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Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -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 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) - to such task groups. + to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in + block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. - One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it - to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y). + One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For + enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ seti + CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set + CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y. See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. |