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Commit 556910e3 authored by Bart Van Assche's avatar Bart Van Assche Committed by Jens Axboe
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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: default avatarBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210618004456.7280-5-bvanassche@acm.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent fb44023e
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