Re: 2.5.59-mm5

Luck, Tony
2003-01-24T16:50:49Z

Andrew Morton wrote:

So what anticipatory scheduling does is very simple: if an application
has performed a read, do *nothing at all* for a few milliseconds. Just
return to userspace (or to the filesystem) in the expectation that the
application or filesystem will quickly submit another read which is
closeby.

Do you need to give a process being woken from the read an extra priority
boost to make sure that it actually gets run in your "few milliseconds"
window. It would be a shame to leave the disk idle for the interval, and
then discover that the process scheduler had been running other stuff, so
that the reader didn't get a chance to issue the next read.

-Tony Luck