Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O10int for interactivity | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:35:01 +1000 |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:21, Timothy Miller wrote: > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > I'm guessing that the anticipatory scheduler is the culprit here. Soon > > as I figure out the incantations to use the deadline scheduler, I'll > > report back.... > > It would be unfortunate if AS and the interactivity scheduler were to > conflict. Is there a way we can have them talk to each other and have > AS boost some I/O requests for tasks which are marked as interactive? > > It would sacrifice some throughput for the sake of interactivity, which > is what the interactivity patches do anyhow. This is a reasonable > compromise.
That's not as silly as it sounds. In fact it should be dead easy to increase/decrease the amount of anticipatory time based on the bonus from looking at the code. I dunno how the higher filesystem gods feel about this though.
Con
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