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@@ -859,10 +859,15 @@
processes. Takes either a single
weight value (between 10 and 1000) to
set the default block IO weight, or a
- space separated pair of a device node
- path and a weight value to specify the
+ space separated pair of a file path
+ and a weight value to specify the
device specific weight value (Example:
- "/dev/sda 500"). This controls the
+ "/dev/sda 500"). The file path may be
+ specified as path to a block device
+ node or as any other file in which
+ case the backing block device of the
+ file system of the file is
+ determined. This controls the
<literal>blkio.weight</literal> and
<literal>blkio.weight_device</literal>
control group attributes, which
@@ -879,17 +884,22 @@
<term><varname>BlockIOWriteBandwidth=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Set the per-device
- overall block IO bandwith limit for the
- executed processes. Takes a space
- separated pair of a device node path
- and a bandwith value (in bytes per
- second) to specify the device specific
- bandwidth. If the bandwith is suffixed
- with K, M, G, or T the specified
- bandwith is parsed as Kilobytes,
- Megabytes, Gigabytes, resp. Terabytes
- (Example: "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0 5M"). This
- controls the
+ overall block IO bandwith limit for
+ the executed processes. Takes a space
+ separated pair of a file path and a
+ bandwith value (in bytes per second)
+ to specify the device specific
+ bandwidth. The file path may be
+ specified as path to a block device
+ node or as any other file in which
+ case the backing block device of the
+ file system of the file is determined.
+ If the bandwith is suffixed with K, M,
+ G, or T the specified bandwith is
+ parsed as Kilobytes, Megabytes,
+ Gigabytes, resp. Terabytes (Example:
+ "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0
+ 5M"). This controls the
<literal>blkio.read_bps_device</literal>
and
<literal>blkio.write_bps_device</literal>