Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:11:52 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 |
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > >As an approximation, you could take the task that queues the > >request. Only kswapd, kflushd and kupdate would be the "false > > That would probably be ok, but if we do that I prefer do it without > guesses. > > The approssimation would be wrong for example if you have two > tasks reading the same file, one task generate the readahead but > it doesn't read it, the other task only blocks waiting the > readahead to complete.
Do we really care about the case that doesn't generate disk seeks? ;)
Also, this possibility is /extremely/ remote, if not impossible. Well, it could happen at one point in time, but it's not something both tasks can keep up for more than a second...
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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