On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 08:48:35AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 11/12/18 8:45 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > BTW, since this patch series is probably even more useful for older > > than for future kernels, might it make sense to also propose it for > > stable/longterm kernels (provided that such a possibility exists)? > > That just not how things work, we don't put different things in > older/stable kernels, it's strictly backports of what we have in > current/newer kernels. Hence it appears to be a dead end right now. >
It may not be useful currently, but my plans are to do a scheduler agnostic proportional io controller next, so having these interfaces unified would be nice so I don't have to do a rqos.io.weight or something similar. Thanks, Josef
