Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:10:56 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] deadline io scheduler |
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On Fri, Sep 27 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> This is a situation where, for a dedicated machine, delaying reads > >> almost forever is actually a valuable thing. At least, valuable until > >> it stops the writes from being able to proceed. > > > > Well 0 should achieve that quite fine > > Would you consider allowing something akin to 'writes_starved = -4' to > allow writes to bypass reads only 4 times -- a preference for writes, > but not forever?
Sure yes, that would be an acceptable solution.
-- Jens Axboe
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