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Re: [Xen-devel] 4.1 feature request: block device throttling/scheduling

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] 4.1 feature request: block device throttling/scheduling
From: T Johnson <tjohnson46@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:46:10 -0400
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On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 12:13:32PM -0400, T Johnson wrote:

>    In an ideal world I could specify that vmX can perform Y writes per second
>    and Z reads per second (since sometimes reads can be less expensive than
>    writes)
>
>    Please let me know if you have any questions. Adding something like this
>    in would be *greatly* appreciated.
>

Did you take a look at dm-ioband?


I did, but unless I'm missing something it doesn't work too well for storage networks (especially NFS) when you're using
file-backed block devices. Also, I'd rather have limits on the ops/sec rather than just prioritization.  

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