Re: [RFC 01/16] blkcg:Introduce blkio.app_identifier knob to blkio controller

Tejun Heo
2020-08-04T14:22:00Z

Hello,

On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 01:31:30PM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [cc Tejun]
>
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 07:43:01AM +0530, Muneendra wrote:
> > This Patch added a unique application identifier i.e
> > blkio.app_identifier knob to blkio controller which
> > allows identification of traffic sources at an
> > individual cgroup based Applications
> > (ex:virtual machine (VM))level in both host and
> > fabric infrastructure.

I'm not sure it makes sense to introduce custom IDs for these given that
there already are unique per-host cgroup IDs which aren't recycled.

Thanks.

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tejun