 171- blkio.avg_queue_size
177 - Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED=y. 172 - Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y.
178 The average queue size for this cgroup over the entire time of this 173 The average queue size for this cgroup over the entire time of this
179 cgroup's existence. Queue size samples are taken each time one of the 174 cgroup's existence. Queue size samples are taken each time one of the
180 queues of this cgroup gets a timeslice. 175 queues of this cgroup gets a timeslice.
181 176
182- blkio.group_wait_time 177- blkio.group_wait_time
183 - Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED=y. 178 - Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y.
184 This is the amount of time the cgroup had to wait since it became busy 179 This is the amount of time the cgroup had to wait since it became busy
185 (i.e., went from 0 to 1 request queued) to get a timeslice for one of 180 (i.e., went from 0 to 1 request queued) to get a timeslice for one of
186 its queues. This is different from the io_wait_time which is the 181 its queues. This is different from the io_wait_time which is the
@@ -191,7 +186,7 @@ Details of cgroup files
191 got a timeslice and will not include the current delta. 186 got a timeslice and will not include the current delta.
192 187
193- blkio.empty_time 188- blkio.empty_time
194 - Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED=y. 189 - Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y.
195 This is the amount of time a cgroup spends without any pending 190 This is the amount of time a cgroup spends without any pending
196 requests when not being served, i.e., it does not include any time 191 requests when not being served, i.e., it does not include any time
197 spent idling for one of the queues of the cgroup. This is in 192 spent idling for one of the queues of the cgroup. This is in
@@ -200,7 +195,7 @@ Details of cgroup files
200 time it had a pending request and will not include the current delta. 195 time it had a pending request and will not include the current delta.
201 196
202- blkio.idle_time 197- blkio.idle_time
203 - Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED=y. 198 - Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y.
204 This is the amount of time spent by the IO scheduler idling for a 199 This is the amount of time spent by the IO scheduler idling for a
205 given cgroup in anticipation of a better request than the exising ones 200 given cgroup in anticipation of a better request than the exising ones
206 from other queues/cgroups. This is in nanoseconds. If this is read 201 from other queues/cgroups. This is in nanoseconds. If this is read
@@ -209,7 +204,7 @@ Details of cgroup files
209 the current delta. 204 the current delta.
210 205
211- blkio.dequeue 206- blkio.dequeue
212 - Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED=y. This 207 - Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y. This
213 gives the statistics about how many a times a group was dequeued 208 gives the statistics about how many a times a group was dequeued
214 from service tree of the device. First two fields specify the major 209 from service tree of the device. First two fields specify the major
215 and minor number of the device and third field specifies the number 210 and minor number of the device and third field specifies the number