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From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: setting task->ioprio from a kernel thread
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:31:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E5BC9C.8060803@oracle.com> (raw)


In OCFS2 there is currently an in-kernel heartbeat thread that really 
wants to communicate liveness to other nodes as quickly as possible by 
writing to a block device.  Setting aside the specific wisdom of a 
kernel heartbeat thread for a bit, has it been considered that kernel 
threads might want to set their io priority with the task->ioprio bits? 
  Neither set_task_ioprio() nor sys_ioprio_set() seem to be accessible 
to modules and open-coding it is clearly a bad idea.  Would the universe 
be opposed to a _GPL() export of, say, the sys_() interface?

- z

             reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26  4:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-26  4:31 Zach Brown [this message]
2005-07-29  7:36 ` setting task->ioprio from a kernel thread Jens Axboe

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