Difference between revisions of "I/O priorities"
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The higher the value you use, the more I/O time your container will receive. | The higher the value you use, the more I/O time your container will receive. | ||
| − | The mapping from priority to time is the following: if <tt>0</tt> prio corresponds to time slice <tt>t</tt>, | + | The mapping from priority to time is the following: if <tt>0</tt> prio corresponds to time slice <tt>t</tt>, then <tt>7</tt> prio corresponds to time slice <tt>2 * t</tt>. Default time slice value is <tt>HZ/2</tt>. The main criteria for fairness at the moment is that if you set I/O prio of CT 1 to <tt>p1</tt> and I/O prio of CT 2 to <tt>p2</tt>, and <tt>p1 > p2</tt> then CT 1 should do more I/O than CT 2. In simple form the priorities are relative with the higher priority getting more I/O time. |
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Latest revision as of 14:02, 24 April 2016
The I/O priorities feature is implemented in OpenVZ since kernel 2.6.18-028stab021, vzctl 3.0.16. This feature allows to assign I/O priority to any container. Priority range is 0-7. The more priority a container has, the more time for using block devices this container will obtain. This feature is based on CFQ I/O scheduler, so this scheduler should be used for block device in question. Default I/O priority is 4.
Examples[edit]
Set the lowest priority:
vzctl set 101 --ioprio 0 --save
Set the highest priority:
vzctl set 101 --ioprio 7 --save
Details[edit]
The higher the value you use, the more I/O time your container will receive.
The mapping from priority to time is the following: if 0 prio corresponds to time slice t, then 7 prio corresponds to time slice 2 * t. Default time slice value is HZ/2. The main criteria for fairness at the moment is that if you set I/O prio of CT 1 to p1 and I/O prio of CT 2 to p2, and p1 > p2 then CT 1 should do more I/O than CT 2. In simple form the priorities are relative with the higher priority getting more I/O time.
