Bug 626989

Summary:	block IO controller: Pull in Group idle tunable patches from upstream
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.1	CC:	arozansk, syeghiay
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Description Vivek Goyal 2010-08-24 19:45:40 UTC

Description of problem:

Pull in group_idle patches from upstream into rhel 6.1. This tunable "group_idle" allows for getting rid of idling on individual queues and allows idling at group level. This can help with performance improvement with blk io controller on storage arrays.

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Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2010-11-19 17:40:15 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.

Comment 4 Aristeu Rozanski 2010-12-13 15:14:41 UTC

Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-89.el6

Comment 6 Aristeu Rozanski 2010-12-13 15:32:41 UTC

Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-89.el6

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 12:42:22 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0542.html