Re: [PATCH] blk-cgroup: config options re-arrangement

From: Gui Jianfeng
Date: Fri Apr 23 2010 - 03:46:13 EST


Vivek Goyal wrote:
> This patch fixes few usability and configurability issues.
>
> o All the cgroup based controller options are configurable from
> "Genral Setup/Control Group Support/" menu. blkio is the only exception.
> Hence make this option visible in above menu and make it configurable from
> there to bring it inline with rest of the cgroup based controllers.
>
> o Get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED.
>
> This option currently does two things.
>
> - Enable printing of cgroup paths in blktrace
> - Enables CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP, which in turn displays additional stat
> files in cgroup.
>
> If we are using group scheduling, blktrace data is of not really much use
> if cgroup information is not present. To get this data, currently one has to
> also enable CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED, which in turn brings the overhead of
> all the additional debug stat files which is not desired.
>
> Hence, this patch moves printing of cgroup paths under
> CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED.
>
> This allows us to get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED completely. Now all
> the debug stat files are controlled only by CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP which
> can be enabled through config menu.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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