Hi All,
I am using virtio-9p for sharing the file between host and guest. To test the shared file I do read/write options in the guest.To have controlled io, I am using cgroup blkio.
While using cgroup I am facing two issues,Please find the issues below.
1. When I do IO throttling using the cgroup the read throttling works fine but the write throttling does not wok. It still bypasses these throttling control and does the default, am I missing something here?
I use the following commands to create VM, share the files and to read/write from guest.
Create vm
qemu-system-x86_64 -balloon none .......-name vm0 -cpu host -m 128 -smp 1 -enable-kvm -parallel .... -fsdev local,id=sdb1,path=/mnt/sdb1,security_model=none,writeout=immediate -device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=sdb1,mount_tag=sdb1
Mount file
mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L sdb1 /sdb1_ext4 2>>dd.log && sync
touch /sdb1_ext4/dddrive
Write test
dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdb1_ext4/dddrive bs=4k count=800000 oflag=direct >> dd.log 2>&1 && sync
Read test
dd if=/sdb1_ext4/dddrive of=/dev/null >> dd.log 2>&1 && sync
2. The other issue is when I run "dd" command inside guest it creates multiple threads to write/read. I can see those on host using iotop is this expected behavior?
Regards,
Pradeep