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authorBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>2021-06-17 17:44:44 -0700
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2021-06-21 15:03:40 -0600
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block: Introduce the ioprio rq-qos policy
Introduce an rq-qos policy that assigns an I/O priority to requests based on blk-cgroup configuration settings. This policy has the following advantages over the ioprio_set() system call: - This policy is cgroup based so it has all the advantages of cgroups. - While ioprio_set() does not affect page cache writeback I/O, this rq-qos controller affects page cache writeback I/O for filesystems that support assiociating a cgroup with writeback I/O. See also Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Cc: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210618004456.7280-5-bvanassche@acm.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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@@ -162,6 +162,15 @@ config BLK_CGROUP_IOCOST
distributes IO capacity between different groups based on
their share of the overall weight distribution.
+config BLK_CGROUP_IOPRIO
+ bool "Cgroup I/O controller for assigning an I/O priority class"
+ depends on BLK_CGROUP
+ help
+ Enable the .prio interface for assigning an I/O priority class to
+ requests. The I/O priority class affects the order in which an I/O
+ scheduler and block devices process requests. Only some I/O schedulers
+ and some block devices support I/O priorities.
+
config BLK_DEBUG_FS
bool "Block layer debugging information in debugfs"
default y