Bug#987069: document which file systems support cgroupv2 I/O controller

2021-05-27 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 14-05-2021 05:04, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 04:38:18PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >>> >>> On 17-04-2021 00:35, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: Last I checked, only btrfs supports the cgroupv2 I/O controller; this should probably be documented. Alternatively,

Bug#987069: document which file systems support cgroupv2 I/O controller

2021-05-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 11:04:14PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I'll give you another example that we learned the hard way. Depending > on how tight you make your memory cgroups and how tight you constrain > your I/O controller, it's possible for write throttling --- where > processes which are d

Bug#987069: document which file systems support cgroupv2 I/O controller

2021-05-13 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 04:38:18PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > > > On 17-04-2021 00:35, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > >> Last I checked, only btrfs supports the cgroupv2 I/O controller; this > >> should probably be documented. Alternatively, if more than btrfs (ie: > >> XFS and ext4) suppor

Bug#987069: document which file systems support cgroupv2 I/O controller

2021-05-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
For the record, this was the closest I got to an answer: Cgroups developers tell me that BFQ "can't currently implement comprehensive IO" isolation, doesn't handle 'writeback / forced IO backcharging", and has scalability issues. Resource control is a significant effort in Fedora,

Bug#987069: document which file systems support cgroupv2 I/O controller

2021-05-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Paul, Thank you for the ping, much appreciated :-) Theodore, sorry for needing to CC you, I took a month to try to find the answer on my own, but was unsuccessful. Please see below for the question apropos ext4+cgroupv2+iogroups. If you know if other filesystems are supported, please let us

Bug#987069: document which file systems support cgroupv2 I/O controller

2021-05-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Nicholas, On 17-04-2021 20:57, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 17-04-2021 00:35, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >> Last I checked, only btrfs supports the cgroupv2 I/O controller; this >> should probably be documented. Alternatively, if more than btrfs (ie: >> XFS and ext4) supports it, but not other file

Bug#987069: document which file systems support cgroupv2 I/O controller

2021-04-17 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Nicholas, On 17-04-2021 00:35, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Last I checked, only btrfs supports the cgroupv2 I/O controller; this > should probably be documented. Alternatively, if more than btrfs (ie: > XFS and ext4) supports it, but not other file systems (ie: f2fs, > reiser4, jfs, etc) than

Bug#987069: document which file systems support cgroupv2 I/O controller

2021-04-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Hi, Last I checked, only btrfs supports the cgroupv2 I/O controller; this should probably be documented. Alternatively, if more than btrfs (ie: XFS and ext4) supports it, but not other file systems (ie: f2fs, reiser4, jfs, etc) than this should be document