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SubjectRe: Prioritized I/O

I have a generic comment that adding priorities to a system that relies
already on a different ordering mechanism is not easy.

RT devices are a much more sensible route.

On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 07:33:44PM -0500, Steven Suson wrote:
> I've been thinking about the discussions on latency, especially in
> regards to multilmedia recording, etc. If I/O were prioritized in the
> way that CPU utilization is, then this would allow R/T processes to also
> take precendence for I/O, thus reducing latency. In addition, this
> yields all sorts of benefits for time sensitive I/O.
>
> Any thoughts? Opinions? Etc.?
>
> Steven Suson
> "Keep the faith."
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