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Bug#987069: document which file systems support cgroupv2 I/O controller



Hi Nicholas,

On 17-04-2021 20:57, Paul Gevers wrote:
> On 17-04-2021 00:35, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>> Last I checked, only btrfs supports the cgroupv2 I/O controller; this
>> should probably be documented.  Alternatively, if more than btrfs (ie:
>> XFS and ext4) supports it, but not other file systems (ie: f2fs,
>> reiser4, jfs, etc) than this should be documented.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, the significance of this is as follows: Buster
>> switched to mq-deadline, which does not support the idle I/O priority,
>> and to get functional ionice the user/sysadmin had to switch to the
>> non-mq CFQ, or bfq.  The situation in a default Bullseye install is
>> better, but only for file systems that support the cgroupv2 I/O
>> controller.
> 
> As I don't have much knowledge on this front, can you maybe do an actual
> proposal for text to be added? And, if you're unsure, how do we find out
> if you're right?

For this one too: friendly ping.

Paul

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