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io-controller: Document for blkio.weight_device

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Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Gui Jianfeng 15 years ago
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Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt

@@ -76,9 +76,38 @@ CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
 Details of cgroup files
 =======================
 - blkio.weight
-	- Specifies per cgroup weight.
+	- Specifies per cgroup weight. This is default weight of the group
+	  on all the devices until and unless overridden by per device rule.
+	  (See blkio.weight_device).
 	  Currently allowed range of weights is from 100 to 1000.
 
+- blkio.weight_device
+	- One can specify per cgroup per device rules using this interface.
+	  These rules override the default value of group weight as specified
+	  by blkio.weight.
+
+	  Following is the format.
+
+	  #echo dev_maj:dev_minor weight > /path/to/cgroup/blkio.weight_device
+	  Configure weight=300 on /dev/sdb (8:16) in this cgroup
+	  # echo 8:16 300 > blkio.weight_device
+	  # cat blkio.weight_device
+	  dev     weight
+	  8:16    300
+
+	  Configure weight=500 on /dev/sda (8:0) in this cgroup
+	  # echo 8:0 500 > blkio.weight_device
+	  # cat blkio.weight_device
+	  dev     weight
+	  8:0     500
+	  8:16    300
+
+	  Remove specific weight for /dev/sda in this cgroup
+	  # echo 8:0 0 > blkio.weight_device
+	  # cat blkio.weight_device
+	  dev     weight
+	  8:16    300
+
 - blkio.time
 	- disk time allocated to cgroup per device in milliseconds. First
 	  two fields specify the major and minor number of the device and