Re: stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest]

Jens Axboe
2003-02-11T14:32:13Z

On Tue, Feb 11 2003, Jason Lunz wrote:
> axboe@suse.de said:
> > Coolest would to simply stack these schedulers any way you want. Sneak
> > the uid based fairness scheduler in front of the pid based one, and
> > you have per-user with per-process fairness.
>
> Which again reminds us of the network queueing. You all seem to be
> reinventing alexey's wheel here. The above reminds me of HTB with SFQ
> leaf nodes.

There's no wheel reinventing here, just applying the goodies from
network scheduling to disk scheduling.

> By all means, do the same thing with disk i/o. It's been a smashing
> success with packet queueing.

Well, that's the point.

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Jens Axboe