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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 2de5b1cbadd9..950ba26f7233 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig | |||
@@ -634,11 +634,14 @@ config BLK_CGROUP | |||
634 | 634 | ||
635 | Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and | 635 | Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and |
636 | control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) | 636 | control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) |
637 | to such task groups. | 637 | to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in |
638 | block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. | ||
638 | 639 | ||
639 | This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. | 640 | This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. |
640 | One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it | 641 | One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For |
641 | to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y). | 642 | enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ seti |
643 | CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set | ||
644 | CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y. | ||
642 | 645 | ||
643 | See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. | 646 | See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. |
644 | 647 | ||