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@@ -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