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Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index be85a0ab1b82..bd125a795374 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig | |||
@@ -661,11 +661,14 @@ config BLK_CGROUP | |||
661 | 661 | ||
662 | Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and | 662 | Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and |
663 | control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) | 663 | control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) |
664 | to such task groups. | 664 | to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in |
665 | block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. | ||
665 | 666 | ||
666 | This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. | 667 | This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. |
667 | One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it | 668 | One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For |
668 | to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y). | 669 | enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ seti |
670 | CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set | ||
671 | CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y. | ||
669 | 672 | ||
670 | See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. | 673 | See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. |
671 | 674 | ||