Proposals

Vivek Goyal

Vivek Goyal

Red Hat Inc.

Biography

Vivek Goyal works as a kernel developer at RedHat in Westford, MA, USA. An electronics and communication engineer from Institute of technology, B.H.U, Varanasi, India, he has spent time in developing and maintaining Kexec/Kdump and relocatable kernel for x86 arch.

He is currently working on implementing IO controller so that different group of tasks in different cgroups can receive differentiated services.

Proposals for this user

* Proportional IO Controller

The Proportional IO controller allows to distribute disk time to tasks/cgroups in proportion to their assigned weights. It leverages existing cgroup infrastructure for task grouping and supports specification of weights hierarchically.
Storage 06/23/2009
Divyesh Shah, Nauman Rafique, Vivek Goyal