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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deadline io scheduler
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:10:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020930081056.GF27420@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873crw5o90.fsf@enki.rimspace.net>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-30  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-25 17:20 [PATCH] deadline io scheduler Jens Axboe
2002-09-26  6:15 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-26  6:27   ` David S. Miller
2002-09-26  6:44   ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-26  6:59     ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-26  7:06       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-26  7:06         ` David S. Miller
2002-09-26  7:16           ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-26  7:13             ` David S. Miller
2002-09-26  7:33               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-26  7:35                 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-26  8:15                   ` Michael Clark
2002-09-26  8:18                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-26 17:41                     ` Mike Anderson
2002-09-26 18:03                       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-26 19:21                         ` Mike Anderson
2002-09-27  5:41                           ` Andrew Vasquez
2002-09-27  5:57                             ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-27 16:58                               ` Mike Anderson
2002-09-26 22:41                         ` Matt Porter
2002-09-26 22:35                           ` Mark Bellon
2002-09-26 20:21                     ` Thomas Tonino
2002-09-26  7:41                 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-26  7:23           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-26  7:11         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-26  7:14           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-26 15:54       ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-09-30  8:15         ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-30 15:39           ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-09-30 16:08             ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-26  8:28     ` Daniel Pittman
2002-09-26  8:29       ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-26 23:23         ` Daniel Pittman
2002-09-30  8:10           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2002-09-26 15:09       ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26  7:12   ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-26  7:17     ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-26  7:34     ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-30  7:45 ` Pavel Machek
2002-10-02  5:35   ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-27 16:01 Andrew Vasquez
2002-09-27 17:07 ` Mike Anderson

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