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Commit eff2c4f1 authored by Shaohua Li's avatar Shaohua Li Committed by Jens Axboe
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nullb: bandwidth control



In test, we usually expect controllable disk speed. For example, in a
raid array, we'd like some disks are fast and some are slow. MD RAID
actually has a feature for this. To test the feature, we'd like to make
the disk run in specific speed.

block throttling probably can be used for this purpose, but it requires
cgroup setup. Here we just implement a simple throttling mechanism in
the driver. There is slight fluctuation in the mechanism, but it's good
enough for test.

To configure the bandwidth cap, user sets the 'mbps' attribute. mbps is
MB/s.

Based on original patch from Kyungchan Koh

Signed-off-by: default avatarKyungchan Koh <kkc6196@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 306eb6b4
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