Re: [PATCH v4] Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v2: document io.latency rotational vs non-rotational behavior
Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:32:49 -1000
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 05:57:07PM +0800, Tao Cui wrote: > io.latency is documented only in terms of average latency and the avg_lat > stat, which matches rotational devices. On non-rotational devices a group > misses its target once enough of the IOs in the window individually exceed > it, and io.stat reports missed/total rather than avg_lat/win. > > Describe both cases: how a miss is detected, note that the avg_lat tuning > guidance is rotational-only, and update the io.stat field list (mark > avg_lat/win as rotational-only, document missed/total). > > Acked-by: Michal Koutný <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <[email protected]> Applied to cgroup/for-7.2-fixes. Thanks. -- tejun