Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-uid/gid I/O throttling (was Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-task I/O throttling)

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Wed Jan 16 2008 - 06:32:02 EST


On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:15:41 +0530, Balbir Singh said:

> Thanks for doing this. I am going to review the patches in greater
> detail and also test them. Why do you use configfs when we have a
> control group filesystem available for grouping tasks and providing a
> file system based interface for control and accounting?

And here I thought "There's more than one way to do it" was the Perl slogan. :)

An equally valid question would be: "Why are we carrying around a control
group filesystem when we have configfs?" (Honestly, I didn't know we *were*
carrying around such a filesystem - and quite likely Andrea Righi didn't
either...)

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