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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: P@draigBrady.com
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfq + io priorities
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:37:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031110133746.GB32637@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FAF9335.9010801@draigBrady.com>

On Mon, Nov 10 2003, P@draigBrady.com wrote:
> Albert Cahalan wrote:
> >Besides, the kernel load average was changed to
> >include processes waiting for IO. It just plain
> >makes sense to mix CPU usage with IO usage by
> >default. Wanting different niceness for CPU
> >and IO is a really unusual thing.
> 
> I strongly agree. Of course it would be
> nice/necessary to have seperate nice values,
> but setting the global one should set the
> underlying ones (cpu, disk, ...) also.

Global one? nice is CPU in Linux, period. ionice is io priority. I'm not
going to change this. So Albert and you can agree as much as you want,
unless you have some heavier arguments it's not going to help one bit.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-10 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-10  1:49 [PATCH] cfq + io priorities Albert Cahalan
2003-11-10 10:19 ` Herbert Xu
2003-11-10 10:36   ` Ali Magik Rama
2003-11-10 13:07   ` [PATCH] cfq + io priorities Albert Cahalan
2003-11-10 13:31     ` P
2003-11-10 13:37       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2003-11-10 13:57         ` P
2003-11-10 23:52         ` Albert Cahalan
2003-11-18  9:27           ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-11 17:46     ` Toon van der Pas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-09 10:57 Guillaume Chazarain
2003-11-09 11:39 ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-13 12:54   ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-16 22:56     ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-11-17  8:14     ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-18 13:26       ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-18 13:32         ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-18 13:38           ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-08 12:47 Jens Axboe
2003-11-08 13:25 ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-08 14:06   ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-09 21:30 ` Shailabh Nagar
2003-11-09 21:34   ` Jens Axboe

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