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authorArianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>2014-01-27 23:50:08 +0100
committerZiyan <jaraidaniel@gmail.com>2016-01-08 10:44:35 +0100
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block: cgroups, kconfig, build bits for BFQ-v7r8-3.3
Update Kconfig.iosched and do the related Makefile changes to include kernel configuration options for BFQ. Also add the bfqio controller to the cgroups subsystem. Change-Id: Ibfa07cfada5447b0777429e7d7a7c80e7137c7a3 Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it> Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: D. Andrei Măceș <dmaces@nd.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/Kconfig.iosched33
-rw-r--r--block/Makefile1
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/Kconfig.iosched b/block/Kconfig.iosched
index 3199b76..2b6d805 100644
--- a/block/Kconfig.iosched
+++ b/block/Kconfig.iosched
@@ -43,6 +43,28 @@ config CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
---help---
Enable group IO scheduling in CFQ.
+config IOSCHED_BFQ
+ tristate "BFQ I/O scheduler"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ The BFQ I/O scheduler tries to distribute bandwidth among
+ all processes according to their weights.
+ It aims at distributing the bandwidth as desired, independently of
+ the disk parameters and with any workload. It also tries to
+ guarantee low latency to interactive and soft real-time
+ applications. If compiled built-in (saying Y here), BFQ can
+ be configured to support hierarchical scheduling.
+
+config CGROUP_BFQIO
+ bool "BFQ hierarchical scheduling support"
+ depends on CGROUPS && IOSCHED_BFQ=y
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ Enable hierarchical scheduling in BFQ, using the cgroups
+ filesystem interface. The name of the subsystem will be
+ bfqio.
+
choice
prompt "Default I/O scheduler"
default DEFAULT_CFQ
@@ -56,6 +78,16 @@ choice
config DEFAULT_CFQ
bool "CFQ" if IOSCHED_CFQ=y
+ config DEFAULT_BFQ
+ bool "BFQ" if IOSCHED_BFQ=y
+ help
+ Selects BFQ as the default I/O scheduler which will be
+ used by default for all block devices.
+ The BFQ I/O scheduler aims at distributing the bandwidth
+ as desired, independently of the disk parameters and with
+ any workload. It also tries to guarantee low latency to
+ interactive and soft real-time applications.
+
config DEFAULT_NOOP
bool "No-op"
@@ -65,6 +97,7 @@ config DEFAULT_IOSCHED
string
default "deadline" if DEFAULT_DEADLINE
default "cfq" if DEFAULT_CFQ
+ default "bfq" if DEFAULT_BFQ
default "noop" if DEFAULT_NOOP
endmenu
diff --git a/block/Makefile b/block/Makefile
index 0fec4b3..22d8608 100644
--- a/block/Makefile
+++ b/block/Makefile
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING) += blk-throttle.o
obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP) += noop-iosched.o
obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE) += deadline-iosched.o
obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ) += cfq-iosched.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_BFQ) += bfq-iosched.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLOCK_COMPAT) += compat_ioctl.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY) += blk-integrity.o