> > FWIW, I am now playing with a RFC patch to implement device throttle mechanism > > on request queue instead of device mapper target and see how does it go. I am > > targetting to get the throtting limits from cgroups. > > > > The idea is to hook into __make_request and (ultimately dm_request) and > > subject incoming bios on request queue to throttling policy first before > > they are passed down to elevator. > > > > If it works, it should get rid of the requirement of configuring a device > > mapper target for throttling. At this point of time nothing is working and I > > am still figuring out how to put various pieces together. > > Ok, waiting for where that goes then. Is my understanding correct that dm-throttle has been abandoned in favor of the cgroups IO throttle controller? Thanks ...Juerg -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel