Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:33:20 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Disk priorities... |
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On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, LA Walsh wrote: > > > Forgive me if this has been asked before, but has there ever > > been any thought of having a 'nice' value for disk accesses?. > > Not currently, but it would be trivial to adjust the maximum > elevator sorting latency according to the niceness of the > process. I have no idea how much this would help, though ...
What process? By the time when bh hits the ll_rw_block() originating process may be dead. And if you mean reads... Good luck propagating the originator information.
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