Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:55:11 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Give kjournald a IOPRIO_CLASS_RT io priority |
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On Thu, Oct 02 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes: > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:00:34 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > >> Subject: [PATCH] Give kjournald a IOPRIO_CLASS_RT io priority > > > > You proposed this a while back and it didn't happen and I forget > > why and the changelog doesn't mention any of that? > > XFS tried this some time ago too. > > I think the issue was that real user supplied RT applications don't want to > compete with a "pseudo RT" kjournald. > > So it would really need a new priority class between RT and normal priority.
Good point. I think we should mark the IO as sync, and maintain the same priority level. Any IO that ends up being waited on is sync by definition, we just need to expand the coverage a bit.
-- Jens Axboe
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